Soccer Asia Cup 2019 / Statistics

This article gives an overview of the records and statistics for the 2019 Asia Cup .

Gates

Goal scorers

rank	Nat	player	Gates	templates	Game minutes
01		Almoez Abdulla	9	1	619
02		Eldor Shomurodov	4th	1	271
03		Yūya Ōsako	4th	1	288
04th		Sardar Azmoun	4th	1	523
05		Ali Mabkhout	4th	1	570
06th		Mehdi Taremi	3	2	342
07th		Vitaly Lux	3	0	319
08th		Abdulaziz Hatem	2	2	484
09		Ashkan Dejagah	2	1	415
10		Genki Haraguchi	2	1	510
11		Ahmed Khalil	2	0	086
12		Yu Dabao	2	0	245
13		Sunil Chhetri	2	0	270
		Hilal El-Helwe	2	0	270
15th		Muhsen al-Ghassani	2	0	278
16		Mohanad Ali	2	0	322
17th		Fahad al-Muwallad	2	0	328
18th		Awer Mabil	2	0	344
19th		Wu Lei	2	0	345
20th		Mohamed al-Romaihi	2	0	361
21st		Nguyễn Công Phượng	2	0	402
22nd		Hwang Ui-jo	2	0	452
23		Kim Min-jae	2	0	480
24		Ritsu Doan	2	0	532
25th		Bassam al-Rawi	2	0	540
26th		Boualem Khoukhi	2	0	601
27		Akram Afif	1	100	630
28		Chris Ikonomidis	1	4th	401
29		Takumi Minamino	1	3	508
30th		Musa al-Taamari	1	2	255
31		Achlidin Israilov	1	2	291
32		Tom Rogic	1	2	366
33		Saman Ghoddos	1	1	248
34		Jaloliddin Masharipov	1	1	289
35		Hattan Bahebri	1	1	346
36		Hwang Hee-chan	1	1	350
37		Ali Adnan	1	1	360
		Housain al-Mogahwi	1	1	360
		Thitipan Puangchan	1	1	360
40		Mirlan Mursayev	1	1	367
41		Hassan al-Haydos	1	1	592
42		Hamid Ismail	1	0	016
43		Alaa Abbas	1	0	038
44		Tursunali Rustamov	1	0	058
45		Karim Ansarifard	1	0	066
46		Xiao Zhi	1	0	088
47		Jeje Lalpekhlua	1	0	102
48		Apostolos Giannou	1	0	155
49		Arslanmyrat Amanov	1	0	156
50		Altymyrat Annadurdyýew	1	0	159
		Anirudh Thapa	1	0	159
52		Ahmet Ataýew	1	0	179
53		Supachai Jaided	1	0	189
54		Tsukasa Shiotani	1	0	206
55		Humam Tariq	1	0	213
56		Yoshinori Muto	1	0	236
57		Pak Kwang-ryong	1	0	241
58		Hassan Maatouk	1	0	256
59		Felix Michel	1	0	257
60		Salem al-Dawsari	1	0	270
		Omar Khribin	1	0	270
		Stephan Schröck	1	0	270
		Omar al-Somah	1	0	270
64		Alireza Jahanbakhsh	1	0	271
65		Bashar Resan	1	0	278
66		Khalfan Mubarak	1	0	285
67		Odil Ahmedov	1	0	286
68		Jamal Rashid	1	0	291
69		Kim Jin-su	1	0	294
70		Javokhir Sidikov	1	0	321
71		Chanathip Songkrasin	1	0	343
72		Ahmed Mubarak	1	0	351
73		Khamis Esmaeel	1	0	354
741		Teerasil Dangda	1	0	360
		Mohammed al-Fatil	1	0	360
		Mohammed al-Musalami	1	0	360
77		Jamie Maclaren	1	0	375
78		Gao Lin	1	0	379
79		Baha'Abdel-Rahman	1	0	390
		Anas Bani Yaseen	1	0	390
		Tareq Khattab	1	0	390
82		Abdelkarim Hassan	1	0	468
83		Nguyễn Quang Hải	1	0	480
		Quế Ngọc Hải	1	0	480
85		Takehiro Tomiyasu	1	0	540

Own goals

•  Ali Faez against Vietnam to 0: 1 (final score: 3: 2)
•  Pawel Matjasch against China for 1: 1 (final score: 1: 2)

Missed penalties

Penalties awarded during the game that were not converted.

