| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 2 September 2021 – 29 March 2022 |
| Teams | 12 (from 1 confederation) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 36 |
| Goals scored | 75 (2.08 per match) |
| Attendance | 254,337 (7,065 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |  Wu Lei(4 goals) |
International football contest
The third round [ note 1 ] of AFC matches for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification is being played from 2 September 2021 to 29 March 2022. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
format [edit ]
The twelve teams that advanced from the second gear turn ( the seven group winners excluding Qatar and the five best group runner-up ) were divided into two groups of six teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The top two teams of each group will qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and the two third-placed teams will advance to the one-fourth round of golf. World Cup hosts Qatar won Group E in the moment round ( which meant they advanced to the 2023 AFC asian Cup finals ) but were not required to qualify for the World Cup .
Qualified teams [edit ]
Draw and seeding [edit ]
The draw for the third base round was held on 1 July 2021 at 15:00 MST ( UTC+8 ), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [ 5 ] The seed for the draw was based on a special turn of the FIFA World Rankings for asian teams on 18 June 2021 ( shown in parentheses below ). [ 6 ] Each group contain one team from each of the six pots .
schedule [edit ]
due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia, FIFA announced on 12 August 2020 that the approaching stipulate matches in the first place scheduled for 2020 were moved to 2021, [ 7 ] and on 11 November, the AFC Competitions Committee besides announced that the final beat of the asian qualifiers will 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 [edit ]
Group A [edit ]
AFC
Rules for classification: Updated to match ( east ) played on 16 November 2021. source : FIFA Rules for categorization : Tiebreakers
Read more: Chord (music) – Wikipedia
Group B [edit ]
AFC
Rules for classification:
( y ) Cannot qualify directly, may only advance to fourth round Updated to match ( einsteinium ) played on 16 November 2021. source : FIFA Rules for classification : Tiebreakers Can not qualify directly, may only advance to fourth round
Goalscorers [edit ]
There have been 75 goals scored in 36 matches, for an average of 2.08 goals per match ( as of 16 November 2021 ) .
4 goals 3 goals 2 goals 1 goal
Read more: สรุปเหรียญโอลิมปิกฤดูร้อน 2016 – วิกิพีเดีย
1 own goal