AFC Asian Cup records and statistics

This is a list of records and statistics of the AFC Asian Cup.

Awards

General awards by tournament

Year	Winners[1][2]	Winning coach	Top scorer(s)[3][2]	Best player[2]	Fair Play Award[2]
1956	South Korea	Lee Yoo-hyung	Nahum Stelmach (4)	N/A	N/A
1960	South Korea	Kim Yong-sik	Cho Yoon-ok (4)
1964	Israel	Yosef Merimovich	Inder Singh (2) Mordechai Spiegler (2)
1968	Iran	Mahmoud Bayati	Homayoun Behzadi (4) Moshe Romano (4) Giora Spiegel (4)
1972	Iran	Mohammad Ranjbar	Hossein Kalani (5)	Ebrahim Ashtiani
1976	Iran	Heshmat Mohajerani	Gholam Hossein Mazloumi (3) Nasser Nouraei (3) Fathi Kamel (3)	Ali Parvin
1980	Kuwait	Carlos Alberto Parreira	Behtash Fariba (7) Choi Soon-ho (7)	N/A
1984	Saudi Arabia	Khalil Al-Zayani	Jia Xiuquan (3) Shahrokh Bayani (3) Nasser Mohammadkhani (3)	Jia Xiuquan	China PR
1988	Saudi Arabia	Carlos Alberto Parreira	Lee Tae-ho (3)	Kim Joo-sung[4]	N/A
1992	Japan	Hans Ooft	Fahad Al-Bishi (3)	Kazuyoshi Miura
1996	Saudi Arabia	Nelo Vingada	Ali Daei (8)	Khodadad Azizi	Iran
2000	Japan	Philippe Troussier	Lee Dong-gook (6)	Hiroshi Nanami	Saudi Arabia
2004	Japan	Zico	A'ala Hubail (5) Ali Karimi (5)	Shunsuke Nakamura	China PR
2007	Iraq	Jorvan Vieira	Younis Mahmoud (4) Naohiro Takahara (4) Yasser Al-Qahtani (4)	Younis Mahmoud[5]	Japan
2011	Japan	Alberto Zaccheroni	Koo Ja-cheol (5)	Keisuke Honda[6]	South Korea
2015	Australia	Ange Postecoglou	Ali Mabkhout (5)	Massimo Luongo[7]	Australia[8]
2019	Qatar	Félix Sánchez	Almoez Ali (9)	Almoez Ali	Japan
2023	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

Team of the Tournament

Edition	Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
1980[9]	Nasser Hejazi	Naeem Saad Soh Chin Aun Mahboub Juma'a Mehdi Dinvarzadeh	Abdolreza Barzegari Saad Al-Houti Lee Young-moo	Choi Soon-ho Faisal Al-Dakhil Jasem Yaqoub
1988[10] (18 players)	Zhang Huikang Abdullah Al-Deayea	Mohamed Al-Jawad Saleh Nu'eimeh Park Kyung-hoon Chung Yong-hwan	Xie Yuxin Mohamed Salim Mahboub Juma'a Sirous Ghayeghran Chung Hae-won Adel Khamis Abdulaziz Al-Hajeri Byun Byung-joo	Youssef Al-Thunayan Majed Abdullah Kim Joo-sung Wang Baoshan
1996[11]	Mohamed Al-Deayea	Abdullah Zubromawi Yousef Saleh Mohammad Khakpour	Mehrdad Minavand Mohamed Ali Khalid Al-Muwallid Saad Bakheet Mubarak	Fahad Al-Mehallel Jasem Al-Huwaidi Ali Daei
2000[12]	Jiang Jin	Hong Myung-bo Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi Jamal Mubarak	Hiroshi Nanami Nawaf Al-Temyat Abbas Obeid Karim Bagheri Shunsuke Nakamura	Lee Dong-gook Naohiro Takahara
2004[13]	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi	Tsuneyasu Miyamoto Yuji Nakazawa Zheng Zhi Mehdi Mahdavikia	Shunsuke Nakamura Shao Jiayi Zhao Junzhe Talal Yousef	A'ala Hubail Ali Karimi
2007[14]	Lee Woon-jae	Yuji Nakazawa Lucas Neill Bassim Abbas Rahman Rezaei	Shunsuke Nakamura Harry Kewell Lee Chun-soo Nashat Akram	Naohiro Takahara Yasser Al-Qahtani
2015[15]	Mathew Ryan	Dhurgham Ismail Kwak Tae-hwi Trent Sainsbury Cha Du-ri	Massimo Luongo Omar Abdulrahman Ki Sung-yueng	Ali Mabkhout Tim Cahill Son Heung-min
2019[16] (23 players)	Alireza Beiranvand Shūichi Gonda Saad Al Sheeb	Bandar Al-Ahbabi Boualem Khoukhi Maya Yoshida Bassam Al-Rawi Yuto Nagatomo Abdelkarim Hassan Kim Min-jae	Omid Ebrahimi Abdulaziz Hatem Ashkan Dejagah Tom Rogic Gaku Shibasaki Hassan Al-Haydos	Akram Afif Almoez Ali Sardar Azmoun Nguyễn Quang Hải Wu Lei Ali Mabkhout Yuya Osako

