Asian Footballer of the Year
Asian Footballer of the Year is an annual prize awarded to the best Asian player in a calendar year, organized by Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The award began in 1988 through International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) with sport magazines and journalists, then it was adopted by the AFC in 1994 with the allocation of annual award.[1][2]
Winners
Hidetoshi Nakata, won the award in 1997 and 1998.
Server Djeparov, won the award in 2008 and 2011.
Asia-Oceania Soccer Handbook (1984)
| Year | Rank | Player | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984[3] | 1st |  |
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71 |
| 2nd |  |
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40 | |
| 3rd |  |
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30 | |
IFFHS award (1988–1991)
| Year | Rank | Player | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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26 |
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16 | |
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14 | |
| 1989 | 1st | |
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38 |
| 2nd | |
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12 | |
| 3rd | |
|
6 | |
| 1990 | 1st | |
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36 |
| 2nd |  |
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28 | |
| 3rd |  |
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16 | |
| 1991 | 1st | |
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AFC award (1994–present)
The AFC selected Kazuyoshi Miura in 1993, but this selection was unofficial.[1]
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- The only woman player nominated for the award.
- Only two players of shortlist competed for the award under a new rule, which omitted nominees who didn't attend the ceremony.
- Points of the AFC were exceptionally released in this year. Endō won the award with 120 points, and Nakamura and Adnan shared second place with 100 points.
Controversies
Since 2005, this award gives a qualification to nominees who attend the ceremony, so caused much controversy about excluding players who didn't attend the ceremonies by playing for European clubs like Park Ji-sung, Lee Young-pyo and Shunsuke Nakamura.[19][20][21][22][23] The AFC is awarding the "Asian International Player of the Year" award to reduce the controversy since 2012, but AFC awards were still having problems that the process and criteria of selection were obscure, and a Chinese sports newspaper Titan Sports made the "Best Footballer in Asia" award, inspired by Ballon d'Or, in 2013.[24]
Multiple winners
| Player | Wins |
|---|---|
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3 (1989, 1990, 1991) |
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2 (1997, 1998) |
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2 (2008, 2011) |
Wins by country
| Nation | Wins | Players |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 6 |
| 5 | 4 |
| 4 | 4 |
| 4 | 2 |
 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 |
Wins by club
| Club | Wins | Players |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 4 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 2 |
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Son Heung-min, won the award in 2015, 2017 and 2019.
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References
- Pierrend, José; Garin, Erik. "Asian Player of the Year". RSSSF. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- "Asian Player of the Year". Infoplease. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- Pierrend, José (3 January 2008). "Asian Player of the Year 1984". Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- "Al Montashari named Asian Player of the Year". World Soccer. 30 November 2005. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- "Qatari teenager Ibrahim named Asian Player of the Year". ChinaDaily.com. Reuters. 30 November 2006. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- "UPDATE 1-Soccer-Yasser Al Qahtani named Asian Player of the Year". Reuters. 28 November 2007. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- "Shamsaei Wins Best Asian Futsal Player Award". FutsalWire.com. 25 November 2008. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- "Japan's Yasuhito Endo Named AFC Player Of The Year". Goal. 24 November 2009. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- "AFC Player Of The Year Profiles: Bader Al Mutawa, Farhad Majidi, Farshid Talebi, Sasa Ognenovski, Husain Salman". Goal. 23 November 2010. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- "Uzbekistan's Server Djeparov wins AFC Player of the Year award". Goal. 23 November 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- "AFC Player of the Year: Lee Keun-ho". AFC. 29 November 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- "Zheng Zhi is first Chinese to win AFC Player of the Year award in decade". South China Morning Post. 27 November 2013. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- "AFC Player of the Year: Nassir Al Shamrani". AFC. 30 November 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- "AFC Awards: Ahmed Khalil wins Player of the Year award". Sportstar. 30 November 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- "Al Ain's Omar Abdulrahman named AFC Player of the Year". ESPN. 2 December 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- "Prolific Syrian Khrbin wins AFC Player of the Year award". NST.com.my. AFP. 29 November 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- "Qatar's Abdelkarim Hassan is AFC Player of the Year". Gulf Times. 28 November 2018. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- "Player of the Year - Men and Women nominees". AFC. 29 November 2019. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- "Saudi Arabia's Hamad named Asia's top player". The Star Malaysia. 1 December 2005. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
- "Saudi Arabian is Asia's footballer of the year". Rediff.com. 1 December 2005. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
- Somerford, Ben (20 September 2011). "The Asian Football Confederation Needs To Change The Criteria Behind Its Player Of The Year Award". Goal. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
- "Djeparov wins AFC Player award". Al Jazeera. 24 November 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
- "Class act Al Montashari". The World Game. 23 April 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
- "Best Footballer in Asia award: All you need to know". Fox Sports Asia. 26 December 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
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