# 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)

Listed below are the dates and results for the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the Asian zone (AFC). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification.
A total of 29 teams entered the competition. The Asian zone was allocated 2 places (out of 24) in the final tournament.

## Format

There were two rounds of play:
* First Round: The teams were divided into 6 groups of 4 or 5 teams each, although Myanmar and Nepal withdrew after playing no matches. The teams would play against each other twice. The group winners would advance to the Final Round.
* Final Round: The 6 teams would play against each other once in Qatar. The group winner and runner-up would qualify.

## First round
### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Iraq | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 4 | +24 | 13 |
| 2 | China | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 4 | +14 | 12 |
| 3 | Yemen | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 13 | −1 | 8 |
| 4 | Jordan | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 15 | −3 | 7 |
| 5 | Pakistan | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 36 | −34 | 0 |
Iraq advanced to the Final Round.

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Iran | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 2 | +13 | 9 |
| 2 | Syria | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 4 | +10 | 9 |
| 3 | Oman | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 6 |
| 4 | Chinese Taipei | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 31 | −28 | 0 |
| 5 | Myanmar (W) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Iran advanced to the Final Round.

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | North Korea | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 6 | +13 | 15 |
| 2 | Qatar | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 8 | +14 | 11 |
| 3 | Singapore | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 10 |
| 4 | Indonesia | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 19 | −13 | 2 |
| 5 | Vietnam | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 18 | −14 | 2 |
North Korea advanced to the Final Round.

### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | South Korea | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 1 | +22 | 15 |
| 2 | Bahrain | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 9 |
| 3 | Lebanon | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 9 | −1 | 8 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 19 | −10 | 5 |
| 5 | India | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 22 | −14 | 3 |
South Korea advanced to the Final Round.

### Group E

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Saudi Arabia | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 1 | +19 | 10 |
| 2 | Kuwait | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 4 | +17 | 8 |
| 3 | Malaysia | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 7 | +9 | 6 |
| 4 | Macau | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 46 | −45 | 0 |
Saudi Arabia advanced to the Final Round.

### Group F

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Japan | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 2 | +26 | 15 |
| 2 | United Arab Emirates | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 4 | +15 | 13 |
| 3 | Thailand | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 7 | +6 | 8 |
| 4 | Bangladesh | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 28 | −21 | 4 |
| 5 | Sri Lanka | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 26 | −26 | 0 |
Japan advanced to the final round.

## Final round

With Iran, North Korea, and Iraq qualifying for the final round fears were expressed in the United States of those countries potentially turning up at their tournament, since the three nations at the time were under economic sanctions by the United States.
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Saudi Arabia | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 7 |
| 2 | South Korea | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 6 |
| 3 | Japan | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 6 |
| 4 | Iraq | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 | Iran | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 11 | −3 | 4 |
| 6 | North Korea | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 12 | −7 | 2 |
Saudi Arabia and South Korea qualified.
See 1993 Japan v Iraq football match
To date, this was the last time Japan failed to qualify for a World Cup.

## Qualified teams

The following two teams from AFC qualified for the final tournament.
| Team | Qualified as | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup |
| Saudi Arabia | Final round winners | 28 October 1993 | 0 (debut) |
| South Korea | Final round runners-up | 28 October 1993 | 3 (1954, 1986, 1990) |
    $^1$ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

## Goalscorers
### 13 goals

* Kazuyoshi Miura

### 8 goals

* Alaa Kadhim
* Ha Seok-ju
* Piyapong Pue-On

### 7 goals

* Ali Daei
* Takuya Takagi
* Khalil Al-Malki
* Saeed Al-Owairan

### 6 goals

* Gao Hongbo
* Laith Hussein
* Saad Qais
* Ahmed Radhi
* Ali Marwi
* Azman Adnan
* Ryu Song-Gun
* Adnan Al Talyani
* Abdulrazaq Ibrahim Balooshi

### 5 goals

* Ali Asghar Modir Roosta
* Jasem Al Huwaidi
* Choe Yong-Son

### 4 goals

* Cai Sheng
* Masashi Nakayama
* Choe Won-Nam
* Mahmoud Soufi
* Khaled Al-Muwallid
* Hamzah Idris Falatah
* Fandi Ahmad
* Varadaraju Sundramoorthy

### 3 goals

* Khamis Eid Rafe Thani
* Hossain Joarder
* Bhupinder Thakur
* Hamid Derakhshan
* Masahiro Fukuda
* Subhi Al-Gnimaz
* Mohammad Muharam
* Hamed Al-Saleh
* Azizol Abu Haniffah
* Abdul Mubin Mokhtar
* Fahad Al Kuwari
* Mubarak Mustafa
* Majed Abdullah
* Fahad Al-Mehallel
* Choi Moon-sik
* Lee Gi-bum
* Mohammad Afash
* Abdul Latif Helou
* Mohamad Moustafa Kadir

