The AFC Annual Awards are awards given by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to the most outstanding performers of the Asian football season. The awards are presented at the end of each year at a special gala.

Player awards Main awards The following awards have separate articles. For Player of the Year or Asian International Player of the Year (Men), see Asian Footballer of the Year. For Youth Player of the Year, see Asian Young Footballer of the Year.

Women's Player of the Year Continental winners YearPlayerClubRef.1999 Sun Wen Shanghai SVA2000Not awarded200120022003 Bai Jie Washington Freedom2004 Homare Sawa NTV Beleza2005 Natsuko Hara NTV Beleza2006 Ma Xiaoxu Dalian Shide2007 Ri Kum-suk April 252008 Homare Sawa NTV Beleza2009Not awarded2010 Kate Gill Perth Glory2011 Aya Miyama Okayama Yunogo Belle2012 Aya Miyama Okayama Yunogo Belle2013 Not awarded2014 Katrina Gorry Kansas City2015 Aya Miyama Okayama Yunogo Belle2016 Caitlin Foord Sydney FC2017 Sam Kerr Perth Glory2018 Wang Shuang Paris Saint-Germain2019 Saki Kumagai Lyon2020Not awarded20212022 Sam Kerr Chelsea2023 Kiko Seike Urawa Red Diamonds2024Not awarded2025 Hana Takahashi Urawa Red Diamonds

International winners YearPlayerClubRef.2023 Ellie Carpenter Lyon2024Not awarded2025 Maika Hamano Chelsea

Foreign Player of the Year YearPlayerClubRef.2012 Rogerinho Al Kuwait2013 Muriqui Guangzhou Evergrande2014 Asamoah Gyan Al Ain2015 Ricardo Goulart Guangzhou Evergrande

Asian All Stars Former selections The players from 1965 to 1982 were selected for the All-Star Games.

YearGoalkeepersDefendersMidfieldersForwardsRef.1965 Aswin Thong-innet Kim Jung-suk Cha Tae-sung Jarnail Singh Kwok Kam-hung Yousuf Khan Nguyen Ngoc Thanh Khin Maung Tun Wong Chi-keung Cheung Chi Doy Nguyen Van Ngon Đỗ Thới Vinh Cho Yoon-ok Yasuyuki Kuwahara Majid Ariff Suk Bahadur1966 Pham Van Rang Khim Maung Tun Kim Jung-suk Cha Tae-sung Jarnail Singh Yousuf Khan Nguyen Ngoc Thanh Wong Chi-keung Cheung Chi Wai Cheung Chi Doy Đỗ Thới Vinh Nguyen Van Ngon Majid Ariff Cho Yoon-ok Suk Bahadur1967 Peter Thangaraj Tin Aung Kim Jung-suk Jarnail Singh Shmuel Rosenthal Giora Spiegel Maung Maung Aritatsu Ogi Parviz Ghelichkhani Leung Wai-hung Cheung Chi Doy Wong Chi-keung Kunishige Kamamoto Ryuichi Sugiyama Homayoun Behzadi Suk Bahadur Soetjipto Soentoro Đỗ Thới Vinh Cho Yoon-ok Majid Ariff1968 Chow Chee Keong Tin Aung Kim Jung-suk Hiroshi Katayama M. Chandran Narong Sangkasuwan Turab Ali Anwar Udjang Suk Bahadur Shmuel Rosenthal Aritatsu Ogi Kunishige Kamamoto Ryuichi Sugiyama Đỗ Thới Vinh Nguyen Van Ngon Inder Singh Wong Chi-keung Soetjipto Soentoro1982 R. Arumugam Mahboub Juma'a Park Kyung-hoon Amnart Chalermchaowarit Soh Chin Ann Wong Hong Nung Terry Pathmanathan Prasun Banerjee Parminder Singh Khalid Ali Reduan Abdullah Jamaluddin Norbit Abdulaziz Al-Anberi Chung Hae-won Piyapong Pue-on Zainal Abidin Hassan Hassan Sani Mokhtar Dahari1985 Abdullah Al-Deayea R. Arumugam Atanu Bhattacharya Lin Lefeng Jia Xiuquan Mahboub Juma'a Mohammad Panjali Radwan Al-Sheikh Hassan Park Sung-hwa Faisal Al-Dakhil Lee Tae-ho Saleh Khalifa Al-Dosari Kazushi Kimura Mohaisen Al-Jam'an Majed Abdullah Marwan Madarati Mansour Muftah Mohammed Al-Mohanadi Hussein Saeed Piyapong Pue-on Zainal Abidin Hassan Nasser Mohammadkhani Gu Guangming1993 Shigetatsu Matsunaga Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi Hong Myung-bo Tetsuji Hashiratani Javad Zarincheh Fuad Anwar Khaled Massad Shin Hong-gi Ruy Ramos Kazuyoshi Miura Ali Daei

