2012 AFC Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament

The Asian Football Confederation
Asian Football Confederation
The Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of association football in Asia. It has 46 member countries, mostly located on the Asian continent. However, due to the disputed boundary of Europe and Asia, nations such as Russia and Turkey which are located mostly in geographic Asia are...

's Pre-Olympic Tournament is the qualifying tournament for the 2012 Summer Olympics Football tournament

Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics is scheduled to be held in London and several other cities in the United Kingdom, from 25 July to 11 August. The finals will be played at Wembley Stadium. Associations affiliated with FIFA are invited to send their full women's national teams and men's U-23...

in London

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. Thirty-five teams entered the qualification, where AFC have three spots for automatic qualifiers and a spot for inter-continental play-off against the fourth representative of the Pre-Olympic Tournament in African zone. The competition will commence in February 2011 and be completed in March 2012.

Seeding

35 teams entered for the tournament. The top 13 teams based on the qualifiers and final round of the previous Olympics

Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held in Beijing and several other cities in the People's Republic of China from 6 August to 23 August. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to send their full women's national teams and men's U-23 teams to participate...

were given byes to the first round.

Top 13 seeds Australia

Bottom 22 seeds

Teams did not enter

Preliminary Round 1

The 22 lowest ranked teams competed in the preliminary round.

Seeding for Preliminary Round 1 draw

11 teams have been seeded and 11 unseeded on the basis of ranking of Asian qualifiers and final round of 2008 Beijing Olympics men’s football tournament

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:

(teams in alphabetical order)

Seeded teams	Unseeded teams

The draw was held on 20 October 2010.

Two-legged knock-out ties were played on 23 February and 9 March 2011.

Results of first round

Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
0–4	0–3	0–1
3–0	1–0	2–0
3–0	2–0	1–0
5–0	2–0	3–0
2–0	2–0	0–0
10–1	7–1	3–0
3–2	2–1	1–1
7–2	4–1	3–1
1–4	1–3	0–1
1–0	1–0	0–0
7–0	4–0	3–0

Preliminary Round 2

The 11 winners from the preliminary round joined the 13 highest ranked teams into the second round.

Seeding for second round draw

12 teams have been seeded and 12 unseeded on the basis of ranking of Asian qualifiers and final round of 2008 Beijing Olympics men’s football tournament

Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics

:

(teams in order of Asian ranking)

Seeded teams	Unseeded teams
Australia

The draw was held on 30 March 2011.

Two-legged knock-out ties were played on 19 and 23 June 2011.

Results of second round

Team 1	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
	4–2	3–1	1–1
	5–0	3–0¹	2–0
	(a Away goals rule The away goals rule is a method of breaking ties in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. By the away goals rule, the team that has scored more goals "away from home" will win if scores are otherwise equal... )2–2	0–1	2–1
Australia	7–0	3–0	4–0
	4–3	3–1	1–2
	6–2	2–2	4–0
	1–2	0–1	1–1
	4–2	3–1	1–1
	3–0	1–0	2–0
	6–1	2–0	4–1
	1–4 (a.e.t.)	0–1	1–3
	1–2	0–0	1–2

Note 1: Iraq awarded 3 – 0 victory in the first leg after Iran fielded a suspended player. The original score was 0 – 1.

Preliminary Round 3

The 12 winners from the second round will be drawn into 3 groups of 4. The winner of each group will advance to the Olympic Games

Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics

while each runner-up will advance to the play-off round. The draw will be held at the AFC House on July 7.

Matches are scheduled for 21 September 2011, 23 and 27 November 2011, 5 and 22 February 2012 and 14 March 2012.

Group A

EWLINE

3
Team
	3	2	1	0	4	1
7
	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
	3	0	3	0	3	3	0	3
	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1

EWLINE


–	1–1	2–0	22 Feb 12'
5 Feb 12'	–	22 Feb 12'	1–1
14 Mar 12'	1–1	–	5 Feb 12'
2–0	14 Mar 12'	1–0	–

Group B

EWLINE

2
Team
	3	1	2	0	2	0
5
	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	3
	3	0	2	1	0	2	–2	2

EWLINE


–	14 Mar 12'	0–0	0–0
0–0	–	5 Feb 12'	22 Feb 12'
22 Feb 12'	0–2	–	0–0
5 Feb 12'	2–0	14 Mar 12'	–

Group C

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