### 2 goals

* Khamis Mubarak
* Karim Mohammed Rumi Rizvi
* Hao Haidong
* Li Bing
* Xu Hong
* Au Wai Lun
* Cheung Kam Wa
* Lee Kin Wo
* Sathyan Vatta Barambath
* Inivalappil Mani Vijayan
* Sudirman
* Hamid Estili
* Mehdi Fonounizadeh
* Naeem Saddam
* Munthir Khalaf
* Radhi Shenaishil
* Tetsuji Hashiratani
* Masami Ihara
* Jeris Tadrus
* Fayez Al-Felaij
* Wail Al Habashi
* Hamoud Al-Shemmari
* Abdullah Wabran
* Rafi Joulfagi
* Paramasivan Ravindran
* Cho In-Chol
* Kim Kwang-min
* Kim Kyong-il
* Yousuf Saleh Al-Alawi
* Rashid Al-Wahaibi
* Mohammed Abdul Noor
* Zamel Al Kuwari
* Sami Al-Jaber
* Ahmed Jamil Madani
* Mohd Rafi Ali
* Hong Myung-bo
* Kim Tae-young
* Ko Jeong-woon
* Park Jung-bae
* Nizar Mahrous
* Songserm Maperm
* Kiatisuk Senamuang
* Khamees Saad Mubarak
* Mohamed Hassan Abdullah
* Ahmed Abdul Karim Al-Brid
* Omar Mubarak
* Wagdan Mahmoud Shadli

### 1 goal

* Adel Abdulrahman Marzouq
* Juma Marzouq
* Samir Mubarak
* Ali Saad
* Kaiser Hamid
* Sayed Rumman Sabbir
* Wu Qunli
* Zhao Faqing
* Chen Fu-Yuan
* Chen Jiunn-Ming
* Yeh Ching-Tueng
* Loh Wai Chi
* Tam Siu Wai
* Wong Chi Keung
* Tajinder Kumar
* Rahmad Darmawan
* Singgih Pitono
* Alexander Saununu
* Putut Widjanarko
* Mehdi Abtahi
* Reza Hassanzadeh
* Javad Manafi
* Majid Namjoo-Motlagh
* Mahdi Kadhim
* Habib Jafar
* Ahmed Daham
* Jaffar Omran
* Akram Emmanuel
* Takumi Horiike
* Ruy Ramos
* Masaaki Sawanobori
* Mitsunori Yoshida
* Jamal Abu Abed
* Ahmad Al-Bashir
* Hisham Abed Al-Minem
* Aref Al-Shewaier
* Ayman Al Husaini
* Basel Abdul Rahim
* Fadi Alloush
* Hassan Ayoub
* Youssef Farhat
* Babkin Melikian
* Wael Nazha
* Jamal Taha
* Daniel Pinto
* A. Elangovan
* Zainal Abidin Hassan
* Pang Gwang-Chol
* Yong Jin-Li
* Yun Jong-Su
* Hamdan Abdulla Al-Moamari
* Mattar Al-Mukhaini
* Yunis Aman Al-Naseeb
* Nabil Al-Siyabi
* Tahir Agha
* Abdul Farooq
* Rayed Al-Boloushi
* Sultan Bakhit Al-Kuwari
* Yousef Khalaf
* Abdullah Al-Dosari
* Mansour Al-Mousa
* Mansour Al-Muainea
* Razali Saad
* Steven Tan
* Gu Sang-bum
* Hwangbo Kwan
* Hwang Sun-hong
* Jung Jae-kwon
* Kang Chul
* Kim Pan-keun
* Noh Jung-yoon
* Park Nam-yeol
* Seo Jung-won
* Shin Hong-gi
* Ali Cheikh Dib
* Jamal Kazem
* Munaf Ramadan
* Pongthorn Thiubthong
* Mohamed Ahmed
* Ali Thani Jumaa
* Ismail Rashid Ismail
* Fahad Khamees Mubarak
* Nasir Khamees Mubarak
* Hà Vương Ngầu Nại
* Lư Đình Tuấn
* Nguyễn Hồng Sơn
* Phan Thanh Hùng
* Ahmed Bareed
* Saleh Rabiah Ben
* Asam Duraiban
* Sharaf Mahfood

### 1 own goal

* Robby Darwis (playing against North Korea)

## Awards

On 28 October 1993, the experts of FIFA and AFC selected the best players of the competition.
Most Outstanding Player
* Ali Daei
Asian All Stars
| Goalkeeper | Defenders | Midfielders | Forwards |
| Shigetatsu Matsunaga | Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi Hong Myung-bo Tetsuji Hashiratani Javad Zarincheh | Fuad Anwar Khaled Massad Shin Hong-gi Ruy Ramos | Kazuyoshi Miura Ali Daei |