AFC Asian Cup records and statistics

This is a list of records and statistics of the AFC Asian Cup.

General statistics by tournament

Year	Host(s)	Winners	Winning coach	Top scorer(s) (goals)	Best player award
1956	Hong Kong	South Korea	Kim Sung-gan	Nahum Stelmach (4)	—
1960	South Korea	South Korea	Kim Yong-sik	Cho Yoon-ok (4)
1964	Israel	Israel	Yosef Merimovich	Inder Singh (2) Mordechai Spiegler (2)
1968	Iran	Iran	Mahmoud Bayati	Homayoun Behzadi (4) Moshe Romano (4) Giora Spiegel (4)
1972	Thailand	Iran	Mohammad Ranjbar	Hossein Kalani (5)	Ebrahim Ashtiani
1976	Iran	Iran	Heshmat Mohajerani	Gholam Hossein Mazloumi (3) Nasser Nouraei (3) Fathi Kamel (3)	Ali Parvin
1980	Kuwait	Kuwait	Carlos Alberto Parreira	Behtash Fariba (7) Choi Soon-ho (7)	—
1984	Singapore	Saudi Arabia	Khalil Al-Zayani	Jia Xiuquan (3) Shahrokh Bayani (3) Nasser Mohammadkhani (3)	Jia Xiuquan
1988	Qatar	Saudi Arabia	Carlos Alberto Parreira	Lee Tae-ho (3)	Kim Joo-sung[4]
1992	Japan	Japan	Hans Ooft	Fahad Al-Bishi (3)	Kazuyoshi Miura
1996	United Arab Emirates	Saudi Arabia	Nelo Vingada	Ali Daei (8)	Khodadad Azizi
2000	Lebanon	Japan	Philippe Troussier	Lee Dong-gook (6)	Hiroshi Nanami
2004	China	Japan	Zico	A'ala Hubail (5) Ali Karimi (5)	Shunsuke Nakamura
2007	Indonesia Malaysia Thailand Vietnam	Iraq	Jorvan Vieira	Younis Mahmoud (4) Naohiro Takahara (4) Yasser Al-Qahtani (4)	Younis Mahmoud[5]
2011	Qatar	Japan	Alberto Zaccheroni	Koo Ja-cheol (5)	Keisuke Honda[6]
2015	Australia	Australia	Ange Postecoglou	Ali Mabkhout (5)	Massimo Luongo[7]
2019	United Arab Emirates	Qatar	Félix Sánchez	Almoez Ali (9)	Almoez Ali
2023	Qatar	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
2027	Saudi Arabia	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

Debut of national teams

Year	Debuting teams			Successor teams
Year	Teams	No.	Cum.	Successor teams
1956	Hong Kong, Israel, South Korea, South Vietnam	4	4
1960	Republic of China	1	5
1964	India	1	6
1968	Iran, Myanmar	2	8
1972	Iraq, Khmer Republic, Kuwait, Thailand	4	12
1976	China, Malaysia, South Yemen	3	15
1980	Bangladesh, North Korea, Qatar, Syria, United Arab Emirates	5	20
1984	Saudi Arabia, Singapore	2	22
1988	Bahrain, Japan	2	24
1992	None	0	24
1996	Indonesia, Uzbekistan	2	26
2000	Lebanon	1	27
2004	Jordan, Oman, Turkmenistan	3	30
2007	Australia	1	31	Vietnam
2011	None	0	31
2015	Palestine	1	32
2019	Kyrgyzstan, Philippines, Yemen	3	35
2023	Tajikistan	1	36

Overall team records

In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws. Teams are ranked by total points, then by goal difference, then by goals scored.[8]

