1988 AFC ASIAN CUP

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The Asian Football Confederation's '1988 AFC Asian Cup' finals were held in Qatar between December 2 and December 18. Saudi Arabia defeated Republic of Korea in the final match in Doha.

Contents

Qualification

First round

Notes:

Group A

Group B

Semi-finals

Third Place Match

Final

Knockout Map

Result

Awards

Scoring players

Top scoring teams

Qualification

★ qualified automatically as host

★ qualified automatically as defending champions
The other 8 qualifying teams were:

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First round

Notes:

★ Abbreviations:

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★ Pld: games played

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★ W: won

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★ D: drawn

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★ L: lost

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★ GF: goals for

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★ GA: goals against

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★ Pts: points

Group A

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	4	4	0	0	9	2	'8'
	4	2	1	1	3	3	'5'
	4	2	0	2	7	6	'4'
	4	1	0	3	2	4	'2'
	4	0	1	3	0	6	'1'

December 2
	'Iran'	'2 – 0'	'Qatar'
		(HT: 1 – 0)			Ref:Micheal Voutrou (FRA)
	Bavi 6'
	Pious 82'
December 3
	'Rep. of Korea'	'1 – 0'	'U.A.E.'		Doha Al-Ahly Stadium (1500)
		(HT: 1 – 0)			Ref: George Courtney (ENG)
	Lee 8'
December 4
	'Iran'	'0 – 0'	'Japan'
		(HT: 0 – 0)			Ref:Thompson TANSHAN
December 5
	'Qatar'	'4 – 2'	'U.A.E.'
		(HT: 2 – 1)
	Muftah 17'		Mohomed 35'
	Faray 26'
December 6
	'Rep. of Korea'	'2 – 0'	'Japan'		Doha Qatar SC Stadium (15:00)
		(HT: 2 – 0)			Ref:Salah Mohammed Karim (IRQ)
	Hwang 17'
	Kim 35'
December 8
	'Iran'	'1 – 0'	'U.A.E.'
		(HT: 1 – 0)			Ref:Steven Owens (TUN)
	Pious 28'
December 9
	'Rep. of Korea'	'3 – 2'	'Qatar'		Doha Qatar SC Stadium (1700)
		(HT: 2 – 0)			Ref:George Courtney (ENG)
	Chung 10'		Salman (''pen'')47'
	Kim 34'		Salman (''pen'')80'
	Chung 72'
December 10
	'Japan'	'0 – 1'	'U.A.E.'
		(HT: 0 – 0)
			Muhammad 80'
December 11
	'Rep. of Korea'	'3 – 0'	'Iran'		Doha Al-Ahly Stadium (1700)
		(HT: 2 – 0)			Ref:Naji Jouieni (TUN)
	Byun 26'
	Hwang 42'
	Byun 57'
December 12
	'Qatar'	'3 – 0'	'Japan'
		(HT: 0 – 0)
	Khamis 58'
	Khamis 82'
	Muftah 90'

Group B

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	4	2	2	0	4	1	'6'
	4	2	1	1	6	3	'5'
	4	2	0	2	2	5	'4'
	4	0	3	1	2	3	'3'
	4	0	2	2	1	3	'2'

December 2
	'Saudi Arabia'	'2 – 0'	'Syria'
		(HT: 1 – 0)
	Al-Saleh 20'
	Sherbani 82'
December 3
	'Kuwait'	'0 – 0'	'Bahrain'
		(HT: 0 – 0)
December 4
	'P.R. China'	'3 – 0'	'Syria'
		(HT: 3 – 0)
	Gao 13'
	Xie 14'
	Xie 19'
December 5
	'Saudi Arabia'	'0 – 0'	'Kuwait'
		(HT: 0 – 0)
December 6
	'P.R. China'	'1 – 0'	'Bahrain'
		(HT: 0 – 0)
	Zhang 78'
December 8
	'Syria'	'1 – 0'	'Kuwait'
		(HT: 1 – 0)
	Nasser 63'
December 9
	'Saudi Arabia'	'1 – 1'	'Bahrain'
		(HT: 0 – 1)
	Al-Ja'azeh 78'		Muhammad (''pen'')44'
December 10
	'P.R. China'	'2 – 2'	'Kuwait'
		(HT: 1 – 0)
	Ma 10'		Hussein (''pen'')60'
	Ma 87'		Muhammad (''pen'')62'
December 11
	'Bahrain'	'0 – 1'	'Syria'
		(HT: 0 – 0)
			Al-Hel 72'
December 12
	'Saudi Arabia'	'1 – 0'	'P.R. China'
		(HT: 0 – 0)
	Alibishin 56'

Semi-finals

December 14	'Rep.of Korea'	'2 – 1'	'P.R. CHINA'
		(HT: 0 – 0)
		(FT: 0 – 0)
	Lee 93'		Mai 100'
	Lee 102'
December 15	'Saudi Arabia'	'1 – 0'	'Iran'
		(HT:1 – 0)
	Abdullah 20'

Third Place Match

December 17
	'Iran'	'0 – 0'	'P.R. China'
		(HT: 0 – 0)
		(FT: 0 – 0)
		(AET: 0 – 0)
	'Iran wins 3 – 0 on penalties'

Final

December 18
	'Saudi Arabia'	'0 – 0'	'Rep. of Korea'
		(HT: 0 – 0)
		(FT: 0 – 0)
		(AET: 0 – 0)
	'Saudi Arabia wins 4 – 3 on penalties'

Knockout Map

Result

'AFC Asian Cup 1988 Winners' 'Saudi Arabia' '2nd Title'

Awards

===MVP (Most Valuable Player)===

★ Kim Joo-Sung
===Top Scorer===

★ Lee Tae-Ho - '3 goals'
===Best Goalkeeper===

★ Zhang Huikang

Scoring players

'3 goals:'

★ Lee Tae-Ho
'2 goals:'

★ Ma Lin

★ Xie Yuxin

★ Farshad Pious

★ Adel Khamis

★ Mansour Muftah

★ Khalid Salman

★ Byun Byung-Joo

★ Chung Hae-Won

★ Hwang Seong-Hong

★ Kim Joo-Sung
'1 goal:'

★ Favad Muhammad

★ Gao Shang

★ Mai Chao

★ Zhang Xiaowen

★ Karim Bavi

★ Adel Hussein

★ Mansoor Muhammad

★ Moshin Faray

★ Saleh Mubarak Al-Saleh

★ Mohamed Sherbani

★ Fand Alibishin

★ Yousuf Al-Ja’Azeh

★ Majed Abdullah

★ Walid Nasser

★ Walid Al-Hel

★ Mohamed Hasan Hussain

★ Abdul Aziz Muhammad

Top scoring teams

'11 goals:'

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'7 goals:'

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'5 goals:'

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'3 goals:'

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'2 goals:'

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'1 goal:'

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'0 goal:'

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