AFC Asian Cup records and statistics

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

General statistics by tournament

Year	Host	Champion	Winning coach	Top scorer(s)	Best player
1956	Hong Kong	South Korea	Lee Yoo-hyung	Nahum Stelmach (4)	N/A
1960	South Korea	South Korea	Wui Hye-deok	Cho Yoon-ok (4)
1964	Israel	Israel	Yosef Merimovich	Inder Singh (2) Mordechai Spiegler (2)
1968	Iran	Iran	Mahmoud Bayati	Homayoun Behzadi (4) Moshe Romano (4) Giora Spiegel (4)
1972	Thailand	Iran	Mohammad Ranjbar	Hossein Kalani (5)	Ebrahim Ashtiani
1976	Iran	Iran	Heshmat Mohajerani	Gholam Hossein Mazloumi (3) Nasser Nouraei (3) Fathi Kamel (3)	Ali Parvin
1980	Kuwait	Kuwait	Carlos Alberto Parreira	Behtash Fariba (7) Choi Soon-ho (7)	N/A
1984	Singapore	Saudi Arabia	Khalil Al-Zayani	Jia Xiuquan (3) Shahrokh Bayani (3) Nasser Mohammadkhani (3)	Jia Xiuquan
1988	Qatar	Saudi Arabia	Carlos Alberto Parreira	Lee Tae-ho (3)	Kim Joo-sung
1992	Japan	Japan	Hans Ooft	Fahad Al-Bishi (3)	Kazuyoshi Miura
1996	United Arab Emirates	Saudi Arabia	Nelo Vingada	Ali Daei (8)	Khodadad Azizi
2000	Lebanon	Japan	Philippe Troussier	Lee Dong-gook (6)	Hiroshi Nanami
2004	China	Japan	Zico	A'ala Hubail (5) Ali Karimi (5)	Shunsuke Nakamura
2007	Indonesia Malaysia Thailand Vietnam	Iraq	Jorvan Vieira	Younis Mahmoud (4) Naohiro Takahara (4) Yasser Al-Qahtani (4)	Younis Mahmoud
2011	Qatar	Japan	Alberto Zaccheroni	Koo Ja-cheol (5)	Keisuke Honda
2015	Australia	Australia	Ange Postecoglou	Ali Mabkhout (5)	Massimo Luongo

Team: tournament position

All time

Most championships

4, Japan (1992, 2000, 2004, 2011)

#	team	championships
1	Japan (1992, 2000, 2004, 2011)	4
2	Iran (1968, 1972, 1976), Saudi Arabia (1984, 1988, 1996)	3
3	South Korea (1956, 1960)	2
4	Israel (1964), Kuwait (1980), Iraq (2007), Australia (2015)	1

Most finishes in the top two

6, Saudi Arabia (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2007), South Korea (1956, 1960, 1972, 1980, 1988, 2015)

#	team	finishes in the top two
1	Saudi Arabia (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2007), South Korea (1956, 1960, 1972, 1980, 1988, 2015)	6
2	Japan (1992, 2000, 2004, 2011)	4
3	Iran (1968, 1972, 1976), Israel (1956, 1960, 1964)	3
4	Kuwait (1976, 1980), China PR (1984, 2004), Australia (2011, 2015)	2
5	India (1964), Myanmar (1968), United Arab Emirates (1996), Iraq (2007)	1

Consecutive

Most consecutive championships: 3, Iran (1968-1976)
Most consecutive finishes in the top two: 5, Saudi Arabia (1984-2000)
Most consecutive finishes in the top four: 6, Iran (1968-1988)
Most consecutive finishes in the top eight: 13 Iran (1968-2015)
Most consecutive finals tournaments: 13, Iran (1968-2015)

Gaps

Longest gap between successive titles: 8 years, Japan (1992-2000), Saudi Arabia (1988-1996)
Longest gap between successive appearances in the top two: 27 years, South Korea (1988-2015)
Longest gap between successive appearances in the top four: 19 years, United Arab Emirates (1996-2015)
Longest gap between successive appearances in the top eight: 11 years, Qatar (2000-2011)
Longest gap between successive appearances in the Finals: 27 years, India (1984-2011)

Host team

Best finish by host team: Champion, South Korea (1960), Israel (1964), Iran (1968, 1976), Kuwait (1980), Japan (1992), Australia (2015)
Worst finish by host team: 9th-16th position, Indonesia (2007), Malaysia (2007), Thailand (2007)

Defending champion

Best finish by defending champion: winners, South Korea (1960), Iran (1972, 1976), Saudi Arabia (1988), Japan (2004)
Worst finish by defending champion: quarter finalist, Japan (1996, 2015), Iraq (2011)

Debuting teams

Best finish by a debuting team: champion, South Korea (1956), Iran (1968), Saudi Arabia (1984)