Fans' All-time Best XI

In October and November 2018, ahead of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, AFC created the Fans' Asian Cup XI with substitutes. The team was chosen through online voting on the website. This is the list of the XI and substitutes:

Hejazi

Zheng Zhi

Mahdavikia

Nu'eimeh

Akram

Shao Jiayi

Honda

Djeparov

Karimi

Al Qahtani

Daei

All-time AFC Asian Cup XI, as voted by the fans in 2018.
(coach: Heshmat Mohajerani).

Goalkeepers

• Nasser Hejazi
• Noor Sabri (substitute)

Defenders

• Mehdi Mahdavikia
• Saleh Nu'eimeh
• Zheng Zhi
• Jamal Mubarak (substitute)
• Soh Chin Aun (substitute)

Midfielders

• Ali Karimi
• Nashat Akram
• Shao Jiayi
• Server Djeparov
• Keisuke Honda
• Fahad Al-Bishi (substitute)
• Koo Ja-cheol (substitute)

Forwards

• Ali Daei
• Yasser Al Qahtani
• Younis Mahmoud (substitute)

Manager

• Heshmat Mohajerani

Source:The AFC

Team records

Summary

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Semi-finalists	Top 2	Top 4
Japan	4 (1992^*, 2000, 2004, 2011)	1 (2019)	—	1 (2007)	—	5	6
Saudi Arabia	3 (1984, 1988, 1996)	3 (1992, 2000, 2007)	—	—	—	6	6
Iran	3 (1968^*, 1972, 1976^*)	—	4 (1980, 1988, 1996, 2004)	1 (1984)	1 (2019)	3	9
South Korea	2 (1956, 1960^*)	4 (1972, 1980, 1988, 2015)	4 (1964, 2000, 2007, 2011)	—	—	6	10
Israel^1	1 (1964^*)	2 (1956, 1960)	1 (1968)	—	—	3	4
Kuwait	1 (1980^*)	1 (1976)	1 (1984)	1 (1996)	—	2	4
Australia	1 (2015^*)	1 (2011)	—	—	—	2	2
Iraq	1 (2007)	—	—	2 (1976, 2015)	—	1	3
Qatar	1 (2019)	—	—	—	—	1	1
China PR	—	2 (1984, 2004^*)	2 (1976, 1992)	2 (1988, 2000)	—	2	6
United Arab Emirates	—	1 (1996^*)	1 (2015)	1 (1992)	1 (2019^*)	1	4
India	—	1 (1964)	—	—	—	1	1
Myanmar	—	1 (1968)	—	—	—	1	1
Hong Kong	—	—	1 (1956^*)	1 (1964)	—	0	2
Chinese Taipei^2	—	—	1 (1960)	1 (1968)	—	0	2
Thailand	—	—	1 (1972^*)	—	—	0	1
Vietnam^3	—	—	—	2 (1956, 1960)	—	0	2
Cambodia	—	—	—	1 (1972)	—	0	1
North Korea	—	—	—	1 (1980)	—	0	1
Bahrain	—	—	—	1 (2004)	—	0	1
Uzbekistan	—	—	—	1 (2011)	—	0	1

* hosts
¹ Israel was expelled from the AFC in the early 1970s and eventually became a member of UEFA.[17]
² as Republic of China
³ as South Vietnam

All-time table

The table is accurate as of the end of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.

