AFC Asian Cup records and statistics explained

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

Summary

First four edition of competition only had four or five teams and played in one single group. Since 1972, the final tournament has introduced the knockout stage. Since 2019, no third place play-off has been played; from 2023, losing semi-finalists are ranked by the AFC based on goal difference in the semi-finals.^[1]

Bold text denotes team was host country.

Team	Champions	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Semi-finalist	Top 4 total
	style=background:#FFD700	4 (1992, 2000, 2004, 2011)	style=background:#C0C0C0	1 (2019)		style=background:#9ACDFF	1 (2007)		6
	style=background:#FFD700	3 (1984, 1988, 1996)	style=background:#C0C0C0	3 (1992, 2000, 2007)				6
	style=background:#FFD700	3 (1968, 1972, 1976)		style=background:#CC9966	4 (1980, 1988, 1996, 2004)	style=background:#9ACDFF	1 (1984)	2 (2019, 2023)	10
	style=background:#FFD700	2 (1956, 1960)	style=background:#C0C0C0	4 (1972, 1980, 1988, 2015)	style=background:#CC9966	4 (1964, 2000, 2007, 2011)		1 (2023)	11
	style=background:#FFD700	2 (2019, 2023)					2
	style=background:#FFD700	1 (1964)	style=background:#C0C0C0	2 (1956, 1960)	style=background:#CC9966	1 (1968)			4
	style=background:#FFD700	1 (1980)	style=background:#C0C0C0	1 (1976)	style=background:#CC9966	1 (1984)	style=background:#9ACDFF	1 (1996)		4
	style=background:#FFD700	1 (2015)	style=background:#C0C0C0	1 (2011)				2
	style=background:#FFD700	1 (2007)			style=background:#9ACDFF	2 (1976, 2015)		3
		style=background:#C0C0C0	2 (1984, 2004)	style=background:#CC9966	2 (1976, 1992)	style=background:#9ACDFF	2 (1988, 2000)		6
		style=background:#C0C0C0	1 (1996)	style=background:#CC9966	1 (2015)	style=background:#9ACDFF	1 (1992)	1 (2019)	4
		style=background:#C0C0C0	1 (1964)				1
		style=background:#C0C0C0	1 (1968)				1
		style=background:#C0C0C0	1 (2023)				1
			style=background:#CC9966	1 (1956)	style=background:#9ACDFF	1 (1964)		2
			style=background:#CC9966	1 (1960)	style=background:#9ACDFF	1 (1968)		2
			style=background:#CC9966	1 (1972)			1
				style=background:#9ACDFF	2 (1956, 1960)		2
				style=background:#9ACDFF	1 (1972)		1
				style=background:#9ACDFF	1 (1980)		1
				style=background:#9ACDFF	1 (2004)		1
				style=background:#9ACDFF	1 (2011)		1

General statistics by tournament

Source:^{[2] [3] [4]}

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

Debut of national teams

Year	Debuting teams			Successor teams
	Teams	width=40			width=40
1956	,,,	4	4
1960		1	5
1964		1	6
1968	,	2	8
1972	,,,	4	12
1976	,,	3	15
1980	,,,,	5	20
1984	,	2	22
1988	,	2	24
1992	None	0	24
1996	,	2	26
2000		1	27
2004	,,	3	30
2007		1	31
2011	None	0	31
2015		1	32
2019	,,	3	35
2023		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.^{[9] [10]}

Rank	width=200	Team	Part	M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
1		15	74	45	20	9	143	55	+88	155
2		15	73	38	19	16	117	74	+43	133
3		10	53	33	12	8	104	52	+52	111
4		11	52	23	15	14	74	50	+24	84
5		13	59	23	15	21	88	66	+22	84
6		11	46	19	12	15	66	52	+14	69
7		10	42	18	7	17	54	52	+2	61
8		11	48	16	13	19	47	64	−17	61
9		10	42	15	10	17	47	51	−4	55
10		8	33	15	7	11	49	50	−1	52
11		5	26	15	5	6	49	17	+32	50
12		5	22	10	7	5	30	18	+12	37
13		7	25	8	5	12	19	30	−11	29
14		4	13	9	0	4	28	15	+13	27
15		7	27	7	6	14	33	44	−11	27
16		8	28	3	11	14	22	54	−32	20
17		5	16	3	5	8	12	20	−8	14
18		5	18	3	2	13	15	40	−25	11
19		5	16	3	2	11	13	38	−25	11
20		5	16	3	1	12	12	33	−21	10
21		5	18	2	3	13	21	43	−22	9
22		1	4	2	1	1	5	4	+1	7
23		4	12	1	4	7	10	28	−18	7
24		3	9	1	3	5	8	17	−9	6
25		3	10	1	3	6	7	21	−14	6
26		1	5	1	2	2	3	4	−1	5
27		2	7	1	2	4	5	12	−7	5
28		1	4	1	1	2	3	4	−1	4
29		1	5	1	1	3	8	10	−2	4
30		2	7	1	1	5	7	12	−5	4
31		4	13	0	3	10	10	30	−20	3
32		2	6	0	1	5	7	16	−9	1
33		1	3	0	0	3	1	7	−6	0
34		1	2	0	0	2	0	9	−9	0
35		1	3	0	0	3	0	10	−10	0
36		1	4	0	0	4	2	17	−15	0

