At the end of each AFC Asian Cup final tournament, several awards are presented to the players and teams which have distinguished themselves in various aspects of the competition.
Awards There are currently five post-tournament awards the Most Valuable Player for best player; the Top Goalscorer for most prolific goal scorer; the Best Goalkeeper for most outstanding goalkeeper; the Team of the Tournament for best combined team of players at the tournament; the Fair Play Award for the team with the best record of fair play.
Most Valuable Player
Year Most Valuable Player Ref. 1956 Not awarded 1960 1964 1968 1972 Ebrahim Ashtiani 1976 Ali Parvin 1980Not awarded 1984 Jia Xiuquan 1988 Kim Joo-sung 1992 Kazuyoshi Miura 1996 Khodadad Azizi 2000 Hiroshi Nanami 2004 Shunsuke Nakamura 2007 Younis Mahmoud 2011 Keisuke Honda 2015 Massimo Luongo 2019 Almoez Ali 2023 Akram Afif
Top Goalscorer Year Top Goalscorer(s) Goals Ref. 1956 Nahum Stelmach 4 1960 Cho Yoon-ok 4 1964 Inder Singh Mordechai Spiegler 2 1968 Homayoun Behzadi Giora Spiegel Moshe Romano 4 1972 Hossein Kalani 5 1976 Fathi Kameel Gholam Hossein Mazloumi Nasser Nouraei 3 1980 Choi Soon-ho Behtash Fariba 7 1984 Jia Xiuquan Shahrokh Bayani Nasser Mohammadkhani 3 1988 Lee Tae-ho 3 1992 Fahad Al-Bishi 3 1996 Ali Daei 8 2000 Lee Dong-gook 6 2004 Ali Karimi A'ala Hubail 5 2007 Younis Mahmoud Naohiro Takahara Yasser Al-Qahtani 4 2011 Koo Ja-cheol 5 2015 Ali Mabkhout 5 2019 Almoez Ali 9 2023 Akram Afif 8
Best Goalkeeper Year Best Goalkeeper 1984 Abdullah Al-Deayea 1988 Zhang Huikang 1992Not awarded 1996 Mohamed Al-Deayea 2000 Jiang Jin 2004Not awarded 2007 Noor Sabri 2011Not awarded 2015 Mathew Ryan 2019 Saad Al-Sheeb2023 Meshaal Barsham
Team of the Tournament By edition Year Goalkeepers Defenders Midfielders Forwards1980 Nasser Hejazi Naeem Saad Soh Chin Aun Mahboub Juma'a Mehdi Dinvarzadeh Abdolreza Barzegari Saad Al-Houti Lee Young-moo Choi Soon-ho Faisal Al-Dakhil Jasem Yaqoub1984Unknown or not awarded1988(18 players) Zhang Huikang Abdullah Al-Deayea Mohamed Al-Jawad Saleh Nu'eimeh Park Kyung-hoon Chung Yong-hwan Xie Yuxin Mohamed Salim Mahboub Juma'a Sirous Ghayeghran Chung Hae-won Adel Khamis Abdulaziz Al-Hajeri Byun Byung-joo Youssef Al-Thunayan Majed Abdullah Kim Joo-sung Wang Baoshan1992Unknown or not awarded1996 Mohamed Al-Deayea Abdullah Zubromawi Yousef Saleh Mohammad Khakpour Mehrdad Minavand Mohamed Ali Khalid Al-Muwallid Saad Bakheet Mubarak Fahad Al-Mehallel Jasem Al-Huwaidi Ali Daei2000 Jiang Jin Hong Myung-bo Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi Jamal Mubarak Hiroshi Nanami Nawaf Al-Temyat Abbas Obeid Karim Bagheri Shunsuke Nakamura Lee Dong-gook Naohiro Takahara2004 Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi Tsuneyasu Miyamoto Yuji Nakazawa Zheng Zhi Mehdi Mahdavikia Shunsuke Nakamura Shao Jiayi Zhao Junzhe Talal Yousef A'ala Hubail Ali Karimi 2007 Lee Woon-jae Yuji Nakazawa Lucas Neill Bassim Abbas Rahman Rezaei Shunsuke Nakamura Harry Kewell Lee Chun-soo Nashat Akram Naohiro Takahara Yasser Al-Qahtani2011Not awarded2015 Mathew Ryan Dhurgham Ismail Kwak Tae-hwi Trent Sainsbury Cha Du-ri Massimo Luongo Omar Abdulrahman Ki Sung-yueng Ali Mabkhout Tim Cahill Son Heung-min2019(23 players) Alireza Beiranvand Shūichi Gonda Saad Al Sheeb Bandar Al-Ahbabi Boualem Khoukhi Maya Yoshida Bassam Al-Rawi Yuto Nagatomo Abdelkarim Hassan Kim Min-jae Omid Ebrahimi Abdulaziz Hatem Ashkan Dejagah Tom Rogic Gaku Shibasaki Hassan Al-Haydos Akram Afif Almoez Ali Sardar Azmoun Nguyễn Quang Hải Wu Lei Ali Mabkhout Yuya Osako2023 (1) Meshaal Barsham Abdallah Nasib Ali Al-Bulaihi Lucas Mendes Mehdi Ghayedi Craig Goodwin Hassan Al-Haydos Lee Kang-in Akram Afif Aymen Hussein Yazan Al-Naimat2023 (2)(26 players) Meshaal Barsham Yazeed Abulaila Mathew Ryan Yazan Al-Arab Aziz Behich Ihsan Haddad Vahdat Hanonov Kim Min-jae Lucas Mendes Abdallah Nasib Hassan Al-Haydos Wataru Endo Saeid Ezatolahi Jackson Irvine Alireza Jahanbakhsh Ahmed Fatehi Abbosbek Fayzullaev Akram Afif Almoez Ali Yazan Al-Naimat Sardar Azmoun Lee Kang-in Jaloliddin Masharipov Son Heung-min Musa Al-Taamari Mehdi Taremi
All-time XI On 12 August 2023, the AFC announced all-time Asian Cup XI selected by fans and experts.
Goalkeeper Defenders Midfielders Forwards Mohamed Al-Deayea Mehdi Mahdavikia Hong Myung-bo Yuji Nakazawa Yuto Nagatomo Park Ji-sung Shunsuke Nakamura Keisuke Honda Tim Cahill Ali Daei Son Heung-min
Fair Play Award First awarded in 1984 Year Winner Ref. 1984 1988 Not awarded 1992 1996 2000 2004 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
See also FIFA World Cup awards UEFA European Championship awards Copa América awards Africa Cup of Nations awards CONCACAF Gold Cup awards OFC Nations Cup awards
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