2024년 FIFA 월드컵

The **third round** of [FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)|AFC matches] for **[FIFA World Cup qualification|2018 FIFA World Cup qualification]** is being played from 1 September 2016 to 5 September 2017.

## Format

A total of 12 teams which advanced from the [FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Second Round|second round] (the eight group winners and the four best group runners-up) were divided into two groups of six teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The top two teams of each group will qualify for the [FIFA World Cup|2018 FIFA World Cup], and the two third-placed teams will advance to the [FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Fourth Round|fourth round].

## Qualified teams

 [FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Second Round#Group C|C]
 [FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Second Round#Group E|E]
 [FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Second Round#Group H|H]

## Seeding

The draw for the third round was held on 12 April 2016, at 16:30 MST (UTC+8), at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The seeding are based on the [World Rankings|FIFA World Rankings] of April 2016 (shown in parentheses below). The 12 teams are seeded into six pots:

* Pot 1 contained the teams ranked 1–2.
* Pot 2 contained the teams ranked 3–4.
* Pot 3 contained the teams ranked 5–6.
* Pot 4 contained the teams ranked 7–8.
* Pot 5 contained the teams ranked 9–10.
* Pot 6 contained the teams ranked 11–12.

Each group contained one team from each of the six pots. The fixtures of each group were automatically decided based on the respective pot of each team.

Pot 1

 틀:Country data AUS (50)

Pot 2

 틀:Country data JPN (57)

Pot 3

 틀:Country data UZB (66)

Pot 4

 틀:Country data CHN (81)

Pot 5

 틀:Country data IRQ (105)

Pot 6

 틀:Country data THA (119)

## Groups

1. Points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss)
2. Goal difference
3. Goals scored
4. Points in matches between tied teams
5. Goal difference in matches between tied teams
6. Goals scored in matches between tied teams
7. [goals rule|Away goals] scored in matches between tied teams (if the tie is only between two teams)
8. Play-off match(es) on neutral ground (if approved by FIFA Organizing Committee), with extra time and penalty shoot-out if necessary

## Goalscorers

There have been 39 goals scored in 18 matches, for an average of 2.17 goals per match.

3 goals틀:Div col
* 틀:Flagicon Nawaf Al Abed
* 틀:Flagicon Ahmed Khalil

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2 goals틀:Div col
* 틀:Flagicon Tomi Juric
* 틀:Flagicon Genki Haraguchi
* 틀:Flagicon Ali Mabkhout

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1 goal틀:Div col
* 틀:Flagicon Tim Cahill
* 틀:Flagicon Massimo Luongo
* 틀:Flagicon Trent Sainsbury
* 틀:Flagicon Hao Junmin
* 틀:Flagicon Yu Hai
* 틀:Flagicon Reza Ghoochannejhad
* 틀:Flagicon Jalal Hosseini
* 틀:Flagicon Alireza Jahanbakhsh
* 틀:Flagicon Saad Abdul-Amir
* 틀:Flagicon Mohannad Abdul-Raheem
* 틀:Flagicon Takuma Asano
* 틀:Flagicon Keisuke Honda
* 틀:Flagicon Hotaru Yamaguchi
* 틀:Flagicon Hassan Al-Haidos
* 틀:Flagicon Sebastián Soria
* 틀:Flagicon Taisir Al-Jassim
* 틀:Flagicon Nasser Al-Shamrani
* 틀:Flagicon Ji Dong-won
* 틀:Flagicon Ki Sung-yueng
* 틀:Flagicon Koo Ja-cheol
* 틀:Flagicon Lee Chung-yong
* 틀:Flagicon Son Heung-min
* 틀:Flagicon Mahmoud Al-Mawas
* 틀:Flagicon Tana Chanabut
* 틀:Flagicon Alexander Geynrikh
* 틀:Flagicon Egor Krimets

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1 own goal틀:Div col
* 틀:Flagicon Zheng Zhi (틀:Small)

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틀:2018 FIFA World Cup qualification tiebreakers

틀:2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Third Round Group A table

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틀:2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Third Round Group B table

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