# AFC Asian Cup awards

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 match.

## 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 |
| 1956 | Not awarded |
| 1960 | Not awarded |
| 1964 | Not awarded |
| 1968 | Not awarded |
| 1972 | Ebrahim Ashtiani |
| 1976 | Ali Parvin |
| 1980 | Not 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 |
| 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 |
| 1992 | Not awarded |
| 1996 | Mohamed Al-Deayea |
| 2000 | Jiang Jin |
| 2004 | Not awarded |
| 2007 | Noor Sabri |
| 2011 | Not awarded |
| 2015 | Mathew Ryan |
| 2019 | Saad Al-Sheeb |
| 2023 | Meshaal Barsham |

## Team of the Tournament
### By edition

| Year | Goalkeepers | Defenders | Midfielders | Forwards |
| 1980 | 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 Yaqoub |
| 1984 | Unknown or not awarded | Unknown or not awarded | Unknown or not awarded | Unknown or not awarded |
| 1988 (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 Baoshan |
| 1992 | Unknown or not awarded | Unknown or not awarded | Unknown or not awarded | Unknown or not awarded |
| 1996 | 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 Daei |
| 2000 | 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 Takahara |
| 2004 | 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-Qahtani |
| 2011 | Not awarded | Not awarded | Not awarded | Not awarded |
| 2015 | 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-min |
| 2019 (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 Osako |
| 2023 (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-Naimat |
| 2023 (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 Endō 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 |
* ↑ Selected by official social networking service.
* ↑ Selected by AFC Technical Study Group.

### 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 |
| 1984 | China |
| 1988 | Not awarded |
| 1992 | Not awarded |
| 1996 | Iran |
| 2000 | Saudi Arabia |
| 2004 | China |
| 2007 | Japan |
| 2011 | South Korea |
| 2015 | Australia |
| 2019 | Japan |
| 2023 | Qatar |

## Coaches

* Wui Hye-deok, posthumously received the AFC Asian Cup winning coaches award. (2010)