# Football at the 2018 Asian Games

Football at the 2018 Asian Games was held from 14 August to 1 September 2018 in Indonesia. One of the host cities, Palembang, hosted the women's event, while the men's matches are played in Bekasi, Cibinong, Cikarang, and Soreang.
The Games' main stadium, the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta did not host the football events. The stadium hosted the ceremonies and the athletics.
All the top 20 nations sent their national football teams to the Asian Games excluding India. A total of 25 men's team and 11 women's team competed at the Asian Games. The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) refused to clear the Indian football team to participate in the tournament due its policy of only sending national teams that were ranked among the top eight at the continental level (India were ranked 14th at the time in Asia). The decision was opposed by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) who described the IOA as lacking "vision and competence", and that the IOA did not consider the recent form and upwards movement of the India national football team in FIFA World Rankings. This was the first time that the Indian football team did not participate in the tournament since the 1994 Asian Games. Several nations also refused to participate most notably including Tajikistan, Maldives, Yemen and Lebanon; the latter two teams will participate in 2019 AFC Asian Cup.

## Competition schedule

All times are local Indonesia Western Standard Time (UTC+7).
| G | Group stage | 1⁄8 | Round of 16 | 1⁄4 | Quarter-finals | 1⁄2 | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
| DateEvent | Fri 10 | Sat 11 | Sun 12 | Mon 13 | Tue 14 | Wed 15 | Thu 16 | Fri 17 | Sat 18 | Sun 19 | Mon 20 | Tue 21 | Wed 22 | Thu 23 | Fri 24 | Sat 25 | Sun 26 | Mon 27 | Tue 28 | Wed 29 | Thu 30 | Fri 31 | Fri 31 | Sat 01 | Sat 01 |
| Men | G | | G | | G | G | G | G | | G | G | | | 1⁄8 | 1⁄8 | | | 1⁄4 | | 1⁄2 | | | | B | F |
| Women | | | | | | | G | G | | G | G | G | G | | 1⁄4 | 1⁄4 | | | 1⁄2 | | | B | F | | |

## Venues
### Men's venues

| Soreang | Cibinong | Bekasi | Cikarang |
| Jalak Harupat | Pakansari | Patriot Chandrabhaga | Wibawa Mukti |
| Capacity: 27,000 | Capacity: 30,000 | Capacity: 30,000 | Capacity: 28,778 |
| CikarangSoreangBekasiCibinong ||||

### Women's venues

Palembang :
| Gelora Sriwijaya | Bumi Sriwijaya |
| Capacity: 23,000 | Capacity: 7,000 |
| Bumi SriwijayaGelora Sriwijaya ||

## Participating nations and regions
### Men's tournament

* Bahrain
* Bangladesh
* China
* Chinese Taipei
* Hong Kong
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Japan
* Kyrgyzstan
* Laos
* Malaysia
* Myanmar
* Nepal
* North Korea
* Pakistan
* Palestine
* Qatar
* Saudi Arabia
* South Korea
* Syria
* Timor-Leste
* Thailand
* United Arab Emirates
* Uzbekistan
* Vietnam

### Women's tournament

* China
* Chinese Taipei
* Hong Kong
* Indonesia (host)
* Japan
* Maldives
* North Korea
* South Korea
* Tajikistan
* Thailand
* Vietnam

## Medal summary
### Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | South Korea | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | China | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | United Arab Emirates | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (4 entries) | Totals (4 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

### Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | South Korea Song Bum-keun Hwang Hyun-soo Kim Min-jae Kim Jin-ya Jeong Tae-wook Kim Moon-hwan Son Heung-min Lee Jin-hyun Hwang Hee-chan Hwang In-beom Na Sang-ho Lee Si-young Cho Yu-min Jang Yun-ho Lee Seung-mo Hwang Ui-jo Lee Seung-woo Jo Hyeon-woo Kim Geon-ung Kim Jung-min | Japan Ryosuke Kojima Yoichi Naganuma Makoto Okazaki Ko Itakura Daiki Sugioka Ryo Hatsuse Teruki Hara Kaoru Mitoma Reo Hatate Koji Miyoshi Keita Endo Powell Obinna Obi Yuto Iwasaki Taishi Matsumoto Ayase Ueda Kota Watanabe Yuta Kamiya Daizen Maeda Takuma Ominami Yugo Tatsuta | United Arab Emirates Sultan Al-Mantheri Abdullah Hassan Al-Noubi Ahmed Rashed Salem Sultan Ismael Khaled Majed Suroor Ahmed Al-Attas Jassem Yaqoub Khaled Ibrahim Ali Eid Abdulrahman Al-Ameri Abdullah Ghanem Mohammed Al-Attas Hussain Abdullah Mohamed Al-Shamsi Hamad Jassim Mohammed Khalfan Shahin Suroor Zayed Al-Ameri Rashed Mohammed |
| Women details | Japan Sakiko Ikeda Risa Shimizu Aya Sameshima Shiori Miyake Hikari Takagi Saori Ariyoshi Emi Nakajima Mana Iwabuchi Yuika Sugasawa Yuka Momiki Mina Tanaka Rika Masuya Yu Nakasato Yui Hasegawa Moeno Sakaguchi Rin Sumida Aimi Kunitake Ayaka Yamashita | China Zhao Lina Han Peng Huang Yini Lou Jiahui Wu Haiyan Lin Yuping Wang Shuang Li Jiayue Ren Guixin Li Ying Wang Shanshan Wang Yan Li Tingting Zhao Rong Xiao Yuyi Yang Lina Gu Yasha Li Mengwen Bi Xiaolin Zhang Rui | South Korea Yoon Young-geul Jang Sel-gi Shin Dam-yeong Shim Seo-yeon Hong Hye-ji Lim Seon-joo Lee Min-a Cho So-hyun Jeon Ga-eul Ji So-yun Lee Geum-min Moon Mi-ra Han Chae-rin Choe Yu-ri Jang Chang Son Hwa-yeon Lee Hyun-young Jung Bo-ram Lee Eun-mi Kim Hye-ri |

