1988 AFC Asian Cup

The 1988 AFC Asian Cup was the 9th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international association football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The finals were held in Qatar between 2 December and 18 December 1988. Saudi Arabia defeated South Korea in the final match in Doha.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Qualification

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Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearance
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:N/A	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	16 December 1984	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	17 February 1988	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	16 February 1988	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	18 April 1988	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	18 April 1988	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	3 June 1988	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	4 June 1988	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	22 June 1988	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	22 June 1988	Template:Sort

Venues

City	Stadium	Capacity
Doha	Al-Ahly Stadium	20,000
	Qatar SC Stadium

First round

All times are Qatar time (UTC+3)

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

All times are Qatar time (UTC+3)

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Final

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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:

• Template:Flagicon Lee Tae-ho

2 goals: Template:Colbegin

• Template:Flagicon Ma Lin
• Template:Flagicon Xie Yuxin
• Template:Flagicon Farshad Pious
• Template:Flagicon Byun Byung-joo
• Template:Flagicon Chung Hae-won
• Template:Flagicon Hwang Sun-hong
• Template:Flagicon Kim Joo-sung
• Template:Flagicon Adel Khamis
• Template:Flagicon Mansour Muftah
• Template:Flagicon Khalid Salman

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• Template:Flagicon Fahad Mohamed
• Template:Flagicon Gao Sheng
• Template:Flagicon Mai Chao
• Template:Flagicon Zhang Xiaowen
• Template:Flagicon Karim Bavi
• Template:Flagicon Adel Abbas
• Template:Flagicon Mansour Basha
• Template:Flagicon Saleh Al-Mutlaq
• Template:Flagicon Mohamed Al-Suwaiyed
• Template:Flagicon Fahad Al-Bishi
• Template:Flagicon Yousuf Jazea'a
• Template:Flagicon Majed Abdullah
• Template:Flagicon Walid Abu Al-Sel
• Template:Flagicon Walid Al-Nasser
• Template:Flagicon Hassan Mohamed
• Template:Flagicon Abdulaziz Mohamed

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• Template:Flagicon Muhsin Musabah (for Qatar)

Awards

Most Valuable Player<ref name="Awards"/>

• Template:Flagicon Kim Joo-sung

Top scorer<ref name="Awards"/>

• Template:Flagicon Lee Tae-ho

Best Goalkeeper<ref name="Awards"/>

• Template:Flagicon Zhang Huikang

Best Forward<ref name="Awards"/>

• Template:Flagicon Lee Tae-ho

Team of the Tournament<ref name="Awards">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forward
Template:Fbicon Zhang Huikang Template:Fbicon Abdullah Al-Deayea	Template:Fbicon Mohamed Al-Jawad Template:Fbicon Saleh Nu'eimeh Template:Fbicon Park Kyung-hoon Template:Fbicon Chung Yong-hwan	Template:Fbicon Xie Yuxin Template:Fbicon Mohamed Salim Template:Fbicon Mahboub Juma'a Template:Fbicon Sirous Ghayeghran Template:Fbicon Chung Hae-won Template:Fbicon Adel Khamis Template:Fbicon Abdulaziz Al-Hajeri Template:Fbicon Byun Byung-joo	Template:Fbicon Youssef Al-Thunayan Template:Fbicon Majed Abdullah Template:Fbicon Kim Joo-sung Template:Fbicon Wang Baoshan

References

• RSSSF Details

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