At the end of each AFC Asian Cup final tournament, several awards are presented to the players and teams which have distinguished themselves in various aspects of the match.

Awards

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There are currently five post-tournament awards

  • the Most Valuable Player for best player;
  • the Top Goalscorer for most prolific goal scorer;
  • the Best Goalkeeper for most outstanding goalkeeper;
  • the Team of the Tournament for best combined team of players at the tournament;
  • the Fair Play Award for the team with the best record of fair play.

Most Valuable Player

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Year Most Valuable Player Ref.
1956 Not awarded [1]
1960
1964
1968
1972   Ebrahim Ashtiani
1976   Ali Parvin
1980 Not awarded
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

Top Goalscorer

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Year Top Goalscorer(s) Goals Ref.
1956   Nahum Stelmach 4 [1]
1960   Cho Yoon-ok 4
1964   Inder Singh
  Mordechai Spiegler
2
1968   Homayoun Behzadi
  Giora Spiegel
  Moshe Romano
4
1972   Hossein Kalani 5
1976   Fathi Kameel
  Gholam Hossein Mazloumi
  Nasser Nouraei
3
1980   Choi Soon-ho
  Behtash Fariba
7
1984   Jia Xiuquan
  Shahrokh Bayani
  Nasser Mohammadkhani
3
1988   Lee Tae-ho 3
1992   Fahad Al-Bishi 3
1996   Ali Daei 8
2000   Lee Dong-gook 6
2004   Ali Karimi
  A'ala Hubail
5
2007   Younis Mahmoud
  Naohiro Takahara
  Yasser Al-Qahtani
4
2011   Koo Ja-cheol 5
2015   Ali Mabkhout 5
2019   Almoez Ali 9
2023   Akram Afif 8

Best Goalkeeper

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Year Best Goalkeeper
1984   Abdullah Al-Deayea
1988   Zhang Huikang
1992 Not awarded
1996   Mohamed Al-Deayea
2000   Jiang Jin
2004 Not awarded
2007   Noor Sabri
2011 Not awarded
2015   Mathew Ryan
2019   Saad Al-Sheeb
2023   Meshaal Barsham

Team of the Tournament

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By edition

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Year Goalkeepers Defenders Midfielders Forwards
1980[2]   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[3]
(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[4]   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[5]   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[6]   Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi   Tsuneyasu Miyamoto
  Yuji Nakazawa
  Zheng Zhi
  Mehdi Mahdavikia
  Shunsuke Nakamura
  Shao Jiayi
  Zhao Junzhe
  Talal Yousef
  A'ala Hubail
  Ali Karimi
2007[7]   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[8]   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[9]
(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
2023 (1)[a]   Meshaal Barsham   Abdallah Nasib
  Ali Al-Bulaihi
  Lucas Mendes
  Mehdi Ghayedi
  Craig Goodwin
  Hassan Al-Haydos
  Lee Kang-in
  Akram Afif
  Aymen Hussein
  Yazan Al-Naimat
2023 (2)[b]
(26 players)
  Meshaal Barsham
  Yazeed Abulaila
  Mathew Ryan
  Yazan Al-Arab
  Aziz Behich
  Ihsan Haddad
  Vahdat Hanonov
  Kim Min-jae
  Lucas Mendes
  Abdallah Nasib
  Hassan Al-Haydos
  Wataru Endō
  Saeid Ezatolahi
  Jackson Irvine
  Alireza Jahanbakhsh
  Ahmed Fatehi
  Abbosbek Fayzullaev
  Akram Afif
  Almoez Ali
  Yazan Al-Naimat
  Sardar Azmoun
  Lee Kang-in
  Jaloliddin Masharipov
  Son Heung-min
  Musa Al-Taamari
  Mehdi Taremi
  1. ^ Selected by official social networking service.[10]
  2. ^ Selected by AFC Technical Study Group.[11]

All-time XI

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On 12 August 2023, the AFC announced all-time Asian Cup XI selected by fans and experts.[12]

Goalkeeper Defenders Midfielders Forwards
  Mohamed Al-Deayea   Mehdi Mahdavikia
  Hong Myung-bo
  Yuji Nakazawa
  Yuto Nagatomo
  Park Ji-sung
  Shunsuke Nakamura
  Keisuke Honda
  Tim Cahill
  Ali Daei
  Son Heung-min

Fair Play Award

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First awarded in 1984

Year Winner Ref.
1984   China
1988 Not awarded
1992
1996   Iran
2000   Saudi Arabia
2004   China
2007   Japan
2011   South Korea
2015   Australia [13]
2019   Japan
2023   Qatar

Coaches

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  • Wui Hye-deok, posthumously received the AFC Asian Cup winning coaches award. (2010)[14]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "AFC Asian Cup History Book". March 2019.
  2. ^ "Chin Aun gets the vote too". Google.com. New Straits Times. 2 October 1980.
  3. ^ Jovanovic, Bojan; King, Ian; Morrison, Neil; Panahi, Majeed; Veroeveren, Pieter (16 December 2010). "Asian Nations Cup 1988". RSSSF. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  4. ^ "كأس آسيا 1996.. عندما انتزع المنتخب السعودي اللقب من الإمارات صاحب الأرض" (in Arabic). Sport 360. 8 December 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  5. ^ アジアカップ2000・レバノン大会 (in Japanese). WorldCup's world. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Asian Cup 2004 All-Star team named". AFC Asian Cup. 7 August 2004. Archived from the original on 19 January 2007. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  7. ^ "Fanzone". AFC Asian Cup. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
    "Official All-Star XI". BigSoccer. 18 August 2007. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  8. ^ "AC2015 DREAM TEAM". AFC Asian Cup official twitter. 1 February 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  9. ^ "AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 Technical Report and Statistics". AFC. 29 May 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  10. ^ "Team of the Tournament". Instagram.com. AFC Asian Cup. 2024-02-12. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
  11. ^ "AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023 Technical Report" (PDF). AFC. 2024-08-12. p. 69. Retrieved 2024-08-13.
  12. ^ "#AsianCup2023 five-month countdown: Fan-voted all-time AFC Asian Cup Dream XI revealed". Asian Football Confederation. 2023-08-12. Retrieved 2023-08-13.
  13. ^ "Asian Cup 2015 - final tournament match details". 31 October 2018.
  14. ^ "Futsal Planet". awards.futsalplanet.com. Retrieved 26 July 2024.