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2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC first round - Wikipedia

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2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC first round
Tournament details
Dates	12-17 March 2015
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	12
Goals scored	24 (2 per match)
Attendance	89,973 (7,498 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Chencho Gyeltshen Chan Vathanaka Sunil Chhetri 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

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

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
India (171) Sri Lanka (172) Yemen (176) Cambodia (179) Chinese Taipei (182) East Timor (185)	Nepal (186) Macau (186) Pakistan (188) Mongolia (194) Brunei (198) Bhutan (209)

Summary

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
East Timor	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

^ ^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

12 March 2015

19:00 UTC+5:30

India	2–0	Nepal
Chhetri 53', 70'	Report (FIFA) Report (AFC)

Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium, Guwahati

Attendance: 11,200

Referee: Aziz Asimov (Uzbekistan)

17 March 2015

15:30 UTC+5:45

Nepal	0–0	India
	Report (FIFA) Report (AFC)

Dasarath Rangasala Stadium, Kathmandu

Attendance: 10,500

Referee: Khamis Al-Marri (Qatar)

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

12 March 2015

18:30 UTC+3

Yemen	3–1	Pakistan
Al-Matari 3' Boqshan 56' Al-Sasi 69'	Report (FIFA) Report (AFC)	Bashir 67' (pen.)

Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha (Qatar)^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 300

Referee: Mohammad Abu Loum (Jordan)

23 March 2015^{[note 3]}

18:30 UTC+3

Pakistan	0–0	Yemen
	Report (FIFA) Report (AFC)

Khalifa Sports City Stadium, Isa Town (Bahrain)^{[note 3]}

Attendance: 2,200

Referee: Ali Sabah Adday Al-Qaysi (Iraq)

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

12 March 2015

16:00 UTC+9

East Timor	4–1 Forfeited^{[note 4]}^[12]	Mongolia
Quito 4', 7' R. Silva 84' Neto 85'	Report (FIFA) Report (AFC)	Batmönkhiin 87'

National Stadium, Dili

Attendance: 9,000

Referee: Sivakorn Pu-Udom (Thailand)

17 March 2015

16:00 UTC+8

Mongolia	0–1 Forfeited^{[note 4]}^[12]	East Timor
	Report (FIFA) Report (AFC)	Patrick 9'

MFF Football Centre, Ulan Bator

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.

12 March 2015

16:00 UTC+7

Cambodia	3–0	Macau
Vathanaka 63', 80' Laboravy 90+4'	Report (FIFA) Report (AFC)

Army Stadium, Phnom Penh

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Ho Wai Sing (Hong Kong)

17 March 2015

20:00 UTC+8

Macau	1–1	Cambodia
Leong Ka Hang 52' (pen.)	Report (FIFA) Report (AFC)	Bin 29'

Estádio Campo Desportivo, Macau

Attendance: 1,000

Referee: Yaqoob Abdul Baki (Oman)

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

12 March 2015

19:00 UTC+8

Chinese Taipei	0–1	Brunei
	Report (FIFA) Report (AFC)	Adi 36'

National Stadium, Kaohsiung

Attendance: 6,273

Referee: Rowan Arumughan (India)

17 March 2015

20:15 UTC+8

Brunei	0–2	Chinese Taipei
	Report (FIFA) Report (AFC)	Wang Rui 37' Chu En-le 52'

Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Stadium, Bandar Seri Begawan

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Turki Al-Khudhayr (Saudi Arabia)

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

12 March 2015

15:00 UTC+5:30

Sri Lanka	0–1	Bhutan
	Report (FIFA) Report (AFC)	T. Dorji 82'

Sugathadasa Stadium, Colombo

Attendance: 3,500

Referee: Fu Ming (China)

17 March 2015

16:00 UTC+6

Bhutan	2–1	Sri Lanka
C. Gyeltshen 6', 90'	Report (FIFA) Report (AFC)	Madushan 34'

Changlimithang Stadium, Thimphu

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Marai Al-Awaji (Saudi Arabia)

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

Goalscorers

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

2 goals

1 goal

Notes

^ ^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.
^ Yemen played their home match in Qatar due to security concerns from the 2014–15 Yemeni coup d'état.^[5]
^ ^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]
^ ^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

^ "ExCo approves expanded AFC Asian Cup finals". AFC. 16 April 2014.
^ "India v Nepal headlines 2018 World Cup, 2019 Asian Cup qualifiers draw". AFC. 10 February 2015.
^ "Asian minnows begin World Cup mission". FIFA.com. 9 February 2015. Archived from the original on February 9, 2015.
^ "FIFA Men's Ranking – January 2015 (AFC)". FIFA.com. 8 January 2015. Archived from the original on January 19, 2015.
^ "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.
^ "FIFA Match Report: Pakistan v Yemen". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on March 14, 2015.
^ "Qualifier match between Pakistan and Yemen postponed". FIFA. 16 March 2015. Archived from the original on March 19, 2015.
^ "Pakistan versus Yemen qualifier postponed due to safety concerns". AFC. 17 March 2015.
^ "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.
^ "Qualifying match between Pakistan and Yemen rescheduled". FIFA.com. 19 March 2015. Archived from the original on March 28, 2015.
^ "Pakistan versus Yemen qualifier rescheduled". AFC. 20 March 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Federacao Futebol Timor-Leste expelled from AFC Asian Cup 2023". The-AFC.com. Retrieved 20 January 2017.

External links

Official FIFA World Cup website
- Qualifiers – Asia: Round 1, FIFA.com
FIFA World Cup, the-AFC.com
AFC Asian Cup, the-AFC.com
Preliminary Joint Qualification 2018 Archived 2019-02-09 at the Wayback Machine, stats.the-AFC.com

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