2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC third round

Tournament details
Dates	2 September 2021 – 29 March 2022
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	60
Goals scored	122 (2.03 per match)
Attendance	639,277 (10,655 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Wu Lei Alireza Jahanbakhsh Mehdi Taremi Junya Itō Saleh Al-Shehri Son Heung-min (4 goals each)
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The third round^{[note 1]} of AFC matches for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification was played from 2 September 2021 to 29 March 2022.^[1][2][3]

Format

The twelve teams that advanced from the second round (the seven group winners excluding Qatar and the five best group runners-up) were divided into two groups of six teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The top two teams of each group qualified for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and the two third-placed teams advanced to the fourth round. World Cup hosts Qatar won Group E in the second round (which meant they advanced to the 2023 AFC Asian Cup finals) but were not required to qualify for the World Cup.

Qualified teams

Group (Second round)	Winners	Best 5 Runners-up[note 2]
A	Syria	China
B	Australia	—
C	Iran	Iraq
D	Saudi Arabia	—
E	Qatar [note 3]	Oman
F	Japan	—
G	United Arab Emirates	Vietnam
H	South Korea	Lebanon

Draw and seeding

The draw for the third round was held on 1 July 2021 at 15:00 MST (UTC+8), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[5]

The seeding for the draw was based on a special release of the FIFA Men's World Rankings for Asian teams on 18 June 2021 (shown in parentheses below).^[6]

Each group contained one team from each of the six pots.

Note: Bolded teams qualified directly for the World Cup. Italicised teams qualified for the fourth round.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Japan (24)  Iran (26)	Australia (35)  South Korea (36)	Saudi Arabia (61)  United Arab Emirates (68)
Pot 4	Pot 5	Pot 6
Iraq (70)  China (71)	Oman (79)  Syria (80)	Vietnam (92)  Lebanon (98)

Schedule

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia, FIFA announced on 12 August 2020 that the upcoming qualifying matches originally scheduled for 2020 were moved to 2021,^[7] and on 11 November, the AFC Competitions Committee also announced that the final round of the Asian qualifiers would begin in September 2021 and be finished by March 2022.^[8]

Matchday	Date	Original date
Matchday 1	2 September 2021	3 September 2020
Matchday 2	7 September 2021	8 September 2020
Matchday 3	7 October 2021	13 October 2020
Matchday 4	12 October 2021	12 November 2020
Matchday 5	11 November 2021	17 November 2020
Matchday 6	16 November 2021	25 March 2021
Matchday 7	27 January 2022	30 March 2021
Matchday 8	1 February 2022	8 June 2021
Matchday 9	24 March 2022	7 September 2021
Matchday 10	29 March 2022	12 October 2021

Groups

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iran	10	8	1	1	15	4	+11	25	2022 FIFA World Cup		—	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0
2	South Korea	10	7	2	1	13	3	+10	23			2–0	—	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–0
3	United Arab Emirates	10	3	3	4	7	7	0	12	Fourth round		0–1	1–0	—	2–2	2–0	0–0
4	Iraq	10	1	6	3	6	12	−6	9			0–3	0–3	1–0	—	1–1	0–0
5	Syria	10	1	3	6	9	16	−7	6			0–3	0–2	1–1	1–1	—	2–3
6	Lebanon	10	1	3	6	5	13	−8	6			1–2	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–3	—

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Group B

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification