3/6/2025–|Last update: 23:48 (Mecca time)
We review the date of the Iraq national team match against South Korea, in the ninth round of the third round in the Asian FIFA World Cup qualifiers 2026, and the carrier channels.
The date of the match between Iraq and South Korea
The match will be held next Thursday, June 5, at Basra International Stadium.
The Iraq match against South Korea begins at nine o’clock in the evening (21:15) Mecca time, Baghdad, Doha and Cairo.
Live and direct broadcast channels for the Iraq and South Korea match:
You can follow the direct coverage of the match via Al -Jazeera Net.
South Korea’s victory over Iraq
South Korea beat Iraq 3-2 in the first leg, which settled the group’s lead.
The Iraq squad is absent from 5 players, namely: Ayman Hussein and Ribin Solaka due to the cards, and Mustafa Saadoun, Zidan Iqbal and Muttazer Al -Majid, for injury.
Ranking of the second group teams:
- South Korea (16 points)
- Jordan (13 points)
- Iraq (12 points)
- Amman (10 points)
- Palestine (6 points)
- Kuwait (5 points)
What does Iraq and South Korea need the match?
The South Korean team, the leaders of the second group, needs to a tie with its Iraqi counterpart, led by coach Graham Arnold, in his first match with the team, to qualify for the World Cup.
Iraq, which occupies the third place in the ranking, also needs one point to keep its hopes in direct qualification, and will qualify Jordan, which occupies the second place in the event of a victory over Amman, with the loss of Iraq against South Korea.
Japan and Iran have already got two out of 8 seats for Asia in the World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico, as the first two centers qualify in 3 groups of the third stage in the Asian qualifiers directly to the tournament.
The teams that finish the third stage in the third and fourth places will qualify for the fourth stage of the qualifiers to obtain the remaining two seats, and the owners of the fifth and sixth places will be excluded.