Tournament detailsDates 6 June 2019 – June 2022Teams46 (from 1 confederation)Tournament statisticsMatches played204Goals scored626 (3.07 per match)Attendance1,940,722 (9,513 per match)Top scorer(s)
Ali Mabkhout(14 goals)2018 2026 → All statistics correct as of 16 November 2021. International football competition
The asian incision of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification acts as qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar for national teams who are members of the Asian Football Confederation ( AFC ). apart from Qatar ( who qualified automatically as hosts ), a entire of 4.5 slots ( 4 send slots and 1 inter-confederation play-off slot ) in the final examination tournament are available for AFC teams. [ 1 ] The qualification process involves four rounds ; the first gear two rounds duplicate as the qualification for the 2023 AFC asian Cup. Despite qualifying as hosts, Qatar participated in these two rounds to seek asian Cup reservation. They would have acted as qualifiers for the cancel 2020 AFC Solidarity Cup. [ 2 ]
format [edit ]
The reservation structure is as follows : [ 3 ]
- First round: Twelve teams (ranked 35–46) played home-and-away over two legs. The six winners advanced to the second round.
- Second round: Forty teams (ranked 1–34 and six first-round winners) were divided into eight groups of five teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. Originally, the eight group winners and the four best group runners-up were supposed advance to the third round of FIFA World Cup qualification, as well as qualified for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup. However, since Qatar won their group, the fifth-best runners-up took their place in the third round.[4]
- Third round: Twelve teams which advanced from the second round will be divided into two groups of six teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The top two teams of each group will qualify for the World Cup, and the third-placed teams will advance to the fourth round.
- Fourth round: The two third-placed teams from the third round will play a single match. The winner will advance to the inter-confederation play-offs.
Entrants [edit ]
All 46 FIFA-affiliated nations from the AFC entered qualification. The FIFA World Rankings of April 2019 were used to determine which nations would compete in the foremost cycle. For seeding in the second base round and third circle tie, the most late FIFA Rankings anterior to those draws will be used. According to the joint format of the World Cup and asian Cup qualifiers, both Qatar ( as the host nation of the 2022 World Cup ) and China PR ( as the host state of the 2023 Asian Cup ) besides entered the moment round off of the qualifiers. [ 5 ] Timor-Leste was banned from participating in the asian Cup qualification after being found to have fielded a total of 12 ineligible players in 2019 AFC asian Cup qualification matches among early competitions. [ 6 ] however, as FIFA did not ban them from the World Cup qualifiers, Timor-Leste was allowed to enter the competition, but ineligible to qualify for the asian Cup. [ 7 ]
schedule [edit ]
The schedule of the competition is expected to be as follows, according to the FIFA International Match Calendar. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] On 9 March 2020, FIFA and AFC announced that the second round matches on matchdays 7–10 due to take set in March and June 2020 were postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the newfangled dates to be confirmed. however, subject to approval by FIFA and AFC, and agreement of both member associations, the matches may be played as scheduled provided that the safety of all individuals involved meets the ask standards. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] On 5 June, AFC confirmed that matchdays 7 and 8 were scheduled to take set on 8 and 13 October respectively while matchdays 9 and 10 were besides scheduled to kick off on 12 and 17 November. [ 16 ] On 12 August, FIFA announced that the matches scheduled for October and November 2020 would be rescheduled to 2021. [ 17 ] On 25 June 2020, FIFA announced that the inter-confederation play-offs, primitively scheduled to be played in March 2022, were moved to June. [ 18 ] On 11 November 2020, the AFC Competitions Committee announced that all the asian qualifiers second round matches should be completed by 15 June 2021 with matchdays 7 and 8 in March 2021 and matchdays 9 and 10 in June 2021 with the final round of the asian qualifiers beginning in September 2021. besides all 10 matchdays of the asian qualifiers concluding round should be finished by the end of March 2022 with the asian and inter-continental play-offs proposed for the FIFA window of May/June 2022. The asian play-off for the World Cup in Qatar was proposed as a single match. [ 19 ] On the same day, however, FIFA, along with the Bangladeshi and Qatari associations, gave approval to the alone second round match primitively scheduled for 2020, Qatar v. Bangladesh, which was played on 4 December. [ 20 ] On 19 February 2021, FIFA and AFC postponed the majority of the approaching matches to June. [ 21 ]
Round
Matchday
Date(s)
First round
First leg
6 June 2019
Second leg
11 June 2019
Second round
Matchday 1
5 September 2019
Matchday 2
10 September 2019
Matchday 3
10 October 2019
Matchday 4
