1976 AFC Asian Cup qualification

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

1976 AFC Asian Cup qualification

Tournament details
Dates	15 March 1975 – 2 December 1975
Teams	15 (from 1 confederation)
← 1972 1980 →

Groups

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4
Bahrain*  Kuwait  Lebanon*  Pakistan*  South Yemen  Syria*	Afghanistan  Bangladesh*  India*  Iraq  Jordan*    Nepal*  Qatar  Saudi Arabia	Brunei  Burma*  China  Hong Kong  Japan  North Korea  Singapore  Sri Lanka*	Indonesia  Khmer Republic*  Laos*  Malaysia  Philippines*  South Korea  South Vietnam  Thailand

• * 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

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

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Group 3

• All matches played in Hong Kong.

Group Allocation Matches

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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

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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

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Semifinal

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Third place match

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Final

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

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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.

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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

• "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