• Vietnam consist of South Vietnam.

Comprehensive team results by tournament

Legend

• – Champions
• – Runners-up
• – Third place
• – Fourth place
• – 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
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=3		×	•	×	••	×	GS	•	×	•	4th	GS	GS	GS	R16	R16	Q	8
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=4		GS	4th	×	×	×	×	QF	QF	QF	1st	QF	4th	R16	R16	Q	11
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=4		•	×	×	•	•	×	•	•	QF	•	QF	GS	R16	2nd	Q	6
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=3		×	GS	2nd	1st	3rd	GS	•	4th	QF	GS	•	GS	GS	×	•	Q	11
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=3		×	•	×	•	×	×	×	•	GS	•	×	•	•	GS	GS		3
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=7		•	×	•	•	•	GS	GS	•	GS	R16	GS	Q	6
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=11		•	•	•	•	GS	GS	R16	Q	4
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=5		•	GS	GS	GS	GS	•	QF	GS	GS	QF	GS	1st	1st	Q	12
						••	×	1st	1st	2nd	1st	2nd	GS	2nd	GS	GS	R16	R16	Q	12
					•	×	GS	GS	GS	•	GS	•	•	•	GS	•	GS	R16		7
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=5		×	GS	GS	GS	4th	2nd	•	GS	GS	GS	3rd	SF	R16	Q	12
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=7		•	•	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS	•		1
Central Asian Members
	×	•	×	1st	1st	1st	3rd	4th	3rd	GS	3rd	QF	3rd	QF	QF	QF	SF	3rd	Q	16
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=9			•	•	•	×	•	•	R16	GS	Q	3
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=9			•	•	•	×	•	•	•	QF		1
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=9			•	•	GS	×	•	•	GS	•		2
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=9			GS	GS	QF	QF	4th	QF	R16	QF	Q	9
South Asian Members
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=4			×	GS	•	•	•	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•		1
	×	•	2nd	•	×	×	×	GS	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS	•	GS	GS		5
East Asian Members
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=5		3rd	GS	2nd	4th	3rd	QF	4th	2nd	GS	GS	QF	QF	GS	Q	14
	•	3rd	×	4th	×	×				•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•		2
	3rd	•	4th	5th	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS		4
	×	×	×	•	×	•	×	×	GS	1st	QF	1st	1st	4th	1st	QF	2nd	QF	Q	11
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=5		••	4th	×	•	GS	×	•	•	×	GS	GS	GS	×	Q	6
	1st	1st	3rd	•	2nd	•	2nd	GS	2nd	•	QF	3rd	QF	3rd	3rd	2nd	QF	4th	Q	16
Southeast Asian Members
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=13		QF	2nd	1st	QF	QF	Q	6
	•	×	×	•	4th	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	×	×	•	•	•	•		1
	×	×	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS	GS	GS	GS	•	•	×	R16	Q	6
	•	•	•	•	•	GS	GS	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS	•	•	•	GS		4
	×	×	×	2nd	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	•	×	•	•	•	•		1
	•	•	×	•	×	×	•	•	×	×	•	•	×	×	•	•	GS	•		1
	×	•	×	•	×	•	•	GS	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•		1
	×	×	•	•	3rd	••	•	•	•	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	•	•	R16	R16		8
	4th	4th	•	•	•	•	×	×	×	×	•	•	•	QF	•	•	QF	GS		5
Former AFC Members
	2nd	2nd	1st	3rd	••	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=5		bgcolor=lightgreen colspan="9"		4
		GS	×	×	•	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan="9"		1
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

Results of host nations

Year	Host nation	Finish
1956		Third place
1960		bgcolor=Gold	Champions
1964		bgcolor=Gold	Champions
1968		bgcolor=Gold	Champions
1972		Third place
1976		bgcolor=Gold	Champions
1980		bgcolor=Gold	Champions
1984		Group stage
1988		Group stage
1992		bgcolor=Gold	Champions
1996		bgcolor=Silver	Runners-up
2000		Group stage
2004		bgcolor=Silver	Runners-up
2007		Group stage
		Group stage
		Group stage
		Quarter-finals
2011		Quarter-finals
2015		bgcolor=Gold	Champions
2019		Semi-finals
2023		bgcolor=Gold	Champions
2027		TBD

