2004 AFC Asian Cup

2004 AFC Asian Cup

2004年亚洲杯足球赛
Logo of the 2004 Asian Cup
Tournament details
Host country	China
Dates	17 July – 7 August
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Japan (3rd title)
Runners-up	China PR
Third place	Iran
Fourth place	Bahrain
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	96 (3 per match)
Attendance	1,020,050 (31,877 per match)
Top scorer(s)	A'ala Hubail Ali Karimi (5 goals)
Best player	Shunsuke Nakamura
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The 2004 AFC Asian Cup football competition is the thirteenth staging of AFC Asian Cup. It was held from July 17 to August 7, 2004 in China. The defending champions Japan defeated China in the final in Beijing.

The tournament was marked by Saudi Arabia's unexpected failure to even make it out of the first round; a surprisingly good performance by Bahrain, which finished in fourth place; Jordan, which reached the quarterfinals in its first appearance; and Iraq, which reached the quarterfinals. The final match between China and Japan was marked by post-match rioting by Chinese fans near the north gate of Beijing Worker's Stadium, in part due to controversial officiating and anti-Japanese sentiment resulting from historical tensions.

Host cities and venues

Beijing	Chongqing	Jinan	Chengdu
Workers Stadium	Chongqing Olympic Sports Center	Shandong Sports Center	Chengdu Longquanyi Football Stadium
Capacity: 66,161	Capacity: 58,680	Capacity: 27,333	Capacity: 30,800

Qualification

Main article: 2004 AFC Asian Cup qualification

Seeds

Pot A	Pot B	Pot C	Pot D
China PR Japan South Korea Saudi Arabia	Iran Iraq Kuwait Qatar	Indonesia Thailand United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan	Bahrain Jordan Oman Turkmenistan

Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 2004 AFC Asian Cup squads.

First round

All times are China standard time (UTC+8)

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
China PR	7	3	2	1	0	8	2	+6
Bahrain	5	3	1	2	0	6	4	+2
Indonesia	3	3	1	0	2	3	9	−6
Qatar	1	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2

17 July 2004 20:00	China PR	2 – 2	Bahrain	Workers Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh (Malaysia)
	Zheng Zhi  58' (pen.) Li Jinyu  66'	Report	M. Hubail  41' Ali  89'

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18 July 2004 17:00	Qatar	1 – 2	Indonesia	Workers Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Masoud Moradi (Iran)
	M. Mohamed  83'	Report	Sudarsono  26' Astaman  48'

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21 July 2004 18:30	Bahrain	1 – 1	Qatar	Workers Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Toru Kamikawa (Japan)
	M. Hubail  90+1'	Report	Rizik  59' (pen.)

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21 July 2004 21:00	Indonesia	0 – 5	China PR	Workers Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Talaat Najm (Lebanon)
		Report	Shao Jiayi  25', 66' Hao Haidong  40' Li Ming  51' Li Yi  80'

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25 July 2004 19:00	China PR	1 – 0	Qatar	Workers Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Masoud Moradi (Iran)
	Xu Yunlong  77'	Report

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25 July 2004 19:00	Bahrain	3 – 1	Indonesia	Shandong Sports Center, Jinan Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Coffi Codjia (Benin)
	Ali  43' A. Hubail  57' Yousef  82'	Report	Aiboy  75'

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
South Korea	7	3	2	1	0	6	0	+6
Jordan	5	3	1	2	0	2	0	+2
Kuwait	3	3	1	0	2	3	7	−4
United Arab Emirates	1	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4

19 July 2004 18:30	South Korea	0 – 0	Jordan	Shandong Sports Center, Jinan Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Shamsul Maidin (Singapore)
		Report

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19 July 2004 21:00	Kuwait	3 – 1	United Arab Emirates	Shandong Sports Center, Jinan Attendance: 31,250 Referee: Naser Al-Hamdan (Saudi Arabia)
	B. Abdullah  24' Al-Mutawa  39' (pen.), 45'	Report	Rashid  47'

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23 July 2004 18:30	Jordan	2 – 0	Kuwait	Shandong Sports Center, Jinan Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Lu Jun (China)
	Saad  90+1' Al-Zboun  90+2'	Report

