The AFC Fourth Round will take place over a 13-month period and will feature ten matchdays. Each team will receive two matchdays off corresponding to their seeding. Top-seeded South Korea and Australia are off on Matchdays One and Six. Japan were dropped down to the fifth seed for scheduling purposes, so the teams seeded behind them in Group Two were bumped up in the off-day order. Iran and Iraq are off on Matchdays Two and Seven. Uzbekistan and Jordan take off Matchdays Three and Eight and thereby are the only teams to avoid facing the dreaded triple-matchday scenario of three games in a two-week period. Qatar and Lebanon are off on Matchdays Four and Nine. Oman and Japan have byes on Matchdays Five and Ten, although Japan will be playing in the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup on concurrently with Matchday Ten.The first three matchdays will take place over a ten-day period in June 2012. The middle four matchdays are more isolated affairs, with one matchday each falling in September, October, and November 2012, as well as March 2013. The final three matchdays will occur in a fifteen-day span in June 2013.
3 June 2012
Iran at Uzbekistan
Qatar at Lebanon
Iraq at Jordan
Oman at Japan
8 June 2012
South Korea at Qatar
Uzbekistan at Lebanon
Australia at Oman
Jordan at Japan
12 June 2012
Lebanon at South Korea
Qatar at Iran
Japan at Australia
Oman at Iraq
11 September 2012
South Korea at Uzbekistan
Iran at Lebanon
Australia at Jordan
Iraq at Japan
16 October 2012
South Korea at Iran
Uzbekistan at Qatar
Australia at Iraq
Jordan at Oman
14 November 2012
Uzbekistan at Iran
Lebanon at Qatar
Jordan at Iraq
Japan at Oman
26 March 2013
Qatar at South Korea
Lebanon at Uzbekistan
Oman at Australia
Japan at Jordan
4 June 2013
Iran at Qatar
South Korea at Lebanon
Iraq at Oman
Australia at Japan
11 June 2013
Uzbekistan at South Korea
Lebanon at Iran
Jordan at Australia
Japan at Iraq
18 June 2013
Iran at South Korea
Qatar at Uzbekistan
Iraq at Australia
Oman at Jordan
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