Asian Cup - Definition


Asian Cup - Definition

The AFC Asian Cup, formerly known as the Asian Nations Cup is the main national football competition of the AFC nations. It has been held every four years since 1956. A qualifying tournament is held to determine the participating nations, currently this involves two rounds of league round-robin format. The host country and defending champions qualify automatically. While only four countries were admitted to the first Asian Cup in 1956, the field of participants now comprises sixteen nations qualified from an initial 43.

Results

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up	3rd Place	Score	4th Place
1956 Details	Hong Kong	Rep. of Korea		Israel	Hong Kong		Rep. of Vietnam
1960 Details	Rep. of Korea	Rep. of Korea		Israel	Taiwan		Rep. of Vietnam
1964 Details	Israel	Israel		India	Rep. of Korea		Hong Kong
1968 Details	Iran	Iran		Burma	Israel		Taiwan
1972 Details	Thailand	Iran	2 - 1	Rep. of Korea	Thailand	2 - 2	Cambodia
1972 Details	Thailand	Iran	2 - 1	Rep. of Korea	5 - 3 on penalties
1976 Details	Iran	Iran	1 - 0	Kuwait	P.R. China	1 - 0	Iraq
1980 Details	Lebanon	Kuwait	3 - 0	Rep. of Korea	Iran	3 - 0	D.P.R.Korea
1984 Details	Singapore	Saudi Arabia	2 - 0	P.R. China	Kuwait	1 - 1	Iran
1984 Details	Singapore	Saudi Arabia	2 - 0	P.R. China	3 - 2 on penalties
1988 Details	Qatar	Saudi Arabia	0 - 0	Rep. of Korea	Iran	0 - 0	P.R. China
1988 Details	Qatar	4 - 3 on penalties			3 - 0 on penalties
1992 Details	Japan	Japan	1 - 0	Saudi Arabia	P.R. China	1 - 1	U.A.E.
1992 Details	Japan	Japan	1 - 0	Saudi Arabia	3 - 2 on penalties
1996 Details	U.A.E.	Saudi Arabia	0 - 0	U.A.E.	Iran	1 - 1	Kuwait
1996 Details	U.A.E.	4 - 2 on penalties			3 - 2 on penalties
2000 Details	Lebanon	Japan	1 - 0	Saudi Arabia	Rep. of Korea	1 - 0	P.R. China
2004 Details	P.R. China	Japan	3 - 1	P.R. China	Iran	4 - 2	Bahrain
2007 Details	Indonesia/Malaysia Thailand/Vietnam