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1988 AFC Asian Cup

Field	Value
year	1988
other_titles	كأس آسيا 1988
country	Qatar
dates	2–18 December
num_teams	10
venues	2
cities	1
champion	KSA
count	2
second	KOR
second-flagvar	1984
third	IRN
fourth	CHN
matches	24
goals	40
attendance	164500
top_scorer	KOR Lee Tae-Ho (3 goals)
player	KOR Kim Joo-Sung
goalkeeper	CHN Zhang Huikang
prevseason	[1984](1984-afc-asian-cup)
nextseason	[1992](1992-afc-asian-cup)

| second-flagvar = 1984

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.

Qualification

Main article: 1988 AFC Asian Cup qualification

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearance
		16 December 1984
		17 February 1988
		16 February 1988
		18 April 1988
		18 April 1988	0 (debut)
		3 June 1988
		4 June 1988
		22 June 1988	0 (debut)
		22 June 1988

Squads

Venues

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

First round

All times are Qatar time (UTC+3)

Group A

Pious

Musabah

Kim Joo-sung

Hwang Sun-hong

Muftah

Group B

Al-Suwaiyed

Xie Yuxin

Mansour Basha

Knockout stage

All times are Qatar time (UTC+3)

|December 14 - Doha|**** |2||1 |December 15 - Doha||1||0 |December 18 - Doha||0 (3)| (pen.)|0 (4) |December 17 - Doha||0 (0)|**** (pen.)|0 (3)

Semi-finals

Third place play-off

Wang Baoshan Wu Wenbing Ansarifard Ghayeghran

Final

Main article: 1988 AFC Asian Cup final

Lee Tae-ho Byun Byung-joo Kim Joo-sung Cho Yoon-hwan Abd Al-Jawad Abdullah Al-Mutlaq Al-Bishi

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:

KOR Lee Tae-ho

2 goals:

CHN Ma Lin
CHN Xie Yuxin
IRN Farshad Pious
KOR Byun Byung-joo
KOR Chung Hae-won
KOR Hwang Sun-hong
KOR Kim Joo-sung
QAT Adel Khamis
QAT Mansour Muftah
QAT Khalid Salman 1 goal:
BHR Fahad Mohamed
CHN Gao Sheng
CHN Mai Chao
CHN Zhang Xiaowen
IRN Karim Bavi
KUW Adel Abbas
KUW Mansour Basha
KSA Saleh Al-Mutlaq
KSA Mohamed Al-Suwaiyed
KSA Fahad Al-Bishi
KSA Yousuf Jazea'a
KSA Majed Abdullah
SYR Walid Abu Al-Sel
SYR Walid Al-Nasser
UAE Hassan Mohamed
UAE Abdulaziz Mohamed 1 own goal
UAE Muhsin Musabah (for Qatar)

Awards

Most Valuable Player

KOR Kim Joo-sung

Top scorer

KOR Lee Tae-ho

Best Goalkeeper

CHN Zhang Huikang

Best Forward

KOR Lee Tae-ho

Team of the Tournament

Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forward
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

Notes

References

(2011-01-07). "Asian Cup: Know Your History - Part One (1956-1988)". Goal.com.
"1988 AFC Asian Cup".
"Asian Cup 1988 Qatar » Schedule".
(2024-01-11). "日本サッカーの夜明け前にあった「幻のアジア挑戦」初出場の1988年大会、B代表で“ぶっつけ本番”【コラム】".
(16 December 2010). "Asian Nations Cup 1988".

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