Football at the Asian Games

At the Asian Games, soccer is one of the sports that has always been part of the program of the Games. Participants are the national footballteams of the AFC associations organizedwithin FIFA . Since 1990 there has also been a women's soccer tournament, which in 1994 was also the qualification of the Asia zone for the 1995 women's soccer world championship . Since the tournament of the Games in 2002, an age limit of 23 years has been ineffect for the men's teams, analogous to the regulation for the Olympic football tournament , whereby three older players may be used.

The men's tournaments at a glance

year	host	final			Bronze game
		gold	Result	silver	bronze	Result	4th Place
1951 details	New Delhi ( India )	India	1-0	Iran	Japan	2-0	Afghanistan
1954 details	Manila ( Philippines )	Taiwan	5: 2	South Korea	Burma	5: 4	Indonesia
1958 details	Tokyo ( Japan )	Taiwan	3: 2	South Korea	Indonesia	4: 1	India
1962 details	Jakarta ( Indonesia )	India	2: 1	South Korea	Malaysia	4: 1	South Vietnam
1966 details	Bangkok ( Thailand )	Burma	1-0	Iran	Japan	2-0	Singapore
1970 details	Bangkok ( Thailand )	Burma South Korea	0: 0 a.d.	Title was shared.	India	1-0	Japan
1974 details	Tehran ( Iran )	Iran	1-0	Israel	Malaysia	2: 1	North Korea
1978 details	Bangkok ( Thailand )	South Korea North Korea	0: 0 a.d.	Title was shared.	China	1-0	Iraq
1982 details	New Delhi ( India )	Iraq	1-0	Kuwait	Saudi Arabia	2: 0 *	North Korea
1986 details	Seoul ( South Korea )	South Korea	2-0	Saudi Arabia	Kuwait	5-0	Indonesia
1990 details	Beijing ( China )	Iran	0: 0 . N V. 4: 1 i. E.	North Korea	South Korea	1-0	Thailand
1994 details	Hiroshima ( Japan )	Uzbekistan	4: 2	China	Kuwait	2: 1	South Korea
1998 details	Bangkok ( Thailand )	Iran	2-0	Kuwait	China	3-0	Thailand
2002 details	Busan ( South Korea )	Iran	2: 1	Japan	South Korea	3-0	Thailand
2006 details	Doha ( Qatar )	Qatar	1-0	Iraq	Iran	1: 0 a.d.	South Korea
2010 details	Guangzhou ( China )	Japan	1-0	Ver. Arab. Emirates	South Korea	4: 3	Iran
2014 details	Incheon ( South Korea )	South Korea	1: 0 a.d.	North Korea	Iraq	1-0	Thailand
2018 details	Jakarta & Palembang ( Indonesia )	South Korea	2: 1 a.d.	Japan	Ver. Arab. Emirates	1: 1 4: 3 i. E.	Vietnam
2022 details	Hangzhou ( China )
2026 details	Nagoya ( Japan )

* The game was not played due to a suspension from North Korea and scored 2-0 for Saudi Arabia.

Medal table

after 18 tournaments

rank	country				total
1	South Korea	5	3	3	11
2	Iran	4th	2	1	7th
3	Myanmar	2	0	1	3
	India	2	0	1	3
5	Chinese Taipei	2	0	0	2
6th	Japan	1	2	2	5
7th	North Korea	1	2	0	3
8th	Iraq	1	1	1	3
9	Qatar	1	0	0	1
	Uzbekistan	1	0	0	1
11	Kuwait	0	2	2	4th
12	China	0	1	2	3
13	Saudi Arabia	0	1	1	2
	Ver. Arab. Emirates	0	1	1	2
15th	Israel	0	1	0	1
16	Malaysia	0	0	2	2
17th	Indonesia	0	0	1	1

An overview of the women's tournaments

year	host	final			Bronze game
		gold	Result	silver	bronze	Result	4th Place
1990 details	Beijing ( China )	China	League system	Japan	North Korea	League system	Chinese Taipei
1994 details	Hiroshima ( Japan )	China	2-0	Japan	Chinese Taipei	according to the group stage	South Korea
1998 details	Bangkok ( Thailand )	China	1-0	North Korea	Japan	2: 1	Chinese Taipei
2002 details	Busan ( South Korea )	North Korea	League system	China	Japan	League system	South Korea
2006 details	Doha ( Qatar )	North Korea	0: 0 n.v. 4: 2 i. E.	Japan	China	2-0	South Korea
2010 details	Guangzhou ( China )	Japan	1-0	North Korea	South Korea	2-0	China
2014 details	Incheon ( South Korea )	North Korea	3: 1	Japan	South Korea	3-0	Vietnam
2018 details	Jakarta & Palembang ( Indonesia )	Japan	1-0	China	South Korea	4-0	Chinese Taipei
2022 details	Hangzhou ( China )
2026 details	Nagoya ( Japan )

Medal table

after 8 tournaments

rank	country				total
1	North Korea	3	2	1	6th
2	China	3	2	1	6th
3	Japan	2	4th	2	8th
4th	South Korea	0	0	3	3
5	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1

Web links

• Details about the tournaments on rsssf.com