AFC Asian Cup Saudi Arabia 2027
How it is calculated
Everything on these pages is arithmetic on official results and the AFC's published rules.
Group tiebreakers (regulation 7.3)
- Points in all group matches.
- Points in matches between the teams level on points.
- Goal difference in those matches.
- Goals scored in those matches.
- If some teams are still level, the head-to-head steps are applied again only to them.
- Goal difference in all group matches.
- Goals scored in all group matches.
- Penalties — only if exactly two teams are level and they met in the last group match.
- Disciplinary points (yellow and red cards), then drawing of lots.
Ranking third-placed teams (AFC Competition Operations Manual, Appendix 2)
- Points in all group matches.
- Goal difference in all group matches.
- Goals scored in all group matches.
- Disciplinary points, then drawing of lots.
What this site calculates
- Clinched / alive / eliminated: every remaining win/draw/loss combination in a group is checked. A team is through only if it finishes top two in all of them (ties counted against it).
- Third place: a team that finished third is through once it cannot drop below fourth among the six third-placed teams, and out once four others are certain to finish above it.
- The bracket view places teams by the regulation's pairing table; before every group is complete it is labelled as a projection.
* Still level after every criterion we can compute. The remaining steps (penalties between two teams who met in the last match, disciplinary points, lots) need data we don't have.