Football at the 2006 Asian Games

Football at the 2006 Asian Games was held in Doha, Qatar from 18 November to 15 December 2006. The opening match was played 14 days prior to the opening ceremony. In this tournament, some 30 teams played in the men's competition, and 8 teams participated in women's competition.

Football at the 2006 Asian Games
Venues	5
Dates	18 November - 15 December

Turkmenistan,[1] and Yemen withdrew from the competition before playing their first match. The organisation announced a new competition format because of this. Instead of only the group winners of the first round to go through to the second round, now also both runners-up qualified.[2]

Later India also announced their retirement, however they remained in the tournament on a "no cost to government basis".[3] Iran was taken out of competition prior to their first match, due to a suspension by FIFA.[4][5] However, FIFA lifted the suspension on Iran under-23 team on 26 November 2006 so they returned to the original Group D stage.[6]

Age limit for the men teams is under-23, same as the age limit in football competitions in Olympic Games, while three overage players are allowed among each squad.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Qatar Mohamed Saqr Abdulrahman Mesbeh Abdulla Al-Berik Majdi Siddiq Ali Nasser Mesaad Al-Hamad Hussein Yasser Magid Mohamed Ibrahim Al-Ghanim Talal Al-Bloushi Adel Lami Wesam Rizik Waleed Jassem Yusef Ahmed Abdullah Koni Qasem Burhan Sebastián Soria Khalfan Ibrahim Younes Ali Bilal Mohammed	Iraq Mohammed Noor Al-Deen Mohammed Ali Haidar Raheem Mustafa Karim Samer Saeed Ali Mansour Younis Mahmoud Jassim Mohammed Haidar Sabah Ali Rehema Ali Khudhair Alaa Abdul-Zahra Karrar Jassim Salam Shaker Haidar Aboodi Mohammed Gassid Ahmed Abid Ali Muayad Khalid Osama Ali Ahmed Jabbar	Iran Alireza Haghighi Mohsen Arzani Jalal Akbari Jalal Hosseini Pejman Montazeri Behshad Yavarzadeh Milad Nouri Maziar Zare Mehrdad Oladi Arash Borhani Mohammad Gholamin Sheys Rezaei Saeid Chahjouei Hossein Mahini Mohammad Nouri Khosro Heidari Ehsan Khorsandi Adel Kolahkaj Mehrdad Pouladi Hassan Roudbarian
Women	North Korea Phi Un-hui Jang Ok-gyong Om Jong-ran Sonu Kyong-sun Song Jong-sun Ri Un-suk Kim Yong-ae Ri Un-gyong Ho Sun-hui Kim Hye-yong Kim Tan-sil Kong Hye-ok Ri Kum-suk Jong Pok-sim Ri Un-hyang Jon Myong-hui Kim Kyong-hwa Kil Son-hui	Japan Nozomi Yamago Hiromi Isozaki Aya Shimokozuru Akiko Sudo Kyoko Yano Tomoe Sakai Kozue Ando Miyuki Yanagita Eriko Arakawa Homare Sawa Miho Fukumoto Maiko Nakaoka Azusa Iwashimizu Karina Maruyama Aya Miyama Shinobu Ono Yuki Nagasato Mizuho Sakaguchi	China Han Wenxia Liu Huana Li Jie Weng Xinzhi Pu Wei Yuan Fan Bi Yan Yue Min Han Duan Ma Xiaoxu Zhang Tong Wang Dandan Wang Kun Ren Liping Liu Yali Pan Lina Zhang Yanru Qu Feifei

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	North Korea	1	0	0	1
	Qatar	1	0	0	1
3	Iraq	0	1	0	1
	Japan	0	1	0	1
5	China	0	0	1	1
	Iran	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 nations)		2	2	2	6

Draw

The draw ceremony for the team sports was held on 7 September 2006 at Doha.

Men

Eight teams who did not enter 2002 had to play in Round 1; 22 other teams qualify directly for the tournament proper.

