This page provides the summaries of the AFC third round matches for 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification. Format In this round the fifteen winners from the second round joined the five AFC sides seeded 1–5 in the AFC World Cup rankings (Japan, South Korea, Australia, North Korea, Bahrain). The teams were drawn into five groups of four teams, at the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 30 July 2011. The matches were played from 2 September 2011 to 29 February 2012. The top two teams in each group advanced to the fourth round. Seeding The 20 teams were divided into four pots for the draw, each containing five teams. The July 2011 FIFA Ranking – released on 27 July – was used to seed the teams. Note: Syria was replaced by Tajikistan in the Third Round on 19 August 2011 following the awarding of both Second Round matches to Tajikistan. Groups Group A Group B Group C Group D Group E Goalscorers There were 173 goals scored in 60 games, for an average of 2.88 goals per game. 6 goals Younis Mahmoud Park Chu-Young 5 goals Shinji Okazaki 4 goals Joshua Kennedy Ismail Abdul-Latif Sayed Saeed Khalfan Ibrahim 3 goals Alex Brosque Hao Junmin Mojtaba Jabbari Javad Nekounam Nashat Akram Hassan Maatouk Ismail Matar 2 goals Brett Holman Mohammed Tayeb Al Alawi Mahmood Abdulrahman Yu Hai Zheng Zheng Cristian Gonzáles Hadi Aghily Ashkan Dejagah Gholamreza Rezaei Andranik Teymourian Mike Havenaar Shinji Kagawa Hassan Abdel-Fattah Abdallah Deeb Amer Deeb Ahmad Hayel Yousef Nasser Mahmoud El Ali Pak Nam-Chol Mohammed Razak Nasser Al-Shamrani Ji Dong-Won Lee Keun-Ho Teerasil Dangda Bashir Saeed Alexander Geynrikh 1 goal Brett Emerton Mile Jedinak Harry Kewell Luke Wilkshire Mahmood Al-Ajmi Li Weifeng Yu Dabao Zheng Zhi Bambang Pamungkas Karim Ansarifard Jalal Hosseini Milad Meydavoudi Alaa Abdul-Zahra Karrar Jassim Mustafa Karim Hawar Mulla Mohammed Qusay Munir Yuichi Komano Yasuyuki Konno Ryoichi Maeda Kengo Nakamura Maya Yoshida Baha' Abdul-Rahman Bashar Bani Yaseen Basem Fat'hi Fahad Al Enezi Bader Al-Mutawa Hussain Fadhel Musaed Neda Ali Al Saadi Abbas Ali Atwi Roda Antar Mohammed Ghaddar Akram Moghrabi Jang Song-Hyok Hussain Al-Hadhri Amad Al Hosni Abdulaziz Al-Muqbali Abdulaziz Al Sulaiti Mohamed El-Sayed Mohammed Kasola Sebastián Soria Salem Al-Dawsari Ahmed Al-Fraidi Naif Hazazi Mohammed Noor Isa Halim Aleksandar Đurić Kim Jung-Woo Koo Ja-Cheol Lee Dong-Gook Akhtam Khamroqulov Sompong Soleb Ismail Al Hammadi Ali Al-Wehaibi