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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

Final qualification status

  Team qualified for Asian Cup

  Team failed to qualify

Country	Qualified as	Date qualification was secured	Previous appearances in tournament1, 2
Qatar	Hosts	29 July 2007	7 (1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, 2004, 2007)
Iraq	2007 AFC Asian Cup winner	25 July 2007	6 (1972, 1976, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007)
Saudi Arabia	2007 AFC Asian Cup runner-up	25 July 2007	7 (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007)
South Korea	2007 AFC Asian Cup third place	28 July 2007	11 (1956, 1960, 1964, 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007)
India	2008 AFC Challenge Cup winner	13 August 2008	2 (1964, 1984)
Uzbekistan	Group C runner-up	18 November 2009	4 (1996, 2000, 2004, 2007)
Syria	Group D winner	18 November 2009	4 (1980, 1984, 1988, 1996)
Iran	Group E winner	6 January 2010	11 (1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007)
China PR	Group D runner-up	6 January 2010	9 (1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007)
Japan	Group A winner	6 January 2010	6 (1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007)
Bahrain	Group A runner-up	6 January 2010	3 (1988, 2004, 2007)
United Arab Emirates	Group C winner	6 January 2010	7 (1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2004, 2007)
North Korea	2010 AFC Challenge Cup winner	27 February 2010	2 (1980, 1992)
Australia	Group B winner	3 March 2010	1 (2007)
Kuwait	Group B runner-up	3 March 2010	8 (1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004)
Jordan	Group E runner-up	3 March 2010	1 (2004)

Notes:

¹Bold indicates champion for that year

²Italic indicates host

Seedings

On 6 December 2007 the Asian Football Confederation announced the seeding for the preliminary round of the 2011 tournament:^[1]

• 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.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lebanon	6–1	Maldives	4–0	2–1

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9 April 2008

18:00 UTC+3

Lebanon	4–0	Maldives
El Ali  5' Yaacoub  11' Atwi  13' (pen.) Ghaddar  39'	Report

Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, Beirut

Attendance: 200

Referee: Naser Al-Ghafary (Jordan)

23 April 2008

16:00 UTC+5

Maldives	1–2	Lebanon
Shamweel Qasim  22'	Report	Korhani  9' Al Jamal  75'

Rasmee Dhandu Stadium, Malé

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Rosdi Shahrul (Malaysia)

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:^[2]

1. Greater number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;


2. 
   Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;


3. Greater number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;


4. Goal difference in all the group matches;


5. Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches;


6. 
   Kicks from the penalty mark if only two teams are involved and they are both on the field of play;


7. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Japan 6 5 0 1 17 4 +13 15  Bahrain 6 4 0 2 12 6 +6 12  Yemen 6 2 1 3 7 9 −2 7  Hong Kong 6 0 1 5 1 18 −17 1

Bahrain  – 4–0 1–0 4–0 Hong Kong  1–3 – 0–4 0–0 Japan  2–0 6–0 – 2–1 Yemen  3–0 1–0 2–3 –

20 January 2009

19:20 UTC+9

Japan	2–1	Yemen
Okazaki  7' Tatsuya Tanaka  66'	Report	Al-Fadhli  47'

KKWing Stadium, Kumamoto

Attendance: 30,654

Referee: Tan Hai (China PR)

21 January 2009

19:30 UTC+8

Hong Kong	1–3	Bahrain
Cheng Siu Wai  90'	Report	Abdullatif  10' Fatadi  37' Salman Isa  87'

Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong

Attendance: 6,013

Referee: Vo Minh Tri (Vietnam)

28 January 2009

16:15 UTC+3

Yemen	1–0	Hong Kong
Al Selwi  52'	Report

Ali Muhesen Stadium, Sana'a

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Abdullah Al Hilali (Oman)

28 January 2009

18:15 UTC+3

Bahrain	1–0	Japan
Salman Isa  24'	Report

National Stadium, Madinat 'Isa

Attendance: 11,200

Referee: Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)

8 October 2009

19:20 UTC+9

Japan	6–0	Hong Kong
Okazaki  17', 74', 76' Nagatomo  28' Nakazawa  50' Túlio  67'	Report

Outsourcing Stadium, Shizuoka

Attendance: 16,028

Referee: Mohsen Torky (Iran)

18 November 2009

18:30 UTC+8

Hong Kong	0–4	Japan
	Report	Hasebe  32' Satō  74' S. Nakamura  84' Okazaki  90+1' (pen.)

Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong

Attendance: 13,254

Referee: Peter Green (Australia)

18 November 2009

17:45 UTC+3

Bahrain	4–0	Yemen
Abdullatif  20' Fatadi  28' Salman  64' Al-Dali  75' (o.g.)	Report

National Stadium, Madinat 'Isa

Attendance: 1,000

Referee: Mohsen Basma (Syria)

6 January 2010

16:15 UTC+3

Yemen	2–3	Japan
Al-Fadhli  13' Abbod  39'	Report	Hirayama  42', 55', 79'

Ali Muhesen Stadium, Sana'a

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Ali Hamad Al-Badwawi (UAE)

6 January 2010

18:00 UTC+3

Bahrain	4–0	Hong Kong
Abdullatif  35', 40', 44' Adnan  79'	Report

National Stadium, Madinat 'Isa

Attendance: 1,550

Referee: Abdullah Balideh (Qatar)

20 January 2010

16:15 UTC+3

Yemen	3–0	Bahrain
Al Nono  5', 25' Al Abidi  86'	Report

Ali Muhesen Stadium, Sana'a

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Mohsen Torky (Iran)

3 March 2010

19:00 UTC+9

Japan	2–0	Bahrain
Okazaki  36' Honda  90+2'	Report

Toyota Stadium, Toyota

Attendance: 38,042

Referee: Malik Abdul Bashir (Singapore)

3 March 2010

19:30 UTC+8

Hong Kong	0–0	Yemen
	Report

Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong

Attendance: 1,212

Referee: Vo Minh Tri (Vietnam)

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Australia 6 3 2 1 6 4 +2 11  Kuwait 6 2 3 1 6 5 +1 9  Oman 6 2 2 2 4 4 0 8  Indonesia 6 0 3 3 3 6 −3 3

Australia  – 1–0 0–1 1–0 Indonesia  0–0 – 1–1 1–2 Kuwait  2–2 2–1 – 0–1 Oman  1–2 0–0 0–0 –

19 January 2009

19:30 UTC+4

Oman	0–0	Indonesia
	Report

Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat

Attendance: 13,000

Referee: Tayeb Hasan Shamsuzzaman (Bangladesh)

28 January 2009

19:30 UTC+7

Indonesia	0–0	Australia
	Report

Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Malik Abdul Bashir (Singapore)

28 January 2009

18:00 UTC+3

Kuwait	0–1	Oman
	Report	Rabia  64'

Al-Sadaqua Walsalam Stadium, Kuwait City

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Mohamed Omar Al Saeedi (United Arab Emirates)

5 March 2009

20:00 UTC+11

Australia	0–1	Kuwait
	Report	Neda  38'

Canberra Stadium, Canberra

Attendance: 20,032

Referee: Masoud Moradi (Iran)

14 October 2009

19:30 UTC+11

Australia	1–0	Oman
Cahill  74'	Report

Docklands Stadium, Melbourne

Attendance: 20,595

Referee: Maasaki Toma (Japan)

14 November 2009

18:00 UTC+4

Oman	1–2	Australia
Ayil  15' (pen.)	Report	Wilkshire  43' Emerton  82'

Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Sun Baojie (China)

14 November 2009

18:30 UTC+3

Kuwait	2–1	Indonesia
Al-Mutawa  61' (pen.), 87'	Report	Bambang  33'

Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium, Kuwait City

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Valentin Kovalenko (Uzbekistan)

18 November 2009

18:30 UTC+7

Indonesia	1–1	Kuwait
Budi  45+4'	Report	Ajab  72'

Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta

Attendance: 36,000

Referee: Minoru Toju (Japan)

6 January 2010

18:30 UTC+7

Indonesia	1–2	Oman
Boaz  45'	Report	Bashir  32' Sulaiman  52'

Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh (Malaysia)

6 January 2010

17:30 UTC+3

Kuwait	2–2	Australia
Bandar  40' Naser  44'	Report	Wilkshire  2' Heffernan  4'

Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium, Kuwait City

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)

3 March 2010

19:00 UTC+10

Australia	1–0	Indonesia
Milligan  42'	Report

Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane

Attendance: 20,422

Referee: Kenji Ogiya (Japan)

