The Asian Football Confederation's Asian Cup 2000 finals were held in the Lebanon between October 12 and October 29. Japan defeated defending champion Saudi Arabia in the final match in Beirut.
Qualification
- Lebanon qualified automatically as host.
- Saudi Arabia qualified automatically as defending champions.
42 teams participates in a plimary. It is divided into 10 groups and the 1st place of each class is this participation in a convention. A total of 62 games were held starting with the Oman pair Tajikistan game on August 3, 1999.
The other 10 qualifying teams were:
Stadiums
Asian Cup 2000 was held in three venues:
Notes:
All times local (GMT + 0200)
- Abbreviations:
- Pld: games played
- W: won
- D: drawn
- L: lost
- GF: goals for
- GA: goals against
- Pts: points
Group A
As long as there was no special mention, Group A matches were held in Beirut.
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| October 12
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| Iraq
| 2 – 0
| Thailand
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| Tripoli (1505)
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| (HT: 1 – 0)
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| Ref: Toru Kamikawa (JPN)
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| | Drain 27' | |
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| | Majid 58' | |
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| Lebanon
| 0 – 4
| Iran
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| Beirut (1845)
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| (HT: 0 – 1)
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| Ref: Lu Jun (CHN)
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| | | | Bagheri 18'
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| | | | Estili 75'
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| | | | Estili 87'
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| | | | Daei 90'
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| October 15
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| Iran
| 1 – 1
| Thailand
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| Beirut (1705)
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| (HT: 0 – 1)
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| Ref: Saad Kameel Mane (KUW)
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| | Daei 73' | | Pituratana 12'
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| Lebanon
| 2 – 2
| Iraq
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| Beirut (1945)
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| (HT: 1 – 2)
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| Ref: Kim Young Joo (KOR)
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| | Chahrour 28' | | Sabah Khalaf 4'
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| | Hjeij 77' | | Sabah Khalaf 22'
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| October 18
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| Iran
| 1 – 0
| Iraq
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| Sidon (1935)
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| (HT: 0 – 0)
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| Ref: LU Jun (CHN)
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| | Daei 77' | |
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| Lebanon
| 1 – 1
| Thailand
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| Beirut (1935)
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| (HT: 0 – 0)
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| Ref: Omar Al Mehanna (KSA)
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| | Fernandes 82' | | Pituratana 57'
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Group B
As long as there was no special mention, Group B matches were held in Tripoli.
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| October 13
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| Rep. of Korea
| 2 – 2
| P.R.China
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| Tripoli (1705)
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| (HT: 1 – 1)
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| Ref: Omer Al-Mehanah (KSA)
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| | Lee Young-pyo 29' | | Ma Mingyu 35'
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| | Noh Jung-yoon 57' | | Fan Zhiyi (pen) 65'
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| Kuwait
| 0 – 0
| Indonesia
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| Tripoli (1945)
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| (HT: 0 – 0)
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| Ref: Tajaddin Fares(SYR)
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| October 16
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| P.R.China
| 4 – 0
| Indonesia
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| Tripoli (1705)
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| (HT: 3 – 0)
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| Ref: Nabil Ayad (LIB)
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| | Li Ming 1' | |
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| | Shen Si (pen)7' | |
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| | Yan Chen 15' | |
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| | Qi Hong 89' | |
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| Rep. of Korea
| 0 – 1
| Kuwait
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| Tripoli (1945)
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| (HT: 0 – 1)
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| Ref: Brian Hall (USA)
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| | | | Al-Huwdi 42'
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| October 19
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| China
| 0 – 0
| Kuwait
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| Tripoli (1935)
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| (HT: 0 – 0)
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| Rep. of Korea
| 3 – 0
| Indonesia
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| Beirut (1935)
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| (HT: 1 – 0)
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| Ref: Toru Kamikawa (JPN)
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| | Lee Dong-gook 30' | |
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| | Lee Dong-gook 75' | |
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| | Lee Dong-gook 89' | |
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Group C
As long as there was no special mention, Group C matches were held in Sidon.
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| October 14
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| Saudi Arabia
| 1 – 4
| Japan
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| Sidon (1705)
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| (HT: 0 – 2)
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| Ref: Ali Bujsaim (UAE)
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| | Morioka (og) 90' | | Yanagisawa 22'
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| | | | Takahara 37'
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| | | | Nanami 53'
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| | | | Ono 88'
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| Qatar
| 1 – 1
| Uzbekistan
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| Sidon (1945)
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| (HT: 0 – 0)
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| Ref: Mohd Nazri Abdullah (MAS)
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| | Al-Balooshi 60' | | Kasimov 73'
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| October 17
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| Japan
| 8 – 1
| Uzbekistan
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| Sidon (1705)
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| (HT: 5 – 1)
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| Ref: Shamsul Maidin (SIN)
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| | Morishima 7' | | Lushan 28'
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| | Nishizawa 14' | |
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| | Takahara 17' | |
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| | Takahara 20' | |
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| | Nishizawa 24' | |
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| | Nishizawa 49' | |
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| | Takahara 57' | |
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| | Kitajima 78' | |
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| Saudi Arabia
| 0 – 0
| Qatar
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| Sidon (1945)
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| October 20
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| Saudi Arabia
| 5 – 0
| Uzbekistan
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| Sidon (1935)
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| (HT: 2 – 0)
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| | Al-Otaibi 18' | |
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| | Shalhoub 35' | |
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| | Shalhoub 78' | |
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| | Shalhoub 86' | |
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| | Temyat 88' | |
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| Japan
| 1 – 1
| Qatar
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| Beirut (1935)
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| (HT: 0 – 1)
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| Ref: Ahmad Nabil Ayad (LEB)
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| | Nishizawa 60' | | Al-Obaidaly '22
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Best third places
At the end of the first stage, a comparison was made between the third placed teams of each group. The two best third placed teams advanced to the quarter-finals.
