# Football at the 1990 Asian Games

Football at the 1990 Asian Games was held in Beijing, China from 23 September to 6 October 1990.

## Venues

Beijing :
| Workers' Stadium | Fengtai Stadium | Xiannongtan Stadium |
| Capacity: 80,000 | Capacity: 30,000 | Capacity: 24,000 |
| Beijing ||
| Shijingshan Stadium | Haidian Stadium |
| Capacity: 20,000 | Capacity: 10,000 |

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | Iran Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh Javad Zarincheh Mojtaba Moharrami Mehdi Fonounizadeh Mohammad Panjali Sirous Ghayeghran Morteza Kermani Moghaddam Shahrokh Bayani Mehdi Abtahi Samad Marfavi Nasser Mohammadkhani Shahin Bayani Mohsen Ashouri Reza Hassanzadeh Nader Mohammadkhani Ali Eftekhari Farshad Pious Majid Namjoo-Motlagh Mohammad Hassan Ansarifard Behzad Gholampour | North Korea Kim Chi-won Kim Kwang-min O Yong-nam Kim Kyong-il Jong Yong-man Kim Jong-man Han Hyong-il Yun Chol Yun Jong-su Kim Yun-chol Ri Jong-man Tak Yong-bin Kim Yong-nam Jo In-chol Choi Yong-son Ryu Song-gun Pang Gwang-chol Kim Chung Kim Jong-song Kim Pung-il | South Korea Choi In-young Park Kyung-hoon Chung Jong-soo Yoon Deok-yeo Chung Yong-hwan Kim Sang-ho Lee Young-jin Kim Pan-keun Hwangbo Kwan Kim Joo-sung Byun Byung-joo Noh Jung-yoon Jung Kwang-seok Choi Soon-ho Kim Poong-joo Ko Jeong-woon Gu Sang-bum Hwang Sun-hong Seo Jung-won Hong Myung-bo |
| Women details | China Chen Xia Gu Pingjuan Li Sa Li Xiufu Liu Ailing Ma Li Niu Lijie Sun Qingmei Tang Kunyuan Wei Haiying Wen Lirong Wu Weiying Zhang Yan Zheng Maomei Zhong Honglian Zhou Hua Zhou Yang Zhu Tao | Japan Etsuko Handa Kazuko Hironaka Midori Honda Mayumi Kaji Futaba Kioka Kyoko Kuroda Michiko Matsuda Tomoko Matsunaga Yuriko Mizuma Kaori Nagamine Akemi Noda Megumi Sakata Masae Suzuki Yoko Takahagi Asako Takakura Takako Tezuka Yumi Watanabe Sayuri Yamaguchi | North Korea Hong Kum-suk Im Hyon-suk Ju Jong-ae Kim Gwang-suk Kim Hye-ran Kim Kum-sil Kim Myong-suk Kim Tak-sun Pak Un-suk Ri Ae-gyong Ri Chu-wol Ri Hong-sil Ri Kyong-ae Rim Sun-bong Sin Yong-suk Suk Yu-ran Yang Mi-sun |

## Medal table

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

## Draw
### Men

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 1986 Asian Games.

#### Group A

* South Korea
* Iraq
* Malaysia
* India

#### Group B

* Indonesia
* China
* Thailand
* Singapore
* Pakistan

#### Group C

* Kuwait
* Iran
* Japan
* Hong Kong

#### Group D

* Saudi Arabia
* Qatar
* North Korea
* Bangladesh
* Yemen
The OCA expelled Iraq from the Games, India, Qatar and Indonesia withdrew. The revised draw took place few days before the competition.

#### Group A

* South Korea
* China
* Singapore
* Pakistan

#### Group B

* Iran
* North Korea
* Malaysia

#### Group C

* Kuwait
* Thailand
* Yemen
* Hong Kong

#### Group D

* Saudi Arabia
* Japan
* Bangladesh

### Women
#### Group A

* China
* Hong Kong
* North Korea
* Philippines

#### Group B

* Chinese Taipei
* Japan
* South Korea
* Thailand
Thailand and the Philippines withdrew, the remaining teams played in a round robin competition.

## Final standing
### Men

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| | Iran | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | +6 | 9 |
| | North Korea | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| | South Korea | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 1 | +17 | 10 |
| 4 | Thailand | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 7 |
| 5 | Saudi Arabia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +6 | 5 |
| 6 | China | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 4 |
| 7 | Kuwait | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 3 |
| 8 | Japan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 2 |
| 10 | Yemen | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 2 |
| 11 | Singapore | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 13 | −6 | 2 |
| 12 | Malaysia | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 1 |
| 13 | Bangladesh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | −7 | 0 |
| 14 | Pakistan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 16 | −15 | 0 |