2010 FIFA World Cup qualification - AFC First Round

This page provides the summaries of the AFC First Round matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification.

Format

In this round teams ranked from 6–24 were randomly drawn against teams ranked from 25–43, and the draw took place on 6 August 2007 in the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur. Teams ranked from 1–5 received a bye to the third round.

The matches were held between 8 October 2007 and 30 October 2007. The 11 highest ranked teams (according to the first round seeding) among the 19 winners advanced to the third round of the Asian qualifiers, while the eight remaining teams advanced to the second round in November 2007.

Matches

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date = 2007-10-22
time = 19:30 UTC+5
team1 = fb-rt|PAK
score = 0 – 7
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033464/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|IRQ|2004
goals1 =
goals2 = Nashat Akram goal|19
M. Karim goal|24 goal|49 goal|88 goal|90
Jassim Ghulam goal|71
Emad Mohammed goal|83
stadium = Punjab Stadium, Lahore
attendance = 2,500
referee = Kadyrbek Chynybekov (Kyrgyzstan)

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date = 2007-10-28
time = 14:00 UTC+3
team1 = fb-rt|IRQ|2004
score = 0 – 0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033481/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|PAK
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium = Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus (Syria)¹
attendance = 8,000
referee = Saad Al Fadhli (Kuwait)

Iraq won 7 – 0 on aggregate and advanced to the Third Round.----

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date = 2007-10-13
time = 16:00 UTC+5
team1 = fb-rt|UZB
score = 9 – 0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033458/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|TPE
goals1 = Shatskikh goal|4 goal|16 goal|34 goal|57 goal|77
Kapadze goal|26
Karpenko goal|43
Bakayev goal|54
Salomov goal|68
goals2 =
stadium = Central Army Stadium, Tashkent
attendance = 7,000
referee = Ali Hamad Al-Badwawi (UAE)

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date = 2007-10-28
time = 18:00 UTC+8
team1 = fb-rt|TPE
score = 0 – 2
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033475/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|UZB
goals1 =
goals2 = Inomov goal|79
Suyunov goal|89
stadium = Chungshan Soccer Stadium, Taipei
attendance = 800
referee = Tayeb Shamsuzzaman (Bangladesh)

Uzbekistan won 11 – 0 on aggregate and advanced to the Third Round.----

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date = 2007-10-08
time = 19:00 UTC+7
team1 = fb-rt|THA
score = 6 – 1
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033460/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|MAC
goals1 = Chaikamdee goal|12 goal|49
Dangda goal|21
Winothai goal|55|pen.
Phetphun goal|82
Thonglao goal|90+1
goals2 = Kin Seng Chan goal|23
stadium = Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok
attendance = 11,254
referee = Kadyrbek Chynybekov (Kyrgyzstan)

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date = 2007-10-15
time = 20:00 UTC+8
team1 = fb-rt|MAC
score = 1 – 7
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033477/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|THA
goals1 = Kin Seng Chan goal|90+2
goals2 = Dangda goal|22
Sukha goal|39
Surasiang goal|43
Thonglao goal|48
Chaikamdee goal|53 goal|57 goal|86
stadium = Sports Field and Pavilion at MUST, Macau
attendance = 500
referee = Abdulrahman Racho (Syria)

Thailand won 13 – 2 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round.----

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date = 2007-10-21
time = 16:00
team1 = fb-rt|SRI
score = 0 – 1
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033462/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|QAT
goals1 =
goals2 = Quintana goal|68
stadium = Sugathadasa Stadium, Colombo
attendance = 6,500
referee = Abdul Bashir (Singapore)

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date = 2007-10-28
timew = 19:15 UTC+3
team1 = fb-rt|QAT
score = 5 – 0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033479/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|SRI
goals1 = Quintana goal|4 goal|76
Bechir goal|17 goal|55
Al-Shammari goal|85
goals2 =
stadium = Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha
attendance = 3,000
referee = Khalil Al Ghamdi (Saudi Arabia)

Qatar won 6 – 0 on aggregate and advanced to the Third Round.----

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date = 2007-10-21
time = 20:00 UTC+8
team1 = fb-rt|CHN
score = 7 – 0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033469/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|MYA
goals1 = Qu Bo goal|17 goal|81
Du Zhenyu goal|22
Yang Lin goal|58
Liu Jian goal|63
Li Jinyu goal|76
Li Weifeng goal|79
goals2 =
stadium = Century Lotus Stadium, Foshan
attendance = 21,000
referee = Abdulhameed Ebrahim (Bahrain)

