# Football at the 2002 Asian Games

Football at the 2002 Asian Games was held in Busan, Changwon, Yangsan and Ulsan, South Korea from 27 September to 13 October 2002.
Age limit for the men teams is under-23, same as the age limit in football competitions in Olympic Games, while three overage players are allowed among each squad.

## Venues

| Busan | Busan | Ulsan |
| Asiad Main Stadium | Gudeok Stadium | Munsu Football Stadium |
| Capacity: 53,769 | Capacity: 12,349 | Capacity: 44,102 |
| Changwon | Changwon | Yangsan |
| Changwon Stadium | Masan Stadium | Yangsan Stadium |
| Capacity: 27,085 | Capacity: 21,484 | Capacity: 22,061 |

## Schedule

| ● | Round | ● | Last round | P | Preliminary round | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 27th Fri | 28th Sat | 29th Sun | 30th Mon | 1st Tue | 2nd Wed | 3rd Thu | 4th Fri | 5th Sat | 6th Sun | 7th Mon | 8th Tue | 9th Wed | 10th Thu | 11th Fri | 12th Sat | 13th Sun |
| Men | P | P | | P | P | | P | | P | | | ¼ | | ½ | | | F |
| Women | | | | | | ● | | ● | | | ● | | ● | | ● | | |

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | Iran Ebrahim Mirzapour Mehdi Amirabadi Yahya Golmohammadi Saeid Lotfi Javad Nekounam Iman Mobali Javad Kazemian Ali Daei Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht Mehdi Rahmati Hossein Kaebi Moharram Navidkia Abolfazl Hajizadeh Mohsen Bayatinia Ali Badavi Siavash Akbarpour Jalal Kameli Mofrad Mohammad Nosrati Hamid Azizzadeh Ershad Yousefi | Japan Yosuke Fujigaya Teruyuki Moniwa Shohei Ikeda Daisuke Nasu Yuichi Komano Yuki Abe Yoshito Okubo Kazuyuki Morisaki Daisuke Matsui Ryoichi Maeda Tatsuya Tanaka Yuichi Nemoto Keita Suzuki Naohiro Ishikawa Hikaru Mita Takuya Nozawa Hayuma Tanaka Takaya Kurokawa Satoshi Nakayama Takeshi Aoki | South Korea Lee Woon-jae Cho Byung-kuk Hyun Young-min Park Yo-seb Kim Young-chul Park Yong-ho Byun Sung-hwan Kim Do-heon Lee Chun-soo Park Ji-sung Choi Tae-uk Lee Young-pyo Kim Dong-jin Park Kyu-seon Cho Sung-hwan Kim Yong-dae Choi Sung-kuk Kim Eun-jung Park Dong-hyuk Lee Dong-gook |
| Women details | North Korea Ri Jong-hui Yun In-sil Jo Song-ok Sin Kum-ok Ra Mi-ae Ri Kum-suk Pak Kum-chun Ho Sun-hui Jin Pyol-hui Yun Yong-hui Jang Ok-gyong Song Jong-sun O Kum-ran Ri Un-gyong Yang Kyong-hui Chon Kyong-hwa Ri Hyang-ok Kim Un-ok | China Xiao Zhen Sun Rui Li Jie Gao Hongxia Fan Yunjie Zhao Lihong Pu Wei Bai Lili Bai Jie Sun Wen Xie Caixia Zhou Xiaoxia Meng Jun Bi Yan Ren Liping Liu Yali Pan Lina Zhao Yan | Japan Nozomi Yamago Yuka Miyazaki Yoshie Kasajima Yasuyo Yamagishi Tomoe Sakai Yumi Obe Yayoi Kobayashi Mai Nakachi Tomomi Miyamoto Homare Sawa Mio Otani Mai Aizawa Kanako Ito Mito Isaka Naoko Kawakami Miyuki Yanagita Karina Maruyama Miho Fukumoto |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Iran (IRI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | North Korea (PRK) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | China (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (5 entries) | Totals (5 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

## Draw

* Mongolia and Jordan withdrew from the competition and were replaced by Afghanistan and Palestine. Tajikistan was suspended by FIFA and was replaced by North Korea.

## Final standing
### Men

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| | Iran | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 2 | +14 | 14 |
| | Japan | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 4 | +9 | 15 |
| | South Korea | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 2 | +15 | 16 |
| 4 | Thailand | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | +3 | 12 |
| 5 | China | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | +8 | 9 |
| 5 | Kuwait | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | +8 | 9 |
| 7 | Bahrain | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 6 |
| 8 | North Korea | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 6 |
| 9 | Oman | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 6 |
| 10 | India | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 6 |
| 11 | Qatar | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 2 | +11 | 5 |
| 12 | Lebanon | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | +9 | 4 |
| 13 | United Arab Emirates | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 |
| 14 | Hong Kong | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 3 |
| 15 | Yemen | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 3 |
| 16 | Uzbekistan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 3 |
| 17 | Malaysia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 3 |
| 18 | Turkmenistan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 3 |
| 19 | Vietnam | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | −5 | 1 |
| 20 | Bangladesh | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | −8 | 0 |
| 21 | Palestine | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | −9 | 0 |
| 22 | Maldives | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12 | −11 | 0 |
| 23 | Pakistan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 14 | −14 | 0 |
| 24 | Afghanistan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 32 | −32 | 0 |

### Women

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| | North Korea | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | +8 | 13 |
| | China | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 11 |
| | Japan | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 10 |
| 4 | South Korea | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 6 |
| 5 | Chinese Taipei | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 1 |
| 6 | Vietnam | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 16 | −14 | 1 |