AFC Asian Cup records and statistics

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

Awards

General awards by tournament

Year Winners[1][2] Winning coach Top scorer(s)[3][2] Best player[2] Fair Play Award[2]
1956  South Korea South Korea Lee Yoo-hyung Israel Nahum Stelmach (4)
1960  South Korea South Korea Kim Yong-sik South Korea Cho Yoon-ok (4)
1964  Israel Israel Yosef Merimovich India Inder Singh (2)
Israel Mordechai Spiegler (2)
1968  Iran Iran Mahmoud Bayati Iran Homayoun Behzadi (4)
Israel Moshe Romano (4)
Israel Giora Spiegel (4)
1972  Iran Iran Mohammad Ranjbar Iran Hossein Kalani (5) Iran Ebrahim Ashtiani
1976  Iran Iran Heshmat Mohajerani Iran Gholam Hossein Mazloumi (3)
Iran Nasser Nouraei (3)
Kuwait Fathi Kamel (3)
Iran Ali Parvin
1980  Kuwait Brazil Carlos Alberto Parreira Iran Behtash Fariba (7)
South Korea Choi Soon-ho (7)
1984  Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia Khalil Al-Zayani China Jia Xiuquan (3)
Iran Shahrokh Bayani (3)
Iran Nasser Mohammadkhani (3)
China Jia Xiuquan  China
1988  Saudi Arabia Brazil Carlos Alberto Parreira South Korea Lee Tae-ho (3) South Korea Kim Joo-sung[4]
1992  Japan Netherlands Hans Ooft Saudi Arabia Fahad Al-Bishi (3) Japan Kazuyoshi Miura
1996  Saudi Arabia Portugal Nelo Vingada Iran Ali Daei (8) Iran Khodadad Azizi  Iran
2000  Japan France Philippe Troussier South Korea Lee Dong-gook (6) Japan Hiroshi Nanami  Saudi Arabia
2004  Japan Brazil Zico Bahrain A'ala Hubail (5)
Iran Ali Karimi (5)
Japan Shunsuke Nakamura  China
2007  Iraq Brazil Jorvan Vieira Iraq Younis Mahmoud (4)
Japan Naohiro Takahara (4)
Saudi Arabia Yasser Al-Qahtani (4)
Iraq Younis Mahmoud[5]  Japan
2011  Japan Italy Alberto Zaccheroni South Korea Koo Ja-cheol (5) Japan Keisuke Honda[6]  South Korea
2015  Australia Australia Ange Postecoglou United Arab Emirates Ali Mabkhout (5) Australia Massimo Luongo[7]  Australia[8]
2019  Qatar Spain Félix Sánchez Qatar Almoez Ali (9) Qatar Almoez Ali  Japan
2023 TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD

Team of the Tournament

Edition Goalkeepers Defenders Midfielders Forwards
1980[9] Iran Nasser Hejazi Kuwait Naeem Saad
Malaysia Soh Chin Aun
Kuwait Mahboub Juma'a
Iran Mehdi Dinvarzadeh
Iran Abdolreza Barzegari
Kuwait Saad Al-Houti
South Korea Lee Young-moo
South Korea Choi Soon-ho
Kuwait Faisal Al-Dakhil
Kuwait Jasem Yaqoub
1988[10]
(18 players)
China Zhang Huikang
Saudi Arabia Abdullah Al-Deayea
Saudi Arabia Mohamed Al-Jawad
Saudi Arabia Saleh Nu'eimeh
South Korea Park Kyung-hoon
South Korea Chung Yong-hwan
China Xie Yuxin
United Arab Emirates Mohamed Salim
Kuwait Mahboub Juma'a
Iran Sirous Ghayeghran
South Korea Chung Hae-won
Qatar Adel Khamis
Kuwait Abdulaziz Al-Hajeri
South Korea Byun Byung-joo
Saudi Arabia Youssef Al-Thunayan
Saudi Arabia Majed Abdullah
South Korea Kim Joo-sung
China Wang Baoshan
1996[11] Saudi Arabia Mohamed Al-Deayea Saudi Arabia Abdullah Zubromawi
United Arab Emirates Yousef Saleh
Iran Mohammad Khakpour
Iran Mehrdad Minavand
United Arab Emirates Mohamed Ali
Saudi Arabia Khalid Al-Muwallid
United Arab Emirates Saad Bakheet Mubarak
Saudi Arabia Fahad Al-Mehallel
Kuwait Jasem Al-Huwaidi
Iran Ali Daei
2000[12] China Jiang Jin South Korea Hong Myung-bo
Saudi Arabia Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi
Kuwait Jamal Mubarak
Japan Hiroshi Nanami
Saudi Arabia Nawaf Al-Temyat
Iraq Abbas Obeid
Iran Karim Bagheri
Japan Shunsuke Nakamura
South Korea Lee Dong-gook
Japan Naohiro Takahara
2004[13] Japan Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi Japan Tsuneyasu Miyamoto
Japan Yuji Nakazawa
China Zheng Zhi
Iran Mehdi Mahdavikia
Japan Shunsuke Nakamura
China Shao Jiayi
China Zhao Junzhe
Bahrain Talal Yousef
Bahrain A'ala Hubail
Iran Ali Karimi
2007[14] South Korea Lee Woon-jae Japan Yuji Nakazawa
Australia Lucas Neill
Iraq Bassim Abbas
Iran Rahman Rezaei
Japan Shunsuke Nakamura
Australia Harry Kewell
South Korea Lee Chun-soo
Iraq Nashat Akram
Japan Naohiro Takahara
Saudi Arabia Yasser Al-Qahtani
2015[15] Australia Mathew Ryan Iraq Dhurgham Ismail
South Korea Kwak Tae-hwi
Australia Trent Sainsbury
South Korea Cha Du-ri
Australia Massimo Luongo
United Arab Emirates Omar Abdulrahman
South Korea Ki Sung-yueng
United Arab Emirates Ali Mabkhout
Australia Tim Cahill
South Korea Son Heung-min
2019[16]
(23 players)
Iran Alireza Beiranvand
Japan Shūichi Gonda
Qatar Saad Al Sheeb
United Arab Emirates Bandar Al-Ahbabi
Qatar Boualem Khoukhi
Japan Maya Yoshida
Qatar Bassam Al-Rawi
Japan Yuto Nagatomo
Qatar Abdelkarim Hassan
South Korea Kim Min-jae
Iran Omid Ebrahimi
Qatar Abdulaziz Hatem
Iran Ashkan Dejagah
Australia Tom Rogic
Japan Gaku Shibasaki
Qatar Hassan Al-Haydos
Qatar Akram Afif
Qatar Almoez Ali
Iran Sardar Azmoun
Vietnam Nguyễn Quang Hải
China Wu Lei
United Arab Emirates Ali Mabkhout
Japan Yuya Osako

Fans' All-time Best XI

In October and November 2018, ahead of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, AFC created the Fans' Asian Cup XI with substitutes. The team was chosen through online voting on the website. This is the list of the XI and substitutes:

All-time AFC Asian Cup XI, as voted by the fans in 2018.
(coach:Iran Heshmat Mohajerani).

Goalkeepers

Defenders

Midfielders

Forwards

Manager

Source:The AFC

Team records

Summary

Team Titles Runners-up Third place Fourth place Semi-finalists Top 2 Top 4
 Japan 4 (1992*, 2000, 2004, 2011) 1 (2019) 1 (2007) 5 6
 Saudi Arabia 3 (1984, 1988, 1996) 3 (1992, 2000, 2007) 6 6
 Iran 3 (1968*, 1972, 1976*) 4 (1980, 1988, 1996, 2004) 1 (1984) 1 (2019) 3 9
 South Korea 2 (1956, 1960*) 4 (1972, 1980, 1988, 2015) 4 (1964, 2000, 2007, 2011) 6 10
 Israel1 1 (1964*) 2 (1956, 1960) 1 (1968) 3 4
 Kuwait 1 (1980*) 1 (1976) 1 (1984) 1 (1996) 2 4
 Australia 1 (2015*) 1 (2011) 2 2
 Iraq 1 (2007) 2 (1976, 2015) 1 3
 Qatar 1 (2019) 1 1
 China 2 (1984, 2004*) 2 (1976, 1992) 2 (1988, 2000) 2 6
 United Arab Emirates 1 (1996*) 1 (2015) 1 (1992) 1 (2019*) 1 4
 India 1 (1964) 1 1
 Myanmar 1 (1968) 1 1
 Hong Kong 1 (1956*) 1 (1964) 0 2
 Chinese Taipei2 1 (1960) 1 (1968) 0 2
 Thailand 1 (1972*) 0 1
 Vietnam3 2 (1956, 1960) 0 2
 Cambodia 1 (1972) 0 1
 North Korea 1 (1980) 0 1
 Bahrain 1 (2004) 0 1
 Uzbekistan 1 (2011) 0 1

* hosts
1 Israel was expelled from the AFC in the early 1970s and eventually became a member of UEFA.[17]
2 as Republic of China
3 as South Vietnam

All-time table

The table is accurate as of the end of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.

