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1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)

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1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)
Tournament details
Teams	30 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)	Kazuyoshi Miura (13 goals)
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International football competition

Listed below are the dates and results for the1994 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for theAsian zone (AFC). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article1994 FIFA World Cup qualification.

A total of 29 teams entered the competition. The Asian zone was allocated 2 places (out of 24) in the final tournament.

Format

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There were two rounds of play:

First Round: The teams were divided into 6 groups of 4 or 5 teams each, althoughMyanmar andNepal withdrew after playing no matches. 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 inQatar. The group winner and runner-up would qualify.

First round

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Main article:1994 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC first round

Group A

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Iraq	8	6	1	1	28	4	+24	13
2	China	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

Source:RSSSF

Iraq advanced to the Final Round.

Group B

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Pos	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(W)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source:RSSSF
(W) Withdrew

Iran advanced to the Final Round.

Group C

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Pos	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

Source:RSSSF

North Korea advanced to the Final Round.

Group D

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Pos	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

Source:RSSSF

South Korea advanced to the Final Round.

Group E

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Pos	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

Source:RSSSF

Saudi Arabia advanced to the Final Round.

Group F

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Pos	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

Source:RSSSF

Japan advanced to the final round.

Final round

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With Iran, North Korea, and Iraq qualifying for the final round fears were expressed in the United States of those countries potentially turning up at their tournament, since the three 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

Saudi Arabia andSouth Korea qualified.

15 October 1993

North Korea	3–2	Iraq
Kim Kwang-min 63' Kim Kyong-il 76' Choi Won-Nam 80'		Kadhim 8',46'

Khalifa International Stadium,Doha
Attendance: 20,000
Referee:Uilenberg (Netherlands)

15 October 1993

Saudi Arabia	0–0	Japan

Khalifa International Stadium,Doha
Attendance: 20,000
Referee:Muhmenthaler (Switzerland)

16 October 1993

Iran	0–3	South Korea
		Park Jung-bae 18' Ha Seok-ju 79' Ko Jeong-woon 81'

Khalifa International Stadium,Doha
Attendance: 10,000
Referee:Schmidhuber (Germany)

18 October 1993

North Korea	1–2	Saudi Arabia
Ryu Song-Gun 68'		Mehalel 56' Al-Muwallid 73'

Khalifa International Stadium,Doha
Attendance: 15,000
Referee:Crăciunescu (Romania)

18 October 1993

Japan	1–2	Iran
Nakayama 88'		Hassanzadeh 45' Daei 85'

Khalifa International Stadium,Doha
Attendance: 10,000
Referee:Baldas (Italy)

19 October 1993

Iraq	2–2	South Korea
Hussein 32' Jafar 86'		Kim Pan-keun 40' Hong Myung-bo 67' (pen.)

Khalifa International Stadium,Doha
Attendance: 20,000
Referee:Quiniou (France)

21 October 1993

North Korea	0–3	Japan
		Miura 28',69' Nakayama 51'

Khalifa International Stadium,Doha
Attendance: 3,000
Referee:Muhmenthaler (Switzerland)

22 October 1993

Iraq	2–1	Iran
Radhi 20' Kadhim 38'		Daei 21'

Khalifa International Stadium,Doha
Attendance: 30,000
Referee:Crăciunescu (Romania)

22 October 1993

South Korea	1–1	Saudi Arabia
Shin Hong-gi 63'		Madani 90'

Khalifa International Stadium,Doha
Attendance: 35,000
Referee:Uilenberg (Netherlands)

24 October 1993

Iraq	1–1	Saudi Arabia
Radhi 1'		Owairan 36'

Khalifa International Stadium,Doha
Attendance: 20,000
Referee:Quiniou (France)

25 October 1993

Japan	1–0	South Korea
Miura 61'

Khalifa International Stadium,Doha
Attendance: 15,000
Referee:Schmidhuber (Germany)

25 October 1993

Iran	2–1	North Korea
Daei 49',66'		Choi Won-Nam 22'

Khalifa International Stadium,Doha
Attendance: 5,000
Referee:Baldas (Italy)

28 October 1993

South Korea	3–0	North Korea
Ko Jeong-woon 49' Hwang Sun-hong 53' Ha Seok-ju 75'

Qatar SC Stadium,Doha
Attendance: 4,000
Referee:Crăciunescu (Romania)

28 October 1993

Saudi Arabia	4–3	Iran
Al-Jaber 21' Mehalel 27' Al-Mousa 47' Falatah 64'		Fonounizadeh 43',52' Manafi 90'

Khalifa International Stadium,Doha
Attendance: 40,000
Referee:Uilenberg (Netherlands)

28 October 1993

Iraq	2–2	Japan
Radhi 54' Omran 90'		Miura 5' Nakayama 69'

Al-Ahly Stadium,Doha
Attendance: 15,000
Referee:Muhmenthaler (Switzerland)

See1993 Japan v Iraq football match

To date, this was the last time Japan failed to qualify for a World Cup.

Qualified teams

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The following two teams from AFC qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previousappearances inFIFA World Cup¹
Saudi Arabia	Final round winners	28 October 1993	0 (debut)
South Korea	Final round runners-up	28 October 1993	3 (1954,1986,1990)

¹Bold indicates champions for that year.Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

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13 goals

Kazuyoshi Miura

8 goals

7 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Robby Darwis (playing againstNorth Korea)

Awards

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On 28 October 1993, the experts of FIFA and AFC selected the best players of the competition.

Most Outstanding Player^[2]

Ali Daei

Asian All Stars^[3]

Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Shigetatsu Matsunaga	Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi Hong Myung-bo Tetsuji Hashiratani Javad Zarincheh	Fuad Anwar Khaled Massad Shin Hong-gi Ruy Ramos	Kazuyoshi Miura Ali Daei

References

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^"LIBYAN BAN RAISES CUP QUESTIONS".Chicago Tribune. Retrieved9 June 2022.
^辛홍기·洪명보 베스트11에.Naver.com (in Korean). Kyunghyang. 30 October 1993. Retrieved16 May 2022.
^辛홍기·洪명보「아시아베스트11」올라.Naver.com (in Korean). Maeil Business Newspaper. 30 October 1993. Retrieved16 May 2022.

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