1984 AFC Asian Cup qualification explained

See main article: 1984 AFC Asian Cup.

This article details the qualification phase for the 1984 AFC Asian Cup held in Singapore between 1 and 16 December.

Tourney Name:	1984 AFC Asian Cup qualification
Dates:	6 August 1984 – 19 October 1984
Num Teams:	21
Confederations:	1
Prevseason:	1980
Nextseason:	1988

Groups

North Korea was banned from international competitions for two years by the AFC and FIFA for attacking a referee after the 1982 Asian Games football semi-final match against Kuwait in New Delhi, India.

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• * Withdrew
• ** Moved to Group 3
• qualified as defending champions
• qualified as host

Qualification

Group 1

• All matches played in Indonesia.

Team
	5	5	0	0	21	2	+19	10
	5	3	0	2	9	8	+1	6
	5	3	0	2	6	5	+1	6
	5	3	0	2	9	10	–1	6
	5	1	0	4	6	13	–7	2
	5	0	0	5	3	16	–13	0

------------------------------------------------------------Additional playoff (purpose unclear)

Group 2

• All matches played in Saudi Arabia.

Team
	4	4	0	0	19	0	+19	8
	4	3	0	1	24	2	+22	6
	4	1	1	2	6	11	–5	3
	4	1	1	2	9	15	–6	3
	4	0	0	4	0	30	–30	0

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Group 3

• All matches played in India.

Team
	4	3	1	0	13	0	+13	7
	4	3	0	1	8	2	+6	6
	4	2	1	1	10	3	+7	5
	4	1	0	3	4	14	–10	2
	4	0	0	4	2	18	–16	0

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Group 4

• All matches played in China.

Team
	4	4	0	0	15	0	+15	8
	4	3	0	1	11	1	+10	6
	4	1	1	2	7	10	–3	3
	4	0	2	2	1	4	–3	2
	4	0	1	3	1	20	–19	1

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Qualified teams

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearance
			0 (debut)
		30 September 1980
		13 August 1984
		15 August 1984
		26 October 1984	0 (debut)
		28 October 1984
		19 October 1984
		17 October 1984
		17 September 1984
		17 September 1984

Goal scorers

• Note : Some of the goals which are not recorded are not listed here.

9 Goals

• Nasser Mohammadkhani

6 Goals

• Hamid Alidoosti

• Park Sung-hwa

• Zhao Dayu

4 Goals

• Sain Irmis

3 Goals

• Chalit

• Li Hui

• Sheikh Mohammad Aslam

• Shabbir Ali

2 Goals

• Piyapong Pue-On

• Thanis Areesngarkul

• Khandoker Wasim Iqbal

• Elmer Bedia

• Nabil El-Sibai

• Abdul Kader Kardaghli

• Reza Ahadi

• Wang Seon-je

• Babu Mani

• Li Huayun

• Yang Zhaohui

1 Goal

• Danny Bolung

• Noah Meriem

• Marwan Madarati

• Hassan

• Fouad Aziz

• Kazi Jasimuddin Ahmed Joshi

• Me'mar

• Hamid Derakhshan

• Arabshai

• Mokhtarifar

• Chalee Pirom

• Chalor Hongkajohn

• Mariano Araneta

• Chung Hae-won

• Lee Tae-ho

• Choi Sang-hook

• Park Chang-seon

• Narender Thapa

• Krishanu Dey

• Prasanta Banerjee

• Zainal Abidin

• Awad

• Lai Wing-Cheong

• Zuo Shusheng

• Gu Guangming

• Mohammed Al-Sowaidi

• Man'a Al-Barshi

• Mohammed Al-Mohanadi

External links

• Morrison, Neil; Panahi, Majeed; Veroeveren, Pieter. "Asian Nations Cup 1984". RSSSF.
• "India withdraw pull-out threat"

The Straits Times, 22 March 1983, Page 35

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19830322-1.2.109.aspx

• "It's Singapore all the way"

The Straits Times, 3 July 1983, Page 31

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19830703-1.2.86.aspx