The 1980 AFC Asian Cup was the 7th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The finals were hosted by Kuwait between 15 and 30 September 1980. The field of ten teams was split into two groups of five each. Kuwait won their first championship, beating South Korea in the final 3–0.
Qualification
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left;"
|-
! Team
! Qualified as
! Qualified on
! Previous appearance
|-
| || || ||
|-
| || || 13 June 1976 ||
|-
| || || 22 November 1979 || 0 (debut)
|-
| || || 23 November 1979 || 0 (debut)
|-
| || || 15 January 1979 || 0 (debut)
|-
| || || 16 January 1979 || 0 (debut)
|-
| || || 12 May 1979 || 0 (debut)
|-
| || || 11 May 1979 ||
|-
| |||| 29 December 1978 ||
|-
| || || 29 December 1978 ||
|}
Venues
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!rowspan=4|
! Kuwait City
|-
| Sabah Al-Salem Stadium
|-
| Capacity: 22,000
|-
| 200px
|}
Squads
For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1980 AFC Asian Cup squads.
Group stage
Group A
<onlyinclude>
</onlyinclude>
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
Group B
<onlyinclude>
</onlyinclude>
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
Knockout stage
Semi-finals
----
Third place play-off
Final
Statistics
Goalscorers
;7 goals
- Choi Soon-ho
- Behtash Fariba
;5 goals
- Faisal Al-Dakhil
;4 goals
- Jasem Yaqoub
- Xu Yonglai
;3 goals
- Shen Xiangfu
- Hossein Faraki
- Chung Hae-won
;2 goals
- Abdolreza Barzegari
- Hamid Alidousti
- Saad Al-Houti
- Tukamin Bahari
- Zulkifli Hamzah
- Choi Jae-pil
- Kim Bok-man
- Pak Jong-hun
- Mansoor Muftah
- Jamal Keshek
- Ahmed Chombi
;1 goal
- Ashraf Uddin Ahmed Chunnu
- Kazi Salahuddin
- Chen Jingang
- Li Fubao
- Hassan Roshan
- Iraj Danaeifard
- Abdulaziz Al-Anberi
- Fathi Kameel
- Abdah Alif
- Hwang Sang-hoi
- Kim Jong-man
- Hwang Seok-keun
- Lee Jung-il
- Jawdat Suleiman
- Ghanem Al-Hajri
Awards
Top scorer
- Choi Soon-ho
- Behtash Fariba
Team of the Tournament
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!width=180|Goalkeeper
!width=180|Defenders
!width=180|Midfielders
!width=180|Forwards
|-
|align=left valign=top|
Nasser Hejazi
|align=left valign=top|
Naeem Saad<br />
Soh Chin Aun<br />
Mahboub Juma'a<br />
Mehdi Dinvarzadeh
|align=left valign=top|
Abdolreza Barzegari<br />
Saad Al-Houti<br />
Lee Young-moo
|align=left valign=top|
Choi Soon-ho<br />
Faisal Al-Dakhil<br />
Jasem Yaqoub
|}
References
External links
- South Korea International Matches
- Kuwait Football Association
- All-Star Team New Straits Times, 2 October 1980, Page 27
- Details at RSSSF