As of 2019 AFC Asian Cup

Rank	Team	Part	M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
1	Iran	14	68	41	19	8	131	48	+83	142
2	South Korea	14	67	36	14	15	105	63	+42	122
3	Japan	9	48	30	12	6	92	44	+48	102
4	China	12	56	23	13	20	88	65	+23	82
5	Saudi Arabia	10	48	21	12	14	68	47	+21	75
6	United Arab Emirates	10	44	15	11	18	41	59	-18	56
7	Kuwait	10	42	15	9	17	46	50	-4	54
8	Iraq	9	39	15	7	16	44	45	-1	52
9	Qatar	10	39	13	11	15	52	47	+5	50
10	Uzbekistan	7	28	13	4	11	42	47	-5	43
11	Australia	4	21	12	4	5	40	14	+26	40
12	Israel	4	13	9	0	4	28	15	+13	27
13	Jordan	4	15	6	6	3	17	10	+7	24
14	Syria	6	21	7	3	11	17	28	-11	24
15	Bahrain	6	23	5	6	12	29	38	-9	21
16	Thailand	7	24	2	9	13	19	52	-33	15
17	Oman	4	13	3	3	7	10	17	-7	12
18	North Korea	5	18	3	2	13	15	40	-25	11
19	India	4	13	3	1	9	12	27	-15	10
20	Vietnam	4	15	2	3	10	17	35	-18	9
21	Indonesia	4	12	2	2	8	10	28	-18	8
22	Myanmar	1	4	2	1	1	5	4	+1	7
23	Malaysia	3	9	1	3	5	7	20	-13	6
24	Lebanon	2	6	1	2	3	7	12	-5	5
25	Chinese Taipei	2	7	1	2	4	5	12	-7	5
26	Singapore	1	4	1	1	2	3	4	-1	4
27	Cambodia	1	5	1	1	3	8	10	-2	4
28	Kyrgyzstan	1	4	1	0	3	6	7	-1	3
29	Hong Kong	3	10	0	3	7	9	23	-14	3
30	Palestine	2	6	0	2	4	1	14	-13	2
31	Turkmenistan	2	6	0	1	5	7	16	-9	1
32	South Vietnam	2	6	0	1	5	9	22	-13	1
33	Philippines	1	3	0	0	3	1	7	-6	0
34	South Yemen	1	2	0	0	2	0	9	-9	0
35	Yemen	1	3	0	0	3	0	10	-10	0
36	Bangladesh	1	4	0	0	4	2	17	-15	0

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	4	1	0	5
2	Saudi Arabia	3	3	0	6
3	Iran	3	0	5	8
4	South Korea	2	4	4	10
5	Israel	1	2	1	4
6	Kuwait	1	1	1	3
7	Australia	1	1	0	2
8	Iraq	1	0	0	1
8	Qatar	1	0	0	1
10	China	0	2	2	4
11	United Arab Emirates	0	1	2	3
12	India	0	1	0	1
12	Myanmar	0	1	0	1
14	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
	Thailand	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		17	17	18	52

AFC Asian Cup Results

Comprehensive team results by tournament

Legend

1st – Champions
2nd – Runners-up
3rd – Third place
4th – Fourth place
SF – Semi-finals
QF – Quarter-finals
R16 – Round of 16
GS – Group stage

Q – Qualified for upcoming tournament
•• — Qualified but withdrew / Disqualified after qualification
• — Did not qualify
× — Did not enter / Withdrew from the Asian Cup
— Hosts

For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament are shown (in parentheses).

