The matches were later rescheduled to start on 16 June and 3 July for Indonesia.

[2][3] Players born before 1 January 1991 are not eligible to compete in the 2013 AFC U-22 Asian Cup qualification tournament.

Forty-one member associations entered the qualification to grab 15 spots in the final tournament The qualifiers were to be held in seven centralized venues.

With the AFC Competitions Committee awarding the hosting rights of the 2013 Finals to Oman on 18 July 2012 and with Oman being the best third-placed side, this enabled the 2nd best third-placed team, Yemen, to enter the finals.

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