See main article: Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Asian Qualifiers. This page provides the summaries of the matches of the group stage of the Asian football qualifiers for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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.
The group stage draw took place on 7 July 2011 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[1]
| width=25% | Pot A | width=25% | Pot B | width=25% | Pot C | width=25% | Pot D |
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The matches were played between 21 September 2011 and 14 March 2012.[2]
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| Team qualify for the 2012 Olympics | |
| Team advance to the Play-off round |
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| 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 12 | ||
| 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 8 | ||
| 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 7 | ||
| 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 3 |
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| 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 14 | ||
| 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 8 | ||
| 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 4 |
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| 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 3 | +10 | 15 | ||
| 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 12 | ||
| 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 11 | −3 | 9 | ||
| 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 16 | −13 | 0 |
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Mohamed Tayeb Al Alawi Isa Ahmed
Keigo Higashi Yuki Otsu
Kim Bo-Kyung Kim Hyun-Sung
Fahad Al-Bulushi Hassan Al Haidos
Omar Al Soma
Kenja Turaev 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 Ahmed Al Nahoyi Ibrahim Majid Nasser Nabeel Ahmad Al Douni Ahmad Al Salih Mohamad Fares Nasouh Nakdali Solaiman Solaiman Fozil Musaev Temurkhuja Abdukholiqov Oleg Zoteev Yuya Osako (for Syria)