The 20 14 Asian regional qualifiers will be divided into four stages. The first and second stages are basically the same as the Asian regional qualifiers of the World Cup in South Africa. Teams including China will draw lots to participate in one-on-one qualifiers, and 20 teams will participate in the third stage.
The third stage is divided into five groups, with Japan, South Korea, Australia, North Korea and a mainland playoff team as seed teams. This continental playoff team is likely to be the winner of Oceania champion New Zealand and South American or North American playoff qualifying teams. A * * * A total of 25 teams are divided into 5 groups, and the top two in each group are eligible to participate in the top ten. The top ten in the fourth stage are divided into two groups, with 5 teams in each group. The final qualifying places will be decided by FIFA according to the performance of Asian teams in the World Cup in South Africa.
The first stage of the competition started in June, 20 10, the second stage was held on March 26th, 2010/and March 30th, 2010/,and the third stage was held on 201/kloc-0.
According to the rules of the AFC, the six teams before the World Cup qualifiers in South Africa will directly participate in the third stage of the World Cup qualifiers in Brazil. In other words, the top three teams in the top ten two groups will have a bye in the first two stages. The four teams that failed to advance will compete with other teams from the first stage of elimination. These four teams, together with the top 20 teams ranked 16, will become the seed teams in the first stage of Asian World Cup qualifiers in 20 14. Together with the bottom 20 teams, they ranked 10 and10 at 20 10.
Judging from the rankings of other 36 teams in Asia, China's strongest rivals at this stage are Indian team and Malaysian team led by Horton, and other teams are not enough to pose a threat to China.
20 1 1 There will be a second phase of elimination on March 26th and 30th. According to the regulations of the AFC, the top ten teams will become seed teams, and then a mixed lottery will be held. In this way, at present, in the Top Ten Asian World Cup in South Africa, the four teams with lower scores, plus the six teams with the best scores that failed to advance to the Top 20 in the first half of this year, will become the seed teams. China barely ranked ninth with 6 points, and can be the "seed" again. The possible opponents are Kuwait, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Lebanon, Tajikistan, Yemen, China, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan and Maldives.
So far, some details of Brazil's World Cup qualifiers have not been disclosed. If the drawing ceremony of the first and second stages of the World Cup qualifiers in Brazil follows the method of the South African World Cup qualifiers, that is, only the first stage is drawn, and the second stage is in the form of the strongest versus the weakest, that is, the team with the highest ranking in the competition plays the last approved team, such as 7vs26 and 8vs25, and so on, then the China team with approval number 12 may be ranked as 18. Although China was eliminated by the Kuwaiti team in the German World Cup qualifier because the number of goals was one less, and Zhu lost to Thailand 0-/kloc-0-0 before the Asian Cup in 2007, on the whole, the opponents at this stage are not strong, and there is still great hope that China will finally break through this barrier and enter the third stage of 16.
It is expected that the first-stage group draw will be held in the first half of 20 10.