1992 AFC Asian Cup

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

Stadiums

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

Qualification

• Template:JPNf qualified automatically as host
• Template:KSAf qualified automatically as defending champions

The other 6 qualifying teams were:

• Template:CHNf
• Template:IRNf
• Template:PRKf
• Template:QATf
• Template:THAf
• Template:UAEf

Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see Asian Cup 1992 squads

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	4
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)
	Pious 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		Big Arch Stadium
		(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	Big Arch Stadium
		(HT: 1 – 0)		Ref: Sinichoro Obata (JAP)
	Al-Thunyan 17'		Li Bang 41'
	Qatar	1 – 1	Thailand	Big Arch Stadium
		(HT: 1 – 1)		Ref: Hossein Khoshkhan (IRN)
	Soufi 17'		Thanis Areesngarkul 42'
October 31
	Saudi Arabia	1 – 1	Qatar	Hiroshima Stadium
		(HT: 0 – 0)		Ref: Jouini Neji (TUN)
	Al-Muwallid 86'		Noorallah 74'
	P.R. China	0 – 0	Thailand	Hiroshima Stadium
		(HT: 0 – 0)		Ref: Noh Byung Il (ROK)
November 2
	Saudi Arabia	4 – 0	Thailand	Bingo Sports Park
		(HT: 0 – 0)		Ref: Ali Bujsaim (UAE)
	Owairan 4'
	Al-Bishi 19'
	Al-Thunyan 64'
	Al-Bishi 72'
	P.R. China	2 – 1	Qatar	Bingo Sports Park
		(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.		Big Arch Stadium
		(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'

AFC Asian Cup 1992 Winners: Japan 1st Title

Awards

MVP (Most Valuable Player)

• Takuya Takagi

Top Scorer

• Fahad Al-Bishi - 3 goals

Scoring players

3 goals

• Fahad Al-Bishi

2 goals

• Peng Weiguo
• Masashi Nakayama
• Kim Kwangmin
• Saeed Owairan
• Yousef Ibrahim Al-Thunyan
• Khalid Ismail Mubarak

1 goal

• Xie Yuxin
• Li Bang
• Li Xiao
• Hao Haidong
• Sirous Ghayeghran
• Farshad Pious
• 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

Top scoring teams

8 goals

• Saudi Arabia

6 goals

• P.R.China
• Japan

3 goals

• Qatar
• U.A.E.

2 goals

• Iran
• D.P.R. Korea

1 goal

• Thailand