2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification

2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification
The 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification saw various countries take part to determine 10 spots to the final tournament in Qatar under the new qualification system set by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
Six other teams also qualified for the finals, even though they did not take part in the qualifiers:
The host nation: Qatar;
The top three finishers in the 2007 tournament: Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Korea Republic;
The winner of the 2008 AFC Challenge Cup: India;
The winner of the 2010 AFC Challenge Cup: Korea DPR.
Qualified teams
Notes:
1 Bold indicates champion for that year
2 Italic indicates host
Seedings
On 6 December 2007 the Asian Football Confederation announced the seeding for the preliminary round of the 2011 tournament:
Teams marked '*' withdrew prior to the draw. All of them participated in the 2008 and 2010 AFC Challenge Cup, and therefore had a chance to qualify via those two tournaments.
India (marked '**') were drawn into Group C of the qualifiers, but withdrew from the qualifiers following their victory in the 2008 AFC Challenge Cup which automatically qualified them for the final tournament.
Maldives (marked '***') were the only other team that entered the Asian Cup qualifiers who could also qualify via the 2010 AFC Challenge Cup, but they were eliminated from the Asian Cup qualifiers before the group stage.
The following teams did not enter main qualification, but could qualify via the AFC Challenge Cups if they chose to enter:
Preliminary round
The preliminary round reduced the number of non-automatic qualifiers to 20. Following the withdrawals of Korea DPR, Myanmar and Turkmenistan, only two teams were involved. The two lowest ranked AFC teams, Lebanon and Maldives, played home-and-away matches in April 2008. The away goals rule would be applied, and extra time and penalty shootout would be used to decide the winner if necessary. The winner of the preliminary round advanced to the qualifying round, where it was joined by the 19 teams seeded 4th to 22nd.
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Lebanon won 6–1 on aggregate and advanced to the group stage.
Qualifying round
The 20 teams were divided into five groups of four. Teams played each other home and way in a round-robin format. The top two in each group advanced to the 2011 tournament where they were joined by the other qualifiers — Qatar, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, India and North Korea.
Seedings
The following teams were drawn at this round:
Tiebreakers
The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, 0 points for a loss) and tie breakers are in following order:
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;
Drawing of lots.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Following their victory in the 2008 AFC Challenge Cup, India was given a bye to the final tournament and removed from this group prior to the first match. They were not replaced.
Group D
Group E
Goalscorers
6 goals
Shinji Okazaki
5 goals
Ismael Abdullatif
3 goals
Gao Lin
Sōta Hirayama
Noh Alam Shah
2 goals
Luke Wilkshire
Salman Isa
Abdulla Baba Fatadi
Qu Bo
Du Wei
Mohammad Nouri
Gholamreza Rezaei
Javad Nekounam
Bader Al-Mutawa
Mahmoud El Ali
Maher Al Sayed
Firas Al Khatib
Jehad Al Hussein
Sutee Suksomkit
Mohamed Omer
Ismail Matar
Ahmad Khalil
Alexander Geynrikh
Nguyễn Vũ Phong
Lê Công Vinh
Zaher Farid Al-Fadhli
Ali Al Nono
1 goal
Tim Cahill
Dean Heffernan
Brett Emerton
Mark Milligan
Hussain Salman
Sayed Mohamed Adnan
Hao Junmin
Jiang Ning
Liu Jian
Yu Hai
Yang Xu
Zhang Linpeng
Cheng Siu Wai
Bambang Pamungkas
Boaz Solossa
Budi Sudarsono
Majid Gholamnejad
Karim Bagheri
Maziar Zare
Hadi Aghili
Mehrzad Madanchi
Yuji Nakazawa
Marcus Túlio Tanaka
Yuto Nagatomo
Tatsuya Tanaka
Makoto Hasebe
Shunsuke Nakamura
Hisato Satō
Keisuke Honda
Hatem Aqel
Amer Deeb
Odai Al-Saify
Anas Bani Yaseen
Musaed Neda
Ahmad Ajab
Fayez Bandar
Yousef Nasser
Nasrat Al Jamal
Akram Moghrabi
Ali Yaacoub
Abbas Ahmed Atwi
Mohammed Ghaddar
Mohamad Korhani
Mohd Zaquan Adha
Baddrol Bakhtiar
Shamweel Qasim
Khalifa Ayil
Hassan Rabia
Fawzi Bashir
Ismail Sulaiman
Agu Casmir
Mustafic Fahrudin
Aleksandar Đurić
Abdelrazaq Al Hussain
Raja Rafe
Mohamed Al Zeno
Abdul Fattah Al Agha
Therdsak Chaiman
Sultan Bargash
Farhod Tadjiyev
Server Djeparov
Anvar Gafurov
Bahodir Nasimov
Timur Kapadze
Nguyễn Minh Phương
Phạm Thành Lương
Sami Abbod
Akram Al Selwi
Mohammed Al Abidi
Own goal
Aref Thabit Al-Dali (1) (playing against Bahrain)
References
External links
Schedule & Results
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AFC Asian Cup qualification
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