The Asian teams have their winning fire re-kindled by the drawing of slots for the two Asian preliminary elimination rounds. The 16 lowest ranking teams will face off each other in Round 1 with the eight winners moving on to Round 2 to face the remaining 22 teams. The top five teams of the Asian confederation will automatically enter Round 3. Round 1 will give the lesser known teams to shine ...

The Asian Zone preliminary round draw for Brazil 2014 was held last March 30, 2011 at the Asian Football Confederation headquarters. The teams for the first round and second round qualifiers was drawn. Round 1 consisted of the 16 lowest ranking teams who will be playing in a home-and-away series. Winners will go on to play in the ties on June 29 and July 3, 2011. The eight winners will progress ...

Asian countries will play ahead of the Preliminary Draw in their race to the FIFA World Cup 2014. The Preliminary Draw is set on July 30, 2011 but Asian teams will be playing the preliminary rounds of matches ahead because there are so many participating countries this time. The draw for this preliminary round will be on March 30, 2011 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur. The first round of ...