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1996 AFC Asian Cup

FieldValue
year1996
other_titlesكأس آسيا 1996
image1996 AFC Asian Cup logo.svg
size200px
countryUnited Arab Emirates
dates4–21 December
num_teams12
venues3
cities3
championKSA
count3
secondUAE
thirdIRN
fourthKUW
matches26
goals80
attendance448000
top_scorerIRN Ali Daei (8 goals)
playerIRN Khodadad Azizi
goalkeeperKSA Mohamed Al-Deayea
fair_play
prevseason[1992](1992-afc-asian-cup)
nextseason[2000](2000-afc-asian-cup)

The 1996 AFC Asian Cup was the 11th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The finals were held in the United Arab Emirates between 4 and 21 December 1996. Saudi Arabia defeated hosts United Arab Emirates in the final match in Abu Dhabi. As the runners-up, the United Arab Emirates represented the AFC in the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup as the winners Saudi Arabia had qualified automatically as host.

Qualification

Main article: 1996 AFC Asian Cup qualification

33 teams participated in a preliminary tournament. It was divided into 10 groups and the first-placed team of each group thus qualified.

The qualifying teams were:

CountryQualified asDate qualification was securedPrevious appearances in tournament[1](1), [2](2)
29 April 1993([1980](1980-afc-asian-cup), [1984](1984-afc-asian-cup), [1988](1988-afc-asian-cup), [1992](1992-afc-asian-cup))
8 November 1992([1988](1988-afc-asian-cup), ***[1992](1992-afc-asian-cup)***)
2 February 1996(**[1984](1984-afc-asian-cup)**, **[1988](1988-afc-asian-cup)**, [1992](1992-afc-asian-cup))
4 February 1996([1976](1976-afc-asian-cup), [1980](1980-afc-asian-cup), [1984](1984-afc-asian-cup), [1988](1988-afc-asian-cup), [1992](1992-afc-asian-cup))
6 March 1996(Debut)
19 June 1996(Debut)
20 June 1996([1972](1972-afc-asian-cup), [1976](1976-afc-asian-cup), ***[1980](1980-afc-asian-cup)***, [1984](1984-afc-asian-cup), [1988](1988-afc-asian-cup))
21 June 1996(***[1968](1968-afc-asian-cup)***, **[1972](1972-afc-asian-cup)**, ***[1976](1976-afc-asian-cup)***, [1980](1980-afc-asian-cup), [1984](1984-afc-asian-cup), [1988](1988-afc-asian-cup), [1992](1992-afc-asian-cup))
9 July 1996(*[1972](1972-afc-asian-cup)*, [1992](1992-afc-asian-cup))
19 July 1996([1980](1980-afc-asian-cup), [1984](1984-afc-asian-cup), [1988](1988-afc-asian-cup))
11 August 1996(**[1956](1956-afc-asian-cup)**, ***[1960](1960-afc-asian-cup)***, [1964](1964-afc-asian-cup), [1972](1972-afc-asian-cup), [1980](1980-afc-asian-cup), [1984](1984-afc-asian-cup), [1988](1988-afc-asian-cup))
13 August 1996([1972](1972-afc-asian-cup), [1976](1976-afc-asian-cup))

Notes: :1 Bold indicates champion for that year :2 Italic indicates host

Squads

Tournament summary

The tournament began with host United Arab Emirates against South Korea in group A, where the Emiratis played in a 1–1 draw. Subsequently, Kuwait was surprisingly held to a draw by Indonesia, the lead even being taken by the Indonesians. However, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and South Korea eventually established their position, with South Korea finishing in third place due to losing to Kuwait and inferior goal difference and qualified only as one of two best third-placed teams, while the host comfortably seized first place, leaving Indonesia bottom after two consecutive defeats to South Korea and the UAE.

Group B easily saw Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq took three leading places in their group, with both teams managed to beat Thailand, which finished bottom with three defeats, and also each three of them suffered one defeat one to another. Iraq only finished third due to inferior goal difference, but qualified as the best third-place finisher.

Meanwhile, group C was more entertaining, with both three last finishers grabbed one win each only. Debutant Uzbekistan, on its just first ever competitive participation of a major tournament and was regarded low, stunned entire of Asia by beating China with two late goals to gain three points in the team's just first competitive match. Defending champions Japan however emerged as the only team to collect all three victories, while China recovered following the defeat to beat Syria. The Syrians grabbed its only win, a 2–1 win over Uzbekistan, but the team's poor performance, with two defeats to Japan and China, cost the team from reaching the quarter-finals. Uzbekistan finished last despite the win over China, and was eliminated as well.

The quarter-finals saw entire of East Asia slumped out. Defending champions Japan was crushed down by Kuwait, China lost after a seven-goal thriller with Saudi Arabia, while South Korea suffered a denting 2–6 loss to Iran, with Iran scored five goals in the second half. The host UAE continued its quest to win the trophy with a successful 1–0 win over Iraq thanked for the golden goal of Abdulrahman Ibrahim. The semi-finals became a West Asian affair and rematches of group A and B: Saudi Arabia took a successful revenge on Iran following the group stage, beating the Iranians on penalty, while the UAE killed Kuwaiti dream for the second time with another 1–0 win to set up final with Saudi Arabia. Iran eventually took third place after beating Kuwait on penalty, the match ended 1–1 draw.

The final between the UAE and Saudi Arabia happened to be boring than expected. The two teams played defensively and lacking enthusiastic attacks in front of 60,000 spectators. Eventually, penalty had to be brought out, where the UAE missed two while Saudi Arabia only missed one, thus Saudi Arabia was crowned for its third trophy in the country's fourth consecutive Asian Cup final. Thanked for the win, Saudi Arabia gained automatic berth to qualify for the 2000 AFC Asian Cup held in Lebanon.

