The 1988 AFC Asian Cup was the 9th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international association football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The finals were held in Qatar between 2 December and 18 December 1988. Saudi Arabia defeated South Korea in the final match in Doha.
Qualification
Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearance 16 December 1984 17 February 1988 16 February 1988 18 April 1988 18 April 1988 0 (debut) 3 June 1988 4 June 1988 22 June 1988 0 (debut) 22 June 1988
Squads
Venues
City Stadium Capacity Doha Al-Ahly Stadium 20,000 Qatar SC Stadium
First round All times are Qatar time (UTC+3)
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage All times are Qatar time (UTC+3)
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Statistics Goalscorers
With three goals, South Korea's Lee Tae-Ho is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 40 goals were scored by 28 different players, with only one of them credited as an own goal.
3 goals: Lee Tae-ho
2 goals:
Ma Lin Xie Yuxin Farshad Pious Byun Byung-joo Chung Hae-won Hwang Sun-hong Kim Joo-sung Adel Khamis Mansour Muftah Khalid Salman
1 goal:
Fahad Mohamed Gao Sheng Mai Chao Zhang Xiaowen Karim Bavi Adel Abbas Mansour Basha Saleh Al-Mutlaq Mohamed Al-Suwaiyed Fahad Al-Bishi Yousuf Jazea'a Majed Abdullah Walid Abu Al-Sel Walid Al-Nasser Hassan Mohamed Abdulaziz Mohamed
1 own goal Muhsin Musabah (for Qatar)
Awards Most Valuable Player Kim Joo-sung
Top scorer Lee Tae-ho
Best Goalkeeper Zhang Huikang
Best Forward Lee Tae-ho
Team of the Tournament Goalkeeper Defenders Midfielders Forward Zhang Huikang Abdullah Al-Deayea Mohamed Al-Jawad Saleh Nu'eimeh Park Kyung-hoon Chung Yong-hwan Xie Yuxin Mohamed Salim Mahboub Juma'a Sirous Ghayeghran Chung Hae-won Adel Khamis Abdulaziz Al-Hajeri Byun Byung-joo Youssef Al-Thunayan Majed Abdullah Kim Joo-sung Wang Baoshan
Notes
References
External links RSSSF Details