2014 FIFA World Cup seeding for AFC (9 June 2010)

The preliminary draw will take place in July or August 2011, not in November 2011 as I assumed, but that doesn't change much, because I was already using the July 2011 ranking.

AFC used previous World Cup performance to seed the teams for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

More details on the seeding in this post:

2014 FIFA World Cup seeding for AFC

Assumptions:

- AFC will again have 4.5 spots
- AFC will keep the current qualifying system
- AFC will use the FIFA ranking to seed the teams
- AFC will choose the July 2011 ranking for seeding

The July 2011 FIFA ranking will include matches played between July 2007 and July 2011. We already have almost 50% of the final ranking: the "0.2" and "0.3" parts (matches played between July 2007 and July 2009) and almost all the "0.5" part (matches played between July 2009 and July 2010). A lot can and will change before July 2011 as there are many matches to be played involving Asian teams: 2010 FIFA World Cup, 2011 Asian Cup and plenty of friendlies.

This is the July 2011 ranking (for AFC only) using matches played up to and including June 8th, 2010 and matches scheduled up to July 2010 (only those on fifa.com).

The "0.5" part is computed this way: points gained / (number of matches played + scheduled).

Rank - Team - Total points

 1  1 Australia            373
 2  2 Japan                286
 3  3 Korea Republic       281
 4  4 Iran                 254
 5  6 Bahrain              241
 6  5 Saudi Arabia         234
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 7  9 China PR             194
 8  7 Oman                 185
 9  8 Kuwait               176
10 10 Syria                173
11 11 Uzbekistan           170
12 12 United Arab Emirates 167
13 13 Qatar                156
14 14 Korea DPR            155
15 15 Jordan               144
16 17 Iraq                 137
17 16 Thailand             135
18 18 Yemen                126
19 19 Singapore            104
20 20 India                 89
21 21 Tajikistan            86
22 22 Turkmenistan          85
23 23 Vietnam               76
24 24 Hong Kong             71
25 25 Indonesia             67
26 26 Maldives              66
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27 27 Malaysia              64
28 28 Myanmar               60
29 29 Bangladesh            56
30 30 Lebanon               55
31 31 Nepal                 51
31 31 Sri Lanka             51
33 33 Kyrgyzstan            44
34 34 Pakistan              43
35 35 Philippines           34
36 36 Chinese Taipei        33
37 40 Palestine             20
38 37 Laos                  16
39 38 Mongolia              15
39 38 Cambodia              15
41 41 Afghanistan           11
42 42 Guam                  10
43 43 Brunei Darussalam      9
44 44 Macau                  6
44 44 Bhutan                 6
46 46 Timor-Leste            3

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