3 March 2010

19:30 UTC+4

Oman	0–0	Kuwait
	Report

Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat

Attendance: 27,000

Referee: Masoud Moradi (Iran)

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.^[3]

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  United Arab Emirates 4 3 0 1 7 1 +6 9  Uzbekistan 4 3 0 1 7 3 +4 9  Malaysia 4 0 0 4 2 12 −10 0

Malaysia  – 0–5 1–3 United Arab Emirates  1–0 – 0–1 Uzbekistan  3–1 0–1 –

21 January 2009

20:45 UTC+8

Malaysia	0–5	United Arab Emirates
	Report	Omar  29', 45+1' (pen.) Matar  62', 76' A. Khalil  85'

KLFA Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Ben Williams (Australia)

28 January 2009

19:00 UTC+4

United Arab Emirates	0–1	Uzbekistan
	Report	F. Tadjiyev  30'

Al Sharjah Stadium

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Yuichi Nishimura (Japan)

14 November 2009

16:00 UTC+5

Uzbekistan	3–1	Malaysia
Djeparov  46' Geynrikh  57', 65'	Report	Zaquan Adha  68'

JAR Stadium, Tashkent

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Masoud Moradi (Iran)

18 November 2009

17:30 UTC+8

Malaysia	1–3	Uzbekistan
Baddrol  73'	Report	Gafurov  33' Nasimov  59' Kapadze  74'

National Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Tan Hai (China PR)

6 January 2010

19:00 UTC+4

United Arab Emirates	1–0	Malaysia
A. Khalil  90+3'	Report

Al Shabab Stadium, Dubai

Attendance: 3,500

Referee: Mohsen Basma (Syria)

3 March 2010

18:00 UTC+5

Uzbekistan	0–1	United Arab Emirates
	Report	Al Manhali  90+2'

Pakhtakor Markaziy Stadium, Tashkent

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Tayeb Hasan Shamsuzzaman (Bangladesh)

Group D

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Syria 6 4 2 0 10 2 +8 14  China PR 6 4 1 1 13 5 +8 13  Vietnam 6 1 2 3 6 11 −5 5  Lebanon 6 0 1 5 2 13 −11 1

China PR  – 1–0 0–0 6–1 Lebanon  0–2 – 0–2 1–1 Syria  3–2 4–0 – 0–0 Vietnam  1–2 3–1 0–1 –

14 January 2009

19:00 UTC+7

Vietnam	3–1	Lebanon
Nguyen Minh Phuong  12' Le Cong Vinh  30' Nguyen Vu Phong  70'	Report	Moghrabi  75'

My Dinh National Stadium, Hanoi

Attendance: 13,000

Referee: Masaaki Iemoto (Japan)

14 January 2009

14:00 UTC+2

Syria	3–2	China PR
Al Sayed  8' (pen.), 24' Al Khatib  39' (pen.)	Report	Qu Bo  51' Liu Jian  90+4'

Aleppo International Stadium, Aleppo

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Mohsen Torky (Iran)

21 January 2009

19:35 UTC+8

China PR	6–1	Vietnam
Gao Lin  2', 20', 84' Du Wei  27' Jiang Ning  37' Hao Junmin  47'	Report	Nguyen Vu Phong  11'

Yellow Dragon Sports Center, Hangzhou

Attendance: 15,300

Referee: Kim Dong-Jin (Korea Republic)

28 January 2009

17:00 UTC+2

Lebanon	0–2	Syria
	Report	J. Al Hussain  37' Al Khatib  78'

Saida International Stadium, Saida

Attendance: 300

Referee: Abdullah Balideh (Qatar)

14 November 2009

19:00 UTC+7

Vietnam	0–1	Syria
	Report	Rafe  90+4'

My Dinh National Stadium, Hanoi

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Ben Williams (Australia)

14 November 2009

17:00 UTC+2

Lebanon	0–2	China PR
	Report	Yu Hai  44' Qu Bo  73'

Beirut Municipal Stadium, Beirut

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Ali Hamad Al-Badwawi (UAE)

18 November 2009

14:00 UTC+2

Syria	0–0	Vietnam
	Report

Aleppo International Stadium, Aleppo

Attendance: 19,000

Referee: Abdullah Al Hilali (Oman)

