The 1984 AFC Asian Cup was the 8th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The finals were hosted by Singapore between 1 December and 16 December 1984. The field of ten teams was split into two groups of five. Saudi Arabia won their first title, beating China in the final 2–0.
Qualification
21 teams competed in qualifying for the 1984 AFC Asian Cup with the teams being separated into three groups of five teams and one group of six. The top two of each group would qualify through to the Asian Cup as they would join Singapore and Kuwait who automatically qualified. At the end of the qualifying, the remaining eight teams was filled in which included Saudi Arabia as they made their finals debut.
Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearance 0 (debut) 30 September 1980 15 August 1984 15 August 1984 26 October 1984 0 (debut) 12 May 1979 19 October 1984 19 October 1984 20 October 1984 20 October 1984 1 (1980)
Venue
Kallang National Stadium Capacity: 55,000
Squads
Group stage All times are Singapore Standard Time (UTC+8)
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Awards
Winners
Individual awards Top GoalscorersBest GoalkeeperMost Valuable PlayerFastest Goal AwardFair Play Award Jia Xiuquan Shahrokh Bayani Nasser Mohammadkhani Abdullah Al-Deayea Jia Xiuquan Walid Abu Al-Sel
Goalscorers
With three goals, Jia Xiuquan from China, Shahrokh Bayani and Nasser Mohammadkhani from Iran are the top scorers in the tournament. In total, 44 goals were scored by 34 different players, with four of them credited as own goals.
3 goals
Jia Xiuquan Shahrokh Bayani Nasser Mohammadkhani
2 goals
Gu Guangming Zhao Dayu Majed Abdullah Razali Saad
1 goal
Li Huayun Lin Lefeng Yang Zhaohui Zuo Shusheng Hamid Alidousti Zia Arabshahi Abdullah Al-Buloushi Faisal Al-Dakhil Muayad Al-Haddad Ibrahim Khalfan Khalid Salman Ali Zaid Mohammed Abduljawad Mohaisen Al-Jam'an Shaye Al-Nafisah Saleh Khalifa Malik Awab Lee Tae-ho Walid Abu Al-Sel Radwan Al-Sheikh Hassan Farooq Abdulrahman Adnan Al-Talyani Fahad Khamees
1 own goal Shahin Bayani (against Saudi Arabia) Ibrahim Al-Rumaihi (against Kuwait) Mubarak Anber (against Syria) Issam Mahrous (against Kuwait)
References
External links Details at RSSSF The Awards