AFC Asian Cup records and statistics

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

General statistics by tournament

Source:[1][2][3]

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

Debut of teams
Year Debuting teams
Teams No. Cum.
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 PR,  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
2011 None 0 31
2015  Palestine 1 32
2019  Kyrgyzstan,  Philippines,  Yemen 3 35

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]

As of 2019 AFC Asian Cup
Rank Team Part Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Iran1468411981314883142
2  South Korea14673616151066442124
3  Japan94830126924448102
4  China PR125623132088652382
5  Saudi Arabia104821131469482176
6  United Arab Emirates10441511184159–1856
7  Kuwait10421510174751–455
8  Iraq939158164445–153
9  Qatar10391311155247550
10  Uzbekistan728134114247–543
11  Australia421124540142640
12  Israel41390428151327
13  Jordan4156631710724
14  Syria62173111728–1124
15  Bahrain62356122938–921
16  Thailand72429131952–3315
17  Oman4133371017–712
18  North Korea51832131540–2511
19  India4133191227–1510
20  Vietnam41523101735–189
21  Indonesia4122281028–188
22  Myanmar142115417
23  Malaysia39135720–136
24  Lebanon26123712–55
25  Chinese Taipei27124613–75
26  Singapore1411234–14
27  Cambodia15113810–24
28  Kyrgyzstan1410367–13
29  Hong Kong310037923–143
30  Palestine26024114–132
31  Turkmenistan26015716–91
32  Philippines1300317–60
33  South Yemen1200209–90
34  Yemen13003010–100
35  Bangladesh14004217–150

Medal table
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Japan4105
2 Saudi Arabia3306
3 Iran3058
4 South Korea24410
5 Israel1214
6 Kuwait1113
7 Australia1102
8 Iraq1001
 Qatar1001
10 China PR0224
11 United Arab Emirates0123
12 India0101
 Myanmar0101
14 Chinese Taipei0011
 Hong Kong0011
 Thailand0011
Totals (16 nations)17171852

Comprehensive team results by tournament
Legend

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)		 Total
West Asian Members
 Bahrain Part of the  United Kingdomוו•×GS•×•4thGSGSGSR16 6
 Iraq Not a AFC memberGS4th××××QFQFQF1stQF4thR16Q 10
 Jordan Not a AFC member•×ו•×••QF•QFGSR16 4
 Kuwait Not a AFC member×GS2nd1st3rdGS•4thQFGS•GSGS× 10
 Lebanon Not a AFC memberוו××וGS•×••GSQ 3
 Oman Not a AFC member•×•••GSGS•GSR16Q 5
 Palestine Not a AFC member••••GSGS 2
 Qatar Part of the  United Kingdom•GSGSGSGS•QFGSGSQFGS1stQ 11
 Saudi Arabia Not a AFC member••×1st1st2nd1st2ndGS2ndGSGSR16Q 11
 Syria Not a AFC member•×GSGSGS•GS•••GS•GSQ 7
 United Arab Emirates Part of the  United Kingdom×GSGSGS4th2nd•GSGSGS3rdSFQ 11
 Yemen Not a AFC member••×••••••GS 1
Central Asian Members
 Iran ו×1st1st1st3rd4th3rdGS3rdQF3rdQFQFQFSFQ 15
 Kyrgyzstan Part of the  Soviet Union•••×••R16 1
 Turkmenistan Part of the  Soviet Union••GSו•GS 2
 Uzbekistan Part of the  Soviet UnionGSGSQFQF4thQFR16 7
South Asian Members
 Bangladesh Part of  Pakistan×GS•••×•••••• 1
 India ו2nd•×××GS••••••GS•GS 4
East Asian Members
 China PR Not a AFC member3rdGS2nd4th3rdQF4th2ndGSGSQFQFQ 13
 Chinese Taipei •3rd×4th××OFC Member••••••••• 2
 Hong Kong 3rd•4th5th••••••••••••• 3
 Japan ××וו××GS1stQF1st1st4th1stQF2ndQ 10
 North Korea Not a AFC member••4thוGSו•×GSGSGS× 5
 South Korea 1st1st3rd•2nd•2ndGS2nd•QF3rdQF3rd3rd2ndQFQ 15
Southeast Asian Members
 Australia OFC MemberQF2nd1stQFQ 5
 Cambodia •×ו4th×××××ו×ו•• 1
 Indonesia ××ו••••••GSGSGSGS••× 4
 Malaysia Part of  Malaya•••GSGS••••••GS••• 3
 Myanmar ×××2nd×××××ו••×••• 1
 Philippines ••×•×ו•×ו•×ו•GS 1
 Singapore ווו•GSו••••••• 1
 Thailand ×ו•3rd•••••GSGSGSGSGS••R16 7
 Vietnam 4th4th••••×××ו••QF••QFQ 5
Former AFC Members
 Israel 2nd2nd1st3rd••Expelled from AFCUEFA Member 4
 South Yemen GS×וPart 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 PR 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  China PR TBD