22 November 2009

20:05 UTC+8

China PR	1–0	Lebanon
Du Wei  21'	Report

Yellow Dragon Sports Center, Hangzhou

Attendance: 21,520

Referee: Matthew Breeze (Australia)

6 January 2010

19:30 UTC+8

China PR	0–0	Syria
	Report

Yellow Dragon Sports Center, Hangzhou

Attendance: 29,570

Referee: Toma Maasaki (Japan)

6 January 2010

14:15 UTC+2

Lebanon	1–1	Vietnam
El Ali  20'	Report	Pham Thanh Luong  40'

Saida International Stadium, Saida

Attendance: 50

Referee: Kovalenko Valentin (Uzbekistan)

17 January 2010

19:00 UTC+7

Vietnam	1–2	China PR
Le Cong Vinh  76' (pen.)	Report	Yang Xu  35' Zhang Linpeng  43'

My Dinh National Stadium, Hanoi

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Malik Abdul Bashir (Singapore)

3 March 2010

15:00 UTC+2

Syria	4–0	Lebanon
Al Zeno  4' Al Ahga  10' J. Al Hussain  47' A. Al Hussain  60'	Report

Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Kim Dong-Jin (Korea Republic)

Group E

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Iran 6 4 1 1 11 2 +9 13  Jordan 6 2 2 2 4 4 0 8  Thailand 6 1 3 2 3 3 0 6  Singapore 6 2 0 4 6 15 −9 6

Iran  – 1–0 6–0 1–0 Jordan  1–0 – 2–1 0–0 Singapore  1–3 2–1 – 1–3 Thailand  0–0 0–0 0–1 –

14 January 2009

15:00 UTC+3:30

Iran	6–0	Singapore
Gholamnejad  43' Bagheri  52' Rezaei  55' Zare  80' Nouri  82', 83'	Report

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Mohamad Mansour (Lebanon)

14 January 2009

17:00 UTC+2

Jordan	0–0	Thailand
	Report

Amman International Stadium, Amman

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Abdul-Rahman Rashu (Syria)

28 January 2009

19:30 UTC+8

Singapore	2–1	Jordan
Casmir  21' Alam Shah  63'	Report	Aqel  41' (pen.)

National Stadium, Singapore

Attendance: 6,188

Referee: Peter Green (Australia)

28 January 2009

18:30 UTC+7

Thailand	0–0	Iran
	Report

Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Valentin Kovalenko (Uzbekistan)

14 November 2009

19:30 UTC+8

Singapore	1–3	Thailand
Fahrudin  84' (pen.)	Report	Suksomkit  12' (pen.), 81' Chaiman  75'

National Stadium, Singapore

Attendance: 22,183

Referee: Hiroyoshi Takayama (Japan)

14 November 2009

18:00 UTC+3:30

Iran	1–0	Jordan
Nekounam  72'	Report

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Yuichi Nishimura (Japan)

18 November 2009

18:30 UTC+7

Thailand	0–1	Singapore
	Report	Đurić  38'

Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Abdullah Balideh (Qatar)

22 November 2009

18:00 UTC+2

Jordan	1–0	Iran
Amer Deeb  78'	Report

King Abdullah Stadium, Amman

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Ali Hamad Al-Badwawi (UAE)

6 January 2010

19:30 UTC+8

Singapore	1–3	Iran
Alam Shah  32'	Report	Aghili  11' (pen.) Madanchi  12' Rezaei  63'

National Stadium, Singapore

Attendance: 7,356

Referee: Sun Baojie (China)

6 January 2010

19:00 UTC+7

Thailand	0–0	Jordan
	Report

Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Ben Williams (Australia)

3 March 2010

19:30 UTC+3:30

Iran	1–0	Thailand
Nekounam  90'	Report

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 17,000

Referee: Abdullah Balideh (Qatar)

3 March 2010

18:00 UTC+2

Jordan	2–1	Singapore
Al-Saify  9' Anas  60'	Report	Alam Shah  48'

King Abdullah Stadium, Amman

Attendance: 17,000

Referee: Abdul-Rahman Mohammad (Qatar)

Goalscorers

6 goals

• 
  Shinji Okazaki
  

5 goals

• 
  Ismael Abdullatif
  

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goal

• 
  Aref Thabit Al-Dali (1) (playing against Bahrain)

References

External links

• Schedule & Results