Football at the 2018 Asian Games

Football at the 2018 Asian Games was held from 14 August to 1 September 2018 in Indonesia. One of the host cities, Palembang, hosted the women's event, while the men's matches are played in Bekasi, Cibinong, Cikarang, and Soreang.

The Games' main stadium, the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta did not host the football events. The stadium hosted the ceremonies and the athletics.

All the top 20 nations sent their national football teams to the Asian Games excluding India. A total of 25 men's team and 11 women's team competed at the Asian Games. The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) refused to clear the Indian football team to participate in the tournament due its policy of only sending national teams that were ranked among the top eight at the continental level (India were ranked 14th at the time in Asia). The decision was opposed by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) who described the IOA as lacking "vision and competence", and that the IOA did not consider the recent form and upwards movement of the India national football team in FIFA World Rankings. This was the first time that the Indian football team did not participate in the tournament since the 1994 Asian Games. Several nations also refused to participate most notably including Tajikistan, Maldives, Yemen and Lebanon; the latter two teams will participate in 2019 AFC Asian Cup.

Competition schedule All times are local Indonesia Western Standard Time (UTC+7). GGroup stageRound of 16Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsBBronze medal matchFGold medal match Fri 10 Sat 11 Sun 12 Mon 13 Tue 14 Wed 15 Thu 16 Fri 17 Sat 18 Sun 19 Mon 20 Tue 21 Wed 22 Thu 23 Fri 24 Sat 25 Sun 26 Mon 27 Tue 28 Wed 29 Thu 30 Fri 31 Sat 01 Men G G G G B F Women G G B F

Venues Men's venues

Women's venues

Participating nations and regions Men's tournament

Women's tournament

Medal summary Medal table

Medalists MenSong Bum-keunHwang Hyun-sooKim Min-jaeKim Jin-yaJeong Tae-wookKim Moon-hwanSon Heung-minLee Jin-hyunHwang Hee-chanHwang In-beomNa Sang-hoLee Si-youngCho Yu-minJang Yun-hoLee Seung-moHwang Ui-joLee Seung-wooJo Hyeon-wooKim Geon-ungKim Jung-minRyosuke KojimaYoichi NaganumaMakoto OkazakiKo ItakuraDaiki SugiokaRyo HatsuseTeruki HaraKaoru MitomaReo HatateKoji MiyoshiKeita EndoPowell Obinna ObiYuto IwasakiTaishi MatsumotoAyase UedaKota WatanabeYuta KamiyaDaizen MaedaTakuma OminamiYugo TatsutaSultan Al-MantheriAbdullah Hassan Al-NoubiAhmed RashedSalem SultanIsmael KhaledMajed SuroorAhmed Al-AttasJassem YaqoubKhaled IbrahimAli EidAbdulrahman Al-AmeriAbdullah GhanemMohammed Al-AttasHussain AbdullahMohamed Al-ShamsiHamad JassimMohammed KhalfanShahin SuroorZayed Al-AmeriRashed MohammedWomenSakiko IkedaRisa ShimizuAya SameshimaShiori MiyakeHikari TakagiSaori AriyoshiEmi NakajimaMana IwabuchiYuika SugasawaYuka MomikiMina TanakaRika MasuyaYu NakasatoYui HasegawaMoeno SakaguchiRin SumidaAimi KunitakeAyaka YamashitaZhao LinaHan PengHuang YiniLou JiahuiWu HaiyanLin YupingWang ShuangLi JiayueRen GuixinLi YingWang ShanshanWang YanLi TingtingZhao RongXiao YuyiYang LinaGu YashaLi MengwenBi XiaolinZhang RuiYoon Young-geulJang Sel-giShin Dam-yeongShim Seo-yeonHong Hye-jiLim Seon-jooLee Min-aCho So-hyunJeon Ga-eulJi So-yunLee Geum-minMoon Mi-raHan Chae-rinChoe Yu-riJang ChangSon Hwa-yeonLee Hyun-youngJung Bo-ramLee Eun-miKim Hye-ri

Men's competition

The competition consisted of two stages; a group stage followed by a knockout stage.

Group stage Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Ranking of third-placed teams

Knockout stage

Women's competition