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Qualification for the 1976 AFC Asian Cup finals held in Iran.

Groups

• * Withdrew
• Iran qualified as host and defending champions
•  Israel and  Republic of China expelled from AFC in 1974

Qualification

Group 1

• All the others withdrew, so  Kuwait and  South Yemen qualified automatically.

Group 2

• All matches played in Iraq.

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Iraq	11	6	5	1	0	14	3	+11
Saudi Arabia	7	6	3	1	2	12	5	+7
Qatar	5	6	2	1	3	5	8	–3
Afghanistan	1	6	0	1	5	3	18	–15

 Iraq and  Saudi Arabia qualified for the final tournament.
 Saudi Arabia eventually withdrew from the competition.

Iraq	1–0	Qatar
Hassan 55'

Saudi Arabia	2–0	Afghanistan
Mohammed Al Mugnim 40' Hamed Subhi 50'	Report

Iraq	3–1	Afghanistan
Subhi 9' Alwan 17' Kadhim 78'

Saudi Arabia	0–1	Qatar
	Report	? 8'

Iraq	1–1	Saudi Arabia
Ahmed 86'	Report	Mohammed Al Mugnim 4'

Qatar	2–1	Afghanistan

Iraq	3–0	Qatar
Alwan 9' Hassan 60' Waal 74'

Saudi Arabia	6–0	Afghanistan
Mohammed Al Mugnim 7', 41' Muhsen Bakhit 12', 33' Sultan Naseab 25' Mohammed Saad Al-Abdali 65'	Report

Iraq	4–0	Afghanistan
Mahmoud 2', 5' Mustafa 70' Ahmed 84'

Saudi Arabia	2–1	Qatar
Mohammed Al Mugnim 52' Muhsen Bakhit 59'	Report	Majed Alsaieq 7'

Iraq	2–1	Saudi Arabia
Subhi 13' Hassan 42'	Report	Bakhit 54'

Qatar	1–1	Afghanistan

Group 3

• All matches played in Hong Kong.

Group Allocation Matches

Hong Kong	0–0	Japan
Penalties
	4–3

China	1–0	North Korea

Singapore	6–0	Brunei

Group 3A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
China	4	2	2	0	0	11	1	+10
Hong Kong	2	2	1	0	1	3	1	+2
Brunei	0	2	0	0	2	1	13	–12

China	10–1	Brunei

Hong Kong	3–0	Brunei

Hong Kong	0–1	China

Group 3B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
North Korea	4	2	2	0	0	2	0	+2
Japan	2	2	1	0	1	2	2	0
Singapore	0	2	0	0	2	1	3	–2

North Korea	1–0	Japan
An Se-wook 65' (pen.)

North Korea	1–0	Singapore

Japan	2–1	Singapore
Ochiai 40' Nagai 81'

Semifinal

China	2–1	Japan
Li Yutie 6' Ke Wushang 20'		Arai 43'

North Korea	3–3	Hong Kong
Penalties
	11–10

Third place match

Hong Kong	0–1	Japan
		Watanabe 6'

Final

North Korea	2–0	China

North Korea  and  China qualified for the final tournament.
North Korea  eventually withdrew from the competition.

Group 4

• All matches played in Thailand.

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Malaysia	7	4	3	1	0	6	1	+5
Thailand	6	4	3	0	1	8	2	+6
South Korea	4	4	2	0	2	3	3	0
Indonesia	3	4	1	1	2	3	5	–2
South Vietnam	0	4	0	0	4	1	10	–9

 Malaysia and  Thailand qualified for the final tournament.
 Thailand eventually withdrew from the competition.

Thailand	3–1	Indonesia
Jesdaporn 60', 66' Pallop Maklamthong 88'		Prajrit Pangdee 70' (o.g.)

Malaysia	2–1	South Korea
Isa Bakar 19' Mokhtar Dahari 50'		Cho Dong-hyun 34'

Indonesia	2–1	South Vietnam
Wibisono 9', 13'		? 32'

Thailand	0–1	Malaysia

South Korea	1–0	South Vietnam

Malaysia	0–0	Indonesia

Thailand	4–0	South Vietnam

South Korea	1–0	Indonesia

Malaysia	3–0	South Vietnam

Thailand	1–0	South Korea

Qualified teams

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearance
Iran	Hosts	N/A	2 (1968, 1972)
Kuwait	Automatically qualified from Group 1	1975	1 (1972)
South Yemen	Automatically qualified from Group 1	1975	0 (debut)
Iraq	Group 2 winners	2 December 1975	1 (1972)
China	Group 3 runners-up	23 June 1975	0 (debut)
Malaysia	Group 4 winners	23 March 1975	0 (debut)

• Note:  Saudi Arabia (Group 2 runners-up),  North Korea (Group 3 winners) and  Thailand (Group 4 runners-up) had qualified for the final tournament but withdrew later.

References

1. "مباريات منتخب العراق الدولية 70-79".
2. "Japan International Matches - Details 1970-1979".
3. "Japan International Matches - Details 1970-1979".

• "Singapore grouped with Burma in Asian Cup"
• The Straits Times, 23 November 1973, Page 29 Archived 31 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
• "S'pore have an uphill task in Asian Cup tournament"
• The Straits Times, 20 December 1974, Page 35

External links

• Details at RSSSF

• 1975 in Asian football
• AFC Asian Cup qualification
• 1976 AFC Asian Cup