AFC Second Round 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualification

AFC (Asia) Second Round 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualification.

The second round consisted of fifteen home-and-away series, featuring the 8 winners from the first round and other 22 teams ranked 6–27. The winners of these series then proceeded to the third round.

Teams were seeded into two pots – Pot 1 included teams ranked 6–20 and Pot 2 teams ranked 21–27 along with the 8 first round winners.

Pot 1	Pot 2
Saudi Arabia Iran Qatar Uzbekistan United Arab Emirates Syria Oman Jordan Iraq Singapore China PR Kuwait Thailand Turkmenistan Lebanon	Yemen Tajikistan Hong Kong Indonesia Kyrgyzstan Maldives India Malaysia† Bangladesh† Laos† Philippines† Palestine† Vietnam† Nepal† Myanmar†

^† First round winners whose identity was not known at the time of the draw

Matches

Ties were drawn at the same time as the first round.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Thailand	3–2	Palestine	1–0	2–2
Lebanon	4–2	Bangladesh	4–0	0–2
China PR	13–3	Laos	7–2	6–1
Turkmenistan	4–5	Indonesia	1–1	3–4
Kuwait	5–1	Philippines	3–0	2–1
Oman	4–0	Myanmar	2–0	2–0
Saudi Arabia	8–0	Hong Kong	3–0	5–0
Iran	5–0	Maldives	4–0	1–0
Syria	0–6	Tajikistan	0–3*	0–3*
Qatar	4–2	Vietnam	3–0	1–2
Iraq	2–0	Yemen	2–0	0–0
Singapore	6–4	Malaysia	5–3	1–1
Uzbekistan	7–0	Kyrgyzstan	4–0	3–0
United Arab Emirates	5–2	India	3–0	2–2
Jordan	10–1	Nepal	9–0	1–1

Note. Both legs of the Syria v Tajikistan tie were awarded 3–0 to Tajikistan after Syria was ruled to have fielded an ineligible player.

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