Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Asian qualifiers preliminary round 3

This page provides the summaries of the matches of the group stage of the Asian football qualifiers for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Format
The 12 teams in this round were divided into three groups of four teams each and played on a home-and-away format. The group winners from each group will advance to the main tournament in London. Three second-placed teams from this round will play each other in a playoff at a centralised venue from 25 to 29 March 2012 and the winners of this group will meet the representatives of Africa for a berth in the Olympics.

Seeding
The group stage draw took place on 7 July 2011 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Groups
The matches were played between 21 September 2011 and 14 March 2012.

Group A

 * 1 Qatar adjudged to have played Abdelaziz Hatem when he should have served a suspension. Original result was 1–1.

Group B

 * 1 Iraq adjudged to have played Jasim Faisal when he should have served a suspension. Original result was 2–0 to Iraq.

Goalscorers

 * 4 goals
 * 🇸🇾 Mardig Mardigian


 * 3 goals
 * 🇧🇭 Mohamed Tayeb Al Alawi


 * 2 goals


 * 🇧🇭 Isa Ahmed
 * 🇯🇵 Keigo Higashi
 * 🇯🇵 Yuki Otsu
 * 🇰🇷 Kim Bo-Kyung
 * 🇰🇷 Kim Hyun-Sung
 * Abdulaziz Al-Maqbali
 * 🇶🇦 Fahad Al-Bulushi
 * 🇶🇦 Hassan Al Haidos
 * 🇸🇾 Omar Al Soma
 * 🇺🇿 Kenja Turaev
 * Ahmad Khalil


 * 1 goal


 * 🇧🇭 Hussain Farhan
 * 🇧🇭 Saad Al Amer
 * 🇧🇭 Sayed Shubbar
 * 🇮🇶 Mustafa Ahmad
 * 🇮🇶 Mohannad Abdul-Raheem
 * 🇮🇶 Mohammed Saad Abdullah
 * 🇮🇶 Nabeel Sabah
 * 🇯🇵 Mizuki Hamada
 * 🇯🇵 Genki Haraguchi
 * 🇯🇵 Kensuke Nagai
 * 🇯🇵 Yuya Osako
 * 🇯🇵 Manabu Saito
 * 🇯🇵 Hiroki Sakai
 * 🇯🇵 Ryohei Yamazaki
 * 🇯🇵 Takahiro Ogihara
 * 🇯🇵 Hiroshi Kiyotake
 * 🇰🇷 Baek Sung-Dong
 * 🇰🇷 Cho Young-Cheol
 * 🇰🇷 Nam Tae-Hee
 * 🇰🇷 Yoon Bit-Garam
 * Ahmad Hazwan Bakri
 * Mahali Jasuli
 * Nazmi Faiz
 * Nasser Al-Shamli
 * Hussain Ali Farah
 * Qasim Said Sanjoor Hardan
 * Hussain Al Hadhri
 * 🇶🇦 Ahmed Al Nahoyi
 * 🇶🇦 Ibrahim Majid
 * 🇶🇦 Nasser Nabeel
 * Yahya Dagriri
 * Omar Khudari
 * Ahmed Walibi
 * 🇸🇾 Ahmad Al Douni
 * 🇸🇾 Ahmad Al Salih
 * 🇸🇾 Mohamad Fares
 * 🇸🇾 Nasouh Nakdali
 * 🇸🇾 Solaiman Solaiman
 * Omar Abdulrahman
 * Ahmad Ali
 * 🇺🇿 Fozil Musaev
 * 🇺🇿 Temurkhuja Abdukholiqov
 * 🇺🇿 Oleg Zoteev


 * Own goals
 * 🇯🇵 Yuya Osako (for Syria)