Team	1956 (4)	1960 (4)	1964 (4)	1968 (5)	1972 (6)	1976 (6)	1980 (10)	1984 (10)	1988 (10)	1992 (8)	1996 (12)	2000 (12)	2004 (16)	2007 (16)	2011 (16)	2015 (16)	2019 (24)	2023 (24)	2027 (24)	Total
West Asian members
Bahrain	Part of UK			×	•	×	••	×	GS	•	×	•	4th	GS	GS	GS	R16	Q		7
Iraq	Not AFC member				GS	4th	×	×	×	×	QF	QF	QF	1st	QF	4th	R16	Q		10
Jordan	Not AFC member				•	×	×	•	•	×	•	•	QF	•	QF	GS	R16	Q		5
Kuwait	Not AFC member			×	GS	2nd	1st	3rd	GS	•	4th	QF	GS	•	GS	GS	×	•		10
Lebanon	Not AFC member			×	•	×	•	×	×	×	•	GS	•	×	•	•	GS	Q		3
Oman	Not AFC member							•	×	•	•	•	GS	GS	•	GS	R16	Q		5
Palestine	Not an AFC member											•	•	•	•	GS	GS	Q		3
Qatar	Part of United Kingdom					•	GS	GS	GS	GS	•	QF	GS	GS	QF	GS	1st	Q		11
Saudi Arabia	Not AFC member					••	×	1st	1st	2nd	1st	2nd	GS	2nd	GS	GS	R16	Q	Q	12
Syria	Not AFC member				•	×	GS	GS	GS	•	GS	•	•	•	GS	•	GS	Q		7
United Arab Emirates	Part of United Kingdom					×	GS	GS	GS	4th	2nd	•	GS	GS	GS	3rd	SF	Q		11
Yemen	Not AFC member							•	•	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS	•		1
Central Asian Members
Iran	×	•	×	1st	1st	1st	3rd	4th	3rd	GS	3rd	QF	3rd	QF	QF	QF	SF	Q		15
Kyrgyzstan	Part of Soviet Union										•	•	•	×	•	•	R16	Q		2
Tajikistan	Part of Soviet Union										•	•	•	×	•	•	•	Q		1
Turkmenistan	Part of Soviet Union										•	•	GS	×	•	•	GS	•		2
Uzbekistan	Part of Soviet Union										GS	GS	QF	QF	4th	QF	R16	Q		8
South Asian Members
Bangladesh	Part of Pakistan					×	GS	•	•	•	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•		1
India	×	•	2nd	•	×	×	×	GS	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS	•	GS	Q		5
East Asian Members
China	Not AFC member					3rd	GS	2nd	4th	3rd	QF	4th	2nd	GS	GS	QF	QF	Q		13
Chinese Taipei	•	3rd	×	4th	×	×	OFC Member			•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•		2
Hong Kong	3rd	•	4th	5th	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	Q		4
Japan	×	×	×	•	×	•	×	×	GS	1st	QF	1st	1st	4th	1st	QF	2nd	Q		10
North Korea	Not AFC member					••	4th	×	•	GS	×	•	•	×	GS	GS	GS	×		5
South Korea	1st	1st	3rd	•	2nd	•	2nd	GS	2nd	•	QF	3rd	QF	3rd	3rd	2nd	QF	Q		15
Southeast Asian Members
Australia	OFC Member													QF	2nd	1st	QF	Q		5
Cambodia	•	×	×	•	4th	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	×	×	•	•	•	•		1
Indonesia	×	×	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS	GS	GS	GS	•	•	×	Q		5
Malaysia	•	•	•	•	•	GS	GS	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS	•	•	•	Q		4
Myanmar	×	×	×	2nd	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	•	×	•	•	•	•		1
Philippines	•	•	×	•	×	×	•	•	×	×	•	•	×	×	•	•	GS	•		1
Singapore	×	•	×	•	×	•	•	GS	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•		1
Thailand	×	×	•	•	3rd	••	•	•	•	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	•	•	R16	Q		8
Vietnam	4th	4th	•	•	•	•	×	×	×	×	•	•	•	QF	•	•	QF	Q		5
Former AFC Members
Israel	2nd	2nd	1st	3rd	••	Expelled from AFC				UEFA Member										4
South Yemen						GS	×	×	•	Part of Yemen										1

Results of host nations

Year	Host nation	Finish
1956	Hong Kong	Third place
1960	South Korea	Champions
1964	Israel	Champions
1968	Iran	Champions
1972	Thailand	Third place
1976	Iran	Champions
1980	Kuwait	Champions
1984	Singapore	Group stage
1988	Qatar	Group stage
1992	Japan	Champions
1996	United Arab Emirates	Runners-up
2000	Lebanon	Group stage
2004	China	Runners-up
2007	Indonesia	Group stage
	Malaysia	Group stage
	Thailand	Group stage
	Vietnam	Quarter-finals
2011	Qatar	Quarter-finals
2015	Australia	Champions
2019	United Arab Emirates	Semi-finals
2023	Qatar	TBD
2027	Saudi Arabia	TBD

