2000 AFC Asian Cup

2000 AFC Asian Cup
Asian Cup Lebanon 2000
كأس آسيا 2000
Coupe d'Asie des nations 2000
Logo of the 2000 Asian Cup
Tournament details
Host country Lebanon
Dates 12 – 29 October
Teams 12
Venue(s) 3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions  Japan (2nd title)
Runners-up  Saudi Arabia
Third place  South Korea
Fourth place  China PR
Tournament statistics
Matches played 26
Goals scored 77 (2.96 per match)
Attendance 276,488 (10,634 per match)
Top scorer(s) South Korea Lee Dong-Gook (6 goals)
Best player Japan Hiroshi Nanami
Best goalkeeper China Jiang Jin
Fair play award  Saudi Arabia

The 2000 AFC Asian Cup was the 12th 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 Lebanon between 12 and 29 October 2000. Japan defeated defending champion Saudi Arabia in the final match in Beirut.

Qualification

  •  Lebanon qualified automatically as host.
  •  Saudi Arabia qualified automatically as defending champions.

42 teams participated in a preliminary tournament. It was divided into 10 groups and the first-placed team of each group thus qualified. A total of 84 games were held, starting with the Oman versus Kyrgyzstan game on 3 August 1999.

The other 10 qualifying teams were:

 

Stadiums

Beirut Sidon Tripoli
Sports City Stadium Saida International Stadium International Olympic Stadium
Capacity: 47,799 Capacity: 22,600 Capacity: 22,400

Squads

First round

All times are Lebanon summer time (UTC+3).

Key to colours in group tables
Group winners, runners-up, and best two third-placed teams advance to the quarter-finals

Group A

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
 Iran 7321061+5
 Iraq 4311143+1
 Thailand 2302124−2
 Lebanon 2302137−4
Iraq  2–0  Thailand
Chathir  27'
Mahmoud  60'		 Report
Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Toru Kamikawa (Japan)
Lebanon  0–4  Iran
Report Bagheri  19'
Estili  75', 87'
Daei  90+1'
Attendance: 52,418
Referee: Lu Jun (China)
Iran  1–1  Thailand
Daei  73' Report Sakesan  12'
Attendance: 10,000
Lebanon  2–2  Iraq
Chahrour  28'
Hojeij  76'		 Report Jeayer  5', 22'
Attendance: 30,000
Iran  1–0  Iraq
Daei  77' Report
Attendance: 8,582
Lebanon  1–1  Thailand
Fernandez  83' Report Sakesan  58'
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Lu Jun (China)

Group B

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
 China PR 5312062+4
 Kuwait 5312010+1
 South Korea 4311153+2
 Indonesia 1301207−7
South Korea  2–2  China PR
Lee Young-Pyo  30'
Noh Jung-Yoon  58'		 Report Su Maozhen  36'
Fan Zhiyi  66' (pen.)
Attendance: 1,000
Kuwait  0–0  Indonesia
Report
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Tajaddin Fares (Syria)
China PR  4–0  Indonesia
Li Ming  2'
Shen Si  7' (pen.)
Yang Chen  10'
Qi Hong  90'		 Report
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Nabil Ayad (Lebanon)
South Korea  0–1  Kuwait
Report Al-Huwaidi  43'
Attendance: 5,000
China PR  0–0  Kuwait
Report
Attendance: 5,000
South Korea  3–0  Indonesia
Lee Dong-Gook  30', 76', 90+1' Report
Attendance: 500
Referee: Toru Kamikawa (Japan)

Group C

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
 Japan 73210133+10
 Saudi Arabia 4311164+2
 Qatar 33030220
 Uzbekistan 13012214−12
Saudi Arabia  1–4  Japan
Morioka  90' (o.g.) Report Yanagisawa  22'
Takahara  37'
Nanami  53'
Ono  88'
Attendance: 5,000
Qatar  1–1  Uzbekistan
Gholam  61' Report Qosimov  73'
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Mohd Nazri Abdullah (Malaysia)
Japan  8–1  Uzbekistan
Morishima  7'
Nishizawa  14', 25', 49'
Takahara  18', 20', 57'
Kitajima  79'		 Report Lushan  29'
Attendance: 2,000
Saudi Arabia  0–0  Qatar
Report
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Tajaddin Fares (Syria)
Saudi Arabia  5–0  Uzbekistan
Al-Otaibi  18'
Al-Shalhoub  35', 78', 86'
Al-Temyat  88'		 Report
Attendance: 2,000
Japan  1–1  Qatar
Nishizawa  61' Report Al-Obaidly  22'
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Nabil Ayad (Lebanon)

Third-placed qualifiers

At the end of the first stage, a comparison was made between the third placed teams of each group. The two best third-placed teams advanced to the quarter-finals.

