# 1986 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)

Listed below are the dates and results for the 1986 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the Asian zone (AFC). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1986 FIFA World Cup qualification.
A total of 28 AFC teams entered the competition. However, Chinese Taipei were assigned to the Oceanian zone instead. The Asian zone was allocated 2 places (out of 24) in the final tournament. Asia's automatic qualifying berths were taken by Iraq and Korea Republic.

## Tournament structure

The 27 teams were divided into 2 zones, based on geographical considerations. Zone A had 13 teams (teams from West Asia) and Zone B had 14 teams (teams from East Asia). There would be three rounds of play in each zone:
* First Round: The teams were divided into 4 groups of 3 or 4 teams each. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would advance to the Second Round.
* Second Round: The 4 teams in each zone were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The winners would advance to the Final Round.
* Final Round: The 2 teams in each zone played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The winners would qualify for the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
Due to wars their countries were involved in, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon had to play all their home matches on neutral ground or away.

## AFC Zone A (West)
### First round
#### Group 1A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 3 |
| Saudi Arabia | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 |
| Oman | Withdrew | Withdrew | Withdrew | Withdrew | Withdrew | Withdrew | Withdrew | Withdrew |
| Oman | — | — | — |
| Saudi Arabia | — | — | 0–0 |
| United Arab Emirates | — | 1–0 | — |

#### Group 1B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Iraq | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 6 |
| Qatar | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 4 |
| Jordan | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 2 |
| Lebanon | Withdrew | Withdrew | Withdrew | Withdrew | Withdrew | Withdrew | Withdrew | Withdrew |
| Iraq | — | 2–0 | — | 2–1 |
| Jordan | 2–3 | — | — | 1–0 |
| Lebanon | — | — | — | — |
| Qatar | 3–0 | 2–0 | — | — |

#### Group 2A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Syria | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | +5 | 7 |
| Kuwait | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 5 |
| North Yemen | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 12 | −11 | 0 |
| Kuwait | — | 5–0 | 0–0 |
| North Yemen | 1–3 | — | 0–1 |
| Syria | 1–0 | 3–0 | — |

#### Group 2B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Bahrain | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 3 |
| South Yemen | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 1 |
| Iran | Disqualified | Disqualified | Disqualified | Disqualified | Disqualified | Disqualified | Disqualified | Disqualified |
| Bahrain | — | — | 3–3 |
| Iran | — | — | — |
| South Yemen | 1–4 | — | — |

### Second round

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| United Arab Emirates | 4–4 (a) | Iraq | 2–3 | 2–1 |
| Bahrain | 1–2 | Syria | 1–1 | 0–1 |

#### Second leg

4–4 on aggregate, Iraq advanced to the Zone A Final Round on away goals.
Syria advanced to the Zone A Final Round.

### Final round

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Syria | 1–3 | Iraq | 0–0 | 1–3 |

#### Second leg

Iraq won 3–1 on aggregate and qualified for the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

## AFC Zone B (East)
### First round
#### Group 3A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| South Korea | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | +7 | 6 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 5 |
| Nepal | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 11 | −11 | 1 |
| South Korea | — | 2–0 | 4–0 |
| Malaysia | 1–0 | — | 5–0 |
| Nepal | 0–2 | 0–0 | — |

#### Group 3B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Indonesia | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 9 |
| India | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 7 |
| Thailand | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Bangladesh | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 10 | −5 | 4 |
| Bangladesh | — | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| India | 2–1 | — | 1–1 | 1–1 |
| Indonesia | 2–0 | 2–1 | — | 1–0 |
| Thailand | 3–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | — |

#### Group 4A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Hong Kong | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 2 | +17 | 11 |
| China | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 2 | +21 | 9 |
| Macau | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 15 | −11 | 4 |
| Brunei | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 29 | −27 | 0 |
| Brunei | — | 0–4 | 1–5 | 1–2 |
| China | 8–0 | — | 1–2 | 6–0 |
| Hong Kong | 8–0 | 0–0 | — | 2–0 |
| Macau | 2–0 | 0–4 | 0–2 | — |

#### Group 4B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Japan | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | +8 | 7 |
| North Korea | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 4 |
| Singapore | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | −9 | 1 |
| Japan | — | 1–0 | 5–0 |
| North Korea | 0–0 | — | 2–0 |
| Singapore | 1–3 | 1–1 | — |

### Second round

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| South Korea | 6–1 | Indonesia | 2–0 | 4–1 |
| Japan | 5–1 | Hong Kong | 3–0 | 2–1 |

#### Second leg

Korea Republic won 6–1 on aggregate and advanced to the Zone B Final Round.
Japan won 5–1 on aggregate and advanced to the Zone B Final Round.

