Asian Cup 1992 - Definition and Overview

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

Contents

1 Stadiums

2 Qualification

3 First round

3.1 Notes:
3.2 Group A
3.3 Group B

Stadiums

Big Arch Stadium (Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima)
Bingo Sports Park Athletics Stadium (Onomichi,Hiroshima)
Hiroshima Stadium (Nishi-ku, Hiroshima)

Qualification

Japan qualified automatically as host
Saudi Arabia qualified automatically as defending champions

The other 6 qualifying teams were:

For details of qualifying matches check Asian Cup 1992 (qualifying).

First round

All times local (GMT + 0900)

Notes:

Abbreviations:
- Pld: games played
- W: won
- D: drawn
- L: lost
- GF: goals for
- GA: goals against
- Pts: points

Group A

Group A matches were held in Hiroshima.

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
U.A.E.	3	1	2	0	2	1	5
Japan	3	1	2	0	2	1	5
Iran	3	1	1	1	2	1	3
D.P.R. Korea	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)
	Peyous 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
		(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
Saudi Arabia	3	1	2	0	6	2	5
P.R.China	3	1	2	0	3	2	5
Qatar	3	0	2	1	3	4	2
Thailand	3	0	2	1	1	5	2


October 29
	Saudi Arabia	1 – 1	P.R. China
		(HT: 1 – 0)		Ref: Sinichoro Obata (JAP)
	Al-Thunyan 17'		Li Bang 41'


	Qatar	1 – 1	Thailand
		(HT: 1 – 1)		Ref: Hossein Khoshkhan (IRN)
	Soufi 17'		Thanis Areesngarkul 42'

October 31
	Saudi Arabia	1 – 1	Qatar
		(HT: 0 – 0)		Ref: Jouini Neji (TUN)
	Al-Muwallid 86'		Noorallah 74'

	P.R. China	0 – 0	Thailand
		(HT: 0 – 0)		Ref: Noh Byung Il (ROK)

November 2
	Saudi Arabia	4 – 0	Thailand
		(HT: 0 – 0)		Ref: Ali Bujsaim (UAE)

	Owairan 4'
	Al-Bishi 19'
	Al-Thunyan 64'
	Al-Bishi 72'

	P.R. China	2 – 1	Qatar
		(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.	Hiroshima
		(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'




	Asian Cup 1992 champions: JAPAN

Scoring players

3 goals

Fahad A.F. Al-Bishi

2 goals

Peng Weiguo
Masashi Nakayama
Kim Kwangmin
Saeed Owairan - Yousef Ibrahim Al-Thunyan

1 goal

Xie Yuxin - Li Bang - Li Xiao - Hao Haidong
Sirous Ghayeghran - Farshad Peyous
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 - Bakhit Saad Mubarak - Khalid Ismail Mubarak

Top scoring teams

8 goals

Saudi Arabia

6 goals