1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC and OFC) explained

Tourney Name:	1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC and OFC)
Dates:	28 September – 14 December 1969
Num Teams:	7
Confederations:	2
Matches:	13
Goals:	32
Attendance:	181511
Top Scorer:	Tom McColl (4 Goals)
Prevseason:	1966
Nextseason:	1974

Listed below are the dates and results for the 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the Asian and Oceanian zone (AFC and OFC). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification.

North Korea withdrew before the matches were played as they refused to play Israel.

Format

There would be three rounds of play:

• First Round: Israel, New Zealand and Rhodesia received byes and advanced to the Second Round directly. The remaining 3 teams, Australia, Japan and South Korea, played against each other twice in South Korea. The group winner would advance to the Second Round.
• Second Round: The 4 teams were divided into 2 groups of 2 teams each. The teams played against each other twice. The group winners would advance to the Final Round.
• Final Round: The 2 teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The winner would qualify.

First round

• All matches played in Seoul, South Korea.

--------------------Australia advanced to the Second Round.

Second round

Group 1

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Australia and Rhodesia finished level on points, and a play-off was played to decide who would advance to the Final Round.

Australia advanced to the Final Round.

Group 2

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Israel advanced to the Final Round. North Korea refused to play in Israel^[1] and were officially withdrawn by FIFA on 5 June 1969.^[2]

Final round

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Israel qualified.

Qualified teams

The following team from AFC qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	data-sort-type="number"	Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup^1
			0 (debut)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

4 goals

• Tom McColl

3 goals

• Mordechai Spiegler

2 goals

• Ray Baartz
• Johnny Watkiss
• Yehoshua Feigenbaum
• Giora Spiegel
• Teruki Miyamoto
• Bobby Chalmers
• Jeong Kang-ji
• Park Soo-il

1 goal

• Willie Rutherford
• Johnny Warren
• Yasuyuki Kuwahara
• Masashi Watanabe
• Kim Ki-bok
• Lee Yi-woo

1 own goal

• David Zeman (playing against Israel)
• Aritatsu Ogi (playing against Australia)
• Phillemon Tegire (playing against Australia)

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20070813203816/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition=32/preliminaries/index.html Fifa.com
2. News: 5 June 1969 . North Korea Ousted . 5F . . . . 20 July 2023.