2000 AFC Asian Cup

2000 AFC Asian Cup

Asian Cup Lebanon 2000 كأس الأمم الآسيوية لكرة القدم 2000 Coupe d'Asie des nations de football 2000
Logo of the 2000 Asian Cup
Tournament details
Host country	Lebanon
Dates	October 12 – October 29
Teams	12
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Japan (2nd title)
Runners-up	Saudi Arabia
Third place	South Korea
Fourth place	China PR
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	77 (2.96 per match)
Attendance	276,482 (10,634 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Lee Dong-Gook (6 goals)
Best player	Hiroshi Nanami
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The Asian Football Confederation's 2000 AFC Asian Cup finals were held in Lebanon between October 12 and October 29. Japan defeated defending champion Saudi Arabia in the final match in Beirut.

Contents 1 Qualification 2 Stadiums 3 Squads 4 First round 4.1 Group A 4.2 Group B 4.3 Group C 4.4 Third-placed qualifiers 5 Knockout stage 5.1 Quarter-finals 5.2 Semi-finals 5.3 Third place play-off 5.4 Final 6 Winners 7 Awards 7.1 MVP (Most Valuable Player) 7.2 Top Scorer 7.3 Best Defender 7.4 Best Goalkeeper 7.5 Fair-Play Award 7.6 All-Star Team 8 Statistics 8.1 Scoring players 8.2 Top scoring teams 8.3 Final positions 9 External links

Qualification

•  Lebanon qualified automatically as host.
•  Saudi Arabia qualified automatically as defending champions.

42 teams participated in a preliminary tournament. It was divided into 10 groups and the first-placed team of each group thus qualified. A total of 84 games were held, starting with the Oman versus Kyrgyzstan game on August 3, 1999.

The other 10 qualifying teams were:

China PR  Indonesia  Iran  Iraq  Japan

Kuwait  South Korea  Qatar  Thailand  Uzbekistan

Stadiums

Beirut	Sidon	Tripoli
Sports City Stadium	Saida International Stadium	International Olympic Stadium
Capacity: 47,799	Capacity: 22,600	Capacity: 22,400

Squads

First round

All times are Lebanon summer time (UTC+3)

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners, runners-up, and best two third-placed teams advance to the quarter-finals

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Iran	7	3	2	1	0	6	1	+5
Iraq	4	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1
Thailand	2	3	0	2	1	2	4	−2
Lebanon	2	3	0	2	1	3	7	−4

2000-10-12 15:05	Iraq	2 – 0	Thailand	Saida International Stadium, Sidon Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Toru Kamikawa (Japan)
	Qahtan Chatir  27' Haidar Mahmoud  60'	Report

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2000-10-12 20:45	Lebanon	0 – 4	Iran	Sports City Stadium, Beirut Attendance: 42,418 Referee: Lu Jun (China)
		Report	Bagheri  19' Estili  75', 87' Daei  90+1'

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2000-10-15 17:05	Iran	1 – 1	Thailand	Sports City Stadium, Beirut Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Saad Kamil Al-Fadhli (Kuwait)
	Daei  73'	Report	Pituratana  12'

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2000-10-15 19:45	Lebanon	2 – 2	Iraq	Sports City Stadium, Beirut Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Kim Young-Joo (Korea Republic)
	Chahrour  28' Hojeij  76'	Report	Sabah Jaeer  5', 22'

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2000-10-18 19:35	Iran	1 – 0	Iraq	Saida International Stadium, Sidon Attendance: 8,582 Referee: Omer Al-Mehannah (Saudi Arabia)
	Daei  77'	Report

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2000-10-18 19:35	Lebanon	1 – 1	Thailand	Sports City Stadium, Beirut Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Lu Jun (China)
	Fernandez  83'	Report	Pituratana  58'

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
China PR	5	3	1	2	0	6	2	+4
Kuwait	5	3	1	2	0	1	0	+1
South Korea	4	3	1	1	1	5	3	+2
Indonesia	1	3	0	1	2	0	7	−7

2000-10-13 17:05	South Korea	2 – 2	China PR	International Olympic Stadium, Tripoli Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Omer Al-Mehannah (Saudi Arabia)
	Lee Young-Pyo  30' Noh Jung-Yoon  58'	Report	Su Maozhen  36' Fan Zhiyi  66' (pen.)

