WC Qualifications (Asia)

Tournament format

This is the total ranking based on all of the 8 qualification groups. Countries are sorted first on position in the group and then on points and goal difference. 7 countries qualify for the world championships. The best 3 countries in the group qualify directly and 8 countries will play in a home-and-away confrontation for the remaining places. The world cup host is automatically qualified.

Qualification standings round 1

		Country	Position	Points	MP	GS	GA
1		China	1	22	8	17	4
2		Hong Kong	1	20	8	17	4
3		Chinese Taipei	1	19	8	16	5
4		Jordan	1	19	8	13	5
5		Japan	1	17	8	17	5
6		Oman	1	16	8	13	4
7		Brunei Darussalam	1	15	8	12	7
8		Syria	1	12	8	10	8
9		Saudi Arabia	2	15	8	7	1
10		Macau	2	14	8	13	9
11		Maldives	2	14	8	11	11
12		India	2	13	8	13	11
13		Korea DPR	2	13	8	11	10
14		Bangladesh	2	12	8	6	7
15		Guam	2	11	8	9	10
16		Bahrain	2	11	8	9	12
17		East Timor	3	12	8	14	6
18		Nepal	3	11	8	10	9
19		Qatar	3	11	8	9	10
20		Thailand	3	10	8	5	5
21		Sri Lanka	3	10	8	7	8
22		Korea Republic	3	10	8	9	11
23		Philippines	3	10	8	7	9
24		Indonesia	3	10	8	6	9
25		Vietnam	4	12	8	9	7
26		Australia	4	12	8	13	13
27		Yemen	4	10	8	10	14
28		Lebanon	4	7	8	9	10
29		United Arab Emirates	4	7	8	7	11
30		Singapore	4	7	8	6	12
31		Cambodia	4	6	8	10	13
32		Palestine	4	6	8	6	11
33		Kyrgyzstan	5	8	8	9	10
34		Kuwait	5	7	8	4	11
35		Myanmar	5	6	8	10	15
36		Uzbekistan	5	4	8	9	14
37		Afghanistan	5	4	8	4	14
38		Tajikistan	5	4	8	3	15
39		Malaysia	5	3	8	5	14
40		Bhutan	5	3	8	2	13
41		Iran	6	0	0	0	0
42		Iraq	6	0	0	0	0
43		Laos	6	0	0	0	0
44		Mongolia	6	0	0	0	0
45		Pakistan	6	0	0	0	0
46		Turkmenistan	6	0	0	0	0

Not all groups have the same number of teams so the results against the lowest team in the larger groups don't count for the order of teams in this list.