### Final round

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Japan | 1–3 | South Korea | 1–2 | 0–1 |

#### Second leg

Korea Republic won 3–1 on aggregate and qualified for the 1986 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 |
| Iraq | Zone A Final Round winners | 29 November 1985 | 0 (debut) |
| South Korea | Zone B Final Round winners | 3 November 1985 | 1 (1954) |
    $^1$ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

## Goalscorers
### 7 goals

* Lau Wing Yip

### 6 goals

* Zhao Dayu

### 5 goals

* Kazushi Kimura

### 4 goals

* Liu Haiguang
* Mak King-Fun
* Bambang Nurdiansyah
* Dede Sulaiman
* Hussein Saeed
* Hiromi Hara
* Huh Jung-moo

### 3 goals

* Li Hui
* Zuo Shusheng
* Wan Chi Keung
* Ahmed Radhi
* Takashi Mizunuma
* Akihiro Nishimura
* Salah Al-Hasawi
* Zainal Abidin Hassan

### 2 goals

* Ibrahim Al-Hardan
* Ibrahim Farhan
* Ashrafuddin Chunnu
* Yang Zhaohui
* Lai Wing-Cheung
* Krishanu Dey
* Bikash Panji
* Khalil Allawi
* Abdul-Aziz Al-Anbari
* Faisal Al-Dakhil
* Alberto Carvalhal
* Dollah Salleh
* Mansoor Muftah
* Byun Byung-joo
* Kim Joo-sung
* Lee Tae-ho
* Mahmoud Al-Sayed
* Walid Abu Al-Sel
* Adnan Al-Talyani
* Fahad Khamees

### 1 goal

* Rahman Hisham Abdullah
* Yousif Al-Sobaei
* Adnan Ali Deif
* Ebrahim Isa
* Ashish Bhadra
* Kaiser Hamid
* Elias Hossein
* Zainudin Kassim
* Ahmed Rahim
* Jia Xiuquan
* Lin Lefeng
* Lin Qiang
* Wang Huiliang
* Cheung Chi Tak
* Cheung Ka-Ping
* Ku Kam Fai
* Sze Wai-Shan
* Camilo Gonsalves
* Sisir Ghosh
* Narender Thapa
* Herry Kiswanto
* Karim Allawi
* Shaker Mahmoud
* Haris Mohammed
* Wamidh Munir
* Karim Saddam
* Koichi Hashiratani
* Hisashi Kato
* Jamal Abu Abed
* Rateb Al-Dawud
* Issam Said Saleh
* Jamal Yaqoub
* Meng Kam Jong
* Daniel Pinto
* Yunus Alif
* Han Hyong-Il
* Song Chul Yu
* Yung Jong-Sung
* Abdulnaser Abbas
* Mohammed Khalifa Al-Ammari
* Ahmed Issa Al-Mohannadi
* Ali Mohammed Al-Saadah
* Adel Malulla
* Au-Yeong Pak Kuan
* Yahya Madon
* Cho Min-kook
* Choi Soon-ho
* Chung Jong-soo
* Chung Yong-hwan
* Kim Seok-won
* Park Chang-sun
* Abubakar Al-Mass
* Adnan Ahmed Al-Sabbou
* Tariq Abdullah Kassim
* Wagdan Mahmoud Shadli
* Radwan Al-Shaikh
* Abdul Kader Kardaghli
* Nizar Mahrous
* Marwan Medrati
* Thanis Areesa-ngarkul
* Narasak Boonkleang
* Vithoon Kijmongkolsak
* Sakdarin Thongmee

### 1 own goal

* Ng Chi Kit (playing against China)
* Rupak Ray Sharma (playing against South Korea)