The draw for the qualifiers was held on 26 April 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous season in 2012.

[1] Iran Iraq Kuwait Oman Syria Uzbekistan Bahrain India Qatar Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates Yemen Afghanistan Bangladesh Nepal Pakistan Palestine Tajikistan Jordan Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Maldives Sri Lanka Turkmenistan Bhutan Australia China Japan South Korea Indonesia Laos North Korea Singapore Hong Kong Malaysia Myanmar Vietnam Chinese Taipei Guam Northern Mariana Islands Philippines Brunei Macau Players born on or after 1 January 1998 were eligible to compete in the qualification tournament.

[2] If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria were applied to determine the rankings.

[3] The best runner-up teams among those ranked second in the groups were determined as follows: