1988 AFC Asian Cup

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1988 AFC Asian Cup Asian Cup Qatar 1988
Tournament details
Host country	Qatar
Dates	December
Teams	10
Final positions
Champions	Saudi Arabia (2nd title)
Second place	Korea Republic
Third place	Iran
Fourth place	China PR
Tournament statistics
Matches played	24
Goals scored	45  (1.88 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Lee Tae-Ho (3 goals)
Best player	Kim Joo-Sung

The Asian Football Confederation's 1988 AFC Asian Cup finals were held in Qatar between December 2 and December 18. Saudi Arabia defeated Republic of Korea in the final match in Doha.

Contents 1 Qualification 2 First round 2.1 Notes: 2.2 Group A 2.3 Group B 3 Semi-finals 4 Third Place Match 5 Final 5.1 Knockout Map 6 Winners 7 Awards 7.1 MVP (Most Valuable Player) 7.2 Top Scorer 7.3 Best Goalkeeper 8 Scoring players 9 Top scoring teams

[edit] Qualification

•  Qatar qualified automatically as host
•  Saudi Arabia qualified automatically as defending champions

The other 8 qualifying teams were:

•  Bahrain
•  China PR
•  Iran
•  Japan
•  Kuwait
•  Korea Republic
•  Syria
•  United Arab Emirates

[edit] First round

[edit] Notes:

• Abbreviations:
  • Pld: games played
  • W: won
  • D: drawn
  • L: lost
  • GF: goals for
  • GA: goals against
  • Pts: points

[edit] Group A

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Korea Republic	4	4	0	0	9	2	8
Iran	4	2	1	1	3	3	5
Qatar	4	2	0	2	7	6	4
United Arab Emirates	4	1	0	3	2	4	2
Japan	4	0	1	3	0	6	1

December 2
	Iran	2 – 0	Qatar
		(HT: 1 – 0)			Ref:Micheal Voutrou (FRA)
	Bavi 6'
	Pious 82'
December 3
	Rep. of Korea	1 – 0	U.A.E.		Doha Al-Ahly Stadium (1500)
		(HT: 1 – 0)			Ref: George Courtney (ENG)
	Lee 8'
December 4
	Iran	0 – 0	Japan
		(HT: 0 – 0)			Ref:Thompson TANSHAN
December 5
	Qatar	2 – 1	U.A.E.
		(HT: 2 – 1)
	Muftah 17'		Mohomed 35'
	Faray 26'
December 6
	Rep. of Korea	2 – 0	Japan		Doha Qatar SC Stadium (15:00)
		(HT: 2 – 0)			Ref:Salah Mohammed Karim (IRQ)
	Hwang 17'
	Kim 35'
December 8
	Iran	1 – 0	U.A.E.
		(HT: 1 – 0)			Ref:Steven Owens (TUN)
	Pious 28'
December 9
	Rep. of Korea	3 – 2	Qatar		Doha Qatar SC Stadium (1700)
		(HT: 2 – 0)			Ref:George Courtney (ENG)
	Chung 10'		Salman (pen)47'
	Kim 34'		Salman (pen)80'
	Chung 72'
December 10
	Japan	0 – 1	U.A.E.
		(HT: 0 – 0)
			Muhammad 80'
December 11
	Rep. of Korea	3 – 0	Iran		Doha Al-Ahly Stadium (1700)
		(HT: 2 – 0)			Ref:Naji Jouieni (TUN)
	Byun 26'
	Hwang 42'
	Byun 57'
December 12
	Qatar	3 – 0	Japan
		(HT: 0 – 0)
	Khamis 58'
	Khamis 82'
	Muftah 90'

[edit] Group B

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Saudi Arabia	4	2	2	0	4	1	6
China PR	4	2	1	1	6	3	5
Syria	4	2	0	2	2	5	4
Kuwait	4	0	3	1	2	3	3
Bahrain	4	0	2	2	1	3	2

