1984 AFC Asian Cup qualification

This article details the qualification phase for the 1984 AFC Asian Cup held in Singapore between December 1 and December 16.

•  Singapore qualified automatically as host
•  Kuwait qualified automatically as defending champions

The other 8 qualifying teams were:

•  China PR
•  India
•  Iran
•  Qatar
•  South Korea
•  Saudi Arabia
•  Syria
•  United Arab Emirates

Contents 1 Draw 2 Qualification 2.1 Group 1 2.2 Group 2 2.3 Group 3 2.4 Group 4 3 References

Draw

The original draw, announced on 10 April 1984, was as follows:

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4
Bangladesh  Burma  Indonesia  Iran  Philippines  Syria  Thailand	Lebanon  Malaysia  Nepal  Oman  Saudi Arabia  Sri Lanka  United Arab Emirates	Bahrain  India  Japan  Macau  Pakistan  South Korea  North Yemen	Brunei  China PR  Hong Kong  Iraq  Jordan  Qatar  South Yemen

Burma withdrew from Group 1, Lebanon withdrew from Group 2, Bahrain, Japan and Macao withdrew from Group 3, Brunei, Iraq and South Yemen withdrew from Group 4, Malaysia were moved from Group 2 to Group 3, and Afghanistan were entered late into Group 4.

Qualification

Group 1

• All matches played in Indonesia.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Iran	5	5	0	0	21	2	+19	10
Syria	5	3	0	2	9	8	+1	6
Indonesia	5	3	0	2	6	5	+1	6
Thailand	5	3	0	2	9	10	-1	6
Bangladesh	5	1	0	4	6	13	-7	2
Philippines	5	0	0	5	3	16	-13	0

1984-08-06	Indonesia	2 – 1	Thailand	Senayan Stadium, Jakarta

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1984-08-07	Syria	2 – 0	Philippines	Jakarta

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1984-08-07	Iran	5 – 0	Bangladesh	Senayan Stadium, Jakarta Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Chlandar (India)
	Mohammadkhani  65', 78', 81', 89' Alidousti  90'

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1984-08-09	Indonesia	2 – 1	Bangladesh	Senayan Stadium, Jakarta

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1984-08-09	Iran	3 – 1	Syria	Surakarta Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Yu Jong Lin (Korea DPR)
	Alidousti  3', 76' Mohammadkhani  67'		Hasan  4'

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1984-08-09	Thailand	3 – 0	Philippines	Jakarta

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1984-08-11	Syria	2 – 1	Bangladesh	Jakarta

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1984-08-11	Indonesia	1 – 0	Philippines	Surakarta

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1984-08-11	Iran	5 – 0	Thailand	Jakarta
	Me'mar  25' Alidousti  31', 81' Mohammadkhani  55' Darakhshan  63'

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1984-08-13	Bangladesh	3 – 2	Philippines	Surakarta

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1984-08-13	Indonesia	0 – 1	Iran	Jakarta
			Mohammadkhani  78'

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1984-08-13	Thailand	3 – 2	Syria	Jakarta

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1984-08-15	Thailand	2 – 1	Bangladesh	Surakarta

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1984-08-15	Indonesia	1 – 2	Syria	Jakarta

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1984-08-15	Iran	7 – 1	Philippines	Senayan Stadium, Jakarta Attendance: 4,000
	Arabshai  16' Mohammadkhani  20', 52' Alidousti  48' Ahadi  50', 89' Mokhtarifar  77'		M. Araneta

Group 2

• All matches played in Saudi Arabia.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Saudi Arabia	4	4	0	0	19	0	+19	8
United Arab Emirates	4	3	0	1	24	2	+22	6
Sri Lanka	4	1	1	2	6	11	–5	3
Oman	4	1	1	2	9	15	–6	3
Nepal	4	0	0	4	0	30	–30	0

1984-10-19	Saudi Arabia	7 – 0	Nepal	Jeddah

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1984-10-20	Oman	1 – 1	Sri Lanka	Jeddah

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1984-10-22	Saudi Arabia	1 – 0	United Arab Emirates	Jeddah

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1984-10-22	Sri Lanka	4 – 0	Nepal	Jeddah

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1984-10-24	Saudi Arabia	5 – 0	Sri Lanka	Jeddah

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1984-10-24	United Arab Emirates	8 – 0	Oman	Jeddah

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1984-10-26	Saudi Arabia	6 – 0	Oman	Jeddah

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1984-10-26	United Arab Emirates	11 – 0	Nepal	Jeddah

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1984-10-28	United Arab Emirates	5 – 1	Sri Lanka	Jeddah

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1984-10-28	Oman	8 – 0	Nepal	Jeddah

Group 3

• All matches played in India.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
South Korea	4	3	1	0	13	0	+13	7
India	4	3	0	1	8	2	+6	6
Malaysia	4	2	1	1	10	3	+7	5
Pakistan	4	1	0	3	4	14	–10	2
North Yemen	4	0	0	4	2	18	–16	0

1984-10-10	South Korea	6 – 0	North Yemen	Calcutta
	Park S.H.  4 goals' Chung H.W.  2 goals'

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1984-10-11	Malaysia	5 – 0	Pakistan	Calcutta

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1984-10-12	India	4 – 0	North Yemen	Calcutta

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1984-10-13	South Korea	6 – 0	Pakistan	Calcutta
	Lee T.H. Choi S.G. Park S.W.  2 goals' Wang S.J.  2 goals'

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1984-10-14	India	2 – 1	Malaysia	Calcutta

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1984-10-15	Pakistan	4 – 1	North Yemen	Calcutta

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1984-10-16	South Korea	0 – 0	Malaysia	Calcutta

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1984-10-17	India	2 – 0	Pakistan	Calcutta

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1984-10-18	Malaysia	4 – 1	North Yemen	Calcutta

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1984-10-19	India	0 – 1	South Korea	Calcutta
			Park C.S.  48'

Group 4

• All matches played in China.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
China PR	4	4	0	0	15	0	+15	8
Qatar	4	3	0	1	11	1	+10	6
Jordan	4	1	1	2	7	10	–3	3
Hong Kong	4	0	2	2	1	4	–3	2
Afghanistan	4	0	1	3	1	20	–19	1

1984-09-10	Qatar	8 – 0	Afghanistan	Guangzhou

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1984-09-10	Jordan	1 – 1	Hong Kong	Guangzhou

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1984-09-12	China PR	6 – 0	Afghanistan	Guangzhou

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1984-09-12	Qatar	1 – 0	Hong Kong	Guangzhou

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1984-09-15	China PR	6 – 0	Jordan	Guangzhou

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1984-09-15	Hong Kong	0 – 0	Afghanistan	Guangzhou

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1984-09-17	China PR	2 – 0	Hong Kong	Guangzhou

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1984-09-17	Qatar	2 – 0	Jordan	Guangzhou

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1984-09-20	China PR	1 – 0	Qatar	Guangzhou

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1984-09-20	Jordan	6 – 1	Afghanistan	Guangzhou

References

• Morrison, Neil; Panahi, Majeed; Veroeveren, Pieter. "Asian Nations Cup 1984". RSSSF.

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