The 1980 AFC Asian Cup was the 7th edition of the men's
AFC Asian Cup
The AFC Asian Cup is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), determining the continental champion of Asia. It is the second oldest cont ...
, a quadrennial international
football
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tournament organised by the
Asian Football Confederation
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(AFC). The finals were hosted by
Kuwait
Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...
between 15 and 30 September 1980. The field of ten teams was split into two groups of five.
Kuwait
Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...
won their first championship, beating
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
in the final 3–0.
Qualification
Venues
Squads
For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see ''
1980 AFC Asian Cup squads Squads for the 1980 AFC Asian Cup tournament.
Group A
Bangladesh
Head coach: Abdur Rahim
Head coach: Su Yongshun
Head coach: Hassan Habibi
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Group stage
Group A
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Group B
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Knockout stage
Semi-finals
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Third place play-off
Final
Statistics
Goalscorers
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Choi Soon-ho
Choi Soon-ho (Hangul: 최순호; Hanja: 崔淳鎬; born 10 January 1962) is a former South Korean football manager and player.
International career
Choi was named in the South Korean squad for the 1980 AFC Asian Cup. He scored seven goals ...
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Behtash Fariba
Behtash Fariba ( fa, بهتاش فریبا; born February 11, 1955) is a retired Iranian football player and now coach
Club career
He played for a few clubs, including Rah Ahan F.C., Pas Tehran and Esteghlal F.C.
With Pas F.C. he won the Irani ...
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Faisal Al-Dakhil
Faisal Ali Al-Dakhil (), also spelled Al-Dakheel ( ar, فيصل الدخيل) (born 13 August 1957) is a Kuwaiti footballer.
Al-Dakhil was among the Kuwaiti players who won the 1980 Asian Cup. He played four matches for Kuwait at the 1980 Sum ...
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Jasem Yaqoub
Jasem Yaqoub Sultan Al-Besara ( ar, جاسم يعقوب سلطان البصارة; born 25 October 1953 in Kuwait City) is a former Kuwaiti professional footballer. He represented the Kuwait national team at both the 1980 Summer Olympics and 198 ...
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Xu Yonglai
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Shen Xiangfu
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Hossein Faraki
Hossein Faraki ( fa, حسین فرکی, born 22 March 1957) is a retired Iranian football player and a coach.
Personal life
He was born on 22 March 1957 in Tehran, Iran. He began playing football with PAS Tehran in 1976.
Faraki has a son named ...
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Chung Hae-won
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Abdolreza Barzegari
Abdolreza Barzegari ( fa, عبدالرضا برزگری; born 3 July 1958 in Abadan, Iran) is a former Iranian football player.
Playing career
Barzagari known as "The Persian Black Pearl", he started playing football at a young age in his nei ...
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Hamid Alidousti
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Saad Al-Houti
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Tukamin Bahari
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Zulkifli Hamzah
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Choi Jae-pil Choi may refer to:
* Choi (Korean surname), a Korean surname
* Choi, Macau Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surname Cui (崔) and Xu (徐)
* Choi, Cantonese romanisation of Cai (surname) (蔡), a Chinese surname
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Kim Bok-man
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Pak Jong-hun
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Mansoor Muftah
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Jamal Keshek
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at BehindTheName.com and a surna ...
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Ahmed Chombi
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Etymology
The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ve ...
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Ashraf Uddin Ahmed Chunnu
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Kazi Salahuddin
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Chen Jingang
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Li Fubao
Li Fubao is a Chinese football player who played for China in the 1980 Asian Cup
The 1980 AFC Asian Cup was the 7th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederat ...
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Hassan Roshan
Hassan Rowshan ( fa, حسن روشن, born 2 June 1955) is an Iranian football coach, manager, and former player. He usually played as a striker. He is currently the head of technical committee of Esteghlal.
Early life
Rowshan was 13 when h ...
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Iraj Danaeifard
Iraj Danaeifard ( fa, ايرج دانايی فرد, 11 March 1951 – 12 December 2018) was an Iranian football player who played most of his career for Taj (currently Esteghlal) and also the Iran national football team.
Club career
Danaeifa ...
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Abdulaziz Al-Anberi
Abdulaziz Al-Anberi, also spelled Abdul-Aziz Al-Anbari (born 3 January 1954 in Kaifan) is a Kuwaiti footballer.
Career
Al-Anberi began his sporting career as a basketball and volleyball player. However, in 1976, he decided to focus on football, ...
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Fathi Kameel
Fathi Kameel Matar Marzouq ( ar, فتحي كميل مطر مرزوق; born 23 May 1955) was a Kuwaiti football player in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He helped Kuwait qualify to the World Cup in 1982 by scoring a goal against New Zealand. Fa ...
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Abdah Alif
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Hwang Sang-hoi
Hwang Sang-hoi () is a North Korean former footballer
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Kim Jong-man
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Hwang Seok-keun
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Lee Jung-il
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Jawdat Suleiman
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Ghanem Al-Hajri
Awards
Top scorer
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Choi Soon-ho
Choi Soon-ho (Hangul: 최순호; Hanja: 崔淳鎬; born 10 January 1962) is a former South Korean football manager and player.
International career
Choi was named in the South Korean squad for the 1980 AFC Asian Cup. He scored seven goals ...
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Behtash Fariba
Behtash Fariba ( fa, بهتاش فریبا; born February 11, 1955) is a retired Iranian football player and now coach
Club career
He played for a few clubs, including Rah Ahan F.C., Pas Tehran and Esteghlal F.C.
With Pas F.C. he won the Irani ...
Team of the Tournament
Final standings
References
External links
South Korea International MatchesKuwait Football AssociationAll-Star TeamNew Straits Times, 2 October 1980, Page 27
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AFC
AFC Asian Cup tournaments
International association football competitions hosted by Kuwait
AFC Asian Cup
The AFC Asian Cup is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), determining the continental champion of Asia. It is the second oldest cont ...
AFC Asian Cup
The AFC Asian Cup is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), determining the continental champion of Asia. It is the second oldest cont ...