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23 July 2004 21:00	United Arab Emirates	0 – 2	South Korea	Shandong Sports Center, Jinan Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)
		Report	Lee Dong-Gook  41' Ahn Jung-Hwan  90+1'

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27 July 2004 19:00	Jordan	0 – 0	United Arab Emirates	Workers Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Talaat Najm (Lebanon)
		Report

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27 July 2004 19:00	South Korea	4 – 0	Kuwait	Shandong Sports Center, Jinan Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Shamsul Maidin (Singapore)
	Lee Dong-Gook  25', 41' Cha Du-Ri  45+1' Ahn Jung-Hwan  75'	Report

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Uzbekistan	9	3	3	0	0	3	0	+3
Iraq	6	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1
Turkmenistan	1	3	0	1	2	4	6	−2
Saudi Arabia	1	3	0	1	2	3	5	−2

18 July 2004 18:45	Saudi Arabia	2 – 2	Turkmenistan	Sichuan Longquanyi Stadium, Chengdu Attendance: 12,400 Referee: Chaiwat Kunsata (Thailand)
	Al-Qahtani  9' (pen.), 59'	Report	N. Bayramov  6' Kuliyev  90+3'

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18 July 2004 21:15	Iraq	0 – 1	Uzbekistan	Sichuan Longquanyi Stadium, Chengdu Attendance: 12,400 Referee: Kwon Jong-Chul (Korea Republic)
		Report	Qosimov  21'

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22 July 2004 18:30	Turkmenistan	2 – 3	Iraq	Sichuan Longquanyi Stadium, Chengdu Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Saad Kamil Al-Fadhli (Kuwait)
	V. Bayramov  14' Kuliyyew  85'	Report	Hawar Mohammed  12' Razzaq Farhan  80' Qusay Munir  88'

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22 July 2004 21:00	Uzbekistan	1 – 0	Saudi Arabia	Sichuan Longquanyi Stadium, Chengdu Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Coffi Codjia (Benin)
	Geynrikh  13'	Report

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26 July 2004 19:00	Saudi Arabia	1 – 2	Iraq	Sichuan Longquanyi Stadium, Chengdu Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Kwon Jong-Chul (Korea Republic)
	Al-Montashari  57'	Report	Nashat Akram  51' Younis Mahmoud  86'

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26 July 2004 19:00	Turkmenistan	0 – 1	Uzbekistan	Chongqing Olympic Sports Center, Chongqing Attendance: 34,000 Referee: Mohammed Kousa (Syria)
		Report	Qosimov  58'

Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Japan	7	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4
Iran	5	3	1	2	0	5	2	+3
Oman	4	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1
Thailand	0	3	0	0	3	1	9	−8

20 July 2004 18:00	Japan	1 – 0	Oman	Chongqing Olympic Sports Center, Chongqing Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Mark Shield (Australia)
	Nakamura  33'	Report

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20 July 2004 20:30	Iran	3 – 0	Thailand	Chongqing Olympic Sports Center, Chongqing Attendance: 37,000 Referee: Mohammad Kousa (Syria)
	Enayati  71' Nekounam  80' Daei  86' (pen.)	Report

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24 July 2004 18:00	Oman	2 – 2	Iran	Chongqing Olympic Sports Center, Chongqing Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Abdul Rahman Al-Delawar (Bahrain)
	Al-Hosni  31', 40'	Report	Karimi  61' Nosrati  90+4'

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24 July 2004 20:30	Thailand	1 – 4	Japan	Chongqing Olympic Sports Center, Chongqing Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Fareed Al-Marzouqi (UAE)
	Suksomkit  12'	Report	Nakamura  21' Nakazawa  57', 87' Fukunishi  68'

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28 July 2004 18:15	Oman	2 – 0	Thailand	Sichuan Longquanyi Stadium, Chengdu Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Lu Jun (China)
	Viwatchaichok  15' (o.g.) Al-Hosni  49'	Report

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28 July 2004 18:15	Japan	0 – 0	Iran	Chongqing Olympic Sports Center, Chongqing Attendance: 52,000 Referee: Mark Shield (Australia)
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Knockout stage

