2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC second round

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC second round
The second round of AFC matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (and 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification) was played from 24 May 2015 to 29 March 2016.
Format
A total of forty teams (teams ranked 1–34 in the AFC entrant list and six first round winners) were divided into eight groups of five teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The eight group winners and the four best group runners-up advanced to the third round of FIFA World Cup qualification as well as qualify for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup finals.
A total of 24 teams eliminated from World Cup qualification in the second round competed in the third round of 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification (which was separated from the third round of 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification), where they were divided into six groups of four teams and competed for the remaining slots of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. The 24 teams consisted of the sixteen highest ranked teams eliminated in the second round, and the eight teams that advanced from the play-off round of 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification which were contested by the remaining twelve teams eliminated in the second round.
Seeding
The draw for the second round was held on 14 April 2015, at 17:00 MST (UTC+8), at the JW Marriott Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of April 2015 (shown in parentheses below). The 40 teams were seeded into five pots:
Pot 1 contained the teams ranked 1–8.
Pot 2 contained the teams ranked 9–16.
Pot 3 contained the teams ranked 17–24.
Pot 4 contained the teams ranked 25–32.
Pot 5 contained the teams ranked 33–40.
Each group contained one team from each of the five pots. The fixtures of each group were automatically decided based on the respective pot of each team.
As the seeding order was based on the most recent FIFA Rankings prior to the draw, it differed from the order in the AFC entrant list, which was based on the FIFA World Rankings of January 2015. Among the six first round winners, three were seeded higher than pot 5 (India in pot 3, Timor-Leste and Bhutan in pot 4), on the basis of ranking points gained from the first round matches, while the other three (Yemen, Cambodia and Chinese Taipei) were seeded in pot 5.
Notes
Bolded teams qualified for the third round.
(D): Disqualified after draw
Groups
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Indonesia was also drawn into this group, but on 30 May 2015 the country's football association was suspended due to governmental interference, and on 3 June 2015 the team was disqualified and all matches involving it were cancelled.
Group G
Group H
Ranking of runner-up teams
To determine the four best runner-up teams, the following criteria were used:
Points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss)
Goal difference
Goals scored
Fair play points
Drawing of lots
As a result of Indonesia being disqualified by FIFA suspension, Group F contained only four teams compared to five teams in all other groups. Therefore, the results against the fifth-placed team were not counted when determining the ranking of the runner-up teams.
Ranking of fourth-placed teams
To determine the four best fourth-placed teams, the following criteria were used:
Points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss)
Goal difference
Goals scored
Fair play points
Drawing of lots
As a result of Indonesia being disqualified by FIFA suspension, Group F contained only four teams compared to five teams in all other groups. Therefore, the results against the fifth-placed team were not counted when determining the ranking of the fourth-placed teams.
Goalscorers
There were 507 goals scored in 149 matches, for an average of goals per match.
14 goals
Mohammad Al-Sahlawi
11 goals