Annual award YearGoalkeepersDefendersMidfieldersForwardsRef.1997 Mohamed Al-Deayea Zhang Enhua Naoki Soma Hong Myung-bo Mohammed Al-Jahani Abdullah Zubromawi Karim Bagheri Hidetoshi Nakata Ha Seok-ju Khodadad Azizi Choi Yong-soo1998 Jiang Jin Fan Zhiyi Yutaka Akita Abdullah Zubromawi Nikolay Shirshov Mehdi Mahdavikia Hidetoshi Nakata Hiroshi Nanami Yoo Sang-chul Ali Daei Jasem Al Huwaidi1999 Pavel Bugalo Zhang Enhua Yuji Nakazawa Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi Hussein Sulaimani Radhi Shenaishil Hidetoshi Nakata Kim Do-kyun Sultan Rashid Ali Daei Masashi Nakayama2000 Jiang Jin Hendro Kartiko Mohamed Al-Deayea Fan Zhiyi Ryuzo Morioka Hong Myung-bo Jamal Mubarak Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi Saoud Fath Karim Bagheri Abbas Obeid Shunsuke Nakamura Hiroshi Nanami Nawaf Al-Temyat Kiatisuk Senamuang Naohiro Takahara Lee Dong-gook

Futsal Player of the Year YearPlayerClubRef.2006 Kenichiro Kogure Nagoya Oceans2007 Vahid Shamsaei Tam Iran Khodro Tehran2008 Vahid Shamsaei Foolad Mahan2009 Not awarded2010 Mohammad Taheri Foolad Mahan2011 Mohammad Keshavarz Giti Pasand Isfahan2012 Rafael Henmi Nagoya Oceans2013 Suphawut Thueanklang Chonburi Bluewave2014 Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh MFK Norilsk Nickel2015 Vahid Shamsaei Tasisat Daryaei2016 Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh Giti Pasand2017 Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh Giti Pasand2018 Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh Shenzhen Nanling Tielang2019 Tomoki Yoshikawa Nagoya Oceans2020Not awarded20212022 Moslem Oladghobad Palma2023 Saeid Ahmadabbasi Valdepeñas2024Not awarded2025 Salar Aghapour Gohar Zamin

Coaching awards Coach of the Year YearCoachTeamRef.1994 Charnwit Polcheewin Thai Farmers Bank1995 Park Jong-hwan Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma1996 Ma Yuanan1997 Cha Bum-kun1998 Takashi Kuwahara Júbilo Iwata1999 Mahmoud Rakhimov2000 Philippe Troussier2001 Nasser Al-Johar2002 Guus Hiddink2003 Cha Kyung-bok Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma2004 Adnan Hamad20052006 Choe Kwang-sok2007 Rauf Inileev2008 Akira Nishino Gamba Osaka2009 Huh Jung-moo2010 Takeshi Okada2011 Norio Sasaki2012 Kim Ho-kon Ulsan Hyundai2013 Choi Yong-soo FC Seoul2014 Tony Popovic Western Sydney Wanderers2015 Ange Postecoglou2016 Choi Kang-hee Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors2017 Takafumi Hori Urawa Red Diamonds2018 Go Oiwa Kashima Antlers2019 Chung Jung-yong2020Not awarded20212022 Hajime Moriyasu2023 Go Oiwa2024Not awarded2025 Ri Song-ho

Women's Coach of the Year YearCoachTeamRef,2007 Tom Sermanni2008 Kim Kwang-min20092010 Kim Tae-hee2011 Takako Tezuka2012 Asako Takakura2013 Asako Takakura2014 Asako Takakura2015 Asako Takakura2016 Chan Yuen-ting Eastern Sports2017 Asako Takakura2018 Asako Takakura2019 Asako Takakura2020Not awarded20212022 Shui Qingxia2023 Park Youn-jeong2024Not awarded2025 Marziyeh Jafari Bam Khatoon

Team awards Club of the Year YearClubRef.1996 Cheonan Ilhwa ChunmaNot awarded from 1997 to 19992000 Al-Hilal2001 Suwon Samsung Bluewings2002 Pakhtakor Tashkent2003 Al-Ain2004 Al-Ittihad2005 Al-Ittihad2006 Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors2007 Urawa Red Diamonds2008 Gamba Osaka2009 Pohang Steelers2010 Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma2011 Al-Sadd2012 Ulsan Hyundai2013 Guangzhou Evergrande2014 Western Sydney Wanderers2015 Guangzhou Evergrande