Rank	Team	Part	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Dif	Pts	PPG	Best finish
1	Iran	14	68	41	19	8	131	48	83	142	2.09	Champions (1968, 1972, 1976)[18]
2	South Korea	14	67	36	16	15	106	64	42	124	1.85	Champions (1956, 1960)[19]
3	Japan	9	48	30	12	6	92	44	48	102	2.13	Champions (1992, 2000, 2004, 2011)[20]
4	China PR	12	56	23	13	20	88	65	23	82	1.46	Runners-up (1984, 2004)[19]
5	Saudi Arabia	10	48	21	13	14	69	48	21	76	1.58	Champions (1984, 1988, 1996)[21]
6	Kuwait	10	42	15	10	17	47	51	–4	55	1.31	Champions (1980)
7	United Arab Emirates	10	42	15	10	17	40	56	–16	55	1.31	Runners-up (1996)[22]
8	Iraq	9	39	15	8	16	44	45	–1	53	1.36	Champions (2007)[18]
9	Qatar	10	39	13	11	15	52	47	5	50	1.28	Champions (2019)
10	Uzbekistan	7	28	13	4	11	42	47	–5	43	1.54	Fourth place (2011)[20]
11	Australia	4	21	12	4	5	40	14	26	40	1.90	Champions (2015)[23]
12	Israel	4	13	9	0	4	28	15	13	27	2.08	Champions (1964)
13	Jordan	4	15	6	6	3	17	10	7	24	1.60	Quarter-finals (2004, 2011)[23]
14	Syria	6	21	7	3	11	17	28	–11	24	1.14	Group stage (6 times)[23]
15	Bahrain	6	23	5	6	12	29	38	–9	21	0.91	Fourth place (2004)[22]
16	Thailand	7	24	2	9	13	19	52	–33	15	0.63	Third place (1972)[22]
17	Oman	4	13	3	3	7	10	17	–7	12	0.92	Round of 16 (2019)
18	North Korea	5	18	3	2	13	15	40	–25	11	0.57	Fourth place (1980)[21]
19	India	4	13	3	1	9	12	27	–15	10	0.77	Runners-up (1964)[22]
20	Vietnam	4	15	2	3	10	17	35	–18	9	0.60	Fourth place (1956, 1960)[18]
21	Indonesia	4	12	2	2	8	10	28	–18	8	0.67	Group stage (1996, 2000, 2004, 2007)
22	Myanmar	1	4	2	1	1	5	4	1	7	1.75	Runners-up (1968)
23	Malaysia	3	9	1	3	5	7	20	–13	6	0.67	Group stage (1976, 1980, 2007)
24	Lebanon	2	6	1	2	3	7	12	–5	5	0.83	Group stage (2000, 2019)[21]
25	Chinese Taipei	2	7	1	2	4	5	12	–7	5	0.71	Third place (1960)
26	Singapore	1	4	1	1	2	3	4	–1	4	1.00	Group stage (1984)
27	Cambodia	1	5	1	1	3	8	10	–2	4	0.80	Fourth place (1972)
28	Kyrgyzstan	1	4	1	0	3	6	7	–1	3	0.75	Round of 16 (2019)
29	Hong Kong	3	10	0	3	7	9	23	–14	3	0.30	Third place (1956)
30	Palestine	2	6	0	2	4	1	14	–13	2	0.33	Group stage (2015, 2019)[23]
31	Turkmenistan	2	6	0	1	5	7	16	–9	1	0.10	Group stage (2004, 2019)[20]
32	Philippines	1	3	0	0	3	1	7	–6	0	0.00	Group stage (2019)
33	South Yemen	1	2	0	0	2	0	9	–9	0	0.00	Group stage (1976)
34	Yemen	1	3	0	0	3	0	10	–10	0	0.00	Group stage (2019)
35	Bangladesh	1	4	0	0	4	2	17	–15	0	0.00	Group stage (1980)

