# 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC second round

This page provides the summaries of the AFC second round matches for 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.

## Format

In this round the eight winners from the first round joined the 22 AFC sides seeded 6–27 in the AFC World Cup rankings. The teams were drawn into 15 home-and-away ties. The draw took place on 30 March 2011 at AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, along with the draw for the first round.
The matches were held prior to the main draw for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, with first legs on 23 July 2011 and second legs on 28 July. The 15 winners joined the top five seeded AFC teams in the main draw for the third round of the Asian qualifiers.

## Seeding

Teams were seeded into two pots – Pot 1 included teams ranked 6–20 and Pot 2 teams ranked 21–27 along with the 8 first round winners.
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 |
| Saudi Arabia  Iran  Qatar  Uzbekistan  United Arab Emirates  Syria  Oman  Jordan  Iraq  Singapore  China  Kuwait  Thailand  Turkmenistan  Lebanon | Yemen  Tajikistan  Hong Kong  Indonesia  Kyrgyzstan  Maldives  India  Malaysia$^†$  Bangladesh$^†$  Laos$^†$  Philippines$^†$  Palestine$^†$  Vietnam$^†$  Nepal$^†$  Myanmar$^†$ |
$^†$ First round winners whose identities were not known at the time of the draw

## Results

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Thailand | 3–2 | Palestine | 1–0 | 2–2 |
| Lebanon | 4–2 | Bangladesh | 4–0 | 0–2 |
| China | 13–3 | Laos | 7–2 | 6–1 |
| Turkmenistan | 4–5 | Indonesia | 1–1 | 3–4 |
| Kuwait | 5–1 | Philippines | 3–0 | 2–1 |
| Oman | 5–0 | Myanmar | 3–0 | 2–0 |
| Saudi Arabia | 8–0 | Hong Kong | 3–0 | 5–0 |
| Iran | 5–0 | Maldives | 4–0 | 1–0 |
| Syria | 0–6 | Tajikistan | 0–3 | 0–3 |
| Qatar | 4–2 | Vietnam | 3–0 | 1–2 |
| Iraq | 2–0 | Yemen | 2–0 | 0–0 |
| Singapore | 6–4 | Malaysia | 5–3 | 1–1 |
| Uzbekistan | 7–0 | Kyrgyzstan | 4–0 | 3–0 |
| United Arab Emirates | 5–2 | India | 3–0 | 2–2 |
| Jordan | 10–1 | Nepal | 9–0 | 1–1 |
Thailand won 3–2 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.
Lebanon won 4–2 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.
China won 13–3 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.
Indonesia won 5–4 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.
Kuwait won 5–1 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.
Oman won 5–0 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.
Saudi Arabia won 8–0 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.
Iran won 5–0 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.
Tajikistan was awarded the tie (6–0 on aggregate) and advanced to the third round.
Qatar won 4–2 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.
Iraq won 2–0 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.
Singapore won 6–4 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.
Uzbekistan won 7–0 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.
United Arab Emirates won 5–2 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.
Jordan won 10–1 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.

## Goalscorers

There were 109 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.63 goals per match.
4 goals
* Yang Xu
* Hassan Abdel-Fattah
3 goals
* Safee Sali
* Nasser Al-Shamrani
* Raja Rafe
2 goals
* Chen Tao
* Deng Zhuoxiang
* Hao Junmin
* Yu Hanchao
* Cristian Gonzáles
* Karim Ansarifard
* Amer Deeb
* Ahmad Hayel
* Yousef Nasser
* Visay Phaphouvanin
* Amad Al Hosni
* Murad Alyan
* Yusef Ahmed
* Aleksandar Đurić
* Shi Jiayi
* Datsakorn Thonglao
* Mohamed Al Shehhi
* Bahodir Nasimov
1 goal
* Jahid Hasan Ameli
* Mithun Chowdhury
* Qu Bo
* Jeje Lalpekhlua
* Gouramangi Singh
* Muhammad Ilham
* Mohammad Nasuha
* Muhammad Ridwan
* Saeid Daghighi
* Ali Karimi
* Mohammad Reza Khalatbari
* Alaa Abdul-Zahra
* Hawar Mulla Mohammed
* Abdallah Deeb
* Saeed Murjan
* Waleed Ali
* Fahad Al Ansari
* Musaed Neda
* Soukaphone Vongchiengkham
* Tarek Al Ali
* Ali Al Saadi
* Mahmoud El Ali
* Hassan Maatouk
* Abdul Hadi Yahya
* Bharat Khawas
* Ismail Sulaiman Al Ajmi
* Ahmed Mubarak Al Mahaijri
* Stephan Schröck
* Mohammed Kasola
* Meshal Mubarak
* Osama Al-Muwallad
* Mohammad Al-Sahlawi
* Hassan Fallatah
* Osama Hawsawi
* Mohammed Noor
* Fahrudin Mustafić
* Qiu Li
* George Mourad
* Nadim Sabagh
* Kamil Saidov
* Jakkaphan Kaewprom
* Arslanmyrat Amanow
* Gahrymanberdi Çoňkaýew
* Wýaçeslaw Krendelew
* Berdi Şamyradow
* Ismail Al Hammadi
* Hamdan Al Kamali
* Ali Al-Wehaibi
* Ulugbek Bakayev
* Marat Bikmaev
* Server Djeparov
* Alexander Geynrikh
* Victor Karpenko
* Nguyễn Quang Hải
* Nguyễn Trọng Hoàng
1 own goal
* Farrukh Choriyev (against Syria)