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The 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification AFC play-off was the first round of the Asian Football Confederation qualification for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The 14 teams with the lowest FIFA rankings played home-and-away knockout matches to qualify for the second stage.

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Turkmenistan	13–0	Afghanistan	11–0	2–0
Chinese Taipei	6–1	Macau	3–0	3–1
Bangladesh	0–4	Tajikistan	0–2	0–2
Laos	0–3	Sri Lanka	0–0	0–3
Pakistan	0–6	Kyrgyzstan	0–2	0–4
Mongolia	0–13	Maldives	0–1	0–12

Matches

Turkmenistan	11–0	Afghanistan
Öwekow 6', 35' Kulyýew 8', 22', 81' Baýramow 27' Berdiýew 42' Agabaýew 49', 65', 67' Urazow 90'	(Report)

Afghanistan	0–2	Turkmenistan
	(Report)	Kulyýew 85', 91'

Turkmenistan won 13–0 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Chinese Taipei	3–0	Macau
Chuang Yao-tsung 23' Chen Jui-te 52' Chang Wu-yeh 57'	(Report)

Macau	1–3	Chinese Taipei
Fu Weng Lei 87'	(Report)	Chen Jui-te 14', 69' Chiang Shih-lu 66'

Chinese Taipei won 6–1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Bangladesh	0–2	Tajikistan
	(Report)	Hamidov 11' Khakimov 51'

Tajikistan	2–0	Bangladesh
Kholmatov 15' Rabiev 83'	(Report)

Tajikistan won 4–0 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Laos	0–0	Sri Lanka
	(Report)

Sri Lanka	3–0	Laos
Ediri 35' Jayasuriya 59' Hameed 90+3'	(Report)

Sri Lanka won 3–0 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Pakistan	0–2	Kyrgyzstan
	(Report)	Boldygin 36' Chikishev 59'

Kyrgyzstan	4–0	Pakistan
Chikishev 18' Chertkov 28' Boldygin 67' Krasnov 92'	(Report)

Kyrgyzstan won 6–0 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Mongolia	0–1	Maldives
	(Report)	Nizam 24'

Maldives	12–0	Mongolia
Ashfaq 4', 61', 63', 68' Nizam 42' Fazeel 45+1', 45+4' Ghani 65' Thoriq 74', 78' Battulga 75' (o.g.) Nazeeh 80'	(Report)

Maldives won 13–0 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Ranking of losing teams

Both Guam and Nepal would have played against each other to decide who progresses to the next round. After Nepal withdrew first, Guam would have progressed but Guam withdrew later as well. So, FIFA decided to elect a "lucky loser", to find the best of the teams that lost, who would also advance to the second round.

The losers were compared, using the following criteria to break ties:
a) number of points
b) goal difference
c) goals scored

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Laos	2	0	1	1	0	3	−3	1
Bangladesh	2	0	0	2	0	4	−4	0
Macau	2	0	0	2	1	6	−5	0
Pakistan	2	0	0	2	0	6	−6	0
Afghanistan	2	0	0	2	0	13	−13	0
Mongolia	2	0	0	2	0	13	−13	0

Thus, Laos advanced to the second round.

Goalscorers

There were 46 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 3.83 goals per match.

5 goals

• Begençmuhammet Kulyýew

4 goals

• Ali Ashfaq

3 goals

• Chen Jui-te
• Rejepmyrat Agabaýew

2 goals

• Evgeny Boldygin
• Sergey Chikishev
• Ibrahim Fazeel
• Mohamed Nizam
• Ahmed Thoriq
• Guwançmuhammet Öwekow

1 goal

• Chang Wu-yeh
• Chiang Shih-lu
• Chuang Yao-tsung
• Vladimir Chertkov
• Andrey Krasnov
• Fu Weng Lei
• Assad Ghani
• Mohamed Nazeeh
• Channa Ediri
• Mohamed Hameed
• Kasun Jayasuriya
• Sukhrob Hamidov
• Numondzhon Khakimov
• Akmal Kholmatov
• Yusuf Rabiev
• Nazar Baýramow
• Omar Berdiýew
• Didargylyç Urazow

1 own goal

• Khishigdalai Battulga (against Maldives)

See also

• 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC second round

References

• 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)
• 2003 in Asian football
• 2003 in Turkmenistani football
• 2003 in Afghan sport
• 2003 in Taiwanese football
• 2003 in Macau football
• 2003 in Bangladeshi football
• 2003 in Tajikistani football
• 2003–04 in Pakistani football
• 2003 in Laotian football
• 2003 in Sri Lankan sport
• 2003 in Kyrgyzstani football
• 2003 in Maldivian football
• 2003 in Mongolian sport