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2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC first round

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2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC first round
Tournament details
Dates12-17 March 2015
Teams12 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played12
Goals scored24 (2 per match)
Attendance89,973 (7,498 per match)
Top scorer(s)Bhutan Chencho Gyeltshen
Cambodia Chan Vathanaka
India Sunil Chhetri
Timor-Leste Chiquito do Carmo[note 1]
(2 goals each)
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The first round of AFC matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (and 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification) was played from 12 to 23 March 2015.[1]

Format

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A total of twelve teams (teams ranked 35–46 in the AFC entrant list) played home-and-away over two legs. The six winners advanced to the second round.

Seeding

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The draw for the first round was held on 10 February 2015, 15:30 MST (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[2]

The seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of January 2015 (shown in parentheses below).[3][4] The 12 teams were seeded into two pots:

  • Pot A contained the teams ranked 1–6 (i.e., 35–40 in the AFC entrant list).
  • Pot B contained the teams ranked 7–12 (i.e., 41–46 in the AFC entrant list).

Each tie contained a team from Pot A and a team from Pot B, with the team from Pot A hosting the first leg.

Note: Bolded teams qualified for the second round.

Pot A Pot B
  1.  India (171)
  2.  Sri Lanka (172)
  3.  Yemen (176)
  4.  Cambodia (179)
  5.  Chinese Taipei (182)
  6.  Timor-Leste (185)
  1.    Nepal (186)
  2.  Macau (186)
  3.  Pakistan (188)
  4.  Mongolia (194)
  5.  Brunei (198)
  6.  Bhutan (209)

Summary

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
India  2–0    Nepal 2–0 0–0
Yemen  3–1  Pakistan 3–1 0–0
Timor-Leste  5-1[N 1]  Mongolia 4–1[N 1] 1–0[N 1]
Cambodia  4–1  Macau 3–0 1–1
Chinese Taipei  2–1  Brunei 0–1 2–0
Sri Lanka  1–3  Bhutan 0–1 1–2
Notes
  1. ^ a b c On 12 December 2017, Timor-Leste were ordered by the AFC to forfeit both matches against Mongolia due to the use of falsified documents for their players.

Matches

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India 2–0   Nepal
  • Chhetri 53', 70'
 Report (FIFA)
Report (AFC)
Attendance: 11,200
Nepal   0–0 India
Report (FIFA)
Report (AFC)
Attendance: 10,500

India won 2–0 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Yemen 3–1 Pakistan
 Report (FIFA)
Report (AFC)
Attendance: 300

Yemen won 3–1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Timor-Leste 4–1
Forfeited[note 4][12]		 Mongolia
 Report (FIFA)
Report (AFC)
Attendance: 9,000
Mongolia 0–1
Forfeited[note 4][12]		 Timor-Leste
Report (FIFA)
Report (AFC)
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Wang Di (China)

Timor-Leste won the first leg 4–1 and the second leg 1–0, thus winning 5–1 on aggregate and advancing to the Second round.

Cambodia 3–0 Macau
 Report (FIFA)
Report (AFC)
Attendance: 8,000
Macau 1–1 Cambodia
 Report (FIFA)
Report (AFC)
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Yaqoob Abdul Baki (Oman)

Cambodia won 4–1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Chinese Taipei 0–1 Brunei
Report (FIFA)
Report (AFC)
Attendance: 6,273

Chinese Taipei won 2–1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Sri Lanka 0–1 Bhutan
Report (FIFA)
Report (AFC)
Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Fu Ming (China)
Bhutan 2–1 Sri Lanka
 Report (FIFA)
Report (AFC)
Attendance: 15,000

Bhutan won 3–1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Goalscorers

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There were 24 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 2 goals per match.

2 goals

1 goal

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f This player scored in one of the matches between Timor-Leste and Mongolia that was subsequently forfeited, however FIFA continued to count the goalscorers from those matches in its statistics.
  2. ^ Yemen played their home match in Qatar due to security concerns from the 2014–15 Yemeni coup d'état.[5]
  3. ^ a b Pakistan was originally scheduled to play their home match on 17 March 2015 (15:00 UTC+5) at Punjab Stadium, Lahore,[6] but it was postponed due to safety and security reasons after the Lahore church bombings and civil unrest in the city.[7][8] The match was subsequently rescheduled to be played in Bahrain.[9][10][11]
  4. ^ a b On 12 December 2017, Timor-Leste were ordered by the AFC to forfeit both matches against Mongolia due to the use of falsified documents for their players.

References

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  1. ^ "ExCo approves expanded AFC Asian Cup finals". AFC. 16 April 2014.
  2. ^ "India v Nepal headlines 2018 World Cup, 2019 Asian Cup qualifiers draw". AFC. 10 February 2015.
  3. ^ "Asian minnows begin World Cup mission". FIFA.com. 9 February 2015. Archived from the original on February 9, 2015.
  4. ^ "FIFA Men's Ranking – January 2015 (AFC)". FIFA.com. 8 January 2015. Archived from the original on January 19, 2015.
  5. ^ "Green-shirts resume camp ahead of major events". The News International (Pakistan). 13 February 2015. Archived from the original on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  6. ^ "FIFA Match Report: Pakistan v Yemen". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on March 14, 2015.
  7. ^ "Qualifier match between Pakistan and Yemen postponed". FIFA. 16 March 2015. Archived from the original on March 19, 2015.
  8. ^ "Pakistan versus Yemen qualifier postponed due to safety concerns". AFC. 17 March 2015.
  9. ^ "Pakistan 2018 FIFA World Cup tie switched from Lahore to Bahrain". IBN Live. Reuters. 18 March 2015. Archived from the original on 9 May 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  10. ^ "Qualifying match between Pakistan and Yemen rescheduled". FIFA.com. 19 March 2015. Archived from the original on March 28, 2015.
  11. ^ "Pakistan versus Yemen qualifier rescheduled". AFC. 20 March 2015.
  12. ^ a b "Federacao Futebol Timor-Leste expelled from AFC Asian Cup 2023". The-AFC.com. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
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