Results of defending finalists

Year	Defending champions	Finish	Defending runners-up	Finish
1960		bgcolor=Gold	Champions		bgcolor=Silver	Runners-up
1964		Third place		bgcolor=Gold	Champions
1968		Third place		did not qualify
1972		bgcolor=Gold	Champions		Withdrew
1976		bgcolor=Gold	Champions		did not qualify
1980		Third place		bgcolor=Gold	Champions
1984		Third place		Group Stage
1988		bgcolor=Gold	Champions		Fourth Place
1992		bgcolor=Silver	Runners-up		did not qualify
1996		Quarter-finals		bgcolor=Gold	Champions
2000		bgcolor=Silver	Runners-up		did not qualify
2004		bgcolor=Gold	Champions		Group stage
2007		Fourth place		Group stage
2011		Quarter-finals		Group stage
2015		Quarter-finals		bgcolor=Gold	Champions
2019		Quarter-finals		Quarter-finals
2023		bgcolor=Gold	Champions		Quarter-finals
2027		TBD		TBD

Teams never qualified for finals tournaments

See also: AFC Asian Cup qualifiers.

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 (14)	class=unsortable	1956 (4)	class=unsortable	1960 (4)	class=unsortable	1964 (4)	class=unsortable	1968 (5)	class=unsortable	1972 (6)	class=unsortable	1976 (6)	class=unsortable	1980 (8)	class=unsortable	1984 (8)	class=unsortable	1988 (8)	class=unsortable	1992 (8)	class=unsortable	1996 (12)	class=unsortable	2000 (12)	class=unsortable	2004 (16)	class=unsortable	2007 (16)	class=unsortable	2011 (16)	class=unsortable	2015 (16)	class=unsortable	2019 (24)	class=unsortable	2023 (24)	class=unsortable	2027 (24)	Attempts
	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	•	×	×	×	×	•	×	•	•	•	•		8
	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	×	•	•	•	•		6
	×	×	×	×	•	•	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	×	•	×	•	•		7
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=5	Part of	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=6	Part of	×	•	×	×	×	•	×		2
	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	•	×	•	•	×	•	×	6
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=10	Part of	•	•	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=7	UEFA member	2
	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	×	×	•	•	•		5
	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	×	×	•	•	•	•	×	•	•	•	•		9
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=3	Part of	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	•	×	•	•	•	•		7
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=11	Not AFC member	•	•	×	•	•	•	•		6
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=4	Not AFC member	×	×	×	•	•	×	•	•	•	×	•	•	•	•		9
	bgcolor=lightgreen colspan=14	Not AFC member	×	•	×	×	×	1
	×	•	×	•	×	×	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•		13
	×	×	×	×	•	×	•	•	×	×	•	•	•	×	•	•	•	•		10

Other records

• Only three teams have won the tournament in their debut appearances:^[11]
  • South Korea (1956)
  • Iran (1968)
  • Saudi Arabia (1984)
• Iran hold the record for the most games played, with 74.^[12]
• Only Iran have won three consecutive finals of the AFC Asian Cup.

Individual records

Most Valuable Player

Source:^[13]

Year	Player
1956	rowspan=3
1960
1964
1968	Ba Pu
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	Akram Afif

Overall top goalscorers

Players in bold are still active at international level.

Rank	Player	Country	Years	Goals
1	Ali Daei		1996, 2000, 2004	14
2	Almoez Ali		2019, 2023	11
3	Lee Dong-gook		2000, 2004, 2007	10
4	Naohiro Takahara		2000, 2007	9
	Ali Mabkhout		2015, 2019, 2023
	Akram Afif		2019, 2023
7	Jasem Al-Huwaidi		1996, 2000	8
	Younis Mahmoud		2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Sardar Azmoun		2015, 2019, 2023
10	Hossein Kalani		1968, 1972	7
	Faisal Al-Dakhil		1976, 1980, 1984
	Behtash Fariba		1980
	Choi Soon-ho		1980
	Son Heung-min		2011, 2015, 2019, 2023
15	Yasser Al-Qahtani		2004, 2007, 2011	6
	Alexander Geynrikh		2004, 2007, 2011
	Tim Cahill		2007, 2011, 2015
	Ahmed Khalil		2011, 2015, 2019
	Aymen Hussein		2019, 2023
	Mehdi Taremi		2019, 2023
22	Woo Sang-kwon		1956, 1960	5
	Nahum Stelmach		1956, 1960, 1964
	Ali Jabbari		1968, 1972
	Chung Hae-won		1980, 1988
	Hwang Sun-hong		1988, 1996
	Akinori Nishizawa		2000
	Shao Jiayi		2000, 2004, 2007
	Ali Karimi		2000, 2004, 2007
	A'ala Hubail		2004, 2007
	Ismail Abdullatif		2007, 2011, 2015
	Koo Ja-cheol		2011, 2015, 2019
	Hassan Al-Haydos		2011, 2015, 2019, 2023