Rep. of Korea (best third place) and Qatar (second best third place) qualified for the quarter-finals.
Quarter-finals
| October 23
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| QF1:
| Iran
| 1 – 2
| Rep. of Korea
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| Sidon (1645)
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| | | (HT: 0 – 0) | | | Ref: Ali Bujsaim (UAE)
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| | | (FT: 1 – 1) | | |
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| | | (AET: 1 – 2) | | |
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| | Karim Bageri 71' | | Kim Sang-sik 90'
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| | | | Lee Dong-gook 99'
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| QF2:
| P.R.China
| 3 – 1
| Qatar
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| Sidon (1945)
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| (HT: 2 – 0)
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| Ref: Tajaddin Fares (SYR)
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| | Li Ming 9' | | Al-Enazi 65'
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| | Qi Hong 38' | |
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| | Yan Chen 54' | |
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| October 24
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| QF3:
| Japan
| 4 – 1
| Iraq
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| Beirut (1645)
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| (HT: 3 – 1)
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| Ref: Tajaddin Fares (SYR)
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| | Nanami 8' | | Jassim 4'
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| | Takahara 11' | |
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| | Nanami 29' | |
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| | Myojin 62' | |
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| QF4:
| Kuwait
| 2 – 3
| Saudi Arabia
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| Beirut (1945)
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| | Bashar Abdullah 61' | | Al-Temyat 46'
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| | Al-Houwaidi 67' | | Talal Al-Meshal 67'
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| | | | Al-Temyat 108'
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Semi-finals
| October 26
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| SF1:
| Rep. of Korea
| 1 – 2
| Saudi Arabia
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| Beirut (1645)
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| (HT: 0 – 0)
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| Ref: Saad Kameel Mane (KUW)
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| | Lee Dong-gook 90' | | Al-Meshal 76'
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| | | | Al-Meshal 80'
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| SF2:
| P.R.China
| 2 – 3
| Japan
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| Beirut (1945)
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| (HT:1 – 1)
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| Ref: Shamsul Maidin (Sin)
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| | Qi Hong 30' | | Fan Zhiyi (og) 21'
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| | Yang Chen 48' | | Nishizawa 53'
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Third place play-off
| October 29
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| China P.R.
| 0 – 1
| Rep. of Korea
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| Beirut (1605)
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| (HT: 0 – 0)
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| Ref: Ali Bujsaim (UAE)
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| | | | Lee Dong-Gook 76'
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Final
| October 29
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| Japan
| 1 – 0
| Saudi Arabia
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| Beirut (1845)
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| (HT: 1 – 0)
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| Ref: Ali Bujsaim (UAE)
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| | Mochizuki 29' | |
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| | Asian Cup 2000 champions: JAPAN (Squad )
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Scoring players
6 goals
Lee Dong-gook
5 goals
Akinori Nishizawa - Naohiro Takahara
3 goals
2 goals
Li Ming
Karim Bagheri - Hamid-Reza Estili
Sabah Jadir Khalaf
- Tomokazu Myojin
Jassem Al-Houwaidi
Sakesan Pituratama
1 goal
- Fan Zhiyi - Shen Si - Su Maozhen
- Qathan Ch. Drain - Abbas Obeid Jassim - Haydar Mahmoud Majid
- Hideaki Kitajima - Shigeyoshi Mochizuki - Hiroaki Morishima - Shinji Ono - Atsushi Yanagisawa
- Bashar Abudulla
Abbas Chahrour - Luis Fernandes - Mousa Hjeij
Mohamed Gholam Al-Balooshi - Mohammed Salem Al-Enazi - Abdul-Nasser Ali Al-Obaidly
Marzouk Mohammed Al-Otaibi
- Kim Sang-sik - Lee Young-pyo - Noh Jung-yoon
Mirdjalal Kasimov - Sergey Lushan
1 own goal
- Fan Zhiyi (for Japan)
- Ryuzo Morioka (for Saudi Arabia)
Scoring teams
21 goals
11 goals
9 goals
7 goals
5 goals
3 goals
2 goals
0 goal