15 October 2019
Matchday 5
14 November 2019
Matchday 6
19 November 2019
Matchday 7
25 March, 28 May and 3 June 2021
Matchday 8
4 December 2020, 30 March and 7 & 9 June 2021
Matchday 9
30 March, 30 May and 11 June 2021
Matchday 10
13 and 15 June 2021
Round
Matchday
Date
Third round
Matchday 1
2 September 2021
Matchday 2
7 September 2021
Matchday 3
7 October 2021
Matchday 4
12 October 2021
Matchday 5
11 November 2021
Matchday 6
16 November 2021
Matchday 7
27 January 2022
Matchday 8
1 February 2022
Matchday 9
24 March 2022
Matchday 10
29 March 2022
Fourth round
Single leg
May or June 2022
Inter-confederation play-offs
Single leg
13 or 14 June 2022
original passing schedule
Stage
Matchday
Date
Second round
Matchday 7
26 March 2020, later 8 October
Matchday 8
31 March 2020, later 13 October
Matchday 9
4 June 2020, later 12 November, then 7 June 2021
Matchday 10
9 June 2020, later 17 November
Third round
Matchday 1
3 September 2020
Matchday 2
8 September 2020
Matchday 3
13 October 2020
Matchday 4
12 November 2020
Matchday 5
17 November 2020
Matchday 6
25 March 2021
Matchday 7
30 March 2021
Matchday 8
8 June 2021
Matchday 9
7 September 2021
Matchday 10
12 October 2021
Fourth round
First leg
11 November 2021
Second leg
16 November 2021
Inter-confederation play-offs
First leg
March 2022
Second leg
March 2022
first orotund [edit ]
The draw for the foremost round was held on 17 April 2019 at 11:00 MST ( UTC+8 ), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [ 22 ]
second circle [edit ]
The withdraw for the second round was held on 17 July 2019 at 17:00 MST ( UTC+8 ), at AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [ 26 ]
drumhead [edit ]
Qualified for the third round ( except Qatar ) and asian Cup ( except China ) as winners or top five runner-up
Advanced to the asian Cup third base qualifying polish as bottom three runner-up, third-placed, fourth-placed and top three fifth-placed team
Advanced to the AFC Asian Cup qualifying play-off round .
Denotes a team that withdrew .
Group A [edit ]
- ^ China PR qualified for the asian Cup as host state.
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Group B [edit ]
Group C [edit ]
Group D [edit ]
Group E [edit ]
- ^ Qatar already qualified for the World Cup as host nation .
Group F [edit ]
Group G [edit ]
Group H [edit ]
North Korea withdrew from the qualifying round for safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia. [ 27 ]
Ranking of runner-up teams [edit ]
Because North Korea withdrew from Group H, results against the fifth-placed teams of each group were not counted in determining the ranking of the runner-up teams .
Rules for classification:
Notes: reservoir : FIFARules for classification : Tiebreakers Notes :
- ^ China PR already qualified for the asian Cup as host state .
third base round of golf [edit ]
The third base round consists of two groups of six teams. The first two teams in each group will qualify for the World Cup. The two third-placed teams proceed to the fourthly circle. The draw was held on 1 July 2021 in Malaysia .
Group A [edit ]
AFC
Rules for classification: Updated to match ( einsteinium ) played on 16 November 2021. reservoir : FIFA Rules for classification : Tiebreakers
Group B [edit ]
AFC
Rules for classification:
( y ) Cannot qualify directly, may only advance to fourth round Updated to match ( east ) played on 16 November 2021. source : FIFA Rules for classification : Tiebreakers Can not qualify directly, may lone advance to one-fourth round
Fourth round of golf [edit ]
The two third-placed teams in each group from the third orotund will play against each other in a one match to determine which team advances to the inter-confederation play-offs. The host city and venue for this match will be announced during the draw for this rung .
Team 1
Score
Team 2
A3
v
B3
The inter-confederation play-off was determined by a hook hold on 26 November 2021. The fifth-placed team from AFC was drawn against the fifth-placed team from CONMEBOL. [ 29 ] The play-off is scheduled to be played as a individual pit in Qatar on 13 or 14 June 2022. [ 30 ]
Team 1
Score
Team 2
AFC Fourth Round winner
13–14 Jun
CONMEBOL 5th place
Qualified teams [edit ]
The succeed teams from AFC qualified for the concluding tournament .
Team
Qualified as
Qualified on
Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup1
Qatar
Hosts
2 December 2010
0 (debut)
- 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year .
top goalscorers [edit ]
There have been 626 goals scored in 204 matches, for an average of 3.07 goals per match ( as of 16 November 2021 ). Players highlighted in bold are silent active in the competition .
14 goals 12 goals 9 goals 7 goals 6 goals
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Below are fully goalscorer lists for each round :
See besides [edit ]
Notes [edit ]
- ^[23] The AFC referred the matter to FIFA,[24] which announced on 27 June 2019 that the match was declared a 3–0 forfeit victory to Sri Lanka, and consequently qualifying Sri Lanka to the second round.[25]Macau did not send their team for the second leg due to safety reasons following the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings The AFC referred the matter to FIFA,which announced on 27 June 2019 that the match was declared a 3–0 forfeit victory to Sri Lanka, and consequently qualifying Sri Lanka to the second round.