Rank Team Part Pld W D L GF GA Dif Pts PPG Best finish
1  Iran 14 68 41 19 8 131 48 83 142 2.09 Champions (1968, 1972, 1976)[18]
2  South Korea 14 67 36 16 15 106 64 42 124 1.85 Champions (1956, 1960)[19]
3  Japan 9 48 30 12 6 92 44 48 102 2.13 Champions (1992, 2000, 2004, 2011)[20]
4  China 12 56 23 13 20 88 65 23 82 1.46 Runners-up (1984, 2004)[19]
5  Saudi Arabia 10 48 21 13 14 69 48 21 76 1.58 Champions (1984, 1988, 1996)[21]
6  Kuwait 10 42 15 10 17 47 51 –4 55 1.31 Champions (1980)
7  United Arab Emirates 10 42 15 10 17 40 56 –16 55 1.31 Runners-up (1996)[22]
8  Iraq 9 39 15 8 16 44 45 –1 53 1.36 Champions (2007)[18]
9  Qatar 10 39 13 11 15 52 47 5 50 1.28 Champions (2019)
10  Uzbekistan 7 28 13 4 11 42 47 –5 43 1.54 Fourth place (2011)[20]
11  Australia 4 21 12 4 5 40 14 26 40 1.90 Champions (2015)[23]
12  Israel 4 13 9 0 4 28 15 13 27 2.08 Champions (1964)
13  Jordan 4 15 6 6 3 17 10 7 24 1.60 Quarter-finals (2004, 2011)[23]
14  Syria 6 21 7 3 11 17 28 –11 24 1.14 Group stage (6 times)[23]
15  Bahrain 6 23 5 6 12 29 38 –9 21 0.91 Fourth place (2004)[22]
16  Thailand 7 24 2 9 13 19 52 –33 15 0.63 Third place (1972)[22]
17  Oman 4 13 3 3 7 10 17 –7 12 0.92 Round of 16 (2019)
18  North Korea 5 18 3 2 13 15 40 –25 11 0.57 Fourth place (1980)[21]
19  India 4 13 3 1 9 12 27 –15 10 0.77 Runners-up (1964)[22]
20  Vietnam 4 15 2 3 10 17 35 –18 9 0.60 Fourth place (1956, 1960)[18]
21  Indonesia 4 12 2 2 8 10 28 –18 8 0.67 Group stage (1996, 2000, 2004, 2007)
22  Myanmar 1 4 2 1 1 5 4 1 7 1.75 Runners-up (1968)
23  Malaysia 3 9 1 3 5 7 20 –13 6 0.67 Group stage (1976, 1980, 2007)
24  Lebanon 2 6 1 2 3 7 12 –5 5 0.83 Group stage (2000, 2019)[21]
25  Chinese Taipei 2 7 1 2 4 5 12 –7 5 0.71 Third place (1960)
26  Singapore 1 4 1 1 2 3 4 –1 4 1.00 Group stage (1984)
27  Cambodia 1 5 1 1 3 8 10 –2 4 0.80 Fourth place (1972)
28  Kyrgyzstan 1 4 1 0 3 6 7 –1 3 0.75 Round of 16 (2019)
29  Hong Kong 3 10 0 3 7 9 23 –14 3 0.30 Third place (1956)
30  Palestine 2 6 0 2 4 1 14 –13 2 0.33 Group stage (2015, 2019)[23]
31  Turkmenistan 2 6 0 1 5 7 16 –9 1 0.10 Group stage (2004, 2019)[20]
32  Philippines 1 3 0 0 3 1 7 –6 0 0.00 Group stage (2019)
33  South Yemen 1 2 0 0 2 0 9 –9 0 0.00 Group stage (1976)
34  Yemen 1 3 0 0 3 0 10 –10 0 0.00 Group stage (2019)
35  Bangladesh 1 4 0 0 4 2 17 –15 0 0.00 Group stage (1980)

