The 1988 AFC Asian Cup was the 9th 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

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

tournament organised by the

Asian Football Confederation The Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal in some countries/territories in Asia and Oceania. It has 47 member countries most of which are located in Asia. Australia, formerly in ...

(AFC). The finals were held in

Qatar Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it sh ...

between 2 December and 18 December 1988.

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...

defeated

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 match in

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Qualification

Squads

Venues

First round

All times are Qatar time (

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)

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

All times are Qatar time (

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Semi-finals

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Third place play-off

Final

Statistics

Goalscorers

With three goals, South Korea's Lee Tae-Ho is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 40 goals were scored by 28 different players, with only one of them credited as an own goal. 3 goals: * Lee Tae-ho 2 goals: * Ma Lin *

Xie Yuxin Xie Yuxin (; born 12 October 1968 in Xingning, Guangdong) is a retired Chinese international footballer. He made more than 100 appearances for his country in international competitions. On 6 February 1987, Yuxin signed for PEC Zwolle '82, be ...

Farshad Pious Farshad Pious ( fa, فرشاد پیوس; born 12 January 1962) is an Iranian retired footballer who played as a forward for a number of clubs in Iran, most notably Persepolis, as well as the Iran national team. He is regarded as one of the best p ...

Byun Byung-joo Byun Byung-joo (; or ; born 26 April 1961) is a former South Korean football player. He played for the South Korea national football team in 1986 and 1990 FIFA World Cup. After his retirement, he managed a K League club Daegu FC from 2007 t ...

Chung Hae-won Chung Hae-won (, 1 July 1959 – 1 May 2020) was a South Korean football player and coach. International career After winning the 1978 AFC Youth Championship as a member of the national under-20 team, Chung played as a left winger or a strike ...

Hwang Sun-hong Hwang Sun-hong (born 14 July 1968) is a South Korean former football player and current head coach of the South Korea national under-23 football team. He was the most notable South Korean striker in the 1990s and early 2000s. Club career Af ...

* Kim Joo-sung *

Adel Khamis Adel Khamis (born November 11, 1965) is a retired Qatari footballer. Career Khamis started his career in the youth teams of Al Gharafa in 1979. He eventually progressed to the senior squad in 1983, when the team was in the Qatari Second Division. ...

Mansour Muftah Mansour Muftah Faraj Bekhit Al-Abdullah, or simply Mansour Muftah ( ar, منصور مفتاح, born 1955) is a Qatari former footballer who played as a forward. He was the top scorer in the Qatar Stars League a record 7 times, as well as bein ...

* Khalid Salman 1 goal: * Fahad Mohamed * Gao Sheng *

Mai Chao Mai Chao (born on March 9, 1964 in Guangzhou, Guangdong) is a Chinese football coach and a former international football player. He spent his whole playing career for Guangzhou Apollo as an attacking left-back. After retiring, he moved into man ...

* Zhang Xiaowen *

Karim Bavi Karim Bavi ( fa, کریم باوی ; 30 December 1964 – 7 December 2022) was an Iranian footballer who played as a striker. Club career Bavi played most of his career for Shahin FC, before moving to another Iranian club Persepolis FC. Inte ...

* Adel Abbas * Mansour Basha *

Saleh Al-Mutlaq Saleh Muhammed al-Mutlaq ( ar, صالح محمد المطلك; born 1 July 1947) is an Iraqi politician who is the head of the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, the fifth largest political list in Iraq's parliament. From 21 December 2010 to 11 ...

* Mohamed Al-Suwaiyed *

Fahad Al-Bishi Fahad bin Al-Harifi bin Fahad Al-Husseini Al-Bishi ( ar, فهد بن الهريفي بن فهد الحسيني البيشي; born 10 September 1965) was a Saudi footballer who played for Al-Nassr and the Saudi Arabia national team. He represent ...

* Yousuf Jazea'a *

Majed Abdullah Majed Ahmed Abdullah ( ar, ماجد احمد عبد الله; born 11 January 1959) is a Saudi Arabian former footballer who played for Al-Nassr and the Saudi national team. Abdullah is the all-time leading goalscorer for Saudi Arabia with 72 ...

Walid Abu Al-Sel Walid Abu Al-Sel ( ar, وليد أبو السل; born 1963) is a Syrian former association football, football Forward (association football), forward who played for Syria national football team, Syria in the 1984 AFC Asian Cup, 1984 and 1988 AFC ...

* Walid Al-Nasser * Hassan Mohamed * Abdulaziz Mohamed 1 own goal * Muhsin Musabah (''for Qatar'')

Awards

Most Valuable Player * Kim Joo-sung Top scorer * Lee Tae-ho Best Goalkeeper * Zhang Huikang Best Forward * Lee Tae-ho Team of the Tournament

Final standings

References

External links

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