All times are China standard time (UTC+8)

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	July 30 - Beijing
	China PR	3
					August 3 - Beijing
	Iraq	0
					China PR (pen.)	1 (4)
	July 31 - Jinan
					Iran	1 (3)
	South Korea	3
									August 7 - Beijing
	Iran	4
									China PR	1
	July 30 - Chengdu
									Japan	3
	Uzbekistan	2 (3)
					August 3 - Jinan
	Bahrain (pen.)	2 (4)
					Bahrain	3			Third place
	July 31 - Chongqing
					Japan (a.e.t.)	4
	Japan (pen.)	1 (4)							Iran	4
	Jordan	1 (3)							Bahrain	2
									August 6 - Beijing

Quarter-finals

30 July 2004 18:00	Uzbekistan	2 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Bahrain	Sichuan Longquanyi Stadium, Chengdu Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Kwon Jong-Chul (Korea Republic)
	Geynrikh  60' Shishelov  86'	Report	A. Hubail  71', 76'
		Penalties
	Fyodorov Djeperov Geynrikh Bikmoev Koshelev	3 – 4	Ali Juma Baba Farhan A. Hubail

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30 July 2004 21:00	China PR	3 – 0	Iraq	Workers Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Shamsul Maidin (Singapore)
	Hao Haidong  8' Zheng Zhi  81' (pen.), 90+2' (pen.)	Report

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31 July 2004 18:00	Japan	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Jordan	Chongqing Olympic Sports Center, Chongqing Attendance: 52,000 Referee: Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh (Malaysia)
	Suzuki  14'	Report	Shelbaieh  11'
		Penalties
	Nakamura Alex Fukunishi Nakata Suzuki Nakazawa Miyamoto	4 – 3	Abu Zema Al-Awadat Aqel Al-Shboul Ibrahim Al-Zboun Bani Yaseen

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31 July 2004 21:00	South Korea	3 – 4	Iran	Shandong Sports Center, Jinan Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Saad Kamil Al-Fadhli (Kuwait)
	Seol Ki-Hyeon  16' Lee Dong-Gook  25' Kim Nam-Il  68'	Report	Karimi  10', 20', 77' Park Jin-Seop  51' (o.g.)

Semi-finals

3 August 2004 18:00	Bahrain	3 – 4 (a.e.t.)	Japan	Shandong Sports Center, Jinan Attendance: 32,000 Referee: Shamsul Maidin (Singapore)
	A. Hubail  7', 71' Naser  85'	Report	Nakata  48' Tamada  55', 93' Nakazawa  90'

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3 August 2004 21:00	China PR	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Iran	Workers Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Talaat Najm (Lebanon)
	Shao Jiayi  18'	Report	Alavi  38'
		Penalties
	Zheng Zhi Zhao Junzhe Li Xiaopeng Sun Xiang Shao Jiayi	4 – 3	Daei Mahdavikia Nekounam Mobali Golmohammadi

Third place playoff

6 August 2004 20:00	Iran	4 – 2	Bahrain	Workers Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Fareed Al-Marzouqi (UAE)
	Nekounam  9' Karimi  52' Daei  80' (pen.), 90'	Report	Yousef  48' Farhan  57'

Final

Main article: 2004 AFC Asian Cup Final

7 August 2004 20:00	China PR	1 – 3	Japan	Workers Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 62,000 Referee: Saad Kamil Al-Fadhli (Kuwait)
	Li Ming  31'	Report	Fukunishi  22' Nakata  65' Tamada  90+1'

Winners

AFC Asian Cup 2004 Winners
Japan Third title

Awards

Most Valuable Player	Top Scorer	Fair Play Award
Shunsuke Nakamura	A'ala Hubail Ali Karimi	China PR

All-Star Team

Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi	Tsuneyasu Miyamoto Yuji Nakazawa Zheng Zhi	Shunsuke Nakamura Shao Jiayi Zhao Junzhe Talal Yousef	A'ala Hubail Ali Karimi Mehdi Mahdavikia

