Tourney Name: | 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC) |
Num Teams: | 25 |
Confederations: | 1 |
Top Scorer: | Hwang Sun-Hong (7 goals) |
Player: | Kim Joo-sung[1] |
Prevseason: | 1986 |
Nextseason: | 1994 |
The Asian Football Confederation was allocated two assured qualifying berths for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. 26 teams were in the running for these spots; Bahrain, India, Maldives and South Yemen withdrew without playing a qualifying match.
Asia's two automatic qualifying berths were taken by Korea Republic and the United Arab Emirates.
See main article: 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC first round.
Qatar advanced to the final round.
Saudi Arabia advanced to the final round.
United Arab Emirates advanced to the final round.
Korea Republic advanced to the final round.
China advanced to the final round.
Korea DPR advanced to the final round.
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The following two teams from AFC qualified for the final tournament.
Team | Qualified as | Qualified on | data-sort-type="number" | Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup1 |
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2 (1954, 1986) | ||||
0 (debut) |
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.