The AFC third round of Asian teams for the Qatar FIFA World Cup will start from 2 September 2021 to 29 March 2022. The process will be involving 4 rounds from 6 June 2019 to mid-2021.
The qualifying competition consists of four rounds for the Qatar world cup tournament. Preliminary round, Qualifying group stage, and Play-offs round.
The 46 FIFA-affiliated nations football teams from Asia entered the qualification round. The matches in round third will start from 2 September. Here we are sharing the list of the qualification teams & the Schedule of matches.
All the qualified teams were divided into two different groups as per their FIFA rank.
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification AFC third Round
Third round Format
There are twelve teams that are entered for the second round and they were divided into two groups of six teams will play home-and-away matches.
The top winner from both groups will be qualified for the Qatar World Cup and the second and third place will go for the advanced fourth round. AFC Main article
Qualified teams: AFC third Round
| Group (Second round) | Winner | Runners-up |
| A | Syria | China PR |
| B | Australia | – |
| C | Iran | Iraq |
| D | Saudi Arabia | – |
| E | Qatar | Oman |
| F | Japan | – |
| G | United Arab Emirates | Vietnam |
| H | South Korea | Lebanon |
Draw and seeding
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 | Pot 5 | Pot 6 |
| Japan | Australia | Saudi Arabia | Iraq | Oman | Vietnam |
| Iran | South Korea | United Arab Emirates | China PR | Syria | Lebanon |
Draw
| Team A | Position | Team 2 | Position |
| Iran | A1 | Japan | B1 |
| South Korea | A1 | Australia | B2 |
| United Arab Emirates | A3 | Saudi Arabia | B3 |
| Iraq | A4 | China PR | B4 |
| Syria | A5 | Oman | B5 |
| Lebanon | A6 | Vietnam | B6 |
Schedule
The qualification matches were rescheduled from 2020 to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia, On 12 August 2020 FIFA announced that upcoming matches will be postponed to September 2021 and be finished by March 2022.
| 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
AFC third Round
This is the third round and it consists of two groups with six teams those teams are in the first two-position they will be directly qualified for the world cup and other teams will be going for the 4th round.
Group A
| P |
Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iran | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 2 | +10 | 19 |
| 2 | South Korea | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 2 | +7 | 17 |
| 3 | United Arab Emirates | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 9 |
| 4 | Lebanon | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 5 |
| 5 | Iraq | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | -7 | 4 |
| 6 | Syria | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 13 | -8 | 2 |
Group B
| P |
Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saudi Arabia | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 19 |
| 2 | Japan | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 15 |
| 3 | Australia | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 4 | +9 | 14 |
| 4 | Oman | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 8 | -2 | 7 |
| 5 | China PR | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -6 | 5 |
| 6 | Vietnam | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 16 | -12 | 0 |