Comprehensive national results by tournament

Team	1956 (4)	1960 (4)	1964 (4)	1968 (5)	1972 (6)	1976 (6)	1980 (10)	1984 (10)	1988 (10)	1992 (8)	1996 (12)	2000 (12)	2004 (16)	2007 (16)	2011 (16)	2015 (16)	2019 (24)	2023 (24)	Years
West Asian Members
Bahrain					•	×	••	×	GS	•	×	•	4th	GS	GS	GS	R16		6
Iraq					GS	4th	×	×	×	×	QF	QF	QF	1st	QF	4th	R16		9
Jordan					•	×	×	•	•	×	•	•	QF	•	QF	GS	R16		4
Kuwait				×	GS	2nd	1st	3rd	GS	•	4th	QF	GS	•	GS	GS	×		10
Lebanon					•	×	•	×	×	×	•	GS	•	×	•	•	GS		2
Oman								•	×	•	•	•	GS	GS	•	GS	R16		4
Palestine												•	•	•	•	GS	GS		2
Qatar						•	GS	GS	GS	GS	•	QF	GS	GS	QF	GS	1st		10
Saudi Arabia						••	×	1st	1st	2nd	1st	2nd	GS	2nd	GS	GS	R16		10
Syria					•	×	GS	GS	GS	•	GS	•	•	•	GS	•	GS		6
United Arab Emirates							GS	GS	GS	4th	2nd	•	GS	GS	GS	3rd	SF		10
Yemen								•	•	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS		1
Central Asian Members
Iran	×	•	×	1st	1st	1st	3rd	4th	3rd	GS	3rd	QF	3rd	QF	QF	QF	SF		14
Kyrgyzstan	Part of the USSR										•	•	•	×	•	•	R16		1
Turkmenistan	Part of the USSR										•	•	GS	•	•	•	GS		2
Uzbekistan	Part of the USSR										GS	GS	QF	QF	4th	QF	R16		7
South Asian Members
Bangladesh	Part of Pakistan					×	GS	•	•	•	×	•	•	•	•	•	•		1
India	×	•	2nd	×	•	•	•	GS	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS	•	GS		4
East Asian Members
China PR						3rd	GS	2nd	4th	3rd	QF	4th	2nd	GS	GS	QF	QF	Q	13
Chinese Taipei	•	3rd	×	4th	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•		2
Hong Kong	3rd	•	4th	5th	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•		3
Japan	×	×	×	•	×	•	×	×	GS	1st	QF	1st	1st	4th	1st	QF	2nd		9
North Korea						••	4th	×	•	GS	×	•	•	×	GS	GS	GS		5
South Korea	1st	1st	3rd	•	2nd	•	2nd	GS	2nd	•	QF	3rd	QF	3rd	3rd	2nd	QF		14
Southeast Asian Members
Australia	OFC Member													QF	2nd	1st	QF		4
Cambodia	•	×	×	•	4th	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	×	×	•	•	•		1
Indonesia	×	×	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS	GS	GS	GS	•	•	×		4
Malaysia	Part of Malaya		•	•	•	GS	GS	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS	•	•	•		3
Myanmar	×	×	×	2nd	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	•	•	×	•	•	•		1
Philippines	•	•	×	•	×	×	•	•	×	×	•	•	×	×	•	•	GS		1
Singapore	×	•	×	•	×	•	•	GS	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•		1
Thailand	×	×	•	•	3rd	••	•	•	•	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	•	•	R16		7
Vietnam	4th	4th	•	•	•	•	×	×	×	×	•	•	•	QF	•	•	QF		4
Former AFC Members
Israel	2nd	2nd	1st	3rd	••	Expelled from AFC				UEFA Member									4
South Yemen						GS	×	×	•	Part of Yemen									1

Legend

1st – Champions 2nd – Runners-up 3rd – Third place 4th – Fourth place SF – Semi-finals QF – Quarter-finals R16 – Round of 16 GS – Group stage

Q – Qualified for upcoming tournament  ••  — Qualified but withdrew / Disqualified after qualification  •  — Did not qualify  ×  — Did not enter / Withdrew from the Asian Cup    — Hosts

Map of best results

Results of host nations Year Host nation Finish 1956  Hong Kong Third place 1960  South Korea Champions 1964  Israel Champions 1968  Iran Champions 1972  Thailand Third place 1976  Iran Champions 1980  Kuwait Champions 1984  Singapore Group stage 1988  Qatar Group stage 1992  Japan Champions 1996  United Arab Emirates Runners-up 2000  Lebanon Group stage 2004  China PR Runners-up 2007  Indonesia Group stage  Malaysia Group stage  Thailand Group stage  Vietnam Quarter-finals 2011  Qatar Quarter-finals 2015  Australia Champions 2019  United Arab Emirates Semi-finals 2023  China PR TBD