Other

Most finishes in the top two without ever being champion: 2, China PR (1984, 2004)
Most finishes in the top four without ever being champion: 6, China PR (1976, 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, 2004)
Most finishes in the top eight without ever being champion: 8, China PR (1976, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2015)
Most appearances in Finals without ever being champion: 11, China PR (1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015)
Most appearances in Finals without being champion: 11, China PR (1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015), South Korea (1964, 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015)

Most finishes in the top four without ever finishing in the top two: 2, South Vietnam (1956, 1960)
Most finishes in the top eight without ever finishing in the top two: 4 Uzbekistan (2004, 2007, 2011, 2015)
Most appearances in Finals without ever finishing in the top two: 9 Qatar (1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015)
Most finishes in the top eight without ever finishing in the top four: 3 Qatar (1992, 2000, 2011)
Most appearances in Finals without ever finishing in the top four: 9 Qatar (1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015)

Team: Matches played/goals scored

All time

Most matches played: 62, Iran, South Korea
Most wins: 37, Iran
Most losses: 18, China PR
Most draws: 18, Iran
Most goals scored: 119, Iran
Most goals conceded: 62, South Korea
Fewest goals scored: 1, Palestine
Fewest goals conceded: 4, Singapore, Myanmar

Participating nations

Team	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2007	2011	2015	Years
Australia														QF	2nd	1st	3
Bahrain									GS				4th	GS	GS	GS	5
Bangladesh							GS										1
Cambodia					4th												1
China PR						3rd	GS	2nd	4th	3rd	QF	4th	2nd	GS	GS	QF	11
Chinese Taipei		3rd		4th													2
Hong Kong	3rd		4th	5th													3
India			2nd					GS							GS		3
Indonesia											GS	GS	GS	GS			4
Iran				1st	1st	1st	3rd	4th	3rd	GS	3rd	QF	3rd	QF	QF	QF	13
Iraq					GS	4th					QF	QF	QF	1st	QF	4th	8
Israel	2nd	2nd	1st	3rd													4
Japan									GS	1st	QF	1st	1st	4th	1st	QF	8
Jordan													QF		QF	GS	3
Kuwait					GS	2nd	1st	3rd	GS		4th	QF	GS		GS	GS	10
Lebanon												GS					1
Malaysia						GS	GS							GS			3
Myanmar				2nd													1
North Korea							4th			GS					GS	GS	4
Oman													GS	GS		GS	3
Palestine																GS	1
Qatar							GS	GS	GS	GS		QF	GS	GS	QF	GS	9
Saudi Arabia								1st	1st	2nd	1st	2nd	GS	2nd	GS	GS	9
Singapore								GS									1
South Korea	1st	1st	3rd		2nd		2nd	GS	2nd		QF	3rd	QF	3rd	3rd	2nd	13
South Vietnam	4th	4th															2
South Yemen						GS											1
Syria							GS	GS	GS		GS				GS		5
Thailand					3rd					GS	GS	GS	GS	GS			6
Turkmenistan													GS				1
United Arab Emirates							GS	GS	GS	4th	2nd		GS	GS	GS	3rd	9
Uzbekistan											GS	GS	QF	QF	4th	QF	6
Vietnam														QF			1
Total	4	4	4	5	6	6	10	10	10	8	12	12	16	16	16	16

Legend

1st – Champions
2nd – Runners-up
3rd – Third place
4th – Fourth place
QF – Quarter Finals
GS – Group stage
q – Qualified
— Hosts

Debut of teams

Year	Debutants	Total
1956	South Korea Hong Kong South Vietnam Israel	4
1960	Chinese Taipei	1
1964	India	1
1968	Iran Myanmar	2
1972	Cambodia Iraq Kuwait Thailand	4
1976	South Yemen China PR	2
1980	Bangladesh Malaysia North Korea Qatar Syria United Arab Emirates	6
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 Vietnam	2
2011	None	0
2015	Palestine	1

All-time table

(as of 2015 competition)