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2000-10-13 19:45	Kuwait	0 – 0	Indonesia	International Olympic Stadium, Tripoli Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Tajaddin Fares (Syria)
		Report

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2000-10-16 17:05	China PR	4 – 0	Indonesia	International Olympic Stadium, Tripoli Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Nabil Ayad (Lebanon)
	Li Ming  2' Shen Si  7' (pen.) Yang Chen  10' Qi Hong  90'	Report

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2000-10-16 19:45	South Korea	0 – 1	Kuwait	International Olympic Stadium, Tripoli Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Brian Hall (United States)
		Report	Al-Huwaidi  43'

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2000-10-19 19:35	China PR	0 – 0	Kuwait	International Olympic Stadium, Tripoli Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Shamsul Maidin (Singapore)
		Report

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2000-10-19 19:35	South Korea	3 – 0	Indonesia	Sports City Stadium, Beirut Attendance: 500 Referee: Toru Kamikawa (Japan)
	Lee Dong-Gook  30', 76', 90+1'	Report

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Japan	7	3	2	1	0	13	3	+10
Saudi Arabia	4	3	1	1	1	6	4	+2
Qatar	3	3	0	3	0	2	2	0
Uzbekistan	1	3	0	1	2	2	14	−12

2000-10-14 17:05	Saudi Arabia	1 – 4	Japan	Saida International Stadium, Sidon Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Ali Bujsaim (UAE)
	Morioka  90' (o.g.)	Report	Yanagisawa  22' Takahara  37' Nanami  53' Ono  88'

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2000-10-14 19:45	Qatar	1 – 1	Uzbekistan	Saida International Stadium, Sidon Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Mohd Nazri Abdullah (Malaysia)
	Gholam  61'	Report	Qosimov  73'

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2000-10-17 17:05	Japan	8 – 1	Uzbekistan	Saida International Stadium, Sidon Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Shamsul Maidin (Singapore)
	Morishima  7' Nishizawa  14', 25', 49' Takahara  18', 20', 57' Kitajima  79'	Report	Lushan  29'

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2000-10-17 19:45	Saudi Arabia	0 – 0	Qatar	Saida International Stadium, Sidon Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Tajaddin Fares (Syria)
		Report

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2000-10-20 19:35	Saudi Arabia	5 – 0	Uzbekistan	Saida International Stadium, Sidon Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Kim Young-Joo (Korea Republic)
	Al-Otaibi  18' Al-Shalhoub  35', 78', 86' Al-Temyat  88'	Report

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2000-10-20 19:35	Japan	1 – 1	Qatar	Sports City Stadium, Beirut Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Nabil Ayad (Lebanon)
	Nishizawa  61'	Report	Al-Obaidly  22'

Third-placed qualifiers

At the end of the first stage, a comparison was made between the third placed teams of each group. The two best third-placed teams advanced to the quarter-finals.

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
South Korea	4	3	1	1	1	5	3	+2
Qatar	3	3	0	3	0	2	2	0
Thailand	2	3	0	2	1	2	4	−2

Korea Republic (best third-place) and Qatar (second best third-place) qualified for the quarter-finals.

Knockout stage

All times are Lebanon summer time (UTC+3)

Extra times were played under the golden goal rule.

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	October 23 - Sidon
	China PR	3
					October 26 - Beirut
	Qatar	1
					China PR	2
	October 24 - Beirut
					Japan	3
	Japan	4
									October 29 - Beirut
	Iraq	1
									Japan	1
	October 23 - Tripoli
									Saudi Arabia	0
	Iran	1
					October 26 - Beirut
	South Korea (a.e.t.)	2
					South Korea	1			Third place
	October 24 - Beirut
					Saudi Arabia	2
	Kuwait	2							China PR	0
	Saudi Arabia (a.e.t.)	3							South Korea	1
									October 29 - Beirut

Quarter-finals

23 October 2000 16:45	Iran	1 – 2 (a.e.t.)	South Korea	International Olympic Stadium, Tripoli Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Ali Bujsaim (UAE)
	Bagheri  71'	Report	Kim Sang-Sik  90' Lee Dong-Gook  99'

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23 October 2000 19:45	China PR	3 – 1	Qatar	Saida International Stadium, Sidon Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Mohd Nazri Abdullah (Malaysia)
	Li Ming  9' Qi Hong  38' Yang Chen  54'	Report	Al-Enazi  65'

