1992 AFC ASIAN CUP

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The Asian Football Confederation's '1992 AFC Asian Cup' finals were held in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan between October 29 and November 8. The host nation, Japan, defeated the defending champion Saudi Arabia in the final in Hiroshima.

Contents

Stadiums

Qualification

Squads

First round

Notes:

Group A

Group B

Semi-finals

Third Place Match

Final

Knockout Map

Result

Awards

Scoring players

Top scoring teams

Stadiums

★ Big Arch Stadium (Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima)

★ Bingo Sports Park Athletics Stadium (Onomichi, Hiroshima)

★ Hiroshima Stadium (Nishi-ku, Hiroshima)

Qualification

★ qualified automatically as host

★ qualified automatically as defending champions
The other 6 qualifying teams were:

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Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1992 AFC Asian Cup squads

First round

''All times local (GMT + 0900)''

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

Group A matches were held in Hiroshima.

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

October 30
	'Iran'	'2 – 0'	'D.P.R. Korea'		Bingo Sports Park
		(HT: 1 – 0)			Ref: Omar Al-Mehanna (KSA)
	Pious 30'
	Ghayeghran 80'
	'Japan'	'0 – 0'	'U.A.E.'		Bingo Sports Park (1900)
		(HT: 0 – 0)			Ref: Wie Jihong (CHN)
November 1
	' Iran'	'0 – 0'	'U.A.E.'		Bingo Sports Park
		(HT: 0 – 0)			Ref: Jamal Al-Sharif (SYR)
	'Japan'	'1 – 1'	'D.P.R. Korea'		Big Arch Stadium (1400)
		(HT: 0 – 1)			Ref: Rasheed Al-Jassas (KUW)
	Nakayama 80'		Kim Kwangmin 29'
November 3
	'U.A.E.'	'2 – 1'	'D.P.R. Korea'		Big Arch Stadium
		(HT: 0 – 0)			Ref: Jouini Neji (TUN)
	Mubarak 81'		Kim Kwangmin 69'
	Bakhit Bilal 85'
	'Japan'	'1 – 0'	'Iran'		Big Arch Stadium (1400)
		(HT: 0 – 0)			Ref: Jamal Al-Sharif (SYR)
	Miura 85'

Group B

Group B matches were held in Hiroshima.

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

October 29
	'Saudi Arabia'	'1 – 1'	'P.R. China'	Big Arch Stadium
		(HT: 1 – 0)		Ref: Sinichoro Obata (JAP)
	Al-Thunayan 17'		Li Bang 41'
	'Qatar'	'1 – 1'	'Thailand'	Big Arch Stadium
		(HT: 1 – 1)		Ref: Hossein Khoshkhan (IRN)
	Soufi 17'		Thanis Areesngarkul 42'
October 31
	'Saudi Arabia'	'1 – 1'	'Qatar'	Hiroshima Stadium
		(HT: 0 – 0)		Ref: Jouini Neji (TUN)
	Al-Muwallid 86'		Noorallah 74'
	'P.R. China'	'0 – 0'	'Thailand'	Hiroshima Stadium
		(HT: 0 – 0)		Ref: Noh Byung Il (ROK)
November 2
	'Saudi Arabia'	'4 – 0'	'Thailand'	Bingo Sports Park
		(HT: 2 – 0)		Ref: Ali Bujsaim (UAE)
	Owairan 4'
	Al-Bishi 19'
	Al-Thunayan 64'
	Al-Bishi 72'
	'P.R. China'	'2 – 1'	'Qatar'	Bingo Sports Park
		(HT: 1 – 1)
	Peng Weiguo 44'		Al-Sulaiti 20'
	Peng Weiguo 58'

Semi-finals

November 6
''SF1'':	'Japan'	'3 – 2'	'P.R. CHINA'		Hiroshima Stadium (1630)
		(HT: 0 – 1)			Ref: Hussein Khoshkhan (IRN)
		(FT: 3 – 2)
	Fukuda 48'		Yuxin Xie 1'
	Kitazawa 57'		Xiao Li 70'
	Nakayama 84'
''SF2'':	'Saudi Arabia'	'2 – 0'	'U.A.E.'		Hiroshima Stadium
		(HT:0 – 0)			Ref: Rasheed Al-Jassas (KUW)
		(FT: 2 – 0)
	Owairan 67'
	Al-Bishi 80'

Third Place Match

November 7
	'P.R. CHINA'	'1 – 1'	'U.A.E.'		Big Arch Stadium
		(HT: 1 – 1)			Ref: Jouini Neji (TUN)
	Hao Haidong 15'		Mubarak 10'
	'China wins 4 – 3 on penalties'

Final

November 8
	'Japan'	'1 – 0'	'Saudi Arabia'		Hiroshima Big Arch
		(HT: 1 – 0)			Ref: Jamal Al-Sharif (SYR)
	Takagi 6'

Knockout Map

Result

'AFC Asian Cup 1992 Winners' 'Japan' '1st Title'

Awards

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

★ Takuya Takagi
===Top Scorer===

★ Fahad Al-Bishi - '3 goals'

Scoring players

'3 goals'

★ Fahad Al-Bishi
'2 goals'

★ Peng Weiguo

★ Masashi Nakayama

★ Kim Kwangmin

★ Saeed Owairan

★ Yousef Ibrahim Al-Thunyan

★ Khalid Ismail Mubarak
'1 goal'

★ Xie Yuxin

★ Li Bang

★ Li Xiao

★ Hao Haidong

★ Sirous Ghayeghran

★ Farshad Pious

★ Kazuyoshi Miura

★ Masahiro Fukuda

★ Tsuyoshi Kitazawa

★ Takuya Takagi

★ Mubarak Mustafa Noorallah

★ Khalifa Khamis Al-Sulaiti

★ Mahmoud Yasin Soufi

★ Khalid Mossaed Al-Muwallid

★ Thanis Areesngarkul

★ Zuhair Bakhit Bilal

Top scoring teams

'8 goals'

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'6 goals'

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'3 goals'

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'2 goals'

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'1 goal'

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