Top goalscorers in one tournament

Players in bold are still active at international level.

Goals	Player	Representing	Year	Ref.
9	Almoez Ali		2019	^[14]
8	Ali Daei		1996	^[15]
	Akram Afif		2023	^[16]
7	Behtash Fariba		1980	^[17]
	Choi Soon-ho
6	Lee Dong-gook		2000	^[18]
	Aymen Hussein		2023
5	Hossein Kalani		1972	^[19]
	Ali Karimi		2004	^[20]
	A'ala Hubail
	Koo Ja-cheol		2011	^[21]
	Ali Mabkhout		2015	^[22]

Hat-tricks

See main article: List of AFC Asian Cup hat-tricks.

Most tournament appearances

The table lists the players who have appeared in four or more different tournaments.

Tournaments	Player	Years
5	Ignatiy Nesterov	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019
4	Adnan Al-Talyani	1984, 1988, 1992, 1996
	Li Ming	1992, 1996, 2000, 2004
	Mehdi Mahdavikia	1996, 2000, 2004, 2007
	Kim Yong-dae	2000, 2004, 2007, 2011
	Javad Nekounam	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Younis Mahmoud	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Yasuhito Endō	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Saud Kariri	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Bilal Mohammed	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Server Djeparov	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Timur Kapadze	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Zheng Zhi	2004, 2007, 2015, 2019
	Ahmed Kano	2004, 2007, 2015, 2019
	Amer Shafi	2004, 2011, 2015, 2019
	Ismail Matar	2004, 2007, 2011, 2019
	Marat Bikmaev	2004, 2007, 2011, 2019
	Masoud Shojaei	2007, 2011, 2015, 2019
	Waleed Abdullah	2007, 2011, 2015, 2019
	Anzur Ismailov	2007, 2011, 2015, 2019
	Zhang Linpeng	2011, 2015, 2019, 2023
	Ehsan Hajsafi	2011, 2015, 2019, 2023
	Karim Ansarifard	2011, 2015, 2019, 2023
	Son Heung-min	2011, 2015, 2019, 2023
	Hassan Al-Haydos	2011, 2015, 2019, 2023
	Saad Al-Sheeb	2011, 2015, 2019, 2023

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

Source:^[23]

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:^[24]

Match records

Attendance by year

Year	Matches	Attendance
		Total	Average	Highest
1992	16	316,496	19,781	–	Final	60,000
1996	26	448,000	17,231	– –	3rd place match Final	60,000
2000	26	276,488	10,634	–	Group stage	52,418
2004	32	937,650	29,302	–	Final	62,000
2007	32	724,222	22,632	– –	Group stage	88,000
2011	32	405,361	12,668	–	Group stage	47,413
2015	32	705,705	22,053	–	Final	76,385
2019	51	644,307	12,633	–	Group stage	43,206
2023	51	1,507,790	29,565	–	Final	86,492

Highest attendance

• The highest ever attendance officially recorded was of 112,000 during the 1976 AFC Asian Cup final between Iran and Kuwait.

Awards

See main article: article and AFC Asian Cup awards.

Team of the Tournament

Edition	Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
1980^[25]	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^[26] (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^[27]	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^[28]	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^[29]	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi	Tsuneyasu Miyamoto Yuji Nakazawa Zheng Zhi Mehdi Mahdavikia	Shunsuke Nakamura Shao Jiayi Zhao Junzhe Talal Yousef	A'ala Hubail Ali Karimi
2007^[30] (fan-voted)	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^[31]	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^[32] (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
1988	Not awarded
1992
1996
2000
2004
2007
2011
2015	^[33]
2019
2023

External links

• AFC Asian Cup official history book
• Official website at AFC.com
• RSSSF archive

Notes and References

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   (i) superior goal difference in the semi-finals;
   (ii) higher number of goals scored in the semi-finals;
   (iii) superior goal difference in the quarter-finals (if applicable);
   (iv) higher number of goals scored in the quarter-finals (if applicable)....
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