Results of defending finalists

Year	Defending champions	Finish	Defending runners-up	Finish
1960	South Korea	Champions	Israel	Runners-up
1964	South Korea	Third place	Israel	Champions
1968	Israel	Third place	India	did not qualify
1972	Iran	Champions	Burma	Withdrew
1976	Iran	Champions	South Korea	did not qualify
1980	Iran	Third place	Kuwait	Champions
1984	Kuwait	Third place	South Korea	Group Stage
1988	Saudi Arabia	Champions	China	Fourth Place
1992	Saudi Arabia	Runners-up	South Korea	did not qualify
1996	Japan	Quarter-finals	Saudi Arabia	Champions
2000	Saudi Arabia	Runners-up	United Arab Emirates	did not qualify
2004	Japan	Champions	Saudi Arabia	Group stage
2007	Japan	Fourth place	China	Group stage
2011	Iraq	Quarter-finals	Saudi Arabia	Group stage
2015	Japan	Quarter-finals	Australia	Champions
2019	Australia	Quarter-finals	South Korea	Quarter-finals
2023	Qatar	TBD	Japan	TBD
2027	TBA	TBD	TBA	TBD

Teams yet to qualify for finals

The following thirteen teams which are current AFC members and one team not AFC member have never qualified for the Asian Cup.

Legend

• – Did not qualify
× – Did not enter / Withdrew / Banned

For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament are shown (in parentheses).

Team	1956 (4)	1960 (4)	1964 (4)	1968 (5)	1972 (6)	1976 (6)	1980 (8)	1984 (8)	1988 (8)	1992 (8)	1996 (12)	2000 (12)	2004 (16)	2007 (16)	2011 (16)	2015 (16)	2019 (24)	2023 (24)	Attempts
Afghanistan	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	•	×	×	×	×	•	×	•	•	•	•	7
Bhutan	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	×	•	•	•	•	4
Brunei	×	×	×	×	•	•	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	×	•	×	•	•	7
Guam	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	•	×	•	•	×	•	5
Kazakhstan[lower-alpha 1]	Part of Soviet Union										•	•	UEFA member						2
Laos	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	×	×	•	•	•	4
Macau	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	×	×	•	•	•	•	×	•	•	•	•	9
Maldives	Part of UK			×	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	•	×	•	•	•	•	6
Mongolia	Not AFC member											•	•	×	•	•	•	•	5
Nepal	Not AFC member				×	×	×	•	•	×	•	•	•	×	•	•	•	•	8
Northern Mariana Islands	Not AFC member														×	•	×	×	1
Pakistan	×	•	×	•	×	×	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	12
Sri Lanka	×	×	×	×	•	×	•	•	×	×	•	•	•	×	•	•	•	•	9
Timor-Leste	Part of Portugal					Part of Indonesia						×	•	×	×	×	•	×[lower-alpha 2]	2

Notes: ¹

Kazakhstan played in two qualification competitions before join to UEFA in 2002, but had never qualified for the Asian Cup.
Timor-Leste were banned from qualifying for the 2023 Asian Cup for using 12 ineligible players between 2011 and 2017 and providing false documents.[9]

Longest active AFC Asian Cup droughts

This is a list of droughts associated with the participation of national teams in the AFC Asian Cup.
Does not include teams that have not yet made their first appearance, teams that no longer exist or teams that are no longer members of AFC.

Team	Last appearance	AC Missed
Chinese Taipei	1968	14
Myanmar	1968	14
Cambodia	1972	13
Bangladesh	1980	11
Singapore	1984	10
Kuwait	2015	2
North Korea	2019	1
Philippines	2019	1
Turkmenistan	2019	1
Yemen	2019	1

Previous droughts

Updated to 15 June 2022, including qualification for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup. Does not include teams that have not yet made their first appearance or teams that no longer exist.

