2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification

2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification
The 2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification was a qualification process organized by the AFC to determine the participating teams for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup. The 2015 AFC Asian Cup, hosted by Australia, featured 16 teams.
In the initial scheme, ten places were determined by qualification matches, while six places were reserved for the following:
Hosts (Australia)
Top three finishers in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup (Japan, Australia, and South Korea)
Winners of the 2012 AFC Challenge Cup (North Korea)
Winners of the 2014 AFC Challenge Cup (Palestine)
As the host nation Australia also finished as runners-up in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup, the initial 6 automatic qualification spots were reduced to 5, with a total of 11 spots eventually determined by the qualification matches, in which 20 AFC members compete.
Qualified teams
Qualification process
The preliminary draw was held in Melbourne on 9 October 2012, 18:00 UTC+11. The twenty teams involved in the qualifiers were drawn into five groups of four teams each, with each group containing one team from each of the following seeding pots. Each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The top two teams from each group and the best third-placed team from among all the groups qualified for the finals.
The following teams did not enter the main qualifying draw, as categorized as "emerging countries" they compete separately. The teams were eligible to qualify for the 2015 Asian Cup by winning either the 2012 AFC Challenge Cup or the 2014 AFC Challenge Cup.
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† Entrants to 2012 AFC Challenge Cup qualification
‡ Entrants to 2014 AFC Challenge Cup qualification
Schedule
The following matchdays were assigned by the AFC for 2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification. As 15 and 19 November 2013 were also the dates of the inter-confederation playoffs for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, a number of alternative matchdays were allocated.
Groups
Tiebreakers
In each group, the teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, 0 points for a loss) and tie breakers were in the following order:
Greater number of points obtained in group matches between the teams concerned
Goal difference resulting from group matches between the teams concerned
Greater number of goals scored in group matches between the teams concerned (away goals not applicable)
Goal difference in all group matches
Greater number of goals scored in all group matches
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams were involved and they were both on the field of play
Drawing of lots
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Ranking of third-placed teams
To determine the best third-placed team, the following criteria were used:
Number of points obtained in the group matches
Goal difference in the group matches
Greater number of goals scored in the group matches
Fewer points calculated according to the number of yellow and red cards received in the group matches (1 point for each yellow card, 3 points for each red card as a consequence of two yellow cards, 3 points for each direct red card, 4 points for each yellow card followed by a direct red card)
Drawing of lots
Goalscorers
5 goals
Reza Ghoochannejhad
Ali Mabkhout
4 goals
Javad Nekounam
Younis Mahmoud
Khalfan Ibrahim
3 goals
Faouzi Aaish
Tha'er Bawab
Ahmad Hayel
Yousef Nasser
Hassan Maatouk
Walid Abbas
Ahmed Khalil
Igor Sergeev
2 goals
Boaz Solossa
Ashkan Dejagah
Fahad Awadh
Hassan Chaito
Mohammed Ghaddar
Mohamad Haidar
Eid Al-Farsi
Qasim Said
Sebastián Soria
Fahad Al-Muwallad
Yousef Al-Salem
Nasser Al-Shamrani
Khairul Amri
Thitipan Puangchan
Ismail Al Hammadi
Habib Fardan
Sardor Rashidov
Vokhid Shodiev
Huỳnh Quốc Anh
Nguyễn Trọng Hoàng
1 goal
Ismail Abdul-Latif
Saad Al Amer
Abdulla Saleh
Mohamed Salmeen
Wu Lei
Wu Xi
Yu Dabao
Zhang Xizhe
Zhao Xuri
Chan Wai Ho
Lo Kwan Yee
Karim Ansarifard
Jalal Hosseini
Alireza Jahanbakhsh
Yaghoub Karimi
Amir Hossein Sadeghi
Masoud Shojaei
Ali Adnan
Hammadi Ahmad
Karrar Jassim
Mossab Al-Laham
Yusuf Al-Rawashdeh
Khalil Bani Attiah
Abdallah Deeb
Fahad Al-Rashidi
Waleed Ali
Hamad Aman
Hussain Fadel
Abbas Ali Atwi
Roda Antar
Soony Saad
Azamuddin Akil
Mohd Amri Yahyah
Ahmad Fakri Saarani
Khyril Muhymeen
Norshahrul Idlan Talaha
Sami Al-Hasani
Amad Al Hosni
Abdulaziz Al-Muqbali
Ali Afif
Yusef Ahmed
Abdulkarim Al-Ali
Hassan Al-Haydos
Abdelkarim Hassan
Jeddo
Mohammed Kasola
Taisir Al-Jassim
Osama Hawsawi
Naif Hazazi
Shahril Ishak
Gabriel Quak
Ahmad Al Douni
Abdul Fattah Al Agha
Oday Jafal
Omar Khribin
Sanharib Malki
Raja Rafe
Burhan Sahyouni
Adisak Kraisorn
Chanathip Songkrasin
Mongkol Tossakrai
Teerasil Dangda
Teeratep Winothai
Omar Abdulrahman
Ismail Matar
Salem Saleh
Odil Ahmedov
Shohruh Gadoev
Nguyễn Anh Đức
Ayman Al-Hagri
Mohammed Al-Sarori
Ala'a Al-Sasi
Own goals
Hussain Fadel (playing against Iran)
Theeraton Bunmathan (playing against Kuwait)
Âu Văn Hoàn (playing against Uzbekistan)
Notes
References
External links
(Official website)
AFC Asian Cup, the-AFC.com
Qualification
2015
2013 in Asian football
2014 in Asian football