Eednud Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 (edited) Draw for the third round of Asian qualifying has been made. Top two from each group qualify. Third and fourth move into a fourth round of two groups of three where top of each group qualify, the runners up then playoff over two legs with the winner advancing to inter-confederation playoffs. Group A: Iran, Qatar, Uzbekistan, UAE, Kyrgyzstan, North Korea Group B: South Korea, Iraq, Jordan, Oman, Palestine, Kuwait Group C Japan, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, China, Indonesia Edited June 27 by Eednud 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 38 minutes ago, Eednud said: Draw for the third round of Asian qualifying has been made. Top two from each group qualify. Third and fourth move into a fourth round of two groups of three where top of each group qualify, the runners up then playoff over two legs with the winner advancing to inter-confederation playoffs. Group A: Iran, Qatar, Uzbekistan, UAE, Kyrgyzstan, North Korea Group B: South Korea, Iraq, Jordan, Oman, Palestine, Kuwait Group C Japan, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, China, Indonesia Iran and Qatar presumably heavy favourites in Group A, maybe between UAE and North Korea for the repecharge round? Group B will see someone from outwith the usual suspects qualify (could Palestine upset the odds?). Group C being a mini Group of Death with Japan, Australia and Saudi Arabia all perennial qualified and China doing so not so long ago. Could see results all over the place here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 52 minutes ago, Salvo Montalbano said: Group C being a mini Group of Death with Japan, Australia and Saudi Arabia all perennial qualified and China doing so not so long ago. Could see results all over the place here. Since moving from OFC to AFC Australia and Japan have met at some stage in every WC qualifying campaign. So far it’s 2 wins each and 4 draws. They also met in the group stage in Germany 2006 with Australia winning 2-1. I was at the last 2010 qualifying game at the MCG in 2009 where Australia won 2-1 but we’d both already qualified. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted July 19 Share Posted July 19 Ticket bought for Australia v China qualifier at Adelaide Oval on 10 October. Will be interesting to see how the attendance compares with the 52,912 that turned up in May for t( Matildas v China friendly. Shit stadium to watch football at other than the aerial ping pond variety. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted July 19 Share Posted July 19 Oceania qualifying draw made yesterday, FIFA World Cup OFC qualifying draw Group A Solomon Islands Fiji New Caledonia Papua New Guinea Group B New Zealand Tahiti Vanuatu Winner round 1 Round 1 fixtures # indicates OFC order of rankings Cook Islands (#8) v Tonga (#11) American Samoa (#9) v Samoa (#10) Winners of those games will meet to decide who goes through to Group B. Qualifying series format Each country will play every opponent in the group once in matches staged in October and November, with the top two teams from each group progressing to semi-final ties in March 2025. The Group A winners will play the Group B runners-up and Group B winners will play the Group A runners-up. The winners of those matches will then go head-to-head for the first-ever guaranteed ticket to a FIFA World Cup for an OFC nation. The runner-up in that contest will progress to the FIFA intercontinental play-off tournament and a chance to give Oceania an historic second FIFA World Cup representative in Canada, Mexico and the United States in 2026. The host venues for match day three, four, five, six and seven are yet to be determined 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted Thursday at 12:03 Share Posted Thursday at 12:03 Australia off to an absolute flyer in the Round 3 Qualifying stage, losing 1-0 to Bahrain at home! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted Thursday at 12:30 Share Posted Thursday at 12:30 (edited) 27 minutes ago, Swarley said: Australia off to an absolute flyer in the Round 3 Qualifying stage, losing 1-0 to Bahrain at home! Minter. Too busy pissing about in Brechin tops IMO. https://x.com/Socceroos/status/1831105804327362623 Edited Thursday at 12:31 by Melanius Mullarkey 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted Thursday at 12:31 Share Posted Thursday at 12:31 (edited) 36 minutes ago, Swarley said: Australia off to an absolute flyer in the Round 3 Qualifying stage, losing 1-0 to Bahrain at home! Also Bahrain’s first win against Australia after 6 losses. Duke should never have been brought up but typical Arnold. Edited Thursday at 12:40 by Eednud 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted Thursday at 12:40 Share Posted Thursday at 12:40 11 minutes ago, Swarley