AFC Asian Cup records and statistics

This is a list of records and statistics of the AFC Asian Cup.

General statistics by tournament

Further information: AFC Asian Cup qualifiers

Source:^[1][2][3]

Year	Host(s)	Winners	Winning coach	Top scorer(s) (goals)	Best player award
1956	Hong Kong	South Korea	Kim Sung-gan	Nahum Stelmach (4)	—
1960	South Korea	South Korea	Kim Yong-sik	Cho Yoon-ok (4)
1964	Israel	Israel	Yosef Merimovich	Inder Singh (2) Mordechai Spiegler (2)
1968	Iran	Iran	Mahmoud Bayati	Homayoun Behzadi (4) Moshe Romano (4) Giora Spiegel (4)
1972	Thailand	Iran	Mohammad Ranjbar	Hossein Kalani (5)	Ebrahim Ashtiani
1976	Iran	Iran	Heshmat Mohajerani	Gholam Hossein Mazloumi (3) Nasser Nouraei (3) Fathi Kamel (3)	Ali Parvin
1980	Kuwait	Kuwait	Carlos Alberto Parreira	Behtash Fariba (7) Choi Soon-ho (7)	—
1984	Singapore	Saudi Arabia	Khalil Al-Zayani	Jia Xiuquan (3) Shahrokh Bayani (3) Nasser Mohammadkhani (3)	Jia Xiuquan
1988	Qatar	Saudi Arabia	Carlos Alberto Parreira	Lee Tae-ho (3)	Kim Joo-sung[4]
1992	Japan	Japan	Hans Ooft	Fahad Al-Bishi (3)	Kazuyoshi Miura
1996	United Arab Emirates	Saudi Arabia	Nelo Vingada	Ali Daei (8)	Khodadad Azizi
2000	Lebanon	Japan	Philippe Troussier	Lee Dong-gook (6)	Hiroshi Nanami
2004	China	Japan	Zico	A'ala Hubail (5) Ali Karimi (5)	Shunsuke Nakamura
2007	Indonesia  Malaysia  Thailand  Vietnam	Iraq	Jorvan Vieira	Younis Mahmoud (4) Naohiro Takahara (4) Yasser Al-Qahtani (4)	Younis Mahmoud[5]
2011	Qatar	Japan	Alberto Zaccheroni	Koo Ja-cheol (5)	Keisuke Honda[6]
2015	Australia	Australia	Ange Postecoglou	Ali Mabkhout (5)	Massimo Luongo[7]
2019	United Arab Emirates	Qatar	Félix Sánchez	Almoez Ali (9)	Almoez Ali
2023	Qatar	Qatar	Tintín Márquez	Akram Afif (8)	Akram Afif
2027	Saudi Arabia	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

Debut of national teams

As of 2024, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Laos, Macau, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Brunei, Timor-Leste and Mongolia are yet to make their debut in the contest.

Year	Debuting teams			Successor teams
	Teams	No.	Cum.
1956	Hong Kong,  Israel,  South Korea,  South Vietnam	4	4
1960	Republic of China	1	5
1964	India	1	6
1968	Iran,  Burma	2	8
1972	Iraq,  Khmer Republic,  Kuwait,  Thailand	4	12
1976	China,  Malaysia,  South Yemen	3	15
1980	Bangladesh,  North Korea,  Qatar,  Syria,  United Arab Emirates	5	20
1984	Saudi Arabia,  Singapore	2	22
1988	Bahrain,  Japan	2	24
1992	None	0	24
1996	Indonesia,  Uzbekistan	2	26
2000	Lebanon	1	27
2004	Jordan,  Oman,  Turkmenistan	3	30
2007	Australia	1	31	Vietnam
2011	None	0	31
2015	Palestine	1	32
2019	Kyrgyzstan,  Philippines,  Yemen	3	35
2023	Tajikistan	1	36

Overall team records

In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws. Teams are ranked by total points, then by goal difference, then by goals scored.^[8]