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date = 2007-10-28
time = 16:00 UTC+8
team1 = fb-rt|MYA
score = 0 – 4
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033486/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|CHN
goals1 =
goals2 = Wu Wei'an goal|13
Liu Jian goal|14
Zheng Bin goal|35
Zhang Yaokun goal|39|pen.
stadium = KLFA Stadium, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)²
attendance = 200
referee = Abdullah Balideh (Qatar)

China PR won 11 – 0 on aggregate and advanced to the Third Round.----

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date =
time =
team1 = fb-rt|BHU
score = (w/o)
report =
team2 = fb|KUW
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium =
attendance =
referee = Bhutan withdrew. [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=595607.html#bhutan+2010+race Bhutan out of 2010 race] FIFA; 13 September, 2007] Kuwait advanced to the Third Round.----

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date = 2007-10-18
time = 15:30 UTC+6
team1 = fb-rt|KGZ
score = 2 – 0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033468/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|JOR
goals1 = Esenkul Uulu goal|45
Bokoev goal|76
goals2 =
stadium = Spartak Stadium, Bishkek
attendance = 18,000
referee = Subrata Sarkar (India)

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date = 2007-10-28
time = 19:00 UTC+3
team1 = fb-rt|JOR
score = 2 – 0 (a.e.t.)
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033485/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|KGZ
goals1 = Shelbaieh goal|34
Aqel goal|51|pen.
goals2 =
stadium = Amman International Stadium, Amman
attendance = 12,000
referee = Abdulhameed Ebrahim (Bahrain) penshootoutbox
penalties1 = Abu Alieh pengoal
Bawab pengoal
Abu Keshek pengoal
Deeb pengoal
Aqel pengoal
Bani Yaseen pengoal
penaltyscore = 6 – 5
penalties2 = pengoal Kudrenko
pengoal Harchenko
pengoal Samsaliev
pengoal Sydykov
pengoal Esenkul Uulu
penmiss|saved Vyacheslav 2 – 2 on aggregate after extra time; Jordan won 6 – 5 on penalty kicks and advanced to the Third Round.----

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date = 2007-10-08
time = 20:30 UTC+7
team1 = fb-rt|VIE
score = 0 – 1
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033457/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|UAE
goals1 =
goals2 = Saeed goal|79
stadium = My Dinh National Stadium, Hanoi
attendance = 20,000
referee = Yuichi Nishimura (Japan)

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date = 2007-10-28
time = 19:00 UTC+4
team1 = fb-rt|UAE
score = 5 – 0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033474/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|VIE
goals1 = Matar goal|13
Al-Mahri goal|40
Al-Shehhi goal|53
Al-Darmaki goal|90
Alkas goal|90+4|pen.
goals2 =
stadium = Al Jazira Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi
attendance = 12,000
referee = Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh (Malaysia)

United Arab Emirates won 6 – 0 on aggregate and advanced to the Third Round.----

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date = 2007-10-21
time = 18:00 UTC+3
team1 = fb-rt|BHR
score = 4 – 1
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033472/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|MAS
goals1 = Fatadi goal|4
John goal|15
Abdulrahman goal|55
Hubail goal|90|pen.
goals2 = Bunyamin Omar goal|45+2
stadium = Manama National Stadium, Manama
attendance = 4,000
referee = Yang Zhiqiang (China PR)

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date = 2007-10-28
time = 20:45 UTC+8
team1 = fb-rt|MAS
score = 0 – 0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033489/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|BHR
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium = Shah Alam Stadium, Petaling Jaya
attendance = 2,000
referee = Lee Gi-Young (South Korea)

Bahrain won 4 – 1 on aggregate and advanced to the Third Round.----

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date = 2007-10-21
time = 15:30 UTC+8
team1 = fb-rt|TLS
score = 2 – 3
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033459/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|HKG
goals1 = Da Silva goal|41 goal|69
goals2 = Cheng Siu Wai goal|25 goal|50
Esteves goal|35|o.g.
stadium = Gianyar Stadium, Gianyar (Indonesia)³
attendance = 1,500
referee = Rosdi Shaharul (Malaysia)

footballbox
date = 2007-10-28
time = 15:00 UTC+8
team1 = fb-rt|HKG
score = 8 – 1
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033476/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|TLS
goals1 = Lo Kwan Yee goal|2
Chan Siu Ki goal|5 goal|78 goal|85
Cheung Sai Ho goal|49
Cheng Siu Wai goal|67 goal|70
Lam Ka Wai goal|83
goals2 = Da Silva goal|53
stadium = Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong
attendance = 1,542
referee = Mohsen Torky (Iran)