Comprehensive national results by tournament

Team British Hong Kong
1956
(4)
South Korea
1960
(4)
Israel
1964
(4)
Iran
1968
(5)
Thailand
1972
(6)
Iran
1976
(6)
Kuwait
1980
(10)
Singapore
1984
(10)
Qatar
1988
(10)
Japan
1992
(8)
United Arab Emirates
1996
(12)
Lebanon
2000
(12)
China
2004
(16)
Indonesia
Malaysia
Thailand
Vietnam
2007
(16)
Qatar
2011
(16)
Australia
2015
(16)
United Arab Emirates
2019
(24)
China
2023
(24)
Years
West Asian Members
 Bahrain × •• × GS × 4th GS GS GS R16 6
 Iraq GS 4th × × × × QF QF QF 1st QF 4th R16 9
 Jordan × × × QF QF GS R16 4
 Kuwait × GS 2nd 1st 3rd GS 4th QF GS GS GS × 10
 Lebanon × × × × GS × GS 2
 Oman × GS GS GS R16 4
 Palestine GS GS 2
 Qatar GS GS GS GS QF GS GS QF GS 1st 10
 Saudi Arabia •• × 1st 1st 2nd 1st 2nd GS 2nd GS GS R16 10
 Syria × GS GS GS GS GS GS 6
 United Arab Emirates GS GS GS 4th 2nd GS GS GS 3rd SF 10
 Yemen × GS 1
Central Asian Members
 Iran × × 1st 1st 1st 3rd 4th 3rd GS 3rd QF 3rd QF QF QF SF 14
 Kyrgyzstan Part of the USSR × R16 1
 Turkmenistan Part of the USSR GS GS 2
 Uzbekistan Part of the USSR GS GS QF QF 4th QF R16 7
South Asian Members
 Bangladesh Part of Pakistan × GS × 1
 India × 2nd × GS GS GS 4
East Asian Members
 China 3rd GS 2nd 4th 3rd QF 4th 2nd GS GS QF QF Q 13
 Chinese Taipei 3rd × 4th × × × × × 2
 Hong Kong 3rd 4th 5th 3
 Japan × × × × × × GS 1st QF 1st 1st 4th 1st QF 2nd 9
 North Korea •• 4th × GS × × GS GS GS 5
 South Korea 1st 1st 3rd 2nd 2nd GS 2nd QF 3rd QF 3rd 3rd 2nd QF 14
Southeast Asian Members
 Australia OFC Member QF 2nd 1st QF 4
 Cambodia × × 4th × × × × × × × × 1
 Indonesia × × × GS GS GS GS × 4
 Malaysia Part of Malaya GS GS GS 3
 Myanmar × × × 2nd × × × × × × × 1
 Philippines × × × × × × × GS 1
 Singapore × × × GS × 1
 Thailand × × 3rd •• GS GS GS GS GS R16 7
 Vietnam 4th 4th × × × × QF QF 4
Former AFC Members
 Israel 2nd 2nd 1st 3rd •• Expelled from AFC UEFA Member 4
 South Yemen GS × × Part of Yemen 1
Legend

Map of best results

Total hosts

Time(s) Nation Year(s)
2  Iran 1968, 1976
 Thailand 1972, 2007*
 Qatar 1988, 2011
 United Arab Emirates 1996, 2019
 China 2004, 2023
1  Hong Kong 1956
 South Korea 1960
 Israel 1964
 Kuwait 1980
 Singapore 1984
 Japan 1992
 Lebanon 2000
 Indonesia 2007*
 Malaysia
 Vietnam
 Australia 2015

* co-hosts

National debuts by tournament

Year Debutants Total Successor teams
1956  South Korea,  Hong Kong,  South Vietnam,  Israel 4
1960  Republic of China 1
1964  India 1
1968  Iran,  Burma 2
1972  Khmer Republic,  Iraq,  Kuwait,  Thailand 4
1976  South Yemen,  China,  Malaysia 3
1980  Bangladesh,  North Korea,  Qatar,  Syria,  United Arab Emirates 5
1984  Saudi Arabia,  Singapore 2
1988  Bahrain,  Japan 2
1992 None 0
1996  Indonesia,  Uzbekistan 2
2000  Lebanon 1
2004  Jordan,  Oman,  Turkmenistan 3
2007  Australia 1  Vietnam
2011 None 0
2015  Palestine 1
2019  Kyrgyzstan,  Philippines,  Yemen 3

