The 1992 AFC Asian Cup was the 10th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The finals were held in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan between 29 October and 8 November 1992. The host nation, Japan, defeated the defending champion Saudi Arabia in the final in Hiroshima.

This was the first Asian Cup not to have any debuting countries.

Stadiums

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| Hiroshima Big Arch

| Hiroshima Stadium

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| Capacity: 50,000

| Capacity: 13,800

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! Onomichi

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|Bingo Athletic Stadium

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| Capacity: 9,245

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Qualification

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! Team

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! Previous appearance

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| || || 18 December 1988 ||

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| || || 31 May 1992 ||

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| || || 30 May 1992 ||

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| || || 15 May 1992 ||

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| || || 7 June 1992 || 1 (1980)

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| || || 26 April 1992 ||

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| || || 23 June 1992 ||

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Squads

First round

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Semi-finals

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Third place play-off

Final

Winners

Awards

MVP (Most Valuable Player)

  • Kazuyoshi Miura

Top Scorer

  • Fahad Al-Bishi – 3 goals

Statistics

Goalscorers

With three goals, Fahad Al-Bishi is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 31 goals were scored by 24 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

3 goals

  • Fahad Al-Bishi

2 goals

  • Peng Weiguo
  • Masashi Nakayama
  • Kim Kwang-min
  • Saeed Al-Owairan
  • Yousuf Al-Thunayan

1 goal

  • Xie Yuxin
  • Li Bing
  • Li Xiao
  • Hao Haidong
  • Sirous Ghayeghran
  • Farshad Pious
  • Kazuyoshi Miura
  • Masahiro Fukuda
  • Tsuyoshi Kitazawa
  • Takuya Takagi
  • Mubarak Mustafa
  • Khalifa Al-Sulaiti
  • Mahmoud Soufi
  • Khalid Al-Muwallid
  • Thanis Areesngarkul
  • Khalid Ismail
  • Khamees Saad Mubarak
  • Zuhair Bakhit

Top scoring teams

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References

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