Introduction
AFC is the federation for Asian countries. It runs qualifying in the Asian region for the World Cup. Only two teams from Asia have won a medal in the World Cup. Japan won bronze in World Cup I and Australia won bronze in World Cup VII. Australia went on to reach the championship match in World Cup IX, ending Asia's drought of being the only continent to never contest the final. They narrowly lost to Italy but still finished as second place, the highest finish so far for an Asian side.The continental championship is the Asian Cup where Bahrain and South Korea have won the tournament so far.
| Team | Qualified | Best Result | Qualified | Best Result |
 Australia | 8 | Second Place | 2 | Second Place |
 South Korea | 8 | Round of Sixteen | 2 | Champions |
 Japan | 5 | Third Place | 2 | Third Place |
 Iran | 4 | Round of Sixteen | 1 | Group Stage |
 Saudi Arabia | 3 | Group Stage | 1 | Group Stage |
 China | 1 | Round of Sixteen | 1 | Fourth Place |
 Uzbekistan | 1 | Round of Sixteen | 1 | Group Stage |
 Georgia | 1 | Round of Sixteen | 1 | Group Stage |
 Israel | 0 | None | 2 | Second Place |
 Qatar | 0 | None | 2 | Group Stage |
 Bahrain | 0 | None | 1 | Champions |
 Oman | 0 | None | 1 | Group Stage |
 New Zealand | 0 | None | 1 | Group Stage |
 Indonesia | 0 | None | 0 | None |
 Iraq | 0 | None | 0 | None |
 Kuwait | 0 | None | 0 | None |
 North Korea | 0 | None | 0 | None |
 Syria | 0 | None | 0 | None |
 Thailand | 0 | None | 0 | None |
 United Arab Emirates | 0 | None | 0 | None |
Teams
- Australia
- Bahrain
- China
- Georgia
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Kuwait
- North Korea
- Oman
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- South Korea
- Syria
- Thailand
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
bold teams are no longer AFC members
- Notes:
- Following World Cup VIII, in which New Zealand had joined AFC as the 17th member, UEFA also increased in size and had 41 members. In order to "even out", Israel moved from UEFA to AFC so that AFC would have 18 members and UEFA would have 40 for their respective cups.
- Following Confederations Cup I, Indonesia became the 19th member of AFC. Having 20 teams would be better than 18, so rather than send Israel back to UEFA, AFC preferred to add one more team. Since there were none to be created, Georgia (which is technically in Asia anyways) agreed to leave UEFA and become the 20th team. This dropped UEFA down to 39 teams, and they added Macedonia to get back to 40.
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