The second round of
2026 FIFA World Cup AFC qualification, which also served as the second round of
2027 AFC Asian Cup qualification
The 2027 AFC Asian Cup qualification is the qualification process organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine the participating teams for the 2027 AFC Asian Cup, the 19th edition of the international men's football championsh ...
, began on 16 November 2023 and was completed on 11 June 2024.
Format
A total of 36 teams were drawn into nine groups of four to play home-and-away
round-robin matches. They included the 26 teams which received byes to this round, and the 10 winners from the
first round
First most commonly refers to:
* First, the ordinal form of the number 1
First or 1st may also refer to:
Acronyms
* Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters, an astronomical survey carried out by the Very Large Array
* Far Infrared a ...
.
The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the
third round
Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
* 1⁄60 of a ''second'', i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system
Places
* 3rd Street (di ...
and qualified for the
2027 AFC Asian Cup
The 2027 AFC Asian Cup will be the 19th edition of the AFC Asian Cup, the quadrennial international men's association football, football championship of Asia organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The tournament involves 24 nationa ...
. The third and fourth place teams advanced to the
third round of the 2027 Asian Cup qualification.
Seeding
The draw for the second round was held on 27 July 2023 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The seeding was based on the
FIFA World Rankings
The FIFA Men's World Ranking is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, first introduced in December 1992. The men's teams of the member nations of FIFA, football's world governing body, are ranked based on their gam ...
of July 2023 (shown in parentheses below). The identities of the
first round
First most commonly refers to:
* First, the ordinal form of the number 1
First or 1st may also refer to:
Acronyms
* Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters, an astronomical survey carried out by the Very Large Array
* Far Infrared a ...
winners were not known at the time of the draw.
Note: Bolded teams qualified for the
third round
Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
* 1⁄60 of a ''second'', i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system
Places
* 3rd Street (di ...
of World Cup qualifying.
Teams whose identity was not known at the time of the draw.
Team moved to Pot 3 after the other Pot 4 teams had been drawn into groups; subsequently drawn at random from Pot 3.
Schedule
The match schedule was as follows.
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Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Group E
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Group F
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Group G
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Group H
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Group I
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Goalscorers
Discipline
A player was automatically suspended for the next match for the following infractions:
Notes
References
External links
*
FIFA.comFIFA World Cup
– the-AFC.com
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