•  Hassan al-Haydos in the group game against Saudi Arabia
•  Ahmed Mubarak in the round of 16 against Iran

Special goals

• First goalscorer: Mohamed al-Romaihi (Bahrain) in the 78th minute of the opening game.
• Last goalscorer: Akram Afif (Qatar) with a hand penalty in the 83rd minute of the final.
• First own goal: Pawel Matjasch (Kyrgyzstan) in the 50th minute in the group game against China.
• First penalty: Ahmed Khalil (United Arab Emirates) in the 88th minute of the group game against Bahrain.
• First missed penalty: Hassan al-Haydos (Qatar) in the 42nd minute in the group game against Saudi Arabia.
• Earliest goal: Ali Mabkhout (United Arab Emirates) in the seventh minute of the group game against Thailand.
• Latest goal in regular time: Hilal El-Helwe (Lebanon) in the eighth minute of stoppage time in the second half of the group game against North Korea.
• Fastest goal after substitution: Yu Dabao in the 80th minute, 19 seconds after being substituted for the 3-0 final against the Philippines.
• Fastest equalizer: Omar Khribin in the 43rd minute to 1: 1, two minutes after the 0: 1 in the group game against Australia.
• Most goals in one game: Almoez Abdulla (Qatar) with four goals in the group game against North Korea.
• Most goals-scored game: North Korea v Qatar in Group E with six goals.
• Most goals in the entire competition (including qualification): Mohammad al-Sahlawi (Saudi Arabia) with a total of 14 goals, all of which were scored in qualifying.
• 100th goal of the tournament: Xiao Zhi (China) in the round of 16 against Thailand.

player

Players by year
vintage				number
1980			1
1982			2
1983			4th
1984			13
1985			12
1986			26th
1987			24
1988			34
1989			40
1990			49
1991			42
1992			68
1993			59
1994			53
1995			34
1996			37
1997			31
1998			18th
1999			2
2000			3

team	Average age
Vietnam	23.13
Iraq	23.74
Qatar	24.61
India	24.78
North Korea	25.39
Yemen	25.83
Saudi Arabia	25.87
Bahrain	25.91
Oman	26.04
Kyrgyzstan	26.22
South Korea	26.48
Australia	26.70
Japan	26.87
Turkmenistan	26.87
Uzbekistan	27.00
Iran	27.04
Thailand	27.17
Palestine	27.22
Philippines	27.22
Syria	27.39
Jordan	27.52
Ver. Arab. Emirates	27.74
Lebanon	28.43
China	29.09

Age

The diagram on the right groups the players according to their age group. On the left are the 24 squads with their average age on January 5, 2019, the start of the Asian Cup. The Vietnamese team was the youngest with an average age of 23.13 years, while China started with a squad almost six years older, making them the oldest. ${\displaystyle 24\cdot 23=552}$

• At 38 years and 140 days, the oldest player in the finals was the Chinese Zheng Zhi , who was born on August 20, 1980.
• The oldest goalkeeper was the Jordanian Amer Shafi (born February 14, 1982), when he was first used on January 6, 2019, 36 years and 326 days old.
• The youngest player was the Iraqi striker Mohammed Dawood (born November 22, 2000), who was 18 years and 51 days old when he played for the first time on January 12, 2019.
• The youngest scorer was the Iraqi Mohanad Ali (born June 20, 2000), when he scored his first goal in the competition on January 8, 2019, 18 years and 202 days old.
• The oldest goalscorer was the Indian Sunil Chhetri (born August 3, 1984), who was 34 years and 156 days old when he scored two goals in the competition on January 6, 2019.
• Tareq Khattab and Manuel Ott were closest to the median in terms of age . So 275 players older than both competed in the Asian Cup, as did 275 players younger than both. The two players were born on May 6, 1992.
• The average age of all 552 players on January 5, 2019 was 26.43 years. So the South Korean team was closest to the cut. Emirati midfielder Majed Hassan was exactly the average age of all players.

additional

Four pairs of brothers took part in the final round:

• Lebanon: Felix and Alexander Michel , both started in all three group games.
• Qatar: Akram and Ali Afif , Akram was in the starting line-up in all games, Ali was substituted on in the second group game against North Korea.
• Philippines: Phil and James Younghusband and Mike and Manuel Ott . Phil and Manuel were used in all three group games, James only in the game against Kyrgyzstan and Mike was not used.