As of 2023 AFC Asian Cup

Rank	Team	Part	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Iran	15	74	45	20	9	143	55	+88	155
2	South Korea	15	73	38	19	16	117	74	+43	133
3	Japan	10	53	33	12	8	104	52	+52	111
4	Saudi Arabia	11	52	23	15	14	74	50	+24	84
5	China	13	59	23	15	21	88	66	+22	84
6	Qatar	11	46	19	12	15	66	52	+14	69
7	Iraq	10	42	18	7	17	54	52	+2	61
8	United Arab Emirates	11	48	16	13	19	47	64	−17	61
9	Kuwait	10	42	15	10	17	47	51	−4	55
10	Uzbekistan	8	33	15	7	11	49	50	−1	52
11	Australia	5	26	15	5	6	49	17	+32	50
12	Jordan	5	22	10	7	5	30	18	+12	37
13	Syria	7	25	8	5	12	19	30	−11	29
14	Israel	4	13	9	0	4	28	15	+13	27
15	Bahrain	7	27	7	6	14	33	44	−11	27
16	Thailand	8	28	3	11	14	22	54	−32	20
17	Oman	5	16	3	5	8	12	20	−8	14
18	North Korea	5	18	3	2	13	15	40	−25	11
19	Indonesia	5	16	3	2	11	13	38	−25	11
20	India	5	16	3	1	12	12	33	−21	10
21	Vietnam	5	18	2	3	13	21	43	−22	9
22	Myanmar	1	4	2	1	1	5	4	+1	7
23	Malaysia	4	12	1	4	7	10	28	−18	7
24	Lebanon	3	9	1	3	5	8	17	−9	6
25	Palestine	3	10	1	3	6	7	21	−14	6
26	Tajikistan	1	5	1	2	2	3	4	−1	5
27	Chinese Taipei	2	7	1	2	4	5	12	−7	5
28	Singapore	1	4	1	1	2	3	4	−1	4
29	Cambodia	1	5	1	1	3	8	10	−2	4
30	Kyrgyzstan	2	7	1	1	5	7	12	−5	4
31	Hong Kong	4	13	0	3	10	10	30	−20	3
32	Turkmenistan	2	6	0	1	5	7	16	−9	1
33	Philippines	1	3	0	0	3	1	7	−6	0
34	South Yemen	1	2	0	0	2	0	9	−9	0
35	Yemen	1	3	0	0	3	0	10	−10	0
36	Bangladesh	1	4	0	0	4	2	17	−15	0

• Vietnam consist of South Vietnam.

Teams reaching the top four

The first four editions only had four or five teams and played in one single group. Since 1972, the final tournament has introduced the knockout stage. Since 2019, no third place play-off has been played. Since 2023, losing semi-finalists are ranked by the AFC based on goal difference in the semi-finals.^[9]

Bold text denotes team was host country.

Team	Champions	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Semi-finalist	Top 4 total
Japan	4 (1992, 2000, 2004, 2011)	1 (2019)	—	1 (2007)	—	6
Saudi Arabia	3 (1984, 1988, 1996)	3 (1992, 2000, 2007)	—	—	—	6
Iran	3 (1968, 1972, 1976)	—	5 (1980, 1988, 1996, 2004)	1 (1984)	1 (2019, 2023)	10
South Korea	2 (1956, 1960)	4 (1972, 1980, 1988, 2015)	4 (1964, 2000, 2007, 2011)	—	1 (2023)	11
Qatar	2 (2019, 2023)	—	—	—	—	2
Israel	1 (1964)	2 (1956, 1960)	1 (1968)	—	—	4
Kuwait	1 (1980)	1 (1976)	1 (1984)	1 (1996)	—	4
Australia	1 (2015)	1 (2011)	—	—	—	2
Iraq	1 (2007)	—	—	2 (1976, 2015)	—	3
China	—	2 (1984, 2004)	2 (1976, 1992)	2 (1988, 2000)	—	6
United Arab Emirates	—	1 (1996)	1 (2015)	1 (1992)	1 (2019)	4
India	—	1 (1964)	—	—	—	1
Myanmar[a]	—	1 (1968)	—	—	—	1
Jordan	—	1 (2023)	—	—	—	1
Hong Kong	—	—	1 (1956)	1 (1964)	—	2
Chinese Taipei[b]	—	—	1 (1960)	1 (1968)	—	2
Thailand	—	—	1 (1972)	—	—	1
Vietnam[c]	—	—	—	2 (1956, 1960)	—	2
Cambodia[d]	—	—	—	1 (1972)	—	1
North Korea	—	—	—	1 (1980)	—	1
Bahrain	—	—	—	1 (2004)	—	1
Uzbekistan	—	—	—	1 (2011)	—	1