Results of defending champions
Year Defending champions Finish
1960  South Korea Champions
1964  South Korea Third place
1968  Israel Third place
1972  Iran Champions
1976  Iran Champions
1980  Iran Third place
1984  Kuwait Third place
1988  Saudi Arabia Champions
1992  Saudi Arabia Runners-up
1996  Japan Quarter-finals
2000  Saudi Arabia Runners-up
2004  Japan Champions
2007  Japan Fourth place
2011  Iraq Quarter-finals
2015  Japan Quarter-finals
2019  Australia Quarter-finals
2023  Qatar TBD

Team of the Tournament
Edition Goalkeepers Defenders Midfielders Forwards
1980[10] 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[11]
(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[12] 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[13] 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[14] Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi Tsuneyasu Miyamoto
Yuji Nakazawa
Zheng Zhi
Mehdi Mahdavikia		 Shunsuke Nakamura
Shao Jiayi
Zhao Junzhe
Talal Yousef		 A'ala Hubail
Ali Karimi
2007[15] 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[16] 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[17]
(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

Teams yet to qualify for finals
See also: AFC Asian Cup qualifiers

The following fourteen teams which are current AFC members 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 (14)
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)		 Attempts
Central Asian Members
 Afghanistan × × × × × • • • × × × × • × × × • 5
 Tajikistan Part of  Soviet Union • • • × • • • 6
South Asian Members
 Bhutan × × × × × × × × × × × • • × × × • • 4
 Maldives Part of  United Kingdom × × × × × × × • • • × • • • 6
   Nepal Not a AFC member × × × • • × • • • × • • • 8
 Pakistan × • × • × × × • • • • • • • × × • • 11
 Sri Lanka × × × × × × × × × × • • • × • • • 6
East Asian Members
 Guam × × × × × × × × × × • • • × • × × • 4
 Macau × × × × × × • × × • • • • • • • • • 10
 Mongolia Not a AFC member • • × • • • 5
 Northern Mariana Islands Not a AFC member × • × × 1
Southeast Asian Members
 Brunei × × × × • • × × × × × • • × • × • • 7
 Laos × × × × × × × × × × × • • × × • • • 5
 Timor-Leste Part of  Portugal Part of  Indonesia • × × × • × 2

Former Members

Kazakhstan played in two qualification competitions before join to UEFA in 2002, but had never qualified for the Asian Cup.

Team (1)
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)		 Attempts
 Kazakhstan Part of  Soviet Union • • Part of UEFA 2

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
 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
 North Korea 2019 1

Previous draughts
Team Draught period AC Missed Draught years
 Vietnam4 1960 – 2007 11 47
 India 1984 – 2011 6 27
 Malaysia 1980 – 2007 7 27
 India 1964 – 1984 4 20
 Thailand 1972 – 1992 4 20
 North Korea 1992 – 2011 4 19
 Lebanon 2000 – 2019 4 19
 Iraq 1976 – 1992 3 16
 Bahrain 1988 – 2004 3 16
 Syria 1986 – 2011 3 15
 Turkmenistan 2004 – 2019 3 15
 North Korea 1980 – 1992 2 12
 Thailand 2007 – 2019 2 12
 Vietnam 2007 – 2019 2 12

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

Other records
  • South Korea, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are the only teams to have won the tournament in their debut appearances.[18]
  • Iran hold the record for the most games played, with 68.[19]
  • Iran are the only team to have won three consecutive finals of the AFC Asian Cup.[19]

Individual records

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
Younis Mahmoud  Iraq
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 PR
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 [20]
8 Ali Daei  Iran 1996 [21]
7 Behtash Fariba  Iran 1980 [22]
Choi Soon-ho  South Korea [22]
6 Lee Dong-gook  South Korea 2000 [23]
5 Hossein Kalani  Iran 1972 [24]
A'ala Hubail  Bahrain 2004 [25]
Ali Karimi  Iran [25]
Koo Ja-cheol  South Korea 2011 [26]
Ali Mabkhout  United Arab Emirates 2015 [27]

Hat-tricks
Main article: List of AFC Asian Cup 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:[28]

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:[29]

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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