Qatar and Australia will face off again in Asia's final round of World Cup qualifying

Ten teams were drawn in to two groups of five, with Group A consisting of Australia, Japan, Bahrain, Uzbekistan and Qatar.

Group B is made up of South Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea and the United Arab Emirates, with the top two teams from each group progressing straight to the South Africa World Cup.

The third placed teams in each group will play off for the right to take on the winner of the Oceania Confederation for a final place at Fifa's 2010 showpiece.

The Socceroos, coached by Pim Verbeek, were seeded one due to their Fifa ranking, and were always going to avoid the second-seeded South Korea, who have qualified for every World Cup finals since Mexico in 1986.

However three-time World Cup qualifiers Japan will be a tough obstacle for Australia, who made the knockout rounds at the last World Cup in Germany before narrowly losing to eventual winners Italy.

In the other group, South Korea, Iran and Saudi Arabia all qualified for the last World Cup finals but at least one of them is either going to miss out this time or have go through the third-place play-off match.

The two Koreas have also been drawn together again after playing each other in the third round.

The first matches of Asia's final round of qualifying take place on September 6 later this year, with the last match scheduled for June 17, 2009.

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