With China, India, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam, a total of five teams used only players from the domestic leagues. Most of the players from foreign leagues were in the squad of the Australian (20), Syrian (17) and South Korean (15) teams.

The 552 players were under contract with a total of 255 different clubs in 58 countries from five of the six continental associations , with four players being without a club before the start of the tournament. After the AFC, UEFA had the largest share with 74 players. Most of the players came from the two Central Asian clubs Altyn Asyr FK and FK Dordoi Bishkek (11 each), followed by al-Sadd SC (10), al-Faisaly and Ceres-Negros FC (9 each).

By far the greatest number of players were under contract in the Qatari leagues (46), followed by the Saudi Arabian (31) and the Emirati leagues (28). Of the non-participating countries, the German leagues with 11 players and the English leagues with 9 players were most strongly represented.

Trainer

• Only 4 of the 24 teams were looked after by local coaches. These were: Australia, Japan, North Korea and Turkmenistan.
• Two coaches each came from Argentina, Italy and Portugal. The coaches of Bahrain and Yemen were born in the former Czechoslovakia , the coaches of Thailand, Lebanon and Iraq in the former Yugoslavia and the coaches of Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan in the former Soviet Union .
• Only one country competed with the same head coach as in 2015: Iran with Carlos Queiroz . Graham Arnold had already trained the Australians at the 2007 Asian Cup.
• Three coaches have previously participated with other teams: Pim Verbeek in 2007 with South Korea, Srečko Katanec in 2011 with the United Arab Emirates and Alberto Zaccheroni also in 2011 with Japan.
• The oldest coach was Sven-Göran Eriksson , who was 70 years and 345 days old at the last Philippines game.
• The youngest coach was Kim Yong-jun , who was 35 years and 173 days old when the North Koreans first game.
• Most of the finals as coach before the start of the Asian Cup: Alberto Zaccheroni and Pim Verbeek (6 each); then Zaccheroni at 12.
• Already after the 1: 4 opener defeat against India was Milovan Rajevac dismissed as coach of Thailand. After two games without a win, Syrian coach Bernd Stange was dismissed .
• After their departure, eight other coaches resigned: Stephen Constantine , Sven-Göran Eriksson, Marcello Lippi , Juan Antonio Pizzi , Carlos Queiroz, Miroslav Soukup , Pim Verbeek and Alberto Zaccheroni. The expiring contracts of Ýazguly Hojageldiýew , Kim Yong-jun and Miodrag Radulović were not extended after the tournament.

cards

useful information

• First yellow card : Amer Abdulrahman (United Arab Emirates) in the 35th minute of the opening game
• Fastest yellow card: Nguyễn Trọng Hoàng (Vietnam) in the 1st minute of the game against Iraq
• First yellow-red card : Mohammed Saleh (Palestine) in the 68th minute of the game against Syria
• First red card : Egor Krimets (Uzbekistan) in the 90th + 2 'in the game against Oman

Blocking on the basis of cards

If a player received a yellow card for the second time in the course of the tournament , he was suspended for the following game. Individual yellow cards were canceled after the quarter-finals. After receiving a yellow-red card , the player was suspended for the next game. In the event of a red card , the player was also automatically banned from the following game, whereby the disciplinary committee could issue a higher penalty.

