Third Round 2026 Qualifiers

[Keshwardoost]

We had so many meetings with sk, im not surprised if some of our players have a second family planted there by now.. any other team would be fun

[saeed_noro]

qualified teams / pots should be this, according to LIVE ranking on this site: https://football-ranking.com/rankByC...ne=AFC&period=
i checked the current points in fifa world ranking, and yes it seems to be reliable and correct:

Pot A
Japan, Iran, Korea Rep.

Pot B
Australia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia

Pot C
Iraq, Uzbekistan, UAE

Pot D
Jordan, Oman, Bahrain

Pot E
China, Palestine, Kyrgyz Rep.

Pot F
Korea DPR, Indonesia, Kuwait

> 3 groups will be draw on June 27.
> top 2 will qualify directly for the world cup. if we qualify here we have one year time of preperation for the tournament (friendlies).
> teams rank 3 and 4 will play a tournament of 2 groups á 3 teams. top two will qualify.
> the two 2nd teams will play a playoff and the winner will face inter-continental teams (a tournament) and qualify also.

[oracle]

Worst group is

Iran
Ksa
iraq
Jordan
China
N.korea

... 2nd hard
Iran
Australia
Uzbakistan
jordan
China
N.k

[Ostad_Goosfand]

so we have to finish top 2. because the round four round-robin is going to be 100% rigged. AFC is such a joke, thinking a 3 team round-robin is a good playoff systeem lmao

[PSGman#19]

qualified teams / pots should be this, according to LIVE ranking on this site: https://football-ranking.com/rankByC...ne=AFC&period=
i checked the current points in fifa world ranking, and yes it seems to be reliable and correct:

Pot A
Japan, Iran, Korea Rep.

Pot B
Australia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia

Pot C
Iraq, Uzbekistan, UAE

Pot D
Jordan, Oman, Bahrain

Pot E
China, Palestine, Kyrgyz Rep.

Pot F
Korea DPR, Indonesia, Kuwait

> 3 groups will be draw on June 27.
> top 2 will qualify directly for the world cup. if we qualify here we have one year time of preperation for the tournament (friendlies).
> teams rank 3 and 4 will play a tournament of 2 groups á 3 teams. top two will qualify.
> the two 2nd teams will play a playoff and the winner will face inter-continental teams (a tournament) and qualify also.

I saw on x ksa is in pot 3 and iraq in pot 2.
We could get iran Australia ksa.... Group! Won't qualify with GN.

Wtf afc is doing with more spot and group still hard?!

[Farhad21]

It’s actually harder to qualify,
i thought it would be easy

[Nokhodi]

It’s a very hard qualification. This is Asia. Two bad games and you’re down to amma o agar.

Stop thinking the path to World Cup 2026 is some sort of joyride.

[Ostad_Goosfand]

qualified teams / pots should be this, according to LIVE ranking on this site: https://football-ranking.com/rankByC...ne=AFC&period=
i checked the current points in fifa world ranking, and yes it seems to be reliable and correct:

Pot A
Japan, Iran, Korea Rep.

Pot B
Australia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia

Pot C
Iraq, Uzbekistan, UAE

Pot D
Jordan, Oman, Bahrain

Pot E
China, Palestine, Kyrgyz Rep.

Pot F
Korea DPR, Indonesia, Kuwait

> 3 groups will be draw on June 27.
> top 2 will qualify directly for the world cup. if we qualify here we have one year time of preperation for the tournament (friendlies).
> teams rank 3 and 4 will play a tournament of 2 groups á 3 teams. top two will qualify.
> the two 2nd teams will play a playoff and the winner will face inter-continental teams (a tournament) and qualify also.

so hypothetical worst case scenario

Iran
Saudi
Iraq
Jordan
China
North Korea


best case senario

Iran
Qatar
UAE
Bahrain
Palestine
Indonesia

[PSGman#19]

It’s a very hard qualification. This is Asia. Two bad games and you’re down to amma o agar.

Stop thinking the path to World Cup 2026 is some sort of joyride.

I am sure we won't qualify with this GN clown. For a japan win we struggle against Uzbekistan, qatar.. Get scored by Afghanistan Hong Kong.

[JoojehKoobedeh2]

Woah things have changed a bit now with Jordan winning… Honestly kinda made things way more harder!

Pot 1:Iran, SK, Japan
Pot 2: Aus, Qat, Iraq
Pot 3: Saudi, Uzb, Jordan
Pot 4: UAE, Oman, Bahrain
Pot 5: China, Kyrgyzstan, Palestine
Pot 6: NK, Indonesia, Kuwait

With GN as coach I really don’t see us topping any of these groups

best case for us to Qualify now would be

Iran
Qatar
Uzbekistan
UAE
Kyrgyzstan
Indonesia

Aus away will be L, Iraq away will be L
Saudi away will be L, Jordan will be L, Bahrain away could be L. Bro with GN we are fucked. We are defensively really mistake prone and offensively we have no real tactic besides bezan ziresh and Moghanlou. These two are a recipe for disaster in away games against teams like Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan. Never mind the big guys…GN OUT NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE.

[Hosseini]

Dude, we are so cooked with Ghalemorghie.

[oracle]

I saw on x ksa is in pot 3 and iraq in pot 2.
We could get iran Australia ksa.... Group! Won't qualify with GN.

Wtf afc is doing with more spot and group still hard?!

Iran
Australia
Ksa
Bahrain
China
N.k
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Nokhodi]

Iran
Australia
Ksa
Bahrain
China
N.k
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

ooof. True zahre maar group.
i’m too old for this shit.

[oracle]

ooof. True zahre maar group.
i’m too old for this shit.

🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅

[Pluto2000]

Iran
Australia
Ksa
Bahrain
China
N.k
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Imagine
Iran
Australia
KSA
Jordan
China
NK



That's pit of viper group, we will have to come out the other side battle hardened