1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)

Listed below are the dates and results for the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the Asian zone (AFC). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification.

A total of 30 teams entered the competition. The Asian zone was allocated 2 places (out of 24) in the final tournament.

There were two rounds of play:

• First Round: The 30 teams were divided into 6 groups of 5 teams each, although Myanmar and Nepal withdrew after playing no match. The teams would play against each other twice. The group winners would advance to the Final Round.
• Final Round: The 6 teams would play against each other once in Qatar. The group winner and runner-up would qualify.

Contents 1 First round 1.1 Group A 1.2 Group B 1.3 Group C 1.4 Group D 1.5 Group E 1.6 Group F 2 Final round 3 See also 4 References

First round

Group A

May 22, 1993, Irbid, Jordan -  Jordan 1 - 1 Yemen 

May 22, 1993, Irbid, Jordan -  Pakistan 0 - 5 China PR 

May 24, 1993, Irbid, Jordan -  Jordan 1 - 1 Iraq 

May 24, 1993, Irbid, Jordan -  Yemen 5 - 1 Pakistan 

May 26, 1993, Irbid, Jordan -  Jordan 0 - 3 China PR 

May 26, 1993, Irbid, Jordan -  Yemen 1 - 6 Iraq 

May 28, 1993, Irbid, Jordan -  Pakistan 0 - 8 Iraq 

May 28, 1993, Irbid, Jordan -  Yemen 1 - 0 China PR 

May 30, 1993, Irbid, Jordan -  Jordan 3 - 1 Pakistan 

May 30, 1993, Irbid, Jordan -  Iraq 1 - 0 China PR 

June 12, 1993, Chengdu, China -  Yemen 1 - 1 Jordan 

June 12, 1993, Chengdu, China -  China PR 3 - 0 Pakistan 

June 14, 1993, Chengdu, China -  Iraq 4 - 0 Jordan 

June 14, 1993, Chengdu, China -  Pakistan 0 - 3 Yemen 

June 16, 1993, Chengdu, China -  China PR 4 - 1 Jordan 

June 16, 1993, Chengdu, China -  Iraq 3 - 0 Yemen 

June 18, 1993, Chengdu, China -  Iraq 4 - 0 Pakistan 

June 18, 1993, Chengdu, China -  China PR 1 - 0 Yemen 

June 20, 1993, Chengdu, China -  Pakistan 0 - 5 Jordan 

June 20, 1993, Chengdu, China -  China PR 2 - 1 Iraq 

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Iraq	8	6	1	1	28	4	+24	13
2	China PR	8	6	0	2	18	4	+14	12
3	Yemen	8	3	2	3	12	13	-1	8
4	Jordan	8	2	3	3	12	15	-3	7
5	Pakistan	8	0	0	8	2	36	-34	0

Iraq advanced to the Final Round.

Group B

June 23, 1993, Tehran, Iran -  Iran 0 - 0 Oman 

June 23, 1993, Tehran, Iran -  Chinese Taipei 0 - 2 Syria 

June 25, 1993, Tehran, Iran -  Oman 0 - 0 Syria 

June 25, 1993, Tehran, Iran -  Iran 6 - 0 Chinese Taipei 

June 27, 1993, Tehran, Iran -  Oman 2 - 1 Chinese Taipei 

June 27, 1993, Tehran, Iran -  Iran 1 - 1 Syria 

July 2, 1993, Damascus, Syria -  Oman 0 - 1 Iran 

July 2, 1993, Damascus, Syria -  Syria 8 - 1 Chinese Taipei 

July 4, 1993, Damascus, Syria -  Syria 2 - 1 Oman 

July 4, 1993, Damascus, Syria -  Chinese Taipei 0 - 6 Iran 

July 7, 1993, Damascus, Syria -  Chinese Taipei 1 - 7 Oman 

July 7, 1993, Damascus, Syria -  Syria 1 - 1 Iran 

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Iran	6	3	3	0	15	2	+13	9
2	Syria	6	3	3	0	14	4	+10	9
3	Oman	6	2	2	2	10	5	+5	6
4	Chinese Taipei	6	0	0	6	3	31	-28	0
5	Myanmar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Iran advanced to the Final Round.