Rank	Team	Part	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Dif	Pts	Avg GF	Avg GA	Avg Pts
01.	Iran	13	62	37	18	7	119	45	+74	129	9.50	3.50	10.17
02.	South Korea	13	62	32	16	14	100	62	+38	112	7.67	5.00	8.08
03.	Japan	8	41	24	12	5	80	38	+42	84	10.28	5.28	10.57
04.	China PR	11	51	20	13	18	81	58	+23	73	7.60	5.40	6.40
05.	Saudi Arabia	9	44	19	13	12	63	45	+18	70	7.25	5.00	8.37
06.	Kuwait	10	42	15	10	17	47	51	-4	55	5.11	5.00	6.11
07.	United Arab Emirates	9	36	12	8	16	32	48	-16	48	3.38	5.50	4.75
08.	Iraq	8	35	13	7	15	38	42	-4	46	4.28	4.71	5.57
09.	Uzbekistan	6	24	11	3	10	35	44	-9	36	6.00	7.80	6.00
10.	Australia	3	16	10	3	3	34	10	+24	33	10.00	3.50	9.00
11.	Qatar	9	32	6	11	15	33	46	-13	29	4.00	5.38	3.63
12.	Israel	4	13	9	0	4	28	15	+13	27	7.00	3.75	6.75
13.	Syria	5	18	7	2	9	15	23	-8	23	3.00	4.60	4.60
14.	Bahrain	5	19	4	5	10	26	34	-8	17	5.75	7.75	3.50
15.	Jordan	3	11	4	4	3	13	9	+4	16	3.00	3.00	6.50
16.	North Korea	4	15	3	2	10	14	26	-12	11	4.00	6.33	3.66
17.	Thailand	6	20	1	8	11	15	45	-30	11	2.50	7.50	1.83
18.	Oman	3	9	2	3	4	6	11	-5	9	2.50	3.00	3.00
19.	Indonesia	4	12	2	2	8	10	28	-18	8	2.50	7.00	2.00
20.	Myanmar	1	4	2	1	1	5	4	+1	7	5.00	4.00	7.00
21.	India	3	10	2	1	7	8	23	-15	7	2.66	7.66	2.33
22.	Malaysia	3	9	1	3	5	7	20	-13	6	2.33	6.67	2.00
23.	Chinese Taipei	2	7	1	2	4	5	12	-7	5	2.50	6.00	2.50
24.	Singapore	1	4	1	1	2	3	4	-1	4	3.00	4.00	4.00
25.	Vietnam	1	4	1	1	2	4	7	-3	4	4.00	7.00	4.00
26.	Cambodia	1	5	1	1	3	8	10	-2	4	8.00	10.00	4.00
27.	Hong Kong	3	10	0	3	7	9	23	-14	3	3.00	7.67	1.00
28.	Lebanon	1	3	0	2	1	3	7	-4	2	3.00	7.00	2.00
29.	Turkmenistan	1	3	0	1	2	4	6	-2	1	4.00	6.00	1.00
30.	South Vietnam	2	6	0	1	5	8	21	-13	1	4.00	10.50	0.50
31.	South Yemen	1	2	0	0	2	0	9	-9	0	0.00	9.00	0.00
32.	Palestine	1	3	0	0	3	1	11	-10	0	2.00	17.00	0.00
33.	Bangladesh	1	4	0	0	4	2	17	-15	0	2.00	17.00	0.00

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	Vietnam	Quarter-Final
	Indonesia	Group Stage
	Thailand	Group Stage
	Malaysia	Group Stage
2011	Qatar	Quarter-Final
2015	Australia	Champions
2019	United Arab Emirates	To be determined

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-Final
2000	Saudi Arabia	Runners-up
2004	Japan	Champions
2007	Japan	Fourth Place
2011	Iraq	Quarter-Final
2015	Japan	Quarter-Final
2019	Australia	To be determined

Fair Play Awards

Year	Nations
1984	China PR
1996	Iran
2000	Saudi Arabia
2004	China PR
2007	Japan
2011	South Korea
2015	Australia

Overall top goalscorers

Goals	Scorers
14	Ali Daei
10	Lee Dong-Gook
9	Naohiro Takahara
8	Jassem Al-Houwaidi, Younis Mahmoud
7	Behtash Fariba, Hossein Kalani, Choi Soon-Ho, Faisal Al-Dakhil,
6	Yasser Al-Qahtani, Alexander Geynrikh, Tim Cahill
5	A'ala Hubail, Ismael Abdullatif, Ali Karimi, Ali Jabbari, Akinori Nishizawa, Woo Sang-Kwon, Chung Hae-Won, Hwang Sun-Hong, Koo Ja-Cheol, Nahum Stelmach, Shao Jiayi, Ali Mabkhout

Hat-tricks

A hat-trick is achieved when the same player scores three or more goals in one match. Listed in chronological order.