Round 1 – Group A  Jordan  Tajikistan  Kyrgyzstan  Macau

Round 1 – Group B  Singapore  Syria  Indonesia  Iraq

Round 2 – Group A  Qatar  United Arab Emirates  Uzbekistan 1st Round 1 – Group A

Round 2 – Group B  South Korea  Bahrain  Vietnam  Bangladesh

Round 2 – Group C  Thailand  Kuwait  Yemen*  Palestine

Round 2 – Group D  Iran  India  Hong Kong  Maldives

Round 2 – Group E  China  Oman  Malaysia 1st Round 1 – Group B

Round 2 – Group F  Japan  North Korea  Turkmenistan*  Pakistan

* Turkmenistan and Yemen withdrew from the competition and were replaced by 2nd placed teams from Round 1.

Women

Group A  China  Japan  Maldives*  Jordan

Group B  North Korea  South Korea  Thailand*  Chinese Taipei  Vietnam

* Maldives withdrew, following this Thailand moved to Group A to balance the number of teams in each group.

Squads

Main article: Football at the 2006 Asian Games – Squads

Final standing

Men

Further information: Football at the 2006 Asian Games – Men

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	Qatar	6	5	0	1	13	2	+11	15
	Iraq	9	6	1	2	17	3	+14	19
	Iran	6	4	1	1	10	6	+4	13
4	South Korea	6	4	0	2	9	2	+7	12
5	China	4	3	1	0	8	4	+4	10
6	Uzbekistan	4	3	0	1	7	4	+3	9
7	Thailand	4	3	0	1	4	3	+1	9
8	North Korea	4	2	1	1	3	4	−1	7
9	Bahrain	3	2	0	1	7	3	+4	6
10	Kuwait	3	2	0	1	5	1	+4	6
11	Japan	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1	6
12	Syria	6	2	3	1	6	2	+4	9
13	Hong Kong	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
14	India	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4
15	Vietnam	3	1	0	2	6	5	+1	3
16	Oman	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	3
17	Kyrgyzstan	6	2	2	2	12	7	+5	8
18	United Arab Emirates	3	0	1	2	3	7	−4	1
19	Jordan	6	1	3	2	15	7	+8	6
20	Maldives	3	0	0	3	2	6	−4	0
21	Pakistan	3	0	0	3	2	6	−4	0
22	Palestine	3	0	0	3	0	6	−6	0
23	Malaysia	3	0	0	3	2	10	−8	0
24	Bangladesh	3	0	0	3	2	13	−11	0
25	Tajikistan	3	1	2	0	7	3	+4	5
26	Singapore	3	0	2	1	1	3	−2	2
27	Indonesia	3	0	1	2	2	11	−9	1
28	Macau	3	0	0	3	1	25	−24	0

Women

Further information: Football at the 2006 Asian Games – Women

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	North Korea	5	4	1	0	16	2	+14	13
	Japan	5	4	1	0	21	1	+20	13
	China	5	3	0	2	22	4	+18	9
4	South Korea	5	2	0	3	7	10	−3	6
5	Chinese Taipei	3	1	0	2	3	7	−4	3
6	Thailand	3	1	0	2	5	11	−6	3
7	Vietnam	3	0	0	3	2	11	−9	0
8	Jordan	3	0	0	3	0	30	−30	0

References

1. Turkmenistan soccer team withdraws from Asian Games
2. Yemen pulls out of Asiad soccer tournament
3. "It's official, footballers will have a ball". Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 25 November 2006.
4. "FIFA suspends Iran Football Federation". FIFA. Archived from the original on 2 January 2007. Retrieved 27 November 2006.
5. Iran out of football after FIFA ban Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
6. "FIFA President announces temporary lifting of Iran ban". the-AFC.com. Archived from the original on 23 June 2007. Retrieved 27 November 2006.

• Official men football schedule
• Official women football schedule