player	cards	In-game suspension
Mohammed Saleh	in Group B against Syria	Group B versus Australia
Han Kwang song	in Group E against Saudi Arabia	Group E versus Qatar
Egor Krimets	in Group F against Oman	Group F versus Turkmenistan
Panza Hemviboon	in group A against India in group A against Bahrain	Group A against the Ver. Arab. Emirates
Jonathan Cantillana	in group B against Syria in group B against Australia	Group B versus Jordan
Trent Sainsbury	in group B against Jordan in group B against Palestine	Group B versus Syria
Musa al-Taamari	in group B against Australia in group B against Syria	Group B versus Palestine
Lee Yong	in group C against the Philippines in group C against Kyrgyzstan	Group C versus China
Đỗ Duy Mạnh	in group D against Iraq in group D against Iran	Group D versus Yemen
Salem al-Dawsari	in group E against North Korea in group E against Lebanon	Group E versus Qatar
Ri Il-jin	in group E against Saudi Arabia in group E against Qatar	Group E versus Lebanon
Jong Il-gwan	in Group E against Qatar
Adisorn Promrak	in group A against Bahrain in group A against Ver. Arab. Emirates	Round of 16 against China
Suphan Thongsong
Zhang Linpeng	in Group C against South Korea in the round of 16 against Thailand	Quarter-finals against Iran
Vahid Amiri	in Group D against Iraq in the round of 16 against Oman	Quarter-finals against China
Yoshinori Muto	in Group F against Uzbekistan in the round of 16 against Saudi Arabia	Quarter-finals against Vietnam
Tom Rogic	in Group B against Palestine in the round of 16 against Uzbekistan	Quarter-finals against the Ver. Arab. Emirates
Khamis Esmaeel	in Group A against Bahrain in the round of 16 against Kyrgyzstan	Quarter-finals against Australia
Assim Madibo	in Group E against Saudi Arabia in the round of 16 against Iraq	Quarter-finals against South Korea
Abdelkarim Hassan	in Group E against North Korea in the round of 16 against Iraq
Mehdi Taremi	in Group D against Vietnam in the quarterfinals against China	Semi-final against Japan
Abdulaziz Hatem	in Group E against Saudi Arabia in the quarterfinals against South Korea	Semi-final against the Ver. Arab. Emirates
Bassam al-Rawi	in the second round against Iraq in the quarterfinals against South Korea
Ismail Ahmed	in the semifinals against Qatar	Two games of the 2022 World Cup qualification

Men of the Match

Man of the game	Lot	Man of the game	Lot	Man of the game	Lot
Matchday 1		Matchday 2		Matchday 3
Mohamed al-Romaihi (BHR)	1: 1	Chanathip Songkrasin (THA)	0: 1	Ali Mabkhout (ARE) (2)	1: 1
Sunil Chhetri (IND)	1: 4	Ali Mabkhout (ARE) (1)	0: 2	Jamal Rashid (BHR)	0: 1
Anas Bani Yaseen (JOR)	0: 1	Tareq Khattab (JOR)	2-0	Tom Rogic (AUS)	3: 2
Abdelatif Bahdari (PSE)	0-0	Awer Mabil (AUS)	0: 3	Ahmed Samir (JOR)	0-0
Wu Lei (CHN) (1)	2: 1	Wu Lei (CHN) (2)	0: 3	Son Heung-min (KOR)	2-0
Hwang Ui-jo (KOR)	1-0	Hwang In-beom (KOR)	0: 1	Vitalij Lux (KGZ)	3: 1
Ashkan Dejagah (IRN)	5-0	Sardar Azmoun (IRN) (1)	0: 2	Nguyễn Quang Hải (VNM) (1)	2-0
Ali Adnan (IRQ)	3: 2	Mohanad Ali (IRQ)	0: 3	Alireza Beiranvand (IRN) (1)	0-0
Salem al-Dawsari (SAU)	4-0	Hattan Bahebri (SAU)	0: 2	Almoez Abdulla (QAT) (2)	0: 2
Assim Madibo (QAT)	2-0	Almoez Abdulla (QAT) (1)	0: 6	Felix Michel (LBN)	4: 1
Yūya Ōsako (JPN) (1)	3: 2	Takumi Minamino (JPN)	0: 1	Ahmed Mubarak (OMN)	3: 1
Otabek Shukurov (UZB)	2: 1	Eldor Shomurodov (UZB)	0: 4	Toshihiro Aoyama (JPN)	2: 1
Round of 16		Nguyễn Quang Hải (VNM) (2)	2: 4 i. E.	Feng Xiaoting (CHN)	1: 2
		Alireza Beiranvand (IRN) (2)	2-0	Takehiro Tomiyasu (JPN)	1-0
		Jackson Irvine (AUS)	4: 2 i. E.	Bandar al-Ahbabi (ARE)	3: 2 a.d.
		Lee Yong (KOR)	2: 1 a.d.	Akram Afif (QAT) (1)	1-0
Quarter finals		Ritsu Doan (JPN)	0: 1	Sardar Azmoun (IRN) (2)	0: 3
		Abdulaziz Hatem (QAT)	0: 1	Ali Mabkhout (ARE) (3)	1-0
Semifinals		Yūya Ōsako (JPN) (2)	0: 3	Boualem Khoukhi (QAT)	4-0
final		Akram Afif (QAT) (2)	1: 3

