# 2013 AFC U-22 Championship qualification

The 2013 AFC U-22 Championship qualification was the qualification tournament for the inaugural edition of the AFC U-22 Asian Cup. The qualifiers took place from 23 June to 3 July 2012, but were later changed to 2–10 June for Group D, due to Nepal's request. The matches were later rescheduled to start on 16 June and 3 July for Indonesia.

## Player eligibility

Players born before 1 January 1991 are not eligible to compete in the 2013 AFC U-22 Asian Cup qualification tournament.

## Format

Forty-one member associations entered the qualification to grab 15 spots in the final tournament The qualifiers were to be held in seven centralized venues.
The teams were divided into six groups of six teams each and one group of five. They played in a single round-robin format and the top two teams qualifying for the tournament proper along with the best third-placed team from all the groups. The hosts of the Finals got a direct berth.
With the AFC Competitions Committee awarding the hosting rights of the 2013 Finals to Oman on 18 July 2012 and with Oman being the best third-placed side, this enabled the 2nd best third-placed team, Yemen, to enter the finals.

## Tiebreakers

If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria were applied to determine the rankings.
* Greater number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
* Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
* Greater number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
* Goal difference in all the group matches;
* Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches;
* Kicks from the penalty mark if only two teams are involved and they are both on the field of play;
* Fewer scores are calculated according to the number of yellow and red cards received in the group matches;
* Drawing of lots.

## Teams

The countries which are qualified for the final tournament are emboldened.
* Australia
* Bahrain
* Bangladesh
* Cambodia
* China
* Chinese Taipei
* Hong Kong
* India
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Iraq
* Japan
* Jordan
* North Korea
* South Korea
* Kuwait
* Kyrgyzstan
* Laos
* Lebanon
* Macau
* Malaysia
* Maldives
* Myanmar
* Nepal
* Oman
* Pakistan
* Palestine
* Philippines
* Qatar
* Saudi Arabia
* Singapore
* Sri Lanka
* Syria
* Tajikistan
* Thailand
* Timor-Leste
* Turkmenistan
* United Arab Emirates
* Uzbekistan
* Vietnam
* Yemen
* Did not enter:
** Afghanistan
** Bhutan
** Brunei
** Guam
** Mongolia

## Group stage
### West Asia
#### Group A

* All matches were played in Muscat, Oman.
* Times listed are UTC+4.
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Iraq | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 3 | +9 | 11 |
| United Arab Emirates | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 11 |
| Oman | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | +5 | 10 |
| India | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 10 | +1 | 7 |
| Lebanon | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 18 | −6 | 3 |
| Turkmenistan | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 16 | −13 | 0 |

#### Group B

* All matches were played in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
* Times listed are UTC+3.
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Saudi Arabia | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 2 | +13 | 13 |
| Syria | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | +10 | 13 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 7 |
| Palestine | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 5 |
| Sri Lanka | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 17 | −16 | 2 |
| Pakistan | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 | −8 | 1 |

#### Group C

* All matches were played in Malacca, Malaysia.
* Times listed are UTC+8.
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Iran | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | +11 | 13 |
| Kuwait | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 1 | +11 | 12 |
| Bahrain | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| Tajikistan | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 6 |
| Qatar | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 6 |
| Maldives | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 21 | −19 | 0 |

#### Group D

* All matches were played in Kathmandu, Nepal.
* Times listed are UTC+5:45.
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Jordan | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | +12 | 12 |
| Uzbekistan | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 7 |
| Yemen | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 7 |
| Nepal | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 3 |
| Bangladesh | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 14 | −11 | 0 |

### East Asia
#### Group E

* All matches were played in Pekanbaru, Indonesia.
* Times listed are UTC+7.
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Japan | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 2 | +18 | 15 |
| Australia | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 10 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 9 |
| Singapore | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| Timor-Leste | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | −4 | 3 |
| Macau | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 18 | −14 | 0 |

