The AFC first round of 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification was contested between 40 AFC members.
The top country in each group at the end of the stage progressed to the second round, where the ten remaining teams were divided into two groups of five.
N.B. group originally scheduled to play 6 matches in Kathmandu, 25–29 March 2001. After Nepal withdrew from organising the matches, the AFC assigned the group to Almaty, Kazakhstan. Following a protest by Iraq, it was decided to first play 6 matches in either Amman or Baghdad (later fixed at Baghdad) and the remaining 6 in Almaty.
There were 481 goals scored in 111 matches, for an average of 4.33 goals per match.
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Hesham Mohammed
Nirajan Rayamajhi
Bashar Serur
Jafar Irismetov6 goals
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Yusuf A'Amer Al Sadi
Esam Abu Touk
Roda Antar
Mohammed Salem Al-Enazi
Sami Al-Jaber
Seksan Piturat
Nguyen Hong Son
Adel Al-Salimi4 goals
Jo Paul Ancheri
Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto Uston Nawawi
Ali Daei Ali Karimi
Oleg Litvinenko Haitham Zein Wartan Ghazarian
Akmal Rizal Ahmad Rakhli
Mohammed Khamis Al-Araimi Nihad Haj Mohammed Nasser
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Kakha Gogoladze
Saeed Al Kass Mirjalol Qosimov Ali Al-Nono3 goals
Xu Yunlong Farhad Majidi Ahmad Kadhim Igor Avdeyev Ruslan Baltiev Konstantin Gorovenka
Jasem Al Huwaidi Moussa Hojeij Santos Taqi Mubarak Majdi Shaaban Samir
Gohar Zaman Mohammad Al-Shalhoub
Imthyas Raheem Mouhanad Bouchi Jomard Moussa Rustam Khojaev Vladimir Maminov Abdulsalam Al Ghurbani2 goals
Alfaz Ahmed Mohammed Sujan
Chea Makara Fan Zhiyi Li Jinyu Li Weifeng Ma Mingyu Wu Chengying Yang Chen Jules Alberto Baichung Bhutia I. M. Vijayan Bambang Pamungkas Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh Abbas Hassan Hassun Sabah Jeayer Emad Mohammed Haider Obeid Rateb Al Awadat Badran Al-Shagran Dmitriy Byakov Maksim Shevchenko Khalaf Al-Mutairi.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan_(1992%E2%80%932023).svg.png){kind=small}
Ilia Kovalenko Faisal Antar Marcílio
Adam Abdulativ Ali Umar Hairuddin Omar Hari Khadka Basanta Thapa Fawzi Bashir
Emad Abou El-Kair Mohammed Al-Jeesh Imad Ayoub Dahi Al Naemi Jassem Al-Tamimi Mubarak Mustafa Hussein Sulaimani Channa Ediri Bandanage Kasun Jayasuriya Raghdan Shehadeh Khaled Zaher Therdsak Chaiman Aliyor Ashurmamadov Zaker Berdykulov Wladimir Baýramow Djumadurdy Meredov Subait Khater Mohammad Omar Georgi Georgiev Nguyen Luong Phuc1 goal
Khamis Eid Mohammad Hassan Mohammed Husain Mohamed Salmeen Rokonuzzaman Kanchan Li Bing Qi Hong Qu Bo
Chan Ho Man Feng Ji-zhi Keung He-chi Abdul Hakim Agung Setyabudi Aples Tecuari Bima Sakti Eko Purdjianto Ismed Sofyan Mehdi Hasheminasab Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht Habib Jafar Haidar Mahmoud Amer Mushraf Haidar Najim Belal Al Laham Mahmoud Shelbaieh Ghanem Yousef Aldayeh Askhat Kadyrkulov Yevgeniy Lunev Rafael Urazbakhtin Bashar Abdullah Naser Al-Sauhi Ali Asel Faraj Laheeb Zamirbek Jumagulov
Valasine Dalaphone Phengta Phounsamay Chanthy Souksombaph Mohammad Kassas Korken Yenkibarian
Kit Leong Cheong Kim Meng Leong Mohamed Jameel Ashraf Luthfy Ismail Naseem Ali Shiham Irwan Fadzli Idrus Rosdi Talib.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Mongolia_(1992%E2%80%932011).svg.png){kind=small}
B. Buman-Uchral Bayarzorig Davaa Deepak Lama Bal Gopal Maharjan Samir Said Nasser Zayid Muhammad Arshad Muhammad Riaz Fadi Abulatifa Jamal Al-Holi
Yanti Barsales Jimmy Dona Abdul-Aziz Hassan Meshal Mubarak Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi Marzouk Al-Otaibi Mohsin Harthi
Noh Alam Shah Mohd Noor Ali Ishak Ratna Weerarathne Kassun Faras Al Khatib Maher Al Sayed Tarek Jabban Maher Malki Rahmatullo Fuzailov Shukhrat Jabbarov Denis Knitel Tokhirjon Muminov Rustam Usmonov Niweat Siriwong Surachai Jirasirichote Thawatchai Damrong-Ongtrakul Totchtawan Sripan Rejepmyrat Agabaýew Yuri Borodolimov Gurbangeldi Durdyýew Goçguly Goçgulyýew Mohammad Ibrahim Hussain Abdulsalaam Jumaa Faisal Khalil Fahed Masoud Andrey Akopyants Ulugbek Bakayev Alexei Dionisiyev Nikolay Shirshov Nguyễn Trung Vĩnh Nguyen Van Sy Ali Aboud Awad Anwar Ahmed1 own goal
Ali Momin (against the United Arab Emirates) Samel Nasa (against Indonesia) Feng Ji-zhi (against Qatar) Surachai Jirasirichote (against Lebanon)