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Asian Cup 1988

The Asian Football Confederation's Asian Cup 1988 finals were held in Qatar between December 2 and December 18. Saudi Arabia defeated host nation Republic of Korea in the final match in Doha.

Contents

1 Qualification

2 First round

2.1 Notes:
2.2 Group A
2.3 Group B

Qualification

Qatar qualified automatically as host
Saudi Arabia qualified automatically as defending champions

The other 8 qualifying teams were:

First round

Notes:

Abbreviations:
- Pld: games played
- W: won
- D: drawn
- L: lost
- GF: goals for
- GA: goals against
- Pts: points

Group A

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Rep. of Korea	4	4	0	0	9	2	8
Iran	4	2	1	1	3	3	5
Qatar	4	2	0	2	7	6	4
U.A.E.	4	1	0	3	2	4	2
Japan	4	0	1	3	0	6	1


December 2
	Iran	2 – 0	Qatar
		(HT: 1 – 0)		Ref:Micheal Voutrou (FRA)
	Bavi 6'
	Peevos 82'

December 3
	Rep. of Korea	1 – 0	U.A.E.	Doha Al-Ahly Stadium (1500)
		(HT: 1 – 0)		Ref: George Courtney (ENG)
	Lee 8'

December 4
	Iran	0 – 0	Japan
		(HT: 0 – 0)		Ref:Thompson TANSHAN

December 5
	Qatar	4 – 2	U.A.E.
		(HT: 2 – 1)
	Muftah 17'		Mohomed 35'
	Faray 26'

December 6
	Rep. of Korea	2 – 0	Japan	Doha Qatar SC Stadium (15:00)
		(HT: 2 – 0)		Ref:Salah Mohammed Karim (IRQ)
	Hwang 17'
	Kim 35'

December 8
	Iran	1 – 0	U.A.E.
		(HT: 1 – 0)		Ref:Steven Owens (TUN)
	Peeyos 28'

December 9
	Rep. of Korea	3 – 2	Qatar	Doha Qatar SC Stadium (1700)
		(HT: 2 – 0)		Ref:George Courtney (ENG)
	Chung 10'		Salman (pen)47'
	Kim 34'		Salman (pen)80'
	Chung 72'

December 10
	Japan	0 – 1	U.A.E.
		(HT: 0 – 0)
			Muhammad 80'

December 11
	Rep. of Korea	3 – 0	Iran	Doha Al-Ahly Stadium (1700)
		(HT: 2 – 0)		Ref:Naji Jouieni (TUN)
	Byun 26'
	Hwang 42'
	Byun 57'

December 12
	Qatar	3 – 0	Japan
		(HT: 0 – 0)
	Khamis 58'
	Khamis 82'
	Muftah 90'

Group B

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Saudi Arabia	4	2	2	0	4	1	6
P.R.China	4	2	1	1	6	3	5
Syria	4	2	0	2	2	5	4
Kuwait	4	0	3	1	2	3	3
Bahrain	4	0	2	2	1	3	2


December 2
	Saudi Arabia	2 – 0	Syria
		(HT: 1 – 0)
	Al-Saleh 20'
	Sherbani 82'

December 3
	Kuwait	0 – 0	Bahrain
		(HT: 0 – 0)

December 4
	P.R. China	3 – 0	Syria
		(HT: 3 – 0)
	Gao 13'
	Xie 14'
	Xie 19'

December 5
	Saudi Arabia	0 – 0	Kuwait
		(HT: 0 – 0)

December 6
	P.R. China	1 – 0	Bahrain
		(HT: 0 – 0)
	Zhang 78'

December 8
	Syria	1 – 0	Kuwait
		(HT: 1 – 0)
	Nasser 63'

December 9
	Saudi Arabia	1 – 1	Bahrain
		(HT: 0 – 1)
	Al-Ja'azeh 78'		Muhammad (pen)44'

December 10
	P.R. China	2 – 2	Kuwait
		(HT: 1 – 0)
	Ma 10'		Hussein (pen)60'
	Ma 87'		Muhammad (pen)62'

December 11
	Bahrain	0 – 1	Syria
		(HT: 0 – 0)
			Al-Hel 72'

December 12
	Saudi Arabia	1 – 0	P.R. China
		(HT: 0 – 0)
	Alibishin 56'

Semi-finals

December 14	Rep.of Korea	2 – 1	P.R. CHINA
		(HT: 0 – 0)
		(FT: 0 – 0)
	Lee 93'		Mai 100'
	Lee 102'


December 15	Saudi Arabia	1 – 0	Iran
		(HT:1 – 0)
	Abdullah 20'

Third Place Match

December 17
	Iran	0 – 0	P.R. China
		(HT: 0 – 0)
		(FT: 0 – 0)
		(AET: 0 – 0)
	Iran wins 3 – 0 on penalties

Final

December 18
	Saudi Arabia	0 – 0	Rep. of Korea
		(HT: 0 – 0)
		(FT: 0 – 0)
		(AET: 0 – 0)
	Saudi Arabia wins 4 – 3 on penalties




	Asian Cup 1988 champions: Saudi Arabia

Scoring players

3Goals:

Lee Tae-Ho

2 goals:

Ma Lin - Xie Yuxin
Farshad Peevos
Adel Khamis - Mansour Muftah - Khalid Salman
Byun Byung-Joo - Chung Hae-Won - Hwang Seong-Hong - Kim Joo-Sung

1 goal:

Favad Muhammad
Gao Shang - Mai Chao - Zhang Xiaowen
Karim Bavi
Adel Hussein - Mansoor Muhammad
Moshin Faray
Saleh Mubarak Al-Saleh - Mohamed Sherbani - Fand Alibishin - Yousuf Al-Ja’Azeh - Majed Abdullah
Walid Nasser - Walid Al-Hel
Mohamed Hasan Hussain - Abdul Aziz Muhammad

Top scoring teams

11 goals:

Rep. of Korea

7 goals:

5 goals:

Saudi Arabia

3 goals:

Iran