Hong Kong won 11 – 3 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round.----

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date = 2007-10-08
time = 21:00 UTC+3
team1 = fb-rt|SYR
score = 3 – 0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033461/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|AFG
goals1 = Al Zeno goal|73 goal|87|pen.
Al Sayed goal|81|pen.
goals2 =
stadium = Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus
attendance = 3,000
referee = Khalil Al Ghamdi (Saudi Arabia)

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date = 2007-10-26
time = 13:00 UTC+5
team1 = fb-rt|AFG
score = 1 – 2
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033478/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|SYR
goals1 = Karimi goal|16
goals2 = Jenyat goal|17
Issmael goal|64
stadium = Pamir Stadium, Dushanbe (Tajikistan)¹
attendance = 2,000
referee = Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)

Syria won 5 – 1 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round.----

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date = 2007-10-08
time = 21:00 UTC+3
team1 = fb-rt|YEM
score = 3 – 0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033456/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|MDV
goals1 = Salem goal|44
Al-Hubaishi goal|66
Thabit goal|80
goals2 =
stadium = Ali Muhsin Al-Muriasi Stadium, Sana'a
attendance = 3,000
referee = Mohammad Mansour (Lebanon)

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date = 2007-10-28
time = 16:00 UTC+5
team1 = fb-rt|MDV
score = 2 – 0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033473/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|YEM
goals1 = Shamveel Qasim goal|14
Ashfaq goal|67
goals2 =
stadium = Galolhu National Stadium, Malé
attendance = 8,900
referee = Subrata Sarkar (India)

Yemen won 3 – 2 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round.----

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date = 2007-10-08
time = 15:00 UTC+6
team1 = fb-rt|BAN
score = 1 – 1
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033471/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|TJK
goals1 = Mithu goal|50
goals2 = Khakimov goal|58|pen.
stadium = Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
attendance = 700
referee = Abdullah Al Hilali (Oman)

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date = 2007-10-28
time = 14:00 UTC+5
team1 = fb-rt|TJK
score = 5 – 0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033488/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|BAN
goals1 = Khakimov goal|47 goal|48 goal|76|pen.
Mukhiddinov goal|51
Vasiev goal|71
goals2 =
stadium = Central Stadium, Dushanbe
attendance = 10,000
referee = Kadyrbek Chynybekov (Kyrgyzstan)

Tajikistan won 6 – 1 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round.----

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date = 2007-10-21
time = 13:00 UTC+8
team1 = fb-rt|MGL
score = 1 – 4
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033466/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|PRK
goals1 = Selenge goal|90+3
goals2 = Pak Chol-Min goal|14
Jong Chol-Min goal|24 goal|32 goal|81
stadium = National Sports Stadium, Ulaanbaatar
attendance = 4,870
referee = Hiroyoshi Takayama (Japan)

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date = 2007-10-28
time = 16:00 UTC+9
team1 = fb-rt|PRK
score = 5 – 1
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033483/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|MGL
goals1 = Pak Chol-Min goal|3 goal|79
Kim Kuk-Jin goal|10
Jong Chol-Min goal|36
Jon Kwang-Il goal|90+1
goals2 = Donorov goal|41
stadium = Kim Il Sung Stadium, Pyongyang
attendance = 5,000
referee = Ram Gosh (Bangladesh)

Korea DPR won 9 – 2 on aggregate and advanced to the Third Round.----

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date = 2007-10-08
time = 21:30 UTC+4
team1 = fb-rt|OMA
score = 2 – 0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033465/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|NEP
goals1 = Bashir goal|5
Mudhafar goal|21|pen.
goals2 =
stadium = Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat
attendance = 15,000
referee = Fareed Al Marzouqi (UAE)

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date = 2007-10-28
time = 14:30
team1 = fb-rt|NEP
score = 0 – 2
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033482/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|OMA
goals1 =
goals2 = Mohamed goal|29
Al Hinai goal|54
stadium = Dasarath Rangasala Stadium, Kathmandu
attendance = 10,000
referee = Satop Tongkhan (Thailand)