Ahmed Khalil
8 goals
Tim Cahill
Yang Xu
7 goals
Sardar Azmoun
Omar Khribin
6 goals
Yu Dabao
Keisuke Honda
Hamza Al-Dardour
Son Heung-min
Manuchekhr Dzhalilov
5 goals
Tom Rogic
Mehdi Taremi
Shinji Kagawa
Hassan Abdel-Fattah
Ali Ashfaq
Hassan Al-Haydos
Taisir Al-Jassim
Ali Mabkhout
Sardor Rashidov
4 goals
Mile Jedinak
Younis Mahmoud
Shinji Okazaki
Abdallah Deeb
Bader Al-Mutawa
Yousef Nasser
Anton Zemlianukhin
Ahmad Abu Nahyeh
Boualem Khoukhi
Mohammed Muntari
Mohammed Musa
Osama Omari
Igor Sergeev
3 goals
Nathan Burns
Jiang Ning
Maya Yoshida
Khampheng Sayavutthi
Ri Hyok-chol
Jong Il-gwan
Jonathan Cantillana
Tamer Seyam
Misagh Bahadoran
Ali Assadalla
Yahya Al-Shehri
Safuwan Baharudin
Fazrul Nawaz
Kwon Chang-hoon
Lee Jae-sung
Mahmoud Al-Mawas
Sanharib Malki
Teerasil Dangda
Arslanmyrat Amanow
Omar Abdulrahman
Odil Ahmedov
Lê Công Vinh
2 goals
Khaibar Amani
Norlla Amiri
Mustafa Zazai
Massimo Luongo
Mark Milligan
Aaron Mooy
Ismail Abdullatif
Abdulwahab Al-Malood
Sayed Mohamed Adnan
Tshering Dorji
Chencho Gyeltshen
Wang Yongpo
Wu Lei
Yu Hanchao
Wu Chun-ching
Godfred Karikari
Lam Ka Wai
Jaimes McKee
Sunil Chhetri
Ashkan Dejagah
Ehsan Hajsafi
Ali Adnan
Justin Meram
Mu Kanazaki
Vitalij Lux
Hassan Chaito
Hassan Maatouk
Aung Thu
Pak Kwang-ryong
Amad Al-Hosni
Ahmed Mubarak Al-Mahaijri
Abdulaziz Al-Muqbali
Jaka Ihbeisheh
Sameh Maraaba
Yashir Pinto
Iain Ramsay
Karim Boudiaf
Mohammed Kasola
Fahad Al-Muwallad
Khairul Amri
Jang Hyun-soo
Ki Sung-yueng
Koo Ja-cheol
Suk Hyun-jun
Abdelrazaq Al Hussain
Raja Rafe
Akhtam Nazarov
Pokklaw Anan
Theerathon Bunmathan
Adisak Kraisorn
Mongkol Tossakrai
Ramon Saro
Guwanç Abylow
Alexander Geynrikh
Anzur Ismailov
Nguyễn Văn Toàn
Ahmed Al-Sarori
1 goal
Faysal Shayesteh
Josef Shirdel
Mathew Leckie
Tommy Oar
Sami Al-Husaini
Hussain Ali Baba
Mohamed Al Romaihi
Abdullah Omar
Jahid Hasan Ameli
Biren Basnet
Sos Suhana
Huang Bowen
Mei Fang
Zhang Linpeng
Zhang Xizhe
Hung Kai-chun
Wen Chih-hao
Yaki Yen
Brandon McDonald
Travis Nicklaw
Christian Annan
Bai He
Chan Siu Ki
Ju Yingzhi
Lo Kwan Yee
Paulinho
Xu Deshuai
Sandesh Jhingan
Jeje Lalpekhlua
Robin Singh
Karim Ansarifard
Saeid Ezatolahi
Jalal Hosseini
Alireza Jahanbakhsh
Kamal Kamyabinia
Morteza Pouraliganji
Ramin Rezaeian
Masoud Shojaei
Andranik Teymourian
Mehdi Torabi
Mohannad Abdul-Raheem
Ali Hosni
Dhurgham Ismail
Mahdi Kamel
Ahmed Yasin
Genki Haraguchi
Hiroshi Kiyotake
Masato Morishige
Takashi Usami
Munther Abu Amarah
Yaseen Al-Bakhit
Yousef Al-Naber
Yousef Al-Rawashdeh
Baha' Faisal
Ahmed Samir
Ali Maqseed
Aziz Mashaan
Faisal Zayid
Ildar Amirov
Edgar Bernhardt
Bakhtiyar Duyshobekov
Almazbek Mirzaliev
Roda Antar
Abbas Ahmed Atwi
Hilal El-Helwe
Mohammed Ghaddar
Ali Hamam
Youssef Mohamad
Joan Oumari
Feiz Shamsin
Mohd Amri Yahyah
Baddrol Bakhtiar
Mohd Safiq Rahim
Safee Sali
Asadhulla Abdulla
Ahmed Nashid
Ahmed Niyaz
Kyaw Ko Ko
Kyaw Zayar Win
Suan Lam Mang
Zaw Min Tun
Jang Kuk-chol
Ro Hak-su
So Hyon-uk
So Kyong-jin
Mohammed Al-Ghassani
Saad Al-Mukhaini
Qasim Said
Raed Ibrahim Saleh
Musab Al-Battat
Ahmed Awad
Abdelatif Bahdari
Matías Jadue
Pablo Tamburrini
Khader Yousef
Manuel Ott
Javier Patiño
Stephan Schröck
Akram Afif
Abdelkarim Hassan
Ahmed Abdul Maqsoud
Ismaeel Mohammad
Sebastián Soria
Salman Al-Faraj
Osama Hawsawi
Naif Hazazi
Faris Ramli
Lee Chung-yong
Lee Jeong-hyeop
Nam Tae-hee
Moayad Ajan
Oday Al-Jafal
Ahmad Kallasi
Omar Midani
Fatkhullo Fatkhuloev
Tana Chanabut
Kroekrit Thaweekarn
Serdaraly Ataýew
Artur Geworkýan
Ruslan Mingazow
Süleýman Muhadow
Mekan Saparow
Mohamed Ahmed
Ismail Al Hammadi
Ahmed Al Hashmi
Dawood Ali
Habib Fardan
Mohanad Salem
Stanislav Andreev
Server Djeparov
Azizbek Haydarov
Eldor Shomurodov
Đinh Tiến Thành
Trần Phi Sơn
1 own goal
Sharif Mukhammad
Khoun Laboravy
Leng Makara
Ildar Amirov
Valery Kichin
Ali Hamam
Zaw Min Tun
Hamdi Al Masri
Serdar Annaorazow
Mekan Saparow
Đinh Tiến Thành
Notes
References
External links
Qualifiers – Asia: Round 2, FIFA.com
FIFA World Cup, the-AFC.com
, the-AFC.com
Preliminary Joint Qualification 2018 , stats.the-AFC.com
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