Results of defending champions Year Defending champions Finish 1960  South Korea Champions 1964  South Korea Third place 1968  Israel Third place 1972  Iran Champions 1976  Iran Champions 1980  Iran Third place 1984  Kuwait Third place 1988  Saudi Arabia Champions 1992  Saudi Arabia Runners-up 1996  Japan Quarter-finals 2000  Saudi Arabia Runners-up 2004  Japan Champions 2007  Japan Fourth place 2011  Iraq Quarter-finals 2015  Japan Quarter-finals 2019  Australia Quarter-finals 2023  Qatar TBD

Total hosts

Time(s)	Nation	Year(s)
2	Iran	1968, 1976
	Thailand	1972, 2007*
	Qatar	1988, 2011
	United Arab Emirates	1996, 2019
	China	2004, 2023
1	Hong Kong	1956
	South Korea	1960
	Israel	1964
	Kuwait	1980
	Singapore	1984
	Japan	1992
	Lebanon	2000
	Indonesia	2007*
	Malaysia
	Vietnam
	Australia	2015

* co-hosts

National debuts by tournament

Year	Debutants	Total	Successor teams
1956	South Korea,  Hong Kong,  South Vietnam,  Israel	4
1960	Republic of China	1
1964	India	1
1968	Iran,  Burma	2
1972	Khmer Republic,  Iraq,  Kuwait,  Thailand	4
1976	South Yemen,  China PR,  Malaysia	3
1980	Bangladesh,  North Korea,  Qatar,  Syria,  United Arab Emirates	5
1984	Saudi Arabia,  Singapore	2
1988	Bahrain,  Japan	2
1992	None	0
1996	Indonesia,  Uzbekistan	2
2000	Lebanon	1
2004	Jordan,  Oman,  Turkmenistan	3
2007	Australia	1	Vietnam
2011	None	0
2015	Palestine	1
2019	Kyrgyzstan,  Philippines,  Yemen	3

Has never qualified

 Afghanistan,  Bhutan,  Brunei,  Guam,  Laos,  Macau,  Maldives,  Mongolia,    Nepal,  Pakistan,  Sri Lanka,  Tajikistan,  Timor-Leste

Longest active AFC Asian Cup droughts

This is a list of droughts associated with the participation of national teams in the AFC Asian Cup.
Does not include teams that have not yet made their first appearance, teams that no longer exist or teams that are no longer members of AFC.

Team	Last appearance	AC Missed
Chinese Taipei	1968	13
Hong Kong	1968	13
Myanmar	1968	13
Cambodia	1972	12
Bangladesh	1980	10
Singapore	1984	9
Indonesia	2007	3
Malaysia	2007	3
Kuwait	2015	1

Regional record

Regional federation	Champion(s)	Title(s)
WAFF (West Asia)	Saudi Arabia (3), Iraq (1), Kuwait (1), Qatar (1)	6
EAFF (East Asia)	Japan (4), South Korea (2)	6
CAFA (Central Asia)	Iran (3)	3
AFF (Southeast Asia)	Australia (1)	1
SAFF (South Asia)	-	0

Other records

• South Korea, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are the only teams to have won the tournament in their debut appearances.[24]
• Iran hold the record for the most games played, with 68.[25]
• Iran are the only team to have won three consecutive finals of the AFC Asian Cup.[25]

Qualification all-time table

Main article: AFC Asian Cup qualification § All-time table

Individual records

Overall top goalscorers

Goals	Player	Representing	Ref.
14	Ali Daei	Iran	[26]
10	Lee Dong-Gook	South Korea	[26]
9	Naohiro Takahara	Japan	[26]
	Ali Mabkhout	UAE	[27]
	Almoez Ali	Qatar	[28]
8	Jasem Al-Huwaidi	Kuwait	[29]
	Younis Mahmoud	Iraq	[26]
7	Behtash Fariba	Iran	[30]
	Hossein Kalani	Iran	[31][32]
	Choi Soon-ho	South Korea	[33]
	Faisal Al-Dakhil	Kuwait	[34]
6	Yasser Al-Qahtani	Saudi Arabia	[35]
	Alexander Geynrikh	Uzbekistan	[26]
	Tim Cahill	Australia	[26]
	Ahmed Khalil	UAE	[36]
	Sardar Azmoun	Iran	[37][38]