Team	Prev. appearance	Next appearance	AC Missed
Chinese Taipei	1968	active	14
Myanmar	1968	active	14
Hong Kong	1968	2023	13
Cambodia	1972	active	13
Vietnam¹	1960	2007	11
Bangladesh	1980	active	11
Singapore	1984	active	10
Malaysia	1980	2007	6
India	1984	2011	6
Iraq	1976	1996	4
Thailand	1972	1992	4
North Korea	1992	2011	4
Lebanon	2000	2019	4
Bahrain	1988	2004	3
Syria	1996	2011	3
Turkmenistan	2004	2019	3
Indonesia	2007	2023	3
Kuwait	2015	active	2
Jordan	2004	2011	1
Oman	2007	2015	1

⁴ Considering South Vietnam's results are attributed to unified Vietnam.

Other records

Only three teams have won the tournament in their debut appearances:[10]
- South Korea (1956)
- Iran (1968)
- Saudi Arabia (1984)
Iran hold the record for the most games played, with 68.[11]
Only Iran have won three consecutive finals of the AFC Asian Cup.[11]

Individual records

Most Valuable Player

Source:[12]

Year	Player
1956	—
1960
1964
1968
1972	Ebrahim Ashtiani
1976	Ali Parvin
1980	—
1984	Jia Xiuquan
1988	Kim Joo-sung
1992	Kazuyoshi Miura
1996	Khodadad Azizi
2000	Hiroshi Nanami
2004	Shunsuke Nakamura
2007	Younis Mahmoud
2011	Keisuke Honda
2015	Massimo Luongo
2019	Almoez Ali
2023	TBD

Overall top goalscorers

Players in bold are still active at international level.

Rank	Player	Country	Goals
1	Ali Daei	Iran	14
2	Lee Dong-gook	South Korea	10
3	Naohiro Takahara	Japan	9
	Ali Mabkhout	United Arab Emirates
	Almoez Ali	Qatar
6	Jasem Al-Huwaidi	Kuwait	8
6	Younis Mahmoud	Iraq	8
8	Hossein Kalani	Iran	7
	Faisal Al-Dakhil	Kuwait
	Behtash Fariba	Iran
	Choi Soon-ho	South Korea
12	Yasser Al-Qahtani	Saudi Arabia	6
	Alexander Geynrikh	Uzbekistan
	Tim Cahill	Australia
	Ahmed Khalil	United Arab Emirates
	Sardar Azmoun	Iran
17	Hwang Sun-hong	South Korea	5
	Akinori Nishizawa	Japan
	Ali Karimi	Iran
	Shao Jiayi	China
	A'ala Hubail	Bahrain
	Ismail Abdullatif	Bahrain
	Koo Ja-cheol	South Korea

Top goalscorers in one tournament

Players in bold are still active at international level.

Goals	Player	Representing	Year	Ref.
9	Almoez Ali	Qatar	2019	[13]
8	Ali Daei	Iran	1996	[14]
7	Behtash Fariba	Iran	1980	[15]
7	Choi Soon-ho	South Korea	1980	[15]
6	Lee Dong-gook	South Korea	2000	[16]
5	Hossein Kalani	Iran	1972	[17]
	A'ala Hubail	Bahrain	2004	[18]
	Ali Karimi	Iran	2004	[18]
	Koo Ja-cheol	South Korea	2011	[19]
	Ali Mabkhout	United Arab Emirates	2015	[20]

Hat-tricks

Most tournament wins

Times	Player	Representing	Years
3	Parviz Ghelichkhani	Iran	1968, 1972, 1976

Most tournament appearances

The table lists the players who have appeared four or more times in the tournament.

Tournaments	Player	Years
5	Ignatiy Nesterov	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019
4	Masoud Shojaei	2007, 2011, 2015, 2019
	Waleed Abdullah	2007, 2011, 2015, 2019
	Anzur Ismailov	2007, 2011, 2015, 2019
	Amer Shafi	2004, 2011, 2015, 2019
	Zheng Zhi	2004, 2007, 2015, 2019
	Ahmed Kano	2004, 2007, 2015, 2019
	Ismail Matar	2004, 2007, 2011, 2019
	Marat Bikmaev	2004, 2007, 2011, 2019
	Javad Nekounam	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Younis Mahmoud	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Yasuhito Endō	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Bilal Mohammed	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Saud Kariri	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Server Djeparov	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Timur Kapadze	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Mehdi Mahdavikia	1996, 2000, 2004, 2007
	Li Ming	1992, 1996, 2000, 2004
	Adnan Al-Talyani	1984, 1988, 1992, 1996

Younis Mahmoud is the only player in the history of the tournament to score a goal in four separate tournaments.