said: Australia off to an absolute flyer in the Round 3 Qualifying stage, losing 1-0 to Bahrain at home! First ever win for them against the Aussies, apparently. Great result for Japan and Saudi Arabia. Worth remembering that Australia will have to do something spectacular to avoid qualifying this time. If they finish behind Japan and Saudi Arabia, they'll get another bite at the cherry against, say, Uzbekistan and Iraq. If they can only finish second against those two, they'll have a play-off against someone like Oman - if they avoid losing that, they'll need to win a game against a nation like Gabon or Paraguay. Wouldn't be too much of a surprise if some of the traditional qualifiers from Africa, Asia, or the Americas are pretty mediocre this time out, purely from ennui. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLights Posted Thursday at 20:12 Share Posted Thursday at 20:12 Japan 7-0 China It's pretty incredible that despite having 1/3rd of the global population between them that neither China or India are capable of mustering a half decent international side. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted Thursday at 20:19 Share Posted Thursday at 20:19 5 minutes ago, NorthernLights said: Japan 7-0 China It's pretty incredible that despite having 1/3rd of the global population between them that neither China or India are capable of mustering a half decent international side. On the upside, their contribution to the world cup of tasty scran’ can only be matched by the Italian team. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted Thursday at 22:32 Share Posted Thursday at 22:32 9 hours ago, BFTD said: Great result for Japan and Saudi Arabia. Drew 1-1 at home to Indonesia. Japan have probably already won the Group! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted Friday at 01:11 Share Posted Friday at 01:11 (edited) 2 hours ago, Swarley said: Drew 1-1 at home to Indonesia. Japan have probably already won the Group! Yep. South Korea also failing to beat Palestine at home, and Qatar beaten at home by the UAE (who've been in a good run of form TBF). None have any real doubt that they'll qualify anyway Elsewhere, Venezuela doing their best to quash any hope that we might finally see the only South American nation yet to make their debut, and Tonga are halfway to being ridden by New Zealand if they can get past the winner of the big Samoa derby, which is free to watch on FIFA's website in half an hour, if anyone else is awake: https://www.plus.fifa.com/en/content/american-samoa-v-samoa-semi-finals-first-round-ofc-qualifiers-fifa-world-cup-26tm-2024/ca2b0e94-5da9-4027-91d8-c23a73e9243d Edited Friday at 01:12 by BFTD "in half an hour" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted Friday at 02:56 Share Posted Friday at 02:56 HT 0-0 in the Samoa derby being played in Apia, Samoa where it’s almost 4pm. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted Friday at 03:01 Share Posted Friday at 03:01 3 minutes ago, Eednud said: HT 0-0 in the Samoa derby being played in Apia, Samoa where it’s almost 4pm. Spent half an hour getting "please disable your (non-existent) ad blocker" messages from FIFA before giving up. Fizzing that I'm missing such a cracker. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted Friday at 03:04 Share Posted Friday at 03:04 1 minute ago, BFTD said: Spent half an hour getting "please disable your (non-existent) ad blocker" messages from FIFA before giving up. Fizzing that I'm missing such a cracker. Download the FIFA+ app. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted Friday at 05:14 Share Posted Friday at 05:14 (edited) American Samoa 0 Samoa 2. An improvement for American Samoa as last time they met Samoa won 11-0 in the Pacific Games last November. Samoa now meet Tonga in First Round Final on Monday 03:00 BST. Edited Friday at 05:16 by Eednud 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted Friday at 06:14 Share Posted Friday at 06:14 1 hour ago, Eednud said: American Samoa 0 Samoa 2. An improvement for American Samoa as last time they met Samoa won 11-0 in the Pacific Games last November. Samoa now meet Tonga in First Round Final on Monday 03:00 BST. The Samoa derby. Eyea of the world etc etc 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted Friday at 13:14 Share Posted Friday at 13:14 10 hours ago, Eednud said: Download the FIFA+ app. Will remember that for the future. I hadn't realised that some of these games were available to stream on FIFA's website. Always quite liked the idea that some of the island nations get together for a wee qualifying tournament over a few days. Imagine if we did that in Europe and one of the big nations had an outbreak of skitters at the start of the weekend. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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