Qualifying Stage
West Asian Zone
Held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, December 1984
Group A
Bahrain 4-0 Pakistan
Qatar 4-0 Pakistan
Qatar bt Syria
Bahrain bt Syria
Saudi Arabia drw Bahrain
Saudi Arabia 4-1 Pakistan
Saudi Arabia 2-1 Qatar
Syria 7-0 Pakistan
Saudi Arabia - Syria
Bahrain - Qatar
1.SAUDI ARABIA 3 2 1 0 - 5
2.Bahrain 3 2 1 0 - 5
.Qatar 3 2 0 1 - 4
.Syria 3 1 0 2 - 2
5.Pakistan 4 0 0 4 1-19 0
Group B
UAE bt South Yemen
Kuwait bt South Yemen
UAE drw Kuwait
19-12 Iraq awd South Yemen [awarded 0-2, originally 0-1]
21-12 Iraq awd UAE [awarded 0-2, originally 1-0]
23-12 Iraq 0-0 Kuwait
1.UAE 3 2 1 0 - 5
2.Kuwait 3 1 2 0 - 4
3.South Yemen 3 1 0 2 - 2
4.Iraq 3 0 1 2 0- 4 1
NB: the matches against South Yemen and UAE were awarded 0-2 against Iraq
because Ahmed Adnan and Muhammed Khalaf had (without permission) changed
their shirts, each wearing the other's number.
Semi-finals (if any) unknown
Third place match
28-12 Kuwait 2-0 Bahrain
Final
28-12 Saudi Arabia 1-1 UAE [4-2 pen]
Saudi Arabia and UAE qualified.
East Asian Zone
Held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, March 1984
Group A
14- 3 Bangladesh 1-0 Singapore
15- 3 South Korea 4-0 Hong Kong
16- 3 Bangladesh 2-0 Hong Kong
17- 3 South Korea 4-1 Singapore
18- 3 Bangladesh 0-0 South Korea
18- 3 Singapore 1-0 Hong Kong
1.SOUTH KOREA 3 2 1 0 8- 1 5
2.BANGLADESH 3 2 1 0 3- 0 5
3.Singapore 3 1 0 2 2- 5 2
4.Hong Kong 3 0 0 3 0- 7 0
Group B
14- 3 China 1-0 Japan
15- 3 Indonesia 1-0 Japan
16- 3 China 2-2 Thailand
17- 3 Thailand 2-0 Indonesia
19- 3 Thailand 2-0 Japan
19- 3 China 7-0 Indonesia
1.CHINA 3 2 1 0 10- 2 5
2.THAILAND 3 2 1 0 6- 2 5
3.Indonesia 3 1 0 2 1- 9 2
4.Japan 3 0 0 3 0- 4 0
Burma withdrew from Group B.
Other East Asian Zone teams which withdrew or declined to enter:
Brunei, Iran, Macao, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka.
Semi-finals
21- 3 Thailand 0-0 South Korea [AET, 4-2 pen]
21- 3 Bangladesh 0-1 China
Third place match
23- 3 Bangladesh 0-2 South Korea
Final
23- 3 China 2-1 Thailand
China and Thailand qualified.
Final Tournament
Held in Abu Dhabi, UAE, March 1985
15- 3 China 1-0 UAE
16- 3 Saudi Arabia 4-1 Thailand
18- 3 China 2-2 Saudi Arabia
19- 3 UAE 7-1 Thailand
21- 3 China 2-1 Thailand
22- 3 UAE 2-2 Saudi Arabia
1.China 3 2 1 0 5- 3 5
2.Saudi Arabia 3 1 2 0 8- 5 4
3.UAE 3 1 1 1 9- 4 3
4.Thailand 3 0 0 3 3-13 0
China and Saudi Arabia qualified for the 1985 World Youth Cup.
Note: the President of the Asian Football Confederation later reported that UAE team officials had
attempted bribes to fix matches (in particular, the UAE vs Thailand match).
Thanks to Refel Hashim
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