Group C

April 9, 1993, Doha, Qatar -  Qatar 3 - 1 Indonesia 

April 9, 1993, Doha, Qatar -  North Korea 3 - 0 Vietnam 

April 11, 1993, Doha, Qatar -  North Korea 2 - 1 Singapore 

April 11, 1993, Doha, Qatar -  Qatar 4 - 0 Vietnam 

April 13, 1993, Doha, Qatar -  North Korea 4 - 0 Indonesia 

April 13, 1993, Doha, Qatar -  Vietnam 2 - 3 Singapore 

April 16, 1993, Doha, Qatar -  Qatar 4 - 1 Singapore 

April 16, 1993, Doha, Qatar -  Vietnam 1 - 0 Indonesia 

April 18, 1993, Doha, Qatar -  Indonesia 0 - 2 Singapore 

April 18, 1993, Doha, Qatar -  Qatar 1 - 2 North Korea 

April 24, 1993, Singapore -  Indonesia 1 - 4 Qatar 

April 24, 1993, Singapore -  Vietnam 0 - 1 North Korea 

April 26, 1993, Singapore -  Singapore 1 - 3 North Korea 

April 26, 1993, Singapore -  Vietnam 0 - 4 Qatar 

April 28, 1993, Singapore -  Indonesia 1 - 2 North Korea 

April 28, 1993, Singapore -  Singapore 1 - 0 Vietnam 

April 30, 1993, Singapore -  Singapore 1 - 0 Qatar 

April 30, 1993, Singapore -  Indonesia 2 - 1 Vietnam 

May 2, 1993, Singapore -  Singapore 2 - 1 Indonesia 

May 2, 1993, Singapore -  North Korea 2 - 2 Qatar 

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	North Korea	8	7	1	0	19	6	+13	15
2	Qatar	8	5	1	2	22	8	+14	11
3	Singapore	8	5	0	3	12	12	0	10
4	Indonesia	8	1	0	7	6	19	-13	2
5	Vietnam	8	1	0	7	4	18	-14	2

Korea DPR advanced to the Final Round.