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
 South Korea 4311153+2
 Qatar 33030220
 Thailand 2302124−2

Korea Republic (best third-place) and Qatar (second best third-place) qualified for the quarter-finals.

Knockout stage

All times are Lebanon summer time (UTC+3)

Extra times were played under the golden goal rule.

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
23 October – Sidon
 
 
 China PR3
 
26 October – Beirut
 
 Qatar1
 
 China PR2
 
24 October – Beirut
 
 Japan3
 
 Japan4
 
29 October – Beirut
 
 Iraq1
 
 Japan1
 
23 October – Tripoli
 
 Saudi Arabia0
 
 Iran1
 
26 October – Beirut
 
 South Korea (a.e.t.)2
 
 South Korea1
 
24 October – Beirut
 
 Saudi Arabia2 Third place
 
 Kuwait2
 
29 October – Beirut
 
 Saudi Arabia (a.e.t.) 3
 
 China PR0
 
 
 South Korea1
 

Quarter-finals

Iran  1–2 (a.e.t.)  South Korea
Bagheri  71' Report Kim Sang-Sik  90'
Lee Dong-Gook  99'
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Ali Bujsaim (UAE)
China PR  3–1  Qatar
Li Ming  9'
Qi Hong  38'
Yang Chen  54'		 Report Al-Enazi  65'
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Mohd Nazri Abdullah (Malaysia)
Japan  4–1  Iraq
Nanami  8', 29'
Takahara  11'
Myojin  62'		 Report A. Obeid  4'
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Tajaddin Fares (Syria)
Kuwait  2–3 (a.e.t.)  Saudi Arabia
Bashar Abdullah  62'
Al-Huwaidi  68'		 Report Al-Temyat  45+1'  109'
Al-Meshal  72'
Attendance: 5,000

Semi-finals

South Korea  1–2  Saudi Arabia
Lee Dong-Gook  90+1' Report Al-Meshal  76', 80'
Attendance: 7,000
China PR  2–3  Japan
Qi Hong  30'
Yang Chen  48'		 Report Fan Zhiyi  21' (o.g.)
Nishizawa  53'
Myojin  61'
Attendance: 5,000

Third place play-off

South Korea  1–0  China PR
Lee Dong-Gook  76' Report
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Nabil Ayad (Lebanon)

Final

Japan  1–0  Saudi Arabia
Mochizuki  30' Report
Attendance: 47,400
Referee: Ali Bujsaim (UAE)
GK1Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi
D3Naoki Matsuda
D4Ryuzo Morioka
D6Toshihiro Hattori
M8Hiroshi Nanami
M10Shigeyoshi Mochizuki
M12Hiroaki Morishima 89'
M14Shunsuke Nakamura
M24Tomokazu Myojin
F9Naohiro Takahara 80'
F29Akinori Nishizawa
Substitutions:
M15Daisuke Oku 88'
M30Shinji Ono 89'
F13Atsushi Yanagisawa 80'  88'
Manager:
France Philippe Troussier
GK1Mohamed Al-Deayea
D3Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi
D12Ahmed Dokhi
D13Saleh Al-Saqri
M9Sami Al-Jaber
M16Fouzi Al-Shehri 72'
M17Abdullah Al-Waked
M18Nawaf Al-Temyat
M23Saeed Al-Dosari
F19Hamzah Idris 46'
F29Talal Al-Meshal
Substitutions:
M20Mohammad Al-Shalhoub 46'
M14Marzouk Al-Otaibi 72'
Manager:
Czech Republic Milan Máčala

Winners

 AFC Asian Cup 2000 Winners 

Japan
Second title

Awards

MVP (Most Valuable Player)

Top Scorer

Best Defender

Best Goalkeeper

Fair-Play Award

All-Star Team

Goalkeepers Defenders Midfielders Forwards

China Jiang Jin

South Korea Hong Myung-Bo
Saudi Arabia Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi
Kuwait Jamal Mubarak

Japan Hiroshi Nanami
Saudi Arabia Nawaf Al-Temyat
Iraq Abbas Obeid
Iran Karim Bagheri
Japan Shunsuke Nakamura

South Korea Lee Dong-Gook
Japan Naohiro Takahara

Statistics

Goalscorers

With six goals, Lee Dong-Gook is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 77 goals were scored by 43 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.

Top scoring teams

Tournament team rankings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Eff
1 Japan 6510216+151688.9%
2 Saudi Arabia 6312118+31055.6%
3 South Korea 631296+31055.6%
4 China PR 6222117+4844.4%
Eliminated in the Quarterfinals
5 Iran 421173+4758.3%
6 Kuwait 4121330541.7%
7 Iraq 411257−2433.3%
8 Qatar 403135−2325.0%
Eliminated in the First Stage
9 Thailand 302124−2222.2%
10 Lebanon 302137−4222.2%
11 Indonesia 301207−7111.1%
12 Uzbekistan 3012214−12111.1%

References

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