#### Group F

* All matches were played in Vientiane, Laos.
* Times listed are UTC+7.
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| North Korea | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | +7 | 13 |
| China | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 3 | +9 | 11 |
| Laos | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| Thailand | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | +5 | 7 |
| Cambodia | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 15 | −9 | 4 |
| Hong Kong | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 15 | −12 | 0 |

#### Group G

* All matches were played in Yangon, Myanmar.
* Times listed are UTC+6:30.
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| South Korea | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 3 | +20 | 13 |
| Myanmar | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 5 | +11 | 13 |
| Malaysia | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 7 | +10 | 9 |
| Chinese Taipei | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 20 | −11 | 6 |
| Vietnam | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 10 | +1 | 3 |
| Philippines | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 33 | −31 | 0 |

## Third placed teams

* Due to Group D only having five teams in their group, results against teams finishing last in the 6-team groups will not be counted.
| Grp | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| A | Oman | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 7 |
| D | Yemen | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 7 |
| G | Malaysia | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | +3 | 6 |
| E | Indonesia | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 6 |
| B | Kyrgyzstan | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 4 |
| C | Bahrain | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 |
| F | Laos | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | −2 | 4 |

## Goalscorers

There were 355 goals scored in 100 matches, for an average of 3.55 goals per match.
10 goals
* Rozaimi Rahman
6 goals
* Mohammed Majrashi
5 goals
* Kyaw Zayar Win
4 goals
* Lin Chang-lun
* Alwyn George
* Mahmoud Za'tara
* Kim Jin-hyok
* Hwang Ui-jo
* Jeong Jong-hee
* Mahmoud Maowas
* Temurkhodja Abdukholiqov
3 goals
* Luke O'Dea
* Hassan Jameel
* Wen Chih-hao
* Jeje Lalpekhlua
* Agung Supriyanto
* Yuya Kubo
* Gakuto Notsuda
* Musashi Suzuki
* Daiki Watari
* Khalil Bani Attiah
* Mussab Al-Laham
* Jwa Joon-Hyub
* Kayumjan Sharipov
* Sopha Saysana
* Alaa El Baba
* Kaung Si Thu
* Sujal Shrestha
* Mubarak Al-Maqbali
* Saleh Al-Shehri
* Omar Kharbin
* Samer Salem
* Marcos da Conceição
* Shokhruh Gadoev
* Mạc Hồng Quân
* Hussein Sadam
2 goals
* Jake Barker-Daish
* Abdulla Yusuf Helal
* Phuong Soksana
* Bi Jinhao
* Li Lei
* Zhang Xizhe
* Romeo Fernandes
* Hendra Bayauw
* Milad Gharibi
* Kaveh Rezaei
* Payam Sadeghian
* Morteza Tabrizi
* Ali Adnan
* Ammar Abdul-Hussein
* Mohannad Abdul-Raheem
* Ryuji Hirota
* Odai Khadr
* Jong Il-Gwan
* Jeon Byung-Soo
* Jung Seok-Hwa
* Park Yong-ji
* Fahad Al-Hajeri