Statistics

Goalscorers

5 goals

• A'ala Hubail
• Ali Karimi

4 goals

• Lee Dong-Gook

3 goals

• Shao Jiayi
• Zheng Zhi
• Ali Daei
• Yuji Nakazawa
• Keiji Tamada
• Imad Al-Hosni

2 goals

• Husain Ali
• Mohamed Hubail
• Talal Yousef
• Hao Haidong
• Li Ming
• Javad Nekounam
• Takashi Fukunishi
• Shunsuke Nakamura
• Koji Nakata
• Ahn Jung-Hwan
• Bader Al-Mutawa
• Yasser Al-Qahtani
• Begench Kuliyev
• Alexander Geynrikh
• Mirjalol Qosimov

1 goal

• Saleh Farhan
• Duaij Naser
• Li Jinyu
• Li Yi
• Xu Yunlong
• Elie Aiboy
• Ponaryo Astaman
• Budi Sudarsono
• Mohammad Alavi
• Reza Enayati
• Mohammad Nosrati
• Nashat Akram
• Razzaq Farhan
• Younis Mahmoud
• Hawar Mohammed
• Qusay Munir
• Takayuki Suzuki
• Anas Al-Zboun
• Khaled Saad
• Mahmoud Shelbaieh
• Cha Du-Ri
• Seol Ki-Hyeon
• Kim Nam-Il
• Bashar Abdullah
• Magid Mohamed
• Wesam Rizik
• Hamad Al-Montashari
• Sutee Suksomkit
• Nazar Bayramov
• Vladimir Bayramov
• Mohamed Rashid
• Vladimir Shishelov

Own goals

• Park Jin-Seop (1) (for Iran)
• Rangsan Viwatchaichok (1) (for Oman)

Final positions

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Eff
1	Japan	6	4	2	0	13	6	+7	14	77.8%
2	China PR	6	3	2	1	13	6	+7	11	61.1%
3	Iran	6	3	3	0	14	8	+6	12	66.7%
4	Bahrain	6	1	3	2	13	14	−1	6	33.3%
Eliminated in the Quarterfinals
5	Uzbekistan	4	3	1	0	5	2	+3	10	83.3%
6	South Korea	4	2	1	1	9	4	+5	7	58.3%
7	Jordan	4	1	3	0	3	1	+2	6	50.0%
8	Iraq	4	2	0	2	5	7	−2	6	50.0%
Eliminated in the First Stage
9	Oman	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1	4	44.4%
10	Kuwait	3	1	0	2	3	7	−4	3	33.3%
11	Indonesia	3	1	0	2	3	9	−6	3	33.3%
12	Turkmenistan	3	0	1	2	4	6	−2	1	11.1%
13	Saudi Arabia	3	0	1	2	3	5	−2	1	11.1%
14	Qatar	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1	11.1%
15	United Arab Emirates	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1	11.1%
16	Thailand	3	0	0	3	1	9	−8	0	0.0%

Views

Like other sports events, the Asian Cup 2004 was publicised as evidence of China's economic and athletic progress, being referred to by some as a prelude to the 2008 Summer Olympics. Many Chinese see the tournament as a success and take great pride in having showcased such an important sporting event in advance of the Olympics Games. However, the Japanese media and many other international observers have pointed out bad manners on the part of Chinese fans, and sparse attendance at the tournament, raising questions on China's ability to hold such sporting events.

Throughout the tournament, most Chinese fans in the stadia expressed anti-Japanese sentiments by drowning out the Japanese national anthem, displaying political banners and booing whenever Japan got the ball, regardless of the score or opponent. This was reported by the international media, and was aggravated when Koji Nakata apparently knocked in the ball with his right hand in the final against China. The PRC government responded by calling for restraint and increasing police numbers to maintain order. The Japanese government also called on the PRC to ensure the safety of Japanese fans, while specifically asking Japanese nationals or people of Japanese origin to not display any form of excessive pride, especially wearing Japan national football team uniforms. Despite the Chinese government's campaign, a riot started by Chinese fans broke out near the north gate of the Beijing Worker's Stadium, though reports differ as to the extent of the riot. As a result, some media groups have said that displays of "excessive Chinese nationalism during the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics have become a cause for concern for Chinese officials".

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