Oman won 4 – 0 on aggregate and advanced to the Third Round.----

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date = 2007-10-08
time = 21:00 UTC+3
team1 = fb-rt|PLE
score = 0 – 4
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033463/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|SIN
goals1 =
goals2 = Shi Jiayi goal|44 goal|53
Wilkinson goal|73
Noh Alam Shah goal|86
stadium = Ahmed bin Ali Stadium, Doha (Qatar)¹
attendance = 75
referee = Mushen Basma (Syria)

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date = 2007-10-28
time = 17:00 UTC+8
team1 = fb-rt|SIN
score = 3 – 0⁴
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033480/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|PLE
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium = National Stadium, Singapore
attendance =
referee = Sun Baojie (China PR)

Singapore won 7 – 0 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round.----

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date = 2007-10-08
time = 21:00 UTC+3
team1 = fb-rt|LIB
score = 4 – 1
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033467/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|IND
goals1 = Antar goal|33
Ghaddar goal|62 goal|76
El Ali goal|63
goals2 = Chetri goal|30
stadium = Saida International Stadium, Saida
attendance = 500
referee = Saad Al Fahdli (Kuwait)

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date = 2007-10-30
time = 15:00 ⁵
team1 = fb-rt|IND
score = 2 – 2
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033484/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|LIB
goals1 = Chetri goal|29
Dias goal|90+2
goals2 = Ghaddar goal|72|pen. goal|85
stadium = Fatorda Stadium, Goa⁵
attendance = 10,000
referee = Salem Mujghef (Jordan)

Lebanon won 6 – 3 on aggregate and advanced to the Third Round.----

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date = 2007-10-11
time = 15:00 UTC+7
team1 = fb-rt|CAM
score = 0 – 1
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033470/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|TKM
goals1 =
goals2 = Karadanov goal|85
stadium = National Olympic Stadium, Phnom Penh
attendance = 3,000
referee = Ram Gosh (Bangladesh)

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date =2007-10-28
time = 18:00 UTC+5
team1 = fb-rt|TKM
score = 4 – 1
report = [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/asia/matches/round=250425/match=300033487/report.html Report]
team2 = fb|CAM
goals1 = Nasyrov goal|41
Gevorkyan goal|50 goal|66
Karadanov goal|74
goals2 = Samel goal|12
stadium = Olympic Stadium (Saparmurat), Ashgabat
attendance = 5,000
referee = Rustam Saidov (Uzbekistan)

Turkmenistan won 5 – 1 on aggregate and advanced to the Second Round.----

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date =
time =
team1 = fb-rt|GUM
score = (w/o)
report =
team2 = fb|IDN
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium =
attendance =
referee = Guam withdrew. [ [http://www.pssi-football.com/id/view_news_111082.php?id=1061 Indonesia goes straight through - Guam declines] (Indonesian) Football Association of Indonesia; 7 August, 2007] Indonesia advanced to the Second Round.

Notes

¹ Due to security concerns, Iraq played their home leg in Syria, Palestine played their home leg in Qatar, and Afghanistan played their home leg in Tajikistan. [ [http://www.soccerway.com/news/2007/August/6/no-home-play-for-iraq-in-world-cup-qualifiers No home play for Iraq in World Cup qualifiers] AFP; 6 August, 2007]

² The home leg of Myanmar was moved to Malaysia on request of both China and Myanmar. [ [http://fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=619505.html#myanmar+china+switched+malaysia Myanmar-China switched to Malaysia] FIFA; 18 October, 2007]

³ Timor-Leste elected to play their home leg in Indonesia.

⁴ Palestine failed to show up. Match was awarded 3–0 to Singapore as a walkover. [ [http://www.fas.org.sg/default.asp?V_DOC_ID=2793&pgID=1474 Road to South Africa: Singapore through to second round after Palestine no-show] Football Association of Singapore; 28 October, 2007] [http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=626051.html#lebanon+advance+round Lebanon advance to Round 3] FIFA; 31 October, 2007] The Palestinian Football Federation appealed to have the match rescheduled on the grounds that its players did not receive permits to leave the Gaza Strip, but FIFA declined the appeal. [ [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/703267B5-96C2-4A35-A960-412093559409.htm Fifa reject Palestinian appeal] Al Jazeera Sports; 31 October, 2007]

⁵ Match originally scheduled for 28 October 2007 postponed and relocated due to heavy rain in Chennai.

References