2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifying – Second Round

The second round consisted of 15 matches, with home and away legs in each match, featuring the 8 winners from the first round and the other 22 teams ranked 6-27.

The winners of each match proceeded to the third round of qualifying, with the teams split into two pots – Pot 1 (teams ranked 6-20) and Pot 2 (teams ranked 21-27 along with the 8 first round winners).

POT 1	POT 2
Saudi Arabia	Yemen
Iran	Tajikistan
Qatar	Hong Kong
Uzbekistan	Indonesia
UAE	Kyrgyzstan
Syria	Maldives
Oman	India
Jordan	Malaysia
Iraq	Bangladesh
Singapore	Laos
China	Philippines
Kuwait	Palestine
Thailand	Vietnam
Turkmenistan	Nepal
Lebanon	Myanmar

Games were played across two legs with the first leg held on 23 July 2011 and the return leg on 28 July 2011.

TEAM 1	AGG.	TEAM 2	LEG 1	LEG 2
Thailand	3-2	Palestine	1-0	2-2
Lebanon	4-2	Bangladesh	4-0	0-2
China	13-3	Laos	7-2	6-1
Turkmenistan	4-5	Indonesia	1-1	3-4
Kuwait	5-1	Philippines	3-0	2-1
Oman	4-0	Myanmar	2-0	2-0
Saudi Arabia	8-0	Hong Kong	3-0	5-0
Iran	5-0	Maldives	4-0	1-0
Syria	0-6	Tajikistan	0-3*	0-3*
Qatar	4-2	Vietnam	3-0	1-2
Iraq	2-0	Yemen	2-0	0-0
Singapore	6-4	Malaysia	5-3	1-1
Uzbekistan	7-0	Kyrgyzstan	4-0	3-0
UAE	5-2	India	3-0	2-2
Jordan	10-1	Nepal	9-0	1-1

Note: Both legs of the Syria v Tajikistan tie were awarded 3–0 to Tajikistan after Syria was ruled to have fielded an ineligible player