Venues

Abu DhabiAl AinDubai{{location map+United Arab Emiratesfloat=rightwidth=300caption=places=
Sheikh Zayed StadiumTahnoun bin Mohammed Stadium
Capacity: **60,000**Capacity: **15,000**
[[File:Gulf Cup (36).jpg200px]][[File:Al Ain Club By Eng. Fadi Fayyadh Al Toubeh - panoramio.jpg200px]]
Al-Maktoum Stadium
Capacity: **12,000**
[[File:Al Maktoum Stadium 20190110.jpg200px]]

First round

All times are UAE time (UTC+4)

Group A

Ronny Haji

Al-Talyani B. Saad

Hwang Sun-Hong Ko Jeong-Woon Widodo

Al-Talyani

B. Abdullah

Group B

Al-Mehallel Al-Muwallid Al-Jaber

Sabbar

Minavand Daei

Daei Azizi

Hussein

Group C

Takagi

Shatskikh

Miura Maezono

Gao Feng Li Bing

Cheikh-Dib

Third-placed qualifiers

At the end of the first stage, a comparison was made between the third placed teams of each group. The two best third-placed teams advanced to the quarter-finals.

Iraq (best third-place) and South Korea (second best third-place) qualified for the quarter-finals.

Knockout stage

All times are UAE time (UTC+4)

|15 December – Abu Dhabi|**** |1||0 |15 December – Al Ain||2||0 |16 December – Dubai||2||6 |16 December – Abu Dhabi||4||3 |18 December – Abu Dhabi||1||0 |18 December – Abu Dhabi||0 (3)|**** (pen.)|0 (4) |21 December – Abu Dhabi||0 (2)|**** (pen.)|0 (4) |21 December – Abu Dhabi||1 (2)|**** (pen.)|1 (3)

Quarter-finals

Shin Tae-Yong Azizi Daei

Al-Jaber Al-Mehallel Peng Weiguo

Semi-finals

Peyrovani Yazdani Estili Bagheri Khakpour Sulaimani Zubromawi Al-Muwallid Al-Harbi Madani

Third place play-off

Estili Peyrovani Bagheri B. Abdullah Al-Lenqawi Mubarak Al-Huwaidi

Final

Main article: 1996 AFC Asian Cup final

Hussain K. Saad Saeed Zubromawi Al-Harbi Al-Temawi Al-Muwallid

Portugal Nelo Vingada

Statistics

Goalscorers

With eight goals, Iran's Ali Daei is the top scorer of the tournament. In total, 80 goals were scored by 47 different players, with one of them credited as an own goal.

8 goals

  • IRN Ali Daei

6 goals

  • KUW Jasem Al-Huwaidi

4 goals

  • KSA Fahad Al-Mehallel

3 goals

  • KOR Hwang Sun-Hong
  • UAE Hassan Saeed 2 goals
  • CHN Zhang Enhua
  • IDN Widodo Putro
  • IDN Ronny Wabia
  • IRN Khodadad Azizi
  • IRN Karim Bagheri
  • IRQ Haidar Mahmoud
  • IRQ Laith Hussein
  • JPN Masakiyo Maezono
  • KOR Kim Do-Hoon
  • KSA Sami Al-Jaber
  • KSA Khalid Al-Temawi
  • KSA Yousuf Al-Thunayan
  • SYR Nader Joukhadar
  • UAE Adnan Al-Talyani 1 goal
  • CHN Gao Feng
  • CHN Ma Mingyu
  • CHN Li Bing
  • CHN Peng Weiguo
  • IRN Mehrdad Minavand
  • IRN Naeim Saadavi
  • IRQ Hussam Fawzi
  • IRQ Khalid Mohammed Sabbar
  • JPN Kazuyoshi Miura
  • JPN Hiroshi Nanami
  • JPN Naoki Soma
  • JPN Takuya Takagi
  • KOR Ko Jeong-Woon
  • KOR Shin Tae-Yong
  • KUW Bashar Abdullah
  • KUW Badr Haji
  • KUW Hani Al Saqer
  • KSA Khalid Al-Muwallid
  • SYR Ali Cheikh Dib
  • THA Dusit Chalermsan
  • THA Kiatisuk Senamuang
  • UAE Abdulrahman Ibrahim
  • UAE Saad Bakheet Mubarak
  • UAE Khamis Saad
  • UZB Sergey Lebedev
  • UZB Oleg Shatskikh
  • UZB Igor Shkvyrin 1 own goal
  • SYR Hassan Abbas (for Japan)

Awards

Best player

  • IRN Khodadad Azizi

Top scorer

  • IRN Ali Daei

Best goalkeeper

  • KSA Mohamed Al-Deayea

Fair play award

Team of the Tournament

GoalkeepersDefendersMidfieldersForwards

Marketing

Sponsorships

  • Canon Inc.
  • Clarion
  • Coca-Cola
  • Diadora
  • Emirates
  • Energizer
  • Fujifilm
  • Gillette
  • Mild Seven
  • Mitsubishi
  • SABIC
  • Sanyo

References

References

  1. (12 January 2017). "AFC Asian Cup Archive: When Saudi Arabia reigned supreme in 1996".
  2. (8 December 2018). "كأس آسيا 1996.. عندما انتزع المنتخب السعودي اللقب من الإمارات صاحب الأرض". Sport 360.
  3. (1994-07-21). "Drinks company cash boost for Asia".
  4. (1995-01-16). "Why soccer struggles to kick tobacco".
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