December 2
	Saudi Arabia	2 – 0	Syria
		(HT: 1 – 0)
	Al-Saleh 20'
	Sherbani 82'
December 3
	Kuwait	0 – 0	Bahrain
		(HT: 0 – 0)
December 4
	P.R. China	3 – 0	Syria
		(HT: 3 – 0)
	Gao 13'
	Xie 14'
	Xie 19'
December 5
	Saudi Arabia	0 – 0	Kuwait
		(HT: 0 – 0)
December 6
	P.R. China	1 – 0	Bahrain
		(HT: 0 – 0)
	Zhang 78'
December 8
	Syria	1 – 0	Kuwait
		(HT: 1 – 0)
	Nasser 63'
December 9
	Saudi Arabia	1 – 1	Bahrain
		(HT: 0 – 1)
	Al-Ja'azeh 78'		Muhammad (pen)44'
December 10
	P.R. China	2 – 2	Kuwait
		(HT: 1 – 0)
	Ma 10'		Hussein (pen)60'
	Ma 87'		Muhammad (pen)62'
December 11
	Bahrain	0 – 1	Syria
		(HT: 0 – 0)
			Al-Hel 72'
December 12
	Saudi Arabia	1 – 0	P.R. China
		(HT: 0 – 0)
	Alibishin 56'

[edit] Semi-finals

December 14	Rep.of Korea	2 – 1	P.R. CHINA
		(HT: 0 – 0)
		(FT: 0 – 0)
	Lee 93'		Mai 100'
	Lee 102'
December 15	Saudi Arabia	1 – 0	Iran
		(HT:1 – 0)
	Abdullah 20'

[edit] Third Place Match

December 17
	Iran	0 – 0	P.R. China
		(HT: 0 – 0)
		(FT: 0 – 0)
		(AET: 0 – 0)
	Iran wins 3 – 0 on penalties

[edit] Final

December 18
	Saudi Arabia	0 – 0	Rep. of Korea		Al-Ahly Stadium, Doha
		(HT: 0 – 0)
		(FT: 0 – 0)
		(AET: 0 – 0)
	Saudi Arabia wins 4 – 3 on penalties

[edit] Knockout Map

	Semi finals				Final
	December 14 - Qatar
	Korea Republic	2
	China PR	1
					December 18 - Doha
					Saudi Arabia (PSO)	0 (4)
					South Korea	0 (3)
					Third place
	December 15 - Qatar			December 17 - Qatar
	Saudi Arabia	1		Iran (PSO)	0 (3)
	Iran	0			China PR	(0)

[edit] Winners

AFC Asian Cup 1988 Winners
Saudi Arabia Second title

[edit] Awards

[edit] MVP (Most Valuable Player)

• Kim Joo-Sung

[edit] Top Scorer

• Lee Tae-Ho - 3 goals

[edit] Best Goalkeeper

• Zhang Huikang

[edit] Scoring players

3 goals:

• Lee Tae-Ho

2 goals:

• Ma Lin
• Xie Yuxin
• Farshad Pious
• Adel Khamis
• Mansour Muftah
• Khalid Salman
• Byun Byung-Joo
• Chung Hae-Won
• Hwang Sun-Hong
• Kim Joo-Sung

1 goal:

• Favad Muhammad
• Gao Shang
• Mai Chao
• Zhang Xiaowen
• Karim Bavi
• Adel Hussein
• Mansoor Muhammad
• Moshin Faray
• Saleh Mubarak Al-Saleh
• Mohamed Sherbani
• Fand Alibishin
• Yousuf Al-Ja’Azeh
• Majed Abdullah
• Walid Nasser
• Walid Al-Hel
• Mohamed Hasan Hussain
• Abdul Aziz Muhammad

[edit] Top scoring teams

11 goals:

•  Korea Republic

7 goals:

•  China PR
•  Qatar

5 goals:

•  Saudi Arabia

3 goals:

•  Iran

2 goals:

•  Kuwait
•  Syria
•  United Arab Emirates

1 goal:

•  Bahrain

0 goal:

•  Japan

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