AFC Asian Cup qualifiers

The AFC Asian Cup qualification is the process that a national association football team goes through to qualify for the AFC Asian Cup finals.

All-time table

Results of AFC Asian Cup qualification (excluded AFC Challenge Cup) as of the end of 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification.

Rank	Team	Part	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Dif	Pts
1	Iran	11	61	46	10	5	175	33	+142	148
2	China	11	52	35	10	7	148	23	+125	115
3	South Korea	12	50	36	5	9	164	23	+141	113
4	United Arab Emirates	10	48	34	8	6	132	27	+105	110
5	Qatar	10	50	34	6	10	116	36	+80	108
6	Syria	12	59	31	11	17	112	60	+52	104
7	Saudi Arabia	7	40	33	4	3	130	17	+113	103
8	Thailand	14	61	30	10	21	119	82	+37	100
9	Oman	9	52	30	6	16	124	54	+70	96
10	Hong Kong	16	78	24	21	33	105	111	–6	93
11	Iraq	8	41	28	8	5	88	32	+56	92
12	Jordan	10	53	26	13	14	94	49	45	91
13	Kuwait	10	50	25	15	10	110	45	+65	90
14	Bahrain	10	54	27	6	21	80	55	+25	87
15	Japan	7	36	27	4	5	92	17	+75	85
16	Uzbekistan	7	36	25	5	6	85	30	+55	80
17	North Korea	7	45	23	11	11	70	48	+22	80
18	Malaysia	16	60	19	15	26	98	101	–3	72
19	Vietnam	10	40	19	7	20	86	71	+15	64
20	Indonesia	12	51	17	11	23	77	73	+4	62
21	Lebanon	7	45	17	9	19	61	62	–1	60
22	Yemen	9	59	16	10	33	69	114	–45	58
23	India	10	52	15	7	30	59	98	–39	52
24	Singapore	11	58	14	10	34	59	106	–47	52
25	Turkmenistan	4	28	14	5	9	47	37	+10	47
26	Myanmar	5	34	14	5	15	52	73	–21	47
27	Chinese Taipei	9	46	14	3	29	67	109	–42	45
28	Australia	3	18	13	2	3	42	11	+31	41
29	Palestine	4	29	11	5	13	58	36	+22	38
30	Tajikistan	4	27	10	5	12	38	44	–6	35
31	Kyrgyzstan	4	23	10	3	10	35	37	–2	33
32	Cambodia	5	32	8	3	21	33	87	–54	27
33	Philippines	8	34	7	4	23	32	101	–69	25
34	Sri Lanka	7	31	7	1	23	25	102	–77	22
35	Bangladesh	8	40	4	10	28	27	113	–86	22
36	Afghanistan	5	30	5	6	19	25	88	–63	21
37	Maldives	5	34	5	2	27	32	107	–75	17
38	Pakistan	10	37	4	4	29	22	101	–79	16
39	Macau	6	22	4	2	16	21	52	–31	14
40	Bhutan	3	30	4	2	24	21	161	–140	14
41	Kazakhstan	2	8	4	0	4	9	9	0	12
42	Israel	1	6	3	2	1	10	8	+2	11
43	Laos	3	17	3	2	12	13	61	–48	11
44	Mongolia	3	7	3	1	3	12	10	+2	10
45	Nepal	6	28	2	4	22	12	91	–79	10
46	Guam	4	16	2	1	13	5	86	–81	7
47	Brunei	5	15	1	2	12	4	56	–52	5
48	South Yemen	1	3	0	1	2	1	4	–3	1
49	East Timor	2	16	0	0	16	4	66	–62	0

• Yemen consist of North Yemen.

Teams that have not qualified for the finals tournament

Team	1956 (4)	1960 (4)	1964 (4)	1968 (5)	1972 (6)	1976 (6)	1980 (8)	1984 (8)	1988 (8)	1992 (8)	1996 (12)	2000 (12)	2004 (16)	2007 (16)	2011 (16)	2015 (16)	2019 (24)	2023 (24)	Attempts
Afghanistan	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	•	×	×	×	×	•	×	•	•	•		7
Bhutan	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	×	•	•	•	•	4
Brunei	×	×	×	×	•	•	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	×	•	•	•	•	7
Guam	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	•	×	•	•	×		5
Laos	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	×	×	•	•	•	4
Macau	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	×	×	•	•	•	•	×	×	•	•	•	8
Maldives	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	•	×	•	•	•		6
Mongolia	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	×	•	•	•		5
Nepal	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	×	•	•	•	×	•	•	•		8
Pakistan	×	•	×	•	•	×	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	13
Sri Lanka	×	×	×	×	•	•	•	•	×	×	•	•	•	×	•	•	•		10
Tajikistan	Part of Soviet Union										•	•	•	×	×	•	•		5
East Timor	Not an AFC member					Part of Indonesia						×	•	×	×	×	•	•	2

Notes:

• Chinese Taipei played as the Republic of China in the 1964 and 1976 Asian Cup.
• Timor-Leste were banned from qualifying for the 2023 Asian Cup for using 12 ineligible players between 2011–2017 and providing false documents.

See also

• FIFA World Cup qualification
• UEFA European Championship qualifying

References

• AFC Asian Cup, AFC.com
• RSSSF archive
• http://www.rsssf.com/intland.html
• http://www.rsssf.com/tablesa/asiancup-alltime.html

External links

• AFC Asian Cup Official Website