* Hamad Al-Harbi
* Mohammad Al-Fahad
* Mahmoud Kojok
* Devandrn Saarvindran
* Thamil Arasu Ambumamee
* Kyaw Ko Ko
* Yan Aung Win
* Hamoud Al-Saadi
* Abdullah Saleh
* Sameh Maraaba
* Salem Al-Dossari
* Shodibek Ghaforov
* Azimdzhoni Yunuszoda
* Adisak Kraisorn
* Pokkhao Anan
* Amer Omar
* Jamal Ibrahim
* Younis Ahmad Abdulla
* Lê Quốc Phương
* Ngô Hoàng Thịnh
* Nguyễn Đình Bảo
* Yaser Al-Gabr
1 goal
* Anthony Proia
* Riley Woodcock
* Emon Mahmud Babu
* Sohel Rana
* Chhin Chhoeun
* Nen Sothearoth
* Sos Suhana
* Tith Dina
* Mirahmetjan Muzepper
* Ni Yusong
* Peng Xinli
* Xu Xin
* Yang Yihu
* Zheng Kaimu
* Li Mau
* Lin Chien-hsun
* Lam Hok Hei
* Tsang Kin Fong
* Yuen Tsun Nam
* Lalrindika Ralte
* Manandeep Singh
* Syaiful Cahya
* Nurmufid Khoirot
* Bahram Dabbagh
* Mohammad Amin Haj Mohammadi
* Yaghoub Karimi
* Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh
* Morteza Pouraliganji
* Ahmad Abbas Hattab
* Ali Faez
* Ali Mohammed Aliyallah
* Mahdi Kamel
* Mohammed Shokan
* Mustafa Nadhim
* Hiroki Akino
* Takuya Iwanami
* Ken Matsubara
* Masaya Matsumoto
* Ryuga Suzuki
* Hamza Al-Dardour
* Han Song-hyok
* Kang Nam-Gwon
* Mun Hyok
* Pak Song-Chol
* Ri Hyong-jin
* Choi Ji-Hoon
* Kang Jong-Guk
* Kim Hyun-Hun
* Lee Jae-sung
* Park Kwang-il
* Park Jong-oh
* Ahmad Rashed
* Faraj Al-Zuaebi
* Khalid El Ebrahim
* Mohammad Al-Fahad
* Shereedah Al-Shereedah
* Yousif Al-Rashidi
* Evgenii Doroginskii
* Islam Shamsiev
* Nurkal Sataev
* Vladimir Kazakbaev
* Khonesavanh Sihavong
* Vilayout Sayyabounsou
* Thinnakone Vongsa
* Soukaphone Vongchiengkham
* Abdulfattah Achour
* Hussein Al-Jawad
* Kaseem Abou Khechfe
* Mohamad Jaafar
* Omar El Kurdi
* Chai Wai Fong
* Leong Ka Hang
* Pang Chi Hang
* Vinicio Alves
* Fandi Othman
* Wan Zaharulnizam Zakaria
* Ahmed Nizam
* Ahmed Imaz
* Kyi Lin
* Naing Lin Oo
* Nanda Lin Kyaw Chit
* Zaw Min Tun
* Anil Ojha
* Bharat Khawas
* Jagjit Shrestha
* Badar Nasib Bamasila
* Raed Ibrahim Saleh
* Mohamed Al-Mukhaini
* Sami Mubarak
* Ibrahim Jalayta
* Marwin Angeles
* Jeffrey Christiaens
* Abdelkarim Hassan
* Abdulla Afifa
* Jaser Yahia
* Muayed Hassan Fadli
* Murad Naji Hussein
* Saleh Al Yazidi
* Ibrahim Al-Ibrahim
* Fahad Al-Muwallad
* Abdullah Otayf
* Yasir Al-Fahmi
* Al-Qaasimy Rahman
* Aqhari Abdullah
* Fareez Farhan
* Faris Ramli
* Madhu Mohana
* Shamil Sharif
* Nipuna Bandara
* Mardek Mardkian
* Hamid Mido
* Jahongir Ergashev
* Kurbonali Sobirov
* Diogo Rangel
* Henrique Cruz
* Chanathip Songkrasin
* Chayanan Pombuppha
* Chitipat Tanklang
* Laosangthai Anusak
* Narubodin Weerawatnodom
* Thitiphan Puangjan
* Farhad Italmazow
* Yhlas Magtymow
* Suleyman Muhadow
* Abdulla Al-Jamahi
* Abdulla Al-Shehhi
* Pavel Smolyachenko
* Huỳnh Văn Thanh
* Nguyễn Văn Quyết
* Salem Al-Omzae
* Mohammed Al-Sarori
1 own goal
* Chen Yen-Jui (playing against Malaysia)
* Mun Hyok (playing against Thailand)
* Mohamed Thoriq (playing against Tajikistan)
* Deepak Bhushal (playing against Bangladesh)
* Delwinder Singh (playing against Japan)
* Peter Hewabettage (playing against Syria)
* Akhtam Nazarov (playing against Kuwait)
* Hemayat Komekov (playing against Lebanon)