Sequence	Player	No. of goals	Time of goals	Representing	Final score	Opponent	Tournament	Round
7000100000000000000♠1.	Kalani, HosseinHossein Kalani	3	34', 70', 78'	Iran	3–0	Iraq	1972	Group stage
7000200000000000000♠2.	Jabbari, AliAli Jabbari	3	80', 86', 88'	Iran	3–2	Thailand	1972	Group stage
7000300000000000000♠3.	Mazloumi, Gholam HosseinGholam Hossein Mazloumi	3	63', 74', 80'	Iran	8–0	South Yemen	1976	Group stage
7000400000000000000♠4.	Fariba, BehtashBehtash Fariba	4	11', 34', 80', 82'	Iran	7–0	Bangladesh	1980	Group stage
7000500000000000000♠5.	Soon-Ho, ChoiChoi Soon-Ho	3	26', 53', 78'(P)	South Korea	4–1	United Arab Emirates	1980	Group stage
7000600000000000000♠6.	Xiangfu, ShenShen Xiangfu	3	1', 5', 72'	China PR	6–0	Bangladesh	1980	Group stage
7000700000000000000♠7.	Yonglai, XuXu Yonglai	3	16', 79', 89'	China PR	6–0	Bangladesh	1980	Group stage
7000800000000000000♠8.	Daei, AliAli Daei	4	66', 76', 83', 89'(P)	Iran	6–2	South Korea	1996	Quarter-finals
7000900000000000000♠9.	Nishizawa, AkinoriAkinori Nishizawa	3	14', 25', 49'	Japan	8–1	Uzbekistan	2000	Group stage
7001100000000000000♠10.	Takahara, NaohiroNaohiro Takahara	3	18', 20', 57'	Japan	8–1	Uzbekistan	2000	Group stage
7001110000000000000♠11.	Dong-Gook, LeeLee Dong-Gook	3	30', 76', 90+1'	South Korea	3–0	Indonesia	2000	Group stage
7001120000000000000♠12.	Al-Shalhoub, MohammadMohammad Al-Shalhoub	3	35', 78', 86'	Saudi Arabia	5–0	Uzbekistan	2000	Group stage
7001130000000000000♠13.	Karimi, AliAli Karimi	3	10', 20', 77'	Iran	4–3	South Korea	2004	Quarter-finals
7001140000000000000♠14.	Abdullatif, IsmaeelIsmaeel Abdullatif	4	16', 19', 35', 77'	Bahrain	5–2	India	2011	Group stage
7001150000000000000♠15.	Okazaki, ShinjiShinji Okazaki	3	8', 13', 80'	Japan	5–0	Saudi Arabia	2011	Group stage
7001160000000000000♠16.	Al-Dardour, HamzaHamza Al-Dardour	4	35', 45+2', 75', 80'	Jordan	5–1	Palestine	2015	Group stage

Most tournaments appeared

The tabulated below is the players who had appeared more than three times in the history of tournament:

Played	Name	Tournaments
4	Yasuhito Endō	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
4	Server Djeparov	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
4	Timur Kapadze	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
4	Ignatiy Nesterov	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
4	Younis Mahmoud	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
4	Saud Kariri	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
4	Bilal Mohammed	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
4	Javad Nekounam	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
4	Mehdi Mahdavikia	1996, 2000, 2004, 2007
4	Li Ming	1992, 1996, 2000, 2004
4	Adnan Al-Talyani	1984, 1988, 1992, 1996

Penalty shoot-outs

For teams played two or more

Saudi Arabia 4–0 (100%)
Iraq 3–0 (100%)
China PR 2–1 (67%)
Japan 3–2 (60%)
Kuwait 1–1 (50%)
Thailand 1–1 (50%)
South Korea 3–4 (43%)
United Arab Emirates 1–2 (33%)
Iran 2–6 (25%)

For teams played one

Bahrain 1–0 (100%)
Australia 0–1 (0%)
Cambodia 0–1 (0%)
Jordan 0–1 (0%)
Uzbekistan 0–1 (0%)

Score

Most goals scored in one match, one team: Iran 8–0 South Yemen in 1976
Most goals scored in one match, both teams: Japan 8–1 Uzbekistan in 2000

Attendance

Year	Matches	Attendance
Year	Matches	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	398,008	15,308	KOR – IDN JPN – CHN UZB – SYR KUW – JPN	Group Stage Group Stage Group Stage Quarter Finals	2,000	IRN – KUW UAE – KSA	3rd place playoff Final	60,000
2000	26	230,490	8,865	KOR – IDN	Group Stage	500	LEB – IRN	Group Stage	52,418
2004	32	1,020,050	31,877	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	20,303	QAT – BHR	Group Stage	4,841	KOR – AUS	Final	76,385

External links

AFC Asian Cup

Tournaments	Hong Kong 1956 South Korea 1960 Israel 1964 Iran 1968 Thailand 1972 Iran 1976 Kuwait 1980 Singapore 1984 Qatar 1988 Japan 1992 United Arab Emirates 1996 Lebanon 2000 China 2004 Indonesia/Malaysia/Thailand/Vietnam 2007 Qatar 2011 Australia 2015 United Arab Emirates 2019

Qualification	1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2007 2011 2015 2019

Finals	1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2007 2011 2015

Squads	1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2007 2011 2015

Statistics	Records Team appearances Teams with no Appearances Droughts

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