National Team of the Year YearMen's teamRef.Women's teamRef.1996Not awarded from 1997 to 19992000Not awarded200120022003200420052006200720082009201020112012201320142015

Futsal Team of the Year YearTeamRef.2002200320042005200620072008200920102011 Nagoya Oceans20122013 Chonburi Bluewave20142015 Tasisat Daryaei

Referee awards

Referee of the Year YearRefereeRef.Assistant refereeRef.1996 Pirom Un-prasert Al Musawi Mohamed Ahmed2002 Toru Kamikawa Ali Al Traifi2003 Masoud Moradi Not awarded2004 Lu Jun2005 Shamsul Maidin2006 Shamsul Maidin2007 Mark Shield Mohamed Hamad Al Ghamdi2008 Ravshan Irmatov Tammam Hamdoun2009 Ravshan Irmatov Matthew Cream2010 Ravshan Irmatov Toru Sagara2011 Ravshan Irmatov Abdukhamidullo Rasulov2012 Yuichi Nishimura Abdukhamidullo Rasulov2013 Ben Williams Toshiyuki Nagi2014 Ravshan Irmatov Matthew Cream2015 Fahad Al-Mirdasi Abdulah Al-Shalwai Abu Bakar Al-Amri2016 Alireza Faghani Reza Sokhandan Mohammad Reza Mansouri2017 Bakhtiyor NamazovNot awarded2018 Alireza Faghani Reza Sokhandan20192020Not awardedNot awarded2021

YearRefereeRef.Assistant refereeRef.Video assistant refereeRef.2022 Chris Beath Ashley Beecham Anton Schetinin Ammar Al-Jneibi

YearRefereesRef.2023 Yuichi Hatano Abdullah Al-Salehi2024Not awarded2025 Alireza Faghani Anton Shchetinin Ashley Beecham

Women's Referee of the Year YearRefereeRef.Assistant refereeRef.2007 Tammy Ogston Liu Hsiu-mei2008 Sachiko Baba Hisae Yoshizawa2009 Hong Eun-ah Zhang Lingling2010 Sachiko Yamagishi Shiho Ayukai2011 Sachiko Yamagishi Sarah Ho2012 Sachiko Yamagishi Kim Kyoung-min2013 Sachiko Yamagishi Allyson Flynn2014 Rita Gani Kim Kyoung-min20152016 Kate Jacewicz Renae Coghill Uvena Fernandes

Association awards Fair Play Award YearNationRef.199620022003200420052006200720082009201020112012201320142015

Member Association of the Year YearNationRef.20052006200720082009201020112012 YearInspiring MARef.Developing MARef.Aspiring MARef.2013201420152016201720182019

YearPlatinumDiamondGoldRubyRef.202220232024Not awarded2025

President Recognition Award For Grassroots Football YearNationsRef.2013201420152016 YearInspiring MADeveloping MAAspiring MARef.201720182019

YearGoldSilverBronzeRef.202220232024Not awarded2025

For Outstanding Achievement YearNationRef.2025

Dream Asia Award YearNationRef.201020112012201320142015201620172018 (Inspiring) (Developing) (Aspring)

Regional Association of the Year YearAssociationRef.2022Central Asian Football Association2023Central Asian Football Association2024Not awarded2025ASEAN Football Federation

Other awards Diamond of Asia YearNameRef.2004 Abdul Rahman bin Saud Al Saud2005 Saburō Kawabuchi2006 Sepp Blatter2007 Lennart Johansson2008 Ken Naganuma2009 Farouk Bouzo2010 Najib Razak2011 Ahmad Shah of Pahang2012 Hamzah Abu Samah2013 Chung Mong-joon2014 Junji Ogura2015 Abdullah Khalid Al Dabal2016 Issa Hayatou2017 Yousuf al-Serkal2018 Zhang Jilong 2019 Abdullah of Pahang 2020Not awarded20212022 Saoud Al-Mohannadi2023 Gianni Infantino2024Not awarded2025 Timothy Fok

Match Commissioner of the Year YearNameRef.2008 Kamarudin Sakhari Mary Catherine Rivilla2009 Mazen Ramadan Kanya Keomany2010 Abdul Ghafoor Abdul Hameed Emily Lau Cheuk-chi

Special Recognition Award YearNameRef.2018 Wild Boars FC Futoshi Ikeda

Corporate Icon Award YearNameRef.2014 TV Asahi NHK

Sportswriter of the Year YearNameRef.1996 Azam Mahmood

See also Asian Football Hall of Fame

References

External links AFC Annual Awards