8 teams out of 11 to reach the 3rd stage of 2019 Asian Cup Qualifying

Playoff Round 1 - 1st Leg 2nd June 2016, 2nd leg 7th June 2016 - 5 winners through to the 3rd Stage of Qualifying
(A) Maldives (150) vs Yemen (176) - rankings are per April FIFA rankings
(B) Laos (182) vs India (162)
(C) Tajikistan (164) vs Bangladesh (177) - these teams played each other in the recent Group Stage (Group B)
(D) Chinese Taipei (181) vs Cambodia (182)
(E) Malaysia (174) vs Timor-Leste (175) - these teams played each other in the recent Group Stage (Group A)


Playoff Round 2 - 1st Leg 6th Sep 2016, 2nd Leg 11th October 2016 - 3 winners through to the 3rd Stage of Qualifying
(F) Loser of (A) vs Loser of (B)
(G) Loser of (C) vs Bhutan (186th in April rankings)
(H) Loser of (D) vs Loser of (E)

Surely with 2 bites of the cherry India may get through and looking ahead Bangladesh vs Bhutan seems fairly likely in Match (H)

- updated for April rankings

Edited by glh37: 8/4/2016 11:32:25 AM

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Looking at a lot of these countries and you have to say their participation, at this point, is largely academic.

AFC will do everything they can to get India through

More money in Asia is not a bad thing. It stops the Middle Eastern and Chinese takeovers anddilutes the money pool. Meanwhile countries like Japan Korea and Straya actually play the game.

The 3rd round will be a group phase won't it?

Looking forward to Kyrgyzstan. I think HK, Singapore and Myanmar will do well.

Hopefully Kyrgyzstan can get through. We genuinely struggled against them away and they could spring a surprise at the Asian Cup I reckon.

6 groups of 4 including the 8 teams from these playoffs. Top 2 in each group make the Asian Cup.

Kyrgyzstan should be seeded in Pot 1 (along with Jordan and the better teams) and unless they cop a very bad draw and play terribly would almost be a certainty to finish 1st or 2nd based on their form in the last 12 months.

The main risk is the ACQ group games start in March 2017 and there is only 1 Match Day so "smaller" countries could lose form/momentum in the next 12-15 months.

Upcoming Friendlies for these teams

28/May Myanmar vs MALAYSIA

29/May CAMBODIA vs TIMOR-LESTE (a bit strange as they could play each other in the September/October playoff if they both lose in June)

Not sure if there are any planned for 30/31 May

Edited by glh37: 30/5/2016 02:09:30 PM

Awesome.

Stoked to see everyone getting around Kyrgyzstan. :)

Where is the world cup qualifying thread? I'm using a tablet. Do mobile devices limit the number of pages I can see?

http://au.fourfourtwo.com/forums/default.aspx?g=posts&t=103259

the problem is the site defaults to showing threads form the last 30 days only, to find older stuff you can set it to show threads form the last 2 or more months underneath the "Users browsing this section" bit

28/May Myanmar vs MALAYSIA = Nil all

29/May CAMBODIA 2 defeated TIMOR-LESTE 0

http://www.the-afc.com/asian-cup-2019/2019-acq-play-off-round-crunch-time-for-asian-cup-hopefuls

Thanks

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Play-off 1st leg results

Chinese Taipei    vs Cambodia 2–2   
Maldives vs Yemen   0–2   
Tajikistan vs Bangladesh 5–0
Malaysia vs Timor-Leste 3–0
Laos vs India 0–1

India won an away game? :shock:

Looks like chinese Taipei vs Cambodia and laos vs India are the most likely to be close ties after match day 1, I think East Timor vs MAlaysia is actually being played a day earlier than the other matches 2nd legs

Both legs of that Timor tie are being played in Malaysia.

The FFA (and probably China) should do something to get East Timor's stadium up to scratch.

calm down bic boi

Yemen defeated Maldives 4-0 on aggregate. Yemen qualify for the 3rd stage of qualifying and Maldives move on to the 2nd stage of the playoffs.

India defeated Laos 7-1 on aggregate. India qualify for the 3rd stage of qualifying and Laos move on to the 2nd stage of the playoffs.

Tajikistan defeated Bangladesh 6-0 on aggregate. Tajikistan qualify for the 3rd stage of qualifying and Bangladesh move on to the 2nd stage of the playoffs.

Cambodia defeated Chinese Taipei 4-2 on aggregate. Cambodia qualify for the 3rd stage of qualifying and Chinese Taipei move on to the 2nd stage of the playoffs.

Malaysia defeated Timor Leste 6-0 on aggregate. Malaysia qualify for the 3rd stage of qualifying and Timor Leste move on to the 2nd stage of the playoffs.

Playoff Round 2 - 1st Leg 6th Sep 2016, 2nd Leg 11th October 2016 - 3 winners through to the 3rd Stage of Qualifying[/b]
(F) Maldives (ranked 174 in September) vs Laos (ranked 177)
(G) Bangladesh (ranked 183 in September) vs Bhutan (ranked 192)
(H) Timor Leste (ranked 186 in September) vs Chinese Taipei (ranked 183)

apparently Rikki Herbert got the sack from the Maldives after the defeat by Yemen

Kyrgyzstan lost 6:0 to Iran in a friendly. China lost 1:0 to Kazakhstan. Canada 2:1 vs Uzbekistan.

http://www.the-afc.com/asian-cup-2019/uae-2019-qualification-race-to-resume-on-tuesday

Playoff Round 2 - 1st Leg 6th Sep 2016, 2nd Leg 10th/11th October 2016 - 3 winners through to the 3rd Stage of Qualifying[/b]
(F) Maldives (ranked 165 in September) vs Laos (ranked 176) ............... Maldives won first leg at home 4-0
(G) Bangladesh (ranked 185 in September) vs Bhutan (ranked 189) .............. first leg in Bangladesh was 0-0


both legs being played in October (8th and 11th) - with both legs in Chinese Taipei
(H) Timor Leste (ranked 183 in September) vs Chinese Taipei (ranked 178)

be good to see a SEAsian team qualify
thailand or malaysia

really would like singapore , but their coaching directions is heavily focused on fitness

thailand have already qualified for the asian cup by making the 12 qualifiers from the earlier joint AFC Asian Cup / World Cup Qualifiers

agreed that SE Asian teams doing well in qualifying would be a good thing, Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam might do OK based on their results in the last stage

i wonder which SEAsian  team could possibly make it to the world cup 

Based on their results this time Thailand would be the best placed, but they appear to be a long way off finishing 3rd in a group and winning an AFC playoff then defeating an OFC team.

They should be aiming not to finish bottom this time around and to get out of their group in the 2019 Asian Cup if the 2nd seeded team is relatively weak.