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 Jordan Uzbekistan Syria Kuwait Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates Bahrain India Lebanon Yemen Pakistan Bangladesh Maldives Palestine Tajikistan Turkmenistan Afghanistan Nepal Australia Japan North Korea South Korea China Indonesia Thailand Vietnam Chinese Taipei Laos Malaysia Singapore Brunei Macau Guam Mongolia Hong Kong Philippines Players born on or after 1 January 1995 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.

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