Asian Cup

Results, Winners, Overview, Format, & Facts

Oct 5, 2023 - 20:54
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2019 Asian Cup

Asian Cup, in full AFC Asian Cup, Asian football (soccer) competition that takes place every four years and is that continent’s premier football tournament. The Asian Cup is governed by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and was first held in 1956, with South Korea winning the inaugural title.

The first Asian Cup took place in Hong Kong and was contested by the 12 founding members of the AFC. The event was thereafter held in various Asian countries every four years, with an exception in 2007 when the quadrennial cycle was moved forward one year.

The Asian Cup participants are determined through a series of competitions that winnow the field of AFC members down to 16. Those 16 teams play in a four-group round-robin stage that is followed by a knockout tournament between the eight teams that qualified in the previous stage. Japan has had the most success in the Asian Cup, with four titles. Iran and Saudi Arabia have each captured three championships.

The table provides a list of Asian Cup results.

Asian Cup
year winner runner-up
1956 South Korea Israel
1960 South Korea Israel
1964 Israel India
1968 Iran Burma
1972 Iran South Korea
1976 Iran Kuwait
1980 Kuwait South Korea
1984 Saudi Arabia China
1988 Saudi Arabia South Korea
1992 Japan Saudi Arabia
1996 Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates
2000 Japan Saudi Arabia
2004 Japan China
2007 Iraq Saudi Arabia
2011 Japan Australia
2015 Australia South Korea
2019 Qatar Japan

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