Source:[21]

Fastest goals scored from kick-off

Only three goals in the history of the tournament have been scored in the first minute of their respective games.

Ali Mabkhout (against Bahrain) at the 2015 edition in 14 seconds
Fathi Kameel (against China PR) at the 1976 edition in 20 seconds
Xie Yuxin (against Japan) at the 1992 edition in 20 seconds

Source:[22]

Match records

Attendance by year

Year	Matches	Attendance
Year	Matches	Total	Average	Lowest			Highest
1992	16	316,496	19,781	KSA – QAT KSA – THA	Group stage	4,000	JPN – KSA	Final	60,000
1996	26	448,000	17,231	KOR – IDN JPN – CHN UZB – SYR KUW – JPN	Group stage Group stage Group stage Quarter-finals	2,000	IRN – KUW UAE – KSA	3rd place match Final	60,000
2000	26	276,488	10,634	KOR – IDN	Group stage	500	LIB – IRN	Group stage	52,418
2004	32	937,650	29,302	QAT – IDN	Group stage	5,000	CHN – JPN	Final	62,000
2007	32	724,222	22,632	OMA – IRQ KSA – BHR	Group stage	500	KSA – IDN IDN – KOR	Group stage	88,000
2011	32	405,361	12,668	KSA – JPN	Group stage	2,022	QAT – UZB	Group stage	47,413
2015	32	649,705	20,304	QAT – BHR	Group stage	4,841	KOR – AUS	Final	76,385
2019	51	644,307	12,633	PRK – QAT	Group stage	452	UAE – IND	Group stage	43,206

Highest attendance

The highest ever attendance officially recorded was of 100,000 during the 1976 AFC Asian Cup final between Iran and Kuwait.[11]

Lowest attendance

The lowest ever attendance officially recorded was of 300 during the 1980 AFC Asian Cup group game between North Korea and Bangladesh.[23]

Awards

Team of the Tournament

Edition	Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
1980[24]	Nasser Hejazi	Naeem Saad Soh Chin Aun Mahboub Juma'a Mehdi Dinvarzadeh	Abdolreza Barzegari Saad Al-Houti Lee Young-moo	Choi Soon-ho Faisal Al-Dakhil Jasem Yaqoub
1984	Unknown or not awarded
1988[25] (18 players)	Zhang Huikang Abdullah Al-Deayea	Mohamed Al-Jawad Saleh Nu'eimeh Park Kyung-hoon Chung Yong-hwan	Xie Yuxin Mohamed Salim Mahboub Juma'a Sirous Ghayeghran Chung Hae-won Adel Khamis Abdulaziz Al-Hajeri Byun Byung-joo	Youssef Al-Thunayan Majed Abdullah Kim Joo-sung Wang Baoshan
1992	Unknown or not awarded
1996[26]	Mohamed Al-Deayea	Abdullah Zubromawi Yousef Saleh Mohammad Khakpour	Mehrdad Minavand Mohamed Ali Khalid Al-Muwallid Saad Bakheet Mubarak	Fahad Al-Mehallel Jasem Al-Huwaidi Ali Daei
2000[27]	Jiang Jin	Hong Myung-bo Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi Jamal Mubarak	Hiroshi Nanami Nawaf Al-Temyat Abbas Obeid Karim Bagheri Shunsuke Nakamura	Lee Dong-gook Naohiro Takahara
2004[28]	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi	Tsuneyasu Miyamoto Yuji Nakazawa Zheng Zhi Mehdi Mahdavikia	Shunsuke Nakamura Shao Jiayi Zhao Junzhe Talal Yousef	A'ala Hubail Ali Karimi
2007[29]	Lee Woon-jae	Yuji Nakazawa Lucas Neill Bassim Abbas Rahman Rezaei	Shunsuke Nakamura Harry Kewell Lee Chun-soo Nashat Akram	Naohiro Takahara Yasser Al-Qahtani
2011	Not awarded
2015[30]	Mathew Ryan	Dhurgham Ismail Kwak Tae-hwi Trent Sainsbury Cha Du-ri	Massimo Luongo Omar Abdulrahman Ki Sung-yueng	Ali Mabkhout Tim Cahill Son Heung-min
2019[31] (23 players)	Alireza Beiranvand Shūichi Gonda Saad Al Sheeb	Bandar Al-Ahbabi Boualem Khoukhi Maya Yoshida Bassam Al-Rawi Yuto Nagatomo Abdelkarim Hassan Kim Min-jae	Omid Ebrahimi Abdulaziz Hatem Ashkan Dejagah Tom Rogic Gaku Shibasaki Hassan Al-Haydos	Akram Afif Almoez Ali Sardar Azmoun Nguyễn Quang Hải Wu Lei Ali Mabkhout Yuya Osako