Top goalscorers in one tournament

Goals	Player	Representing	Year	Ref.
9	Almoez Ali	Qatar	2019	[28]
8	Ali Daei	Iran	1996	[26]
7	Behtash Fariba	Iran	1980	[39]
	Choi Soon-ho	South Korea		[39]
6	Lee Dong-gook	South Korea	2000	[40]
5	Hossein Kalani	Iran	1972	[41]
	A'ala Hubail	Bahrain	2004	[42]
	Ali Karimi	Iran		[42]
	Koo Ja-cheol	South Korea	2011	[43]
	Ali Mabkhout	United Arab Emirates	2015	[44]

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of AFC Asian Cup hat-tricks

Most tournament wins

Times	Player	Representing	Years
3	Parviz Ghelichkhani	Iran	1968, 1972, 1976

Most tournaments appeared in

The table below is the players who have appeared four or more times in the history of the tournament.

Times	Name	Tournaments
5	Ignatiy Nesterov	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019
4	Masoud Shojaei	2007, 2011, 2015, 2019
	Waleed Abdullah	2007, 2011, 2015, 2019
	Anzur Ismailov	2007, 2011, 2015, 2019
	Amer Shafi	2004, 2011, 2015, 2019
	Zheng Zhi	2004, 2007, 2015, 2019
	Ahmed Kano	2004, 2007, 2015, 2019
	Ismail Matar	2004, 2007, 2011, 2019
	Marat Bikmaev	2004, 2007, 2011, 2019
	Javad Nekounam	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Younis Mahmoud†	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Yasuhito Endō	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Bilal Mohammed	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Saud Kariri	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Server Djeparov	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Timur Kapadze	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015
	Mehdi Mahdavikia	1996, 2000, 2004, 2007
	Li Ming	1992, 1996, 2000, 2004
	Adnan Al-Talyani	1984, 1988, 1992, 1996

†Younis Mahmoud is the only player in the history of the tournament to score a goal in four separate tournaments.

Source:[45]

Fastest goals scored from kick-off

Only three goals in the history of the tournament have been scored in the first minute of their respective games.

• Ali Mabkhout (against Bahrain) at the 2015 edition in 14 seconds
• Fathi Kameel (against China PR) at the 1976 edition in 20 seconds
• Xie Yuxin (against Japan) at the 1992 edition in 20 seconds

Source:[46]

Match records

Attendance by year

Year	Matches	Attendance
		Total	Average	Lowest			Highest
1992	16	316,496	19,781	KSA –  QAT  KSA –  THA	Group stage	4,000	JPN –  KSA	Final	60,000
1996	26	448,000	17,231	KOR –  IDN  JPN –  CHN  UZB –  SYR  KUW –  JPN	Group stage Group stage Group stage Quarter-finals	2,000	IRN –  KUW  UAE –  KSA	3rd place match Final	60,000
2000	26	276,488	10,634	KOR –  IDN	Group stage	500	LIB –  IRN	Group stage	52,418
2004	32	937,650	29,302	QAT –  IDN	Group stage	5,000	CHN –  JPN	Final	62,000
2007	32	724,222	22,632	OMA –  IRQ  KSA –  BHR	Group stage	500	KSA –  IDN  IDN –  KOR	Group stage	88,000
2011	32	405,361	12,668	KSA –  JPN	Group stage	2,022	QAT –  UZB	Group stage	47,413
2015	32	649,705	20,304	QAT –  BHR	Group stage	4,841	KOR –  AUS	Final	76,385
2019	51	644,307	12,633	PRK –  QAT	Group stage	452	UAE –  IND	Group stage	43,206

Highest attendance

• The highest ever attendance officially recorded was of 100,000 during the 1976 AFC Asian Cup final between Iran and Kuwait.[25]

Lowest attendance

• The lowest ever attendance officially recorded was of 300 during the 1980 AFC Asian Cup group game between North Korea and Bangladesh.[47]

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External links

• AFC Asian Cup official history book
• Official website at AFC.com
• RSSSF archive