Group D

May 7, 1993, Beirut, Lebanon -  Lebanon 2 - 2 India 

May 7, 1993, Beirut, Lebanon -  Hong Kong 2 - 1 Bahrain 

May 9, 1993, Beirut, Lebanon -  Bahrain 0 - 0 South Korea 

May 9, 1993, Beirut, Lebanon -  Lebanon 2 - 2 Hong Kong 

May 11, 1993, Beirut, Lebanon -  India 1 - 2 Hong Kong 

May 11, 1993, Beirut, Lebanon -  Lebanon 0 - 1 South Korea 

May 13, 1993, Beirut, Lebanon -  Lebanon 0 - 0 Bahrain 

May 13, 1993, Beirut, Lebanon -  India 0 - 3 South Korea 

May 15, 1993, Beirut, Lebanon -  Hong Kong 0 - 3 South Korea 

May 15, 1993, Beirut, Lebanon -  Bahrain 2 - 1 India 

June 5, 1993, Seoul, South Korea -  South Korea 4 - 1 Hong Kong 

June 5, 1993, Seoul, South Korea -  Bahrain 0 - 0 Lebanon 

June 7, 1993, Seoul, South Korea -  India 0 - 3 Bahrain 

June 7, 1993, Seoul, South Korea -  South Korea 2 - 0 Lebanon 

June 9, 1993, Seoul, South Korea -  Hong Kong 1 - 2 Lebanon 

June 9, 1993, Seoul, South Korea -  South Korea 7 - 0 India 

June 11, 1993, Seoul, South Korea -  India 1 - 2 Lebanon 

June 11, 1993, Seoul, South Korea -  Bahrain 3 - 0 Hong Kong 

June 13, 1993, Seoul, South Korea -  South Korea 3 - 0 Bahrain 

June 13, 1993, Seoul, South Korea -  Hong Kong 1 - 3 India 

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	South Korea	8	7	1	0	23	1	+22	15
2	Bahrain	8	3	3	2	9	6	+3	9
3	Lebanon	8	2	4	2	8	9	-1	8
4	Hong Kong	8	2	1	5	9	19	-10	5
5	India	8	1	1	6	8	22	-14	3

Korea Republic advanced to the Final Round.

Group E

May 1, 1993, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -  Macau 0 - 6 Saudi Arabia 

May 1, 1993, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -  Malaysia 1 - 1 Kuwait 

May 3, 1993, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -  Macau 1 - 10 Kuwait 

May 3, 1993, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -  Malaysia 1 - 1 Saudi Arabia 

May 5, 1993, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -  Kuwait 0 - 0 Saudi Arabia 

May 5, 1993, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -  Malaysia 9 - 0 Macau 

May 14, 1993, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -  Kuwait 2 - 0 Malaysia 

May 14, 1993, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -  Saudi Arabia 8 - 0 Macau 

May 16, 1993, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -  Kuwait 8 - 0 Macau 

May 16, 1993, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -  Saudi Arabia 3 - 0 Malaysia 

May 18, 1993, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -  Macau 0 - 5 Malaysia 

May 18, 1993, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -  Saudi Arabia 2 - 0 Kuwait 

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Saudi Arabia	6	4	2	0	20	1	+19	10
2	Kuwait	6	3	2	1	21	4	+17	8
3	Malaysia	6	2	2	2	16	7	+9	6
4	Macau	6	0	0	6	1	46	-45	0
5	Nepal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Saudi Arabia advanced to the Final Round.

Group F

April 8, 1993, Tokyo, Japan -  Japan 1 - 0 Thailand 

April 8, 1993, Tokyo, Japan -  Sri Lanka 0 - 4 United Arab Emirates 

April 11, 1993, Tokyo, Japan -  Japan 8 - 0 Bangladesh 

April 11, 1993, Tokyo, Japan -  Thailand 1 - 0 Sri Lanka 

April 13, 1993, Tokyo, Japan -  Sri Lanka 0 - 1 Bangladesh 

April 13, 1993, Tokyo, Japan -  Thailand 0 - 1 United Arab Emirates 

April 15, 1993, Tokyo, Japan -  Japan 5 - 0 Sri Lanka 

April 15, 1993, Tokyo, Japan -  Bangladesh 0 - 1 United Arab Emirates 

April 18, 1993, Tokyo, Japan -  Japan 2 - 0 United Arab Emirates 

April 18, 1993, Tokyo, Japan -  Thailand 4 - 1 Bangladesh 

April 28, 1993, Dubai, United Arab Emirates -  Thailand 0 - 1 Japan 

April 28, 1993, Dubai, United Arab Emirates -  United Arab Emirates 3 - 0 Sri Lanka 

April 30, 1993, Dubai, United Arab Emirates -  Bangladesh 1 - 4 Japan 

April 30, 1993, Dubai, United Arab Emirates -  United Arab Emirates 2 - 1 Thailand 

May 3, 1993, Dubai, United Arab Emirates -  United Arab Emirates 7 - 0 Bangladesh 

May 3, 1993, Dubai, United Arab Emirates -  Sri Lanka 0 - 3 Thailand 

May 5, 1993, Dubai, United Arab Emirates -  Bangladesh 1 - 4 Thailand 

May 5, 1993, Dubai, United Arab Emirates -  Sri Lanka 0 - 6 Japan 

May 7, 1993, Dubai, United Arab Emirates -  Bangladesh 3 - 0 Sri Lanka 

May 7, 1993, Dubai, United Arab Emirates -  United Arab Emirates 1 - 1 Japan 

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Japan	8	7	1	0	28	2	+26	15
2	United Arab Emirates	8	6	1	1	19	4	+15	13
3	Thailand	8	4	0	4	13	7	+6	8
4	Bangladesh	8	2	0	6	7	28	-21	4
5	Sri Lanka	8	0	0	8	0	26	-26	0

Japan advanced to the Final Round.