Fair play award

First awarded in 1984

Year	Winner
1984	China
1988	Not awarded
1992	Not awarded
1996	Iran
2000	Saudi Arabia
2004	China
2007	Japan
2015	South Korea
2015	Australia[32]
2019	Japan

References

AFC Asian Cup [@afcasiancup] (7 August 2018). "150 days to go to the #AsianCup2019. Join us as we look at the competition's previous winners!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
"Asian Cup Top Scorers". 10 October 2018.
"AFC ASIAN CUP HISTORY BOOK". March 2019.
"Vote For Your Best Ever AFC Asian Cup Midfielder". 9 October 2018.
"Special AFC Awards for 2007 Asian Cup" (in Arabic). Kooora.com. 29 July 2007.
"Heartbroken Socceroos 'proud, disappointed'". ABC News. 29 January 2011. Archived from the original on 14 February 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
"MVP award 'the icing on the cake' for livewire Luongo". 31 January 2015.
"Asian Cup » All-time league table". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
"Federacao Futebol Timor-Leste expelled from AFC Asian Cup 2023". The-AFC.com. AFC. 20 January 2017.
"#AsianCup2019 will mark Philippines' first tournament appearance". 9 October 2018.
"AFC Asian Cup: Stats You Should Know". 30 April 2018.
"AFC Asian Cup History Book". March 2019.
"Ali breaks Asian Cup goals record with stunning overhead kick". BeSoccer. 1 February 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
"Vote for Your Best Ever AFC Asian Cup Forward". 10 October 2018.
"Asian Cup 1980 (Final Tournament) - Goal Scorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
"Asian Cup 2000 (Final Tournament) - Goal Scorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
"Asian Cup 1972 (Final Tournament) - Goal Scorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
"Asian Cup 2004 (Final Tournament) - Goal Scorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
주경돈 (26 January 2019). "(Asian Cup) S. Korea's veteran players to bid adieu to continental tournament". Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
Warrier, Sajith B. (29 January 2019). "AFC Asian Cup: Ali Mabkhout is the key for UAE". myKhel.com. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
"Asian Football Trivia: Round Three". 28 July 2018.
"Asian Football Trivia Returns". 12 July 2018.
Sanderson, Daniel (14 January 2019). "Stands almost empty for Asian Cup match between Qatar and North Korea". The National.
"Chin Aun gets the vote too". Google.com. New Straits Times. 2 October 1980.
Jovanovic, Bojan; King, Ian; Morrison, Neil; Panahi, Majeed; Veroeveren, Pieter (16 December 2010). "Asian Nations Cup 1988". RSSSF. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
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アジアカップ2000・レバノン大会 (in Japanese). WorldCup's world. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
"Asian Cup 2004 All-Star team named". AFC Asian Cup. 7 August 2004. Archived from the original on 19 January 2007. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
"Fanzone". AFC Asian Cup. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
"Official All-Star XI". BigSoccer. 18 August 2007. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
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[9] Kazakhstan played in two qualification competitions before join to UEFA in 2002, but had never qualified for the Asian Cup.

