Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Asian Qualifiers Preliminary Round 3

This page provides the summaries of the matches of the group stage of the Asian football qualifiers for 2008 Olympics.

Main article: Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Asian Qualifiers

Format

The 12 teams in this round were divided into three groups of four teams each and played on a home-and-away format. The group winner from each group advanced to the 2008 Summer Olympics Football tournament in Beijing.

Matches

Group A
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  AUS  IRQ  PRK  LIB
 Australia 6 3 3 0 7 1 +6 12 2–0 1–0 3–0
 Iraq 6 3 2 1 12 4 +8 11 0–0 2–0 5–2
 North Korea 6 1 2 3 3 6 −3 5 1–1 0–0 0–1
 Lebanon 6 1 1 4 4 15 −11 4 0–0 0–5 1–2
Source:
Iraq 0–0 Australia
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Sun Baojie (China PR)
North Korea 0–1 Lebanon
Ali Yaacoub  12'
Attendance: 35,000
Australia 1–0 North Korea
Milligan  49'
Energy Australia Stadium, Newcastle
Attendance: 4,903
Lebanon 0–5 Iraq
Saeed  22'
Abdul-Zahra  59', 89'
Ali Abbas  72'
Karrar Jassim  76'
Attendance: 0
Referee: Mohamed Al Saeedi (United Arab Emirates)
Australia 3–0 Lebanon
Ward  6'
Bridge  24'
Williams  90+3'
Bluetongue Central Coast Stadium, Gosford
Attendance: 4,171
Referee: Kadyrbek Chynybekov (Kyrgyzstan)
Iraq 2–0 North Korea
Ibrahim  21'
Abdul-Zahra  69'
Attendance: 1,500
Lebanon 0–0 Australia
Attendance: 350
Referee: Lee Gi-Young (Korea Republic)
North Korea 0–0 Iraq
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: Hasan Tayeb (Bangladesh)
Australia 2–0 Iraq
Leijer  19'
Milligan  58'
Bluetongue Central Coast Stadium, Gosford
Attendance: 13,888
Referee: Malik Abdul Bashir (Singapore)
Lebanon 1–2 North Korea
Hamzeh Salameh  5' (pen.) Kim Kyong-Il  45+1'
Kim Kuk-Jin  70'
Attendance: 200
Referee: Mohsen Torky (Iran)
Iraq 5–2 Lebanon
Abdul-Zahra  8', 23', 81'
Mustafa  30'
Samer Saeed  37'		 Hassan Maatouk  59' (pen.)
Al Saadi  72' (pen.)
Attendance: 100
Referee: Khalil Al Ghamdi (Saudi Arabia)
North Korea 1–1 Australia
Pak Chol-Min  10' Leijer  70'
Attendance: 8,500
Referee: Muhsen Basma (Syria)

Group B
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  KOR  BHR  SYR  UZB
 South Korea 6 3 3 0 4 1 +3 12 0–0 1–0 2–1
 Bahrain 6 3 2 1 7 4 +3 11 0–1 1–1 2–0
 Syria 6 0 4 2 5 7 −2 4 0–0 1–2 3–3
 Uzbekistan 6 0 3 3 5 9 −4 3 0–0 1–2 0–0
Source:
South Korea 2–1 Uzbekistan
Lee Sang-ho  49'
Lee Keun-Ho  79'		 Kim Jin-Kyu  24' (o.g.)
Attendance: 22,885
Syria 1–2 Bahrain
Al Hussain  37' Okwunwanne  45', 90+2'
Attendance: 3,000
Uzbekistan 0–0 Syria
Samarqand Stadium, Samarkand
Attendance: 9,000
Referee: Malik Abdul Bashir (Singapore)
Bahrain 0–1 South Korea
Kang Min-Soo  64'
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Mohamad Mansour (Lebanon)
Uzbekistan 1–2 Bahrain
Abdullaev  86' Abdullah Omar  29'
Al Banki  90+2'
Central Army Stadium, Tashkent
Attendance: 12,000
South Korea 1–0 Syria
Kim Seung-Yong  10'
Attendance: 21,500
Referee: Yang Zhiqiang (China PR)
Bahrain 2–0 Uzbekistan
Okwunwanne  45'
Abdullah Omar  55'
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Ali Al Mutlaq (Saudi Arabia)
Syria 0–0 South Korea
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Hedayat Mombini (Iran)
Uzbekistan 0–0 South Korea
Central Army Stadium, Tashkent
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Abdulla Mohamed Balideh (Qatar)
Bahrain 1–1 Syria
Aaish  63' Al Haj  42'
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Salem Mujghef (Jordan)
South Korea 0–0 Bahrain
Attendance: 28,221
Syria 3–3 Uzbekistan
Al Haj  42'
Bakri Tarrab  44'
Dalli Hasan  86'		 Tadjiyev  61' (pen.)
Galiulin  63', 66'
Attendance: 300

Group C
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  JPN  QAT  KSA  VIE
 Japan 6 3 2 1 7 2 +5 11 1–0 0–0 1–0
 Qatar 6 3 1 2 8 6 +2 10 2–1 1–0 3–1
 Saudi Arabia 6 2 3 1 5 3 +2 9 0–0 2–1 2–0
 Vietnam 6 0 2 4 3 12 −9 2 0–4 1–1 1–1
Source:
Japan 1–0 Vietnam
Aoyama  45+1'
National Stadium, Tokyo
Attendance: 22,507
Qatar 1–0 Saudi Arabia
Al-Hamad  71'
Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Muhsen Basma (Syria)
Vietnam 1–1 Qatar
Vũ Phong  13' Al Yazeedi  11'
My Dinh National Stadium, Hanoi
Attendance: 14,000
Referee: Lee Gi-Young (Korea Republic)
Saudi Arabia 0–0 Japan
Attendance: 9,000
Vietnam 1–1 Saudi Arabia
Công Vinh  65' Naif Hazazi  80'
My Dinh National Stadium, Hanoi
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Mohsen Torky (Iran)
Japan 1–0 Qatar
Kajiyama  6'
National Stadium, Tokyo
Attendance: 23,163
Saudi Arabia 2–0 Vietnam
Al-Salem  64' (pen.), 90+3' (pen.)
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Sun Baojie (China PR)
Qatar 2–1 Japan
Al Haidos  77'
Majdi Siddiq  90+3' (pen.)		 Aoyama  43'
Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)
Vietnam 0–4 Japan
Lee  9', 25'
Honda  40' (pen.)
Hosogai  87'
My Dinh National Stadium, Hanoi
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Jasim Karim (Bahrain)
Saudi Arabia 2–1 Qatar
Al-Bishi  76' (pen.)
Al-Ghanam  88'		 Magid Mohamed  69'
Attendance: 15,000
Japan 0–0 Saudi Arabia
National Stadium, Tokyo
Attendance: 42,913
Referee: Kwon Jong-Chul (Korea Republic)
Qatar 3–1 Vietnam
Jassem  22', 52'
Al Haidos  31'		 Công Vinh  80'
Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Mohamad Mansour (Lebanon)

Notes
  1. Iraq had to play their remaining home games of the 2008 Summer Olympics qualifiers at a neutral venue
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