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24 October 2000 16:45	Japan	4 – 1	Iraq	Sports City Stadium, Beirut Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Tajaddin Fares (Syria)
	Nanami  8', 29' Takahara  11' Myojin  62'	Report	Abbas Obeid  4'

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24 October 2000 19:45	Kuwait	2 – 3 (a.e.t.)	Saudi Arabia	Sports City Stadium, Beirut Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Brian Hall (United States)
	Bashar Abdullah  62' Al-Huwaidi  68'	Report	Al-Temyat  45+1'  109' Al-Meshal  72'

Semi-finals

26 October 2000 16:45	South Korea	1 – 2	Saudi Arabia	Sports City Stadium, Beirut Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Saad Kamil Al-Fadhli (Kuwait)
	Lee Dong-Gook  90+1'	Report	Al-Meshal  76', 80'

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26 October 2000 19:45	China PR	2 – 3	Japan	Sports City Stadium, Beirut Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Shamsul Maidin (Singapore)
	Qi Hong  30' Yang Chen  48'	Report	Fan Zhiyi  21' (o.g.) Nishizawa  53' Myojin  61'

Third place play-off

29 October 2000 17:05	South Korea	1 – 0	China PR	Sports City Stadium, Beirut Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Nabil Ayad (Lebanon)
	Lee Dong-Gook  76'	Report

Final

29 October 2000 19:45	Japan	1 – 0	Saudi Arabia	Sports City Stadium, Beirut Attendance: 47,400 Referee: Ali Bujsaim (UAE)
	Mochizuki  30'	Report

Winners

AFC Asian Cup 2000 Winners
Japan Second title

Awards

MVP (Most Valuable Player)

• Hiroshi Nanami

Top Scorer

• Lee Dong-Gook - 6 goals

Best Defender

• Ryuzo Morioka

Best Goalkeeper

• Jiang Jin

Fair-Play Award

•  Saudi Arabia

All-Star Team

Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
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

Statistics

Scoring players

6 goals Lee Dong-Gook 5 goals Akinori Nishizawa Naohiro Takahara 3 goals Qi Hong Yang Chen Ali Daei Hiroshi Nanami Talal Al-Meshal Mohammad Al-Shalhoub Nawaf Al-Temyat 2 goals Li Ming Karim Bagheri Hamid Estili Sabah Jaeer Tomokazu Myojin Jasem Al-Huwaidi Sakesan Pituratana

1 goal Fan Zhiyi Shen Si Su Maozhen Qahtan Chatir Abbas Obeid Haidar Mahmoud Hideaki Kitajima Shigeyoshi Mochizuki Hiroaki Morishima Shinji Ono Atsushi Yanagisawa Kim Sang-Sik Lee Young-Pyo Noh Jung-Yoon Bashar Abdullah Abbas Chahrour Luís Fernandez Moussa Hojeij Mohammed Salem Al-Enazi Abdulnasser Al-Obaidly Mohammed Gholam Marzouk Al-Otaibi Sergey Lushan Mirjalol Qosimov 1 own goal Fan Zhiyi (for Japan) Ryuzo Morioka (for Saudi Arabia)

Top scoring teams

21 goals  Japan 11 goals  China PR  Saudi Arabia 9 goals  South Korea 7 goals  Iran

5 goals  Iraq 3 goals  Kuwait  Lebanon  Qatar 2 goals  Thailand  Uzbekistan 0 goal  Indonesia

Final positions

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Eff
1	Japan	6	5	1	0	21	6	+15	16	88.9%
2	Saudi Arabia	6	3	1	2	11	8	+3	10	55.6%
3	South Korea	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10	55.6%
4	China PR	6	2	2	2	11	7	+4	8	44.4%
Eliminated in the Quarterfinals
5	Iran	4	2	1	1	7	3	+4	7	58.3%
6	Kuwait	4	1	2	1	3	3	0	5	41.7%
7	Iraq	4	1	1	2	5	7	−2	4	33.3%
8	Qatar	4	0	3	1	3	5	−2	3	25.0%
Eliminated in the First Stage
9	Thailand	3	0	2	1	2	4	−2	2	22.2%
10	Lebanon	3	0	2	1	3	7	−4	2	22.2%
11	Indonesia	3	0	1	2	0	7	−7	1	11.1%
12	Uzbekistan	3	0	1	2	2	14	−12	1	11.1%

External links

• RSSSF Details
• "Official Website". Archived from the original on 2009-02-02. http://www.lebanon-asia2000.com/. 

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