[11] Timor-Leste were banned from qualifying for the 2023 Asian Cup for using 12 ineligible players between 2011 and 2017 and providing false documents.[9]

[1] AFC Asian Cup [@afcasiancup] (7 August 2018). "150 days to go to the #AsianCup2019. Join us as we look at the competition's previous winners!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

[2] "Asian Cup Top Scorers". 10 October 2018.

[historybookafc-3] "AFC ASIAN CUP HISTORY BOOK". March 2019.

[4] "Vote For Your Best Ever AFC Asian Cup Midfielder". 9 October 2018.

[5] "Special AFC Awards for 2007 Asian Cup" (in Arabic). Kooora.com. 29 July 2007.

[6] "Heartbroken Socceroos 'proud, disappointed'". ABC News. 29 January 2011. Archived from the original on 14 February 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.

[7] "MVP award 'the icing on the cake' for livewire Luongo". 31 January 2015.

[8] "Asian Cup » All-time league table". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 24 November 2022.

[10] "Federacao Futebol Timor-Leste expelled from AFC Asian Cup 2023". The-AFC.com. AFC. 20 January 2017.

[12] "#AsianCup2019 will mark Philippines' first tournament appearance". 9 October 2018.

[:0-13] "AFC Asian Cup: Stats You Should Know". 30 April 2018.

[14] "AFC Asian Cup History Book". March 2019.

[:2-15] "Ali breaks Asian Cup goals record with stunning overhead kick". BeSoccer. 1 February 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2019.

[:1-16] "Vote for Your Best Ever AFC Asian Cup Forward". 10 October 2018.

[:3-17] "Asian Cup 1980 (Final Tournament) - Goal Scorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 1 February 2019.

[18] "Asian Cup 2000 (Final Tournament) - Goal Scorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 1 February 2019.

[19] "Asian Cup 1972 (Final Tournament) - Goal Scorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 1 February 2019.

[:4-20] "Asian Cup 2004 (Final Tournament) - Goal Scorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 1 February 2019.

[21] 주경돈 (26 January 2019). "(Asian Cup) S. Korea's veteran players to bid adieu to continental tournament". Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved 1 February 2019.

[22] Warrier, Sajith B. (29 January 2019). "AFC Asian Cup: Ali Mabkhout is the key for UAE". myKhel.com. Retrieved 1 February 2019.

[23] "Asian Football Trivia: Round Three". 28 July 2018.

[24] "Asian Football Trivia Returns". 12 July 2018.

[25] Sanderson, Daniel (14 January 2019). "Stands almost empty for Asian Cup match between Qatar and North Korea". The National.

[26] "Chin Aun gets the vote too". Google.com. New Straits Times. 2 October 1980.

[Awards-27] Jovanovic, Bojan; King, Ian; Morrison, Neil; Panahi, Majeed; Veroeveren, Pieter (16 December 2010). "Asian Nations Cup 1988". RSSSF. Retrieved 12 February 2020.

[28] "كأس آسيا 1996.. عندما انتزع المنتخب السعودي اللقب من الإمارات صاحب الأرض" (in Arabic). Sport 360. 8 December 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2020.

[29] アジアカップ2000・レバノン大会 (in Japanese). WorldCup's world. Retrieved 15 June 2020.

[30] "Asian Cup 2004 All-Star team named". AFC Asian Cup. 7 August 2004. Archived from the original on 19 January 2007. Retrieved 12 February 2020.

[31] "Fanzone". AFC Asian Cup. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
"Official All-Star XI". BigSoccer. 18 August 2007. Retrieved 4 September 2020.

[32] "AC2015 DREAM TEAM". AFC Asian Cup official twitter. 1 February 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.

[33] "AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 Technical Report and Statistics". AFC. 29 May 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2020.

[34] "Asian Cup 2015 - final tournament match details". 31 October 2018.

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