## Men's competition

The competition consisted of two stages; a group stage followed by a knockout stage.

### Group stage
#### Group A

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Indonesia (H) | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Palestine | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 8 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 4 | Laos | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 3 | |
| 5 | Chinese Taipei | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 10 | −10 | 1 | |

#### Group B

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Uzbekistan | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | +10 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Bangladesh | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Thailand | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 2 | |
| 4 | Qatar | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | −7 | 1 | |

#### Group C

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | China | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | +10 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Syria | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | United Arab Emirates | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 3 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 4 | East Timor | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 15 | −12 | 0 | |
| 5 | Iraq | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Withdrew, replaced by UAE |

#### Group D

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Vietnam | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +6 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Japan | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Pakistan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 3 | |
| 4 | Nepal | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 0 | |

#### Group E

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Malaysia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | South Korea | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Bahrain | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 | −5 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 4 | Kyrgyzstan | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 1 | |
| 5 | United Arab Emirates | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Redrawn to Group C |
* 1 2 Head-to-head result: Malaysia 2–1 South Korea.

#### Group F

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Iran | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | North Korea | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Saudi Arabia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 4 | Myanmar | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 | |

### Ranking of third-placed teams

| Pos | Grp | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | A | Hong Kong | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | F | Saudi Arabia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | E | Bahrain | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 | −5 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 4 | C | United Arab Emirates | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 3 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 5 | D | Pakistan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 3 | |
| 6 | B | Thailand | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 2 | |

### Knockout stage

| Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| 23 August – Bekasi | 23 August – Bekasi | | | | | | |
| Palestine | 0 | | | | | | |
| Palestine | 0 | 27 August – Bekasi | 27 August – Bekasi | | | | | |
| Syria | 1 | 27 August – Bekasi | 27 August – Bekasi | | | | |
| Syria | 1 | Syria | 0 | | | | |
| 23 August – Bekasi | 23 August – Bekasi | | Syria | 0 | | | | |
| 23 August – Bekasi | 23 August – Bekasi | Vietnam (a.e.t.) | 1 | | | | |
| Vietnam | 1 | Vietnam (a.e.t.) | 1 | | | | |
| Vietnam | 1 | | | | 29 August – Cibinong | 29 August – Cibinong | | |
| Bahrain | 0 | | | | 29 August – Cibinong | 29 August – Cibinong | |
| Bahrain | 0 | | | | Vietnam | 1 | |
| 23 August – Cikarang | 23 August – Cikarang | | | | | Vietnam | 1 | |
| 23 August – Cikarang | 23 August – Cikarang | | | | South Korea | 3 | |
| Uzbekistan | 3 | | | | South Korea | 3 | |
| Uzbekistan | 3 | 27 August – Bekasi | 27 August – Bekasi | | | | | |
| Hong Kong | 0 | 27 August – Bekasi | 27 August – Bekasi | | | | |
| Hong Kong | 0 | Uzbekistan | 3 | | | | |
| 23 August – Cikarang | 23 August – Cikarang | | Uzbekistan | 3 | | | | |
| 23 August – Cikarang | 23 August – Cikarang | South Korea (a.e.t.) | 4 | | | | |
| Iran | 0 | South Korea (a.e.t.) | 4 | | | | |
| Iran | 0 | | | | | | | 1 September – Cibinong | 1 September – Cibinong |
| South Korea | 2 | | | | | | | 1 September – Cibinong | 1 September – Cibinong |
| South Korea | 2 | | | | | | | South Korea (a.e.t.) | 2 |
| 24 August – Bekasi | 24 August – Bekasi | | | | | | | | South Korea (a.e.t.) | 2 |
| 24 August – Bekasi | 24 August – Bekasi | | | | | | | Japan | 1 |
| China | 3 | | | | | | | Japan | 1 |
| China | 3 | 27 August – Cibinong | 27 August – Cibinong | | | | | | |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 27 August – Cibinong | 27 August – Cibinong | | | | | | |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | Saudi Arabia | 1 | | | | | | |
| 24 August – Bekasi | 24 August – Bekasi | | Saudi Arabia | 1 | | | | | | |
| 24 August – Bekasi | 24 August – Bekasi | Japan | 2 | | | | | | |
| Malaysia | 0 | Japan | 2 | | | | | | |
| Malaysia | 0 | | | | 29 August – Cibinong | 29 August – Cibinong | | | | |
| Japan | 1 | | | | 29 August – Cibinong | 29 August – Cibinong | | | |
| Japan | 1 | | | | Japan | 1 | | | |
| 24 August – Cikarang | 24 August – Cikarang | | | | | Japan | 1 | | | |
| 24 August – Cikarang | 24 August – Cikarang | | | | United Arab Emirates | 0 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Indonesia | 2 (3) | | | | United Arab Emirates | 0 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Indonesia | 2 (3) | 27 August – Cibinong | 27 August – Cibinong | | | | | 1 September – Cibinong | 1 September – Cibinong |
| United Arab Emirates (p) | 2 (4) | 27 August – Cibinong | 27 August – Cibinong | | | | | 1 September – Cibinong | 1 September – Cibinong |
| United Arab Emirates (p) | 2 (4) | United Arab Emirates (p) | 1 (5) | | | | | Vietnam | 1 (3) |
| 24 August – Cikarang | 24 August – Cikarang | | United Arab Emirates (p) | 1 (5) | | | | | Vietnam | 1 (3) |
| 24 August – Cikarang | 24 August – Cikarang | North Korea | 1 (3) | | | | | United Arab Emirates (p) | 1 (4) |
| Bangladesh | 1 | North Korea | 1 (3) | | | | | United Arab Emirates (p) | 1 (4) |
| North Korea | 3 | | | | | | | | |

## Women's competition

The competition consisted of two stages; a group stage followed by a knockout stage.

### Group stage
#### Group A

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | South Korea | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 1 | +21 | 9 | Advance to Knockout stage |
| 2 | Chinese Taipei | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 2 | +10 | 6 | Advance to Knockout stage |
| 3 | Indonesia (H) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 16 | −10 | 3 | |
| 4 | Maldives | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 21 | −21 | 0 | |

#### Group B

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | China | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0 | +25 | 9 | Advance to Knockout stage |
| 2 | North Korea | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 2 | +22 | 6 | Advance to Knockout stage |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 16 | −10 | 3 | Advance to Knockout stage |
| 4 | Tajikistan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 38 | −37 | 0 | |

#### Group C

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Japan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | +9 | 6 | Advance to Knockout stage |
| 2 | Vietnam | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 3 | Advance to Knockout stage |
| 3 | Thailand | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 | Advance to Knockout stage |

### Ranking of third-placed teams

| Pos | Grp | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | C | Thailand | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | B | Hong Kong | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 15 | −15 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | A | Indonesia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 | −16 | 0 | |

### Knockout stage

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| 24 August – Palembang | 24 August – Palembang | | | |
| South Korea | 5 | | | |
| South Korea | 5 | 28 August – Palembang | 28 August – Palembang | | |
| Hong Kong | 0 | 28 August – Palembang | 28 August – Palembang | |
| Hong Kong | 0 | South Korea | 1 | |
| 25 August – Palembang | 25 August – Palembang | | South Korea | 1 | |
| 25 August – Palembang | 25 August – Palembang | Japan | 2 | |
| Japan | 2 | Japan | 2 | |
| Japan | 2 | | | | 31 August – Palembang | 31 August – Palembang |
| North Korea | 1 | | | | 31 August – Palembang | 31 August – Palembang |
| North Korea | 1 | | | | Japan | 1 |
| 24 August – Palembang | 24 August – Palembang | | | | | Japan | 1 |
| 24 August – Palembang | 24 August – Palembang | | | | China | 0 |
| Chinese Taipei (p) | 0 (4) | | | | China | 0 |
| Chinese Taipei (p) | 0 (4) | 28 August – Palembang | 28 August – Palembang | | | |
| Vietnam | 0 (3) | 28 August – Palembang | 28 August – Palembang | | | |
| Vietnam | 0 (3) | Chinese Taipei | 0 | | | |
| 25 August – Palembang | 25 August – Palembang | | Chinese Taipei | 0 | | | |
| 25 August – Palembang | 25 August – Palembang | China | 1 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| China | 5 | China | 1 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| China | 5 | | | | 31 August – Palembang | 31 August – Palembang |
| Thailand | 0 | | | | 31 August – Palembang | 31 August – Palembang |
| Thailand | 0 | | | | South Korea | 4 |
| | | | | | Chinese Taipei | 0 |