A quick summary of action around the AFC first preliminary round on SUN 03 JUL 2011. Series aggregate results are shown below. more...

Nepal defeated Timor-Leste 5-0 on SAT 02 JUL 2011 to claim a 7-1 aggregate win in their AFC preliminary semifinal series, as Timor-Leste become the first team to be eliminated from the qualifying campaign for Brazil 2014. The match was Timor-Leste’s home leg but was played in Kathmandu, Nepal. All five goals were scored by different players, including first leg goalscorers Anil GURUNG and Ju Manu RAI. Nepal now face Jordan in the final of series 15. The result leaves only 202 nations to compete for the other 31 places at the Men’s World Cup.

A quick summary of action around the AFC preliminary semifinals on TUE 28 JUN 2011. more...

The AFC qualifiers for the 2014 Men’s World Cup will proceed largely the same as for the previous tournament. 38 teams compete in the preliminary rounds, of which 16 are unseeded and must play a semifinal series first. The 15 winners of the final serieses then proceed to the first group phase with five teams that received byes. These teams compete in five groups of four; the top two advance to the second group phase and form two groups of five. The top two in each group qualify, and the third placed teams face one another in the playoffs. The winner then meets an opponent from another confederation. more...