# Football at the 2010 Asian Games

Football at the 2010 Asian Games was held in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China from 7 to 25 November 2010. The opening match was played 5 days prior to the opening ceremony. In this tournament, 24 teams played in the men's competition, and 7 teams participated in women's competition.
Age limit for the men teams was under-23, same as the age limit in football competitions in Olympic Games, while three overage players are allowed among each squad.
Japan became the first ever nation that won both Gold medals of Men's and Women's tournament in an Asian Games.

## Venues

Guangzhou :
| Tianhe | Panyu | Panyu | Yuexiu | Yuexiu | Huadu | Huangpu |
| Tianhe Stadium | University Town Main Stadium | Ying Tung Stadium | Yuexiushan Stadium | Guangdong Provincial Stadium | Huadu Stadium | Huangpu Sports Center Stadium |
| Capacity: 56,000 | Capacity: 50,000 | Capacity: 14,818 | Capacity: 30,000 | Capacity: 27,096 | Capacity: 13,395 | Capacity: 10,000 |
| Map of Guangdong with 2010 Football of Asian Games venues marked.Guangzhou |||||||

## Schedule

| P | Preliminary round | R | Round of 16 | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 7th Sun | 8th Mon | 9th Tue | 10th Wed | 11th Thu | 12th Fri | 13th Sat | 14th Sun | 15th Mon | 16th Tue | 17th Wed | 18th Thu | 19th Fri | 20th Sat | 21st Sun | 22nd Mon | 23rd Tue | 24th Wed | 25th Thu |
| Men | P | P | P | P | P | | P | | R | R | | | ¼ | | | | ½ | | F |
| Women | | | | | | | | P | | P | | P | | ½ | | F | | | |

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | Japan Takuya Masuda Yuki Saneto Jun Sonoda Takefumi Toma Yusuke Higa Shoma Kamata Ryohei Yamazaki Kazuya Yamamura Masato Kurogi Kota Mizunuma Kensuke Nagai Shunya Suganuma Daisuke Suzuki Shohei Otsuka Keigo Higashi Hotaru Yamaguchi Kyohei Noborizato Shunsuke Ando Masato Kudo Takamitsu Tomiyama | United Arab Emirates Ali Khasif Saad Surour Abdullah Mousa Amer Abdulrahman Ali Al-Amri Mohamed Al-Shehhi Hamdan Al-Kamali Ahmed Ali Theyab Awana Ahmed Khalil Abdelaziz Sanqour Saeed Al-Kathiri Adel Al-Hosani Mohamed Fawzi Mohamed Ahmed Abdulaziz Haikal Ahmed Mahmoud Mohammed Jamal Haboush Saleh Omar Abdulrahman | South Korea Kim Seung-gyu Hong Chul Shin Kwang-hoon Kim Ju-young Kim Young-gwon Hong Jeong-ho Koo Ja-cheol Yoon Bit-garam Park Hee-seong Park Chu-young Cho Young-cheol Kim Min-woo Jang Suk-won Kim Jung-woo Oh Jae-suk Seo Jung-jin Yun Suk-young Ji Dong-won Kim Bo-kyung Lee Bum-young |
| Women details | Japan Nozomi Yamago Azusa Iwashimizu Kyoko Yano Yukari Kinga Aya Sameshima Mizuho Sakaguchi Megumi Kamionobe Aya Miyama Ayako Kitamoto Homare Sawa Shinobu Ono Ayumi Kaihori Saki Kumagai Mami Yamaguchi Kana Osafune Nahomi Kawasumi Manami Nakano Megumi Takase | North Korea Hong Myong-hui Kim Kyong-hwa Choe Yong-sim Song Jong-sun Ro Chol-ok Ho Un-byol Jo Yun-mi Ri Ye-gyong Kim Yong-ae Ra Un-sim Ri Un-gyong Kim Chung-sim Yun Hyon-hi Yu Jong-hui Jon Myong-hwa Jo Yun-mi Jong Pok-sim Kong Hye-ok | South Korea Jun Min-kyung Shim Seo-yeon Lee Eun-mi Kim Do-yeon Hong Kyung-suk Yu Ji-eun Kwon Hah-nul Park Eun-jung Park Hee-young Ji So-yun Kim Soo-yun Moon So-ri Jeon Ga-eul Kwon Eun-som Kim Na-rae Yoo Young-a Cha Yun-hee Kim Hye-ri |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | North Korea (PRK) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | United Arab Emirates (UAE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (4 entries) | Totals (4 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

## Draw

The draw ceremony for the team sports was held on 7 October 2010 in China. The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2006 Asian Games.

### Men

* Iraq withdrew from the competition shortly after the draw and was replaced by Pakistan.

### Women
## Final standing
### Men

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

### Women

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| | Japan | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +6 | 10 |
| | North Korea | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 7 |
| | South Korea | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 4 | +10 | 10 |
| 4 | China | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 4 | +7 | 7 |
| 5 | Vietnam | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 3 |
| 6 | Thailand | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0 |
| 7 | Jordan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 18 | −17 | 0 |