Final round

With both Iran and Iraq qualifying for the final round fears were expressed in the United States of those countries potentially turning up at their tournament, since both nations at the time were under economic sanctions by the United States.^[1]

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Saudi Arabia	5	2	3	0	8	6	+2	7
2	South Korea	5	2	2	1	9	4	+5	6
3	Japan	5	2	2	1	7	4	+3	6
4	Iraq	5	1	3	1	9	9	0	5
5	Iran	5	2	0	3	8	11	− 3	4
6	North Korea	5	1	0	4	5	12	− 7	2

October 15, 1993	North Korea	3 – 2	Iraq	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Uilenberg (Netherlands)
	Kim Gwang-Min  63' Kim Gyong-Il  76' Choi Won-Nam  80'		Khadum  8', 46'

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October 15, 1993	Saudi Arabia	0 – 0	Japan	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Muhmenthaler (Switzerland)

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October 16, 1993	Iran	0 – 3	South Korea	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Schmidhuber (Germany)
			Park Jung-Bae  18' Ha Seok-Ju  79' Ko Jeong-Woon  81'

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October 18, 1993	North Korea	1 – 2	Saudi Arabia	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Crăciunescu (Romania)
	Ryu Song-Gun  68'		Mehalel  56' Al-Muwallid  73'

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October 18, 1993	Japan	1 – 2	Iran	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Baldas (Italy)
	Nakayama  88'		Hassanzadeh  45' Daei  85'

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October 19, 1993	Iraq	2 – 2	South Korea	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Quiniou (France)
	Hussain  32' Jafar  86'		Kim Pan-Keun  40' Hong Myung-Bo  67' (pen)

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October 21, 1993	North Korea	0 – 3	Japan	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Muhmenthaler (Switzerland)
			Miura  28', 69' Nakayama  51'

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October 22, 1993	Iraq	2 – 1	Iran	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Crăciunescu (Romania)
	Radhi  20' Kadhum  38'		Daei  21'

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October 22, 1993	South Korea	1 – 1	Saudi Arabia	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Uilenberg (Netherlands)
	Shin Hong-Ki  63'		Madani  90'

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October 24, 1993	Iraq	1 – 1	Saudi Arabia	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Quiniou (France)
	Radhi  1'		Owairan  36'

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October 25, 1993	Japan	1 – 0	South Korea	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Schmidhuber (Germany)
	Miura  61'

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October 25, 1993	Iran	2 – 1	North Korea	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Baldas (Italy)
	Daei  49', 66'		Choi Won-Nam  22'

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October 28, 1993	South Korea	3 – 0	North Korea	Qatar SC Stadium, Doha Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Crăciunescu (Romania)
	Ko Jeong-Woon  49' Hwang Seon-Hong  53' Ha Seok-Ju  75'

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October 28, 1993	Saudi Arabia	4 – 3	Iran	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Uilenberg (Netherlands)
	Al-Jaber  21' Mehalel  27' Al-Mousa  47' Falatah  74'		Fonounizadeh  43', 52' Manafi  90'

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October 28, 1993	Iraq	2 – 2	Japan	Al-Ahly Stadium, Doha Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Muhmenthaler (Switzerland)
	Shnaished  54' Salman  90'		Miura  5' Nakayama  80'

See also

• Agony of Doha
• 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)
• 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)
• 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)
• 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)
• 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

References