Has never qualified

 Afghanistan,  Bhutan,  Brunei,  Guam,  Laos,  Macau,  Maldives,  Mongolia,    Nepal,  Pakistan,  Sri Lanka,  Tajikistan,  East Timor

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 13
 Hong Kong 1968 13
 Myanmar 1968 13
 Cambodia 1972 12
 Bangladesh 1980 10
 Singapore 1984 9
 Indonesia 2007 3
 Malaysia 2007 3
 Kuwait 2015 1

Regional record

Regional federation Champion(s) Title(s)
WAFF (West Asia) Saudi Arabia (3), Iraq (1), Kuwait (1), Qatar (1) 6
EAFF (East Asia) Japan (4), South Korea (2) 6
CAFA (Central Asia) Iran (3) 3
AFF (Southeast Asia) Australia (1) 1
SAFF (South Asia) - 0

Other records

  • South Korea, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are the only teams to have won the tournament in their debut appearances.[24]
  • Iran hold the record for the most games played, with 68.[25]
  • Iran are the only team to have won three consecutive finals of the AFC Asian Cup.[25]

Qualification all-time table

Individual records

Overall top goalscorers

Goals Player Representing Ref.
14 Ali Daei Iran Iran [26]
10 Lee Dong-Gook South Korea South Korea [26]
9 Naohiro Takahara Japan Japan [26]
Ali Mabkhout United Arab Emirates UAE [27]
Almoez Ali Qatar Qatar [28]
8 Jasem Al-Huwaidi Kuwait Kuwait [29]
Younis Mahmoud Iraq Iraq [26]
7 Behtash Fariba Iran Iran [30]
Hossein Kalani Iran Iran [31][32]
Choi Soon-ho South Korea South Korea [33]
Faisal Al-Dakhil Kuwait Kuwait [34]
6 Yasser Al-Qahtani Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia [35]
Alexander Geynrikh Uzbekistan Uzbekistan [26]
Tim Cahill Australia Australia [26]
Ahmed Khalil United Arab Emirates UAE [36]
Sardar Azmoun Iran Iran [37][38]

Top goalscorers in one tournament

Goals Player Representing Year Ref.
9 Almoez Ali  Qatar 2019 [28]
8 Ali Daei  Iran 1996 [26]
7 Behtash Fariba  Iran 1980 [39]
Choi Soon-ho  South Korea [39]
6 Lee Dong-gook  South Korea 2000 [40]
5 Hossein Kalani  Iran 1972 [41]
A'ala Hubail  Bahrain 2004 [42]
Ali Karimi  Iran [42]
Koo Ja-cheol  South Korea 2011 [43]
Ali Mabkhout  United Arab Emirates 2015 [44]

Hat-tricks

Most tournament wins

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

Most tournaments appeared in

The table below is the players who have appeared four or more times in the history of the tournament.

Times Name Tournaments
5 Uzbekistan Ignatiy Nesterov 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019
4 Iran Masoud Shojaei 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019
Saudi Arabia Waleed Abdullah 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019
Uzbekistan Anzur Ismailov 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019
Jordan Amer Shafi 2004, 2011, 2015, 2019
China Zheng Zhi 2004, 2007, 2015, 2019
Oman Ahmed Kano 2004, 2007, 2015, 2019
United Arab Emirates Ismail Matar 2004, 2007, 2011, 2019
Uzbekistan Marat Bikmaev 2004, 2007, 2011, 2019
Iran Javad Nekounam 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
Iraq Younis Mahmoud 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
Japan Yasuhito Endō 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
Qatar Bilal Mohammed 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
Saudi Arabia Saud Kariri 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
Uzbekistan Server Djeparov 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
Uzbekistan Timur Kapadze 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
Iran Mehdi Mahdavikia 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007
China Li Ming 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004
United Arab Emirates 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:[45]

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.

Source:[46]

Match records

Attendance by year

Year Matches Attendance
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

Lowest attendance

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