Unofficial overall table

The overall table is sorted according to the round reached and according to the rules for determining the four best third group . Games that have been decided on penalties will be counted as a tie. The AFC does not maintain an official overall table.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points				FPP	group
1.	Qatar	7th	7th	0	0	019: 100	+18	21st	13	0	0	13	E 1
2.	Japan	7th	6th	0	1	012: 600	+6	18th	12	0	0	12	F 1
3.	Iran	6th	4th	1	1	012: 300	+9	13	11	0	0	11	D 1
4th	Ver. Arab. Emirates	6th	3	2	1	008: 800	± 0	11	07th	0	1	10	A 1
5.	South Korea	5	4th	0	1	006: 200	+4	12	06th	0	0	06th	C 1
6th	China	5	3	0	2	007: 700	± 0	09	10	0	0	10	C 2
7th	Australia	5	2	1	2	006: 400	+2	07th	09	0	0	09	B 2
8th.	Vietnam	5	1	1	3	005: 700	−2	04th	07th	0	0	07th	D 3
9.	Jordan	4th	2	2	0	004: 100	+3	08th	05	0	0	05	B 1
10.	Uzbekistan	4th	2	1	1	007: 300	+4	07th	07th	0	1	10	F 2
11.	Iraq	4th	2	1	1	006: 300	+3	07th	08th	0	0	08th	D 2
12.	Saudi Arabia	4th	2	0	2	006: 300	+3	06th	07th	0	0	07th	E 2
13.	Bahrain	4th	1	1	2	003: 400	−1	04th	04th	0	0	04th	A 3
14th	Thailand	4th	1	1	2	004: 700	−3	04th	11	0	0	11	A 2
15th	Kyrgyzstan	4th	1	0	3	006: 700	−1	03	08th	0	0	08th	C 3
16.	Oman	4th	1	0	3	004: 600	−2	03	07th	0	0	07th	F 3
17th	India	3	1	0	2	004: 400	± 0	03	02	0	0	02	A 4
18th	Lebanon	3	1	0	2	004: 500	−1	03	07th	0	0	07th	E 3
19th	Palestine	3	0	2	1	000: 300	−3	02	06th	1	0	08th	B 3
20th	Syria	3	0	1	2	002: 500	−3	01	06th	0	0	06th	B 4
21st	Philippines	3	0	0	3	001: 700	−6	00	09	0	0	09	C 4
22nd	Turkmenistan	3	0	0	3	003:100	−7	00	06th	0	0	06th	F 4
23.	Yemen	3	0	0	3	000:100	−10	00	08th	0	0	08th	D 4
24.	North Korea	3	0	0	3	001:140	−13	00	13	2	0	17th	E 4

Asian champion

finalist

Eliminated in the semi-finals

Eliminated in the quarterfinals

Eliminated in the last sixteen

A 1	Placement in the group
Fair Play Points (FPP):
	1 point each
	3 points each
	3 points each

Audience numbers

The tournament's 51 games were watched by a total of 644,307, with an average of 12,633 viewers per game. The occupancy of the eight venues used was just over 52 percent. The tournament was watched by an average of fewer spectators than since the 2000 Asian Cup in Lebanon (average: 9,100 spectators). Most of the spectators followed the game between the hosts from the United Arab Emirates and India in the group stage (43,206 spectators), while least of them watched the game between North Korea and Qatar also in the group stage (452 ​​spectators).

Stadion	capacity	Games	spectator	per game	workload	Highest	Lowest
Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium	42,000	07th	140.664	20,095	47.84%	38,646	5,301
al-Nahyan Stadium	15,000	05	048.096	09,619	64.13%	14,701	3,250
Zayed Sports City Stadium	45,000	08th	178.391	22,299	49.55%	43.206	4,779
Sharjah Stadium	12,000	06th	050,233	08,372	69.77%	11,417	4,332
Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium	25,500	08th	100,061	12,508	49.05%	25.053	4,893
Khalifa Bin Zayed Stadium	12,000	06th	035,749	05,958	49.65%	10,492	0.452
al-Rashid Stadium	13,000	05	033,219	06,644	51.11%	11,915	4,217
al-Maktoum Stadium	15,500	06th	057,894	09,649	62.25%	15,038	2,720
total		51	644.307	12,633	52.17%

Impact on the FIFA World Ranking

Twelve teams each improved and deteriorated in the ranking. Iran achieved its best ranking since 2005 and Japan its since 2012. Tournament winner Qatar, which gained the most places (plus 38) and most points (plus 140) of all 211 listed teams, achieved its best ranking since 1993. The biggest loser was North Korea , who lost 12 places and 44 points. The best Asian non-participant was Tajikistan in 120th place. The worst-placed finals participant before and after the Asian Cup was Yemen in 135th and 143rd place respectively.

team	December 2018		February 2019		change		comment
	space	Points	space	Points	Places	Points
Iran	029	1481	022nd	1516	+ 07	+ 035	Best placement since 2005
Japan	050	1414	027	1495	+23	+ 081	Best placement since 2012
South Korea	053	1405	038	1451	+15	+ 046
Australia	041	1436	042	1441	- 01	+ 005
Qatar	093	1258	055	1398	+38	+140	Best change, highest point gain, best placement since 1993
Ver. Arab. Emirates	079	1309	067	1355	+12	+ 046
Saudi Arabia	069	1335	070	1344	- 01	+ 009
China	076	1317	072	1339	+ 04	+ 022
Iraq	088	1271	080	1310	+ 08	+ 039
Syria	074	1322	083	1286	- 09	- 036
Lebanon	081	1296	085	1277	- 04th	- 019th
Uzbekistan	095	1251	089	1275	+ 06	+ 024
Oman	082	1295	090	1273	- 08	- 022
Kyrgyzstan	091	1264	095	1253	- 04th	- 011
Jordan	109	1196	097	1238	+12	+ 042
Vietnam	100	1229	099	1227	+ 01	- 002nd	Best placement since 2011
Palestine	099	1236	100	1224	- 01	- 012
India	097	1240	103	1219	- 06	- 021
Bahrain	113	1178	111	1188	+ 02	+ 010
Thailand	118	1160	115	1169	+ 03	+ 009	Best placement since 2009
North Korea	109	1196	121	1152	-12	- 044	Highest point loss
Philippines	116	1171	123	1135	- 07th	- 036
Turkmenistan	127	1120	136	1089	- 09	- 031
Yemen	135	1106	143	1073	- 08	- 033

Improved the ranking

Worsened in the ranking

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brothers competing in the AFC Asian Cup 2019 . In: FourFourTwo.com . January 2, 2019. Archived from the original on January 2, 2019. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
2. ↑ AFC Asian Cup 2019 Competition Regulations (PDF) In: The-AFC.com . P. 49. Accessed July 1, 2019.
3. ↑ AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019: India - United Arab Emirates . In: Stats-The-AFC.com . Retrieved July 1, 2019.
4. ↑ AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019: DPR Korea - Qatar . In: Stats-The-AFC.com . Retrieved July 1, 2019.
5. ↑ AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019: Post Tournament Report (PDF) In: The-AFC.com . P. 10. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
6. ↑ Qatar with huge rates at the beginning of the year . In: FIFA.com . February 7, 2019. Accessed July 1, 2019.
7. ↑ World ranking list (men) from December 20, 2018 . In: FIFA.com . Retrieved July 1, 2019.
8. ↑ World ranking list (men) from February 7, 2019 . In: FIFA.com . Retrieved July 1, 2019.