Asian Cup

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For the cricket tournament, see Asia Cup.

The AFC Asian Cup, formerly known as the Asian Nations Cup is the main national football competition of the AFC nations. It has been held every four years since 1956. A qualifying tournament is held to determine the participating nations, currently this involves two rounds of league round-robin format. The host country and defending champions qualify automatically (however this has changed and currently only the host nation/s qualify automatically to the Asian Cup finals). While only four countries were admitted to the first Asian Cup in 1956, the field of participants now comprises sixteen nations qualified from an initial 46.

Results

Year	Host		Final				Third Place Match
			Winner	Score	Runner-up		3rd Place	Score	4th Place
1956 Details	Hong Kong		Image:Flag of South Korea.svg Rep. of Korea	n/a(1)	Image:Flag of Israel.svg Israel		Image:Hongkongflag1910.gif Hong Kong	n/a(1)	Image:Flag of South Vietnam.svg Rep. of Vietnam
1960 Details	Rep. of Korea		Image:Flag of South Korea.svg Rep. of Korea	n/a(1)	Image:Flag of Israel.svg Israel		Image:Flag of the Republic of China.svg Rep. of China	n/a(1)	Image:Flag of South Vietnam.svg Rep. of Vietnam
1964 Details	Israel		Image:Flag of Israel.svg Israel	n/a(1)	Image:Flag of India.svg India		Image:Flag of South Korea.svg Rep. of Korea	n/a(1)	Image:Flag of Hong Kong 1959.svg Hong Kong
1968 Details	Iran		Image:Iran flag 1964 to 1979.png Iran	n/a(1)	Image:Burma flag(1948) large.png Burma		Image:Flag of Israel.svg Israel	n/a(1)	Image:Flag of the Republic of China.svg Rep. of China
1972 Details	Thailand		Image:Iran flag 1964 to 1979.png Iran	2 - 1	Image:Flag of South Korea.svg Rep. of Korea		Image:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand	2 - 2	Image:Flag of Cambodia.svg Cambodia
							5 - 3 on penalties
1976 Details	Iran		Image:Iran flag 1964 to 1979.png Iran	1 - 0	Image:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait		Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg P.R. China	1 - 0	Image:Flag of Iraq (1963-1991).svg Iraq
1980 Details	Kuwait		Image:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait	3 - 0	Image:Flag of South Korea.svg Rep. of Korea		Image:Flag of Iran.svg Iran	3 - 0	Image:Flag of North Korea.svg D.P.R.Korea
1984 Details	Singapore		Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia	2 - 0	Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg P.R. China		Image:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait	1 - 1	Image:Flag of Iran.svg Iran
							3 - 2 on penalties
1988 Details	Qatar		Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia	0 - 0	Image:Flag of South Korea.svg Rep. of Korea		Image:Flag of Iran.svg Iran	0 - 0	Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg P.R. China
			4 - 3 on penalties				3 - 0 on penalties
1992 Details	Japan		Image:Flag of Japan.svg Japan	1 - 0	Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia		Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg P.R. China	1 - 1	Image:Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg U.A.E.
							3 - 2 on penalties
1996 Details	U.A.E.		Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia	0 - 0	Image:Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg U.A.E.		Image:Flag of Iran.svg Iran	1 - 1	Image:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait
			4 - 2 on penalties				3 - 2 on penalties
2000 Details	Lebanon		Image:Flag of Japan.svg Japan	1 - 0	Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia		Image:Flag of South Korea.svg Rep. of Korea	1 - 0	Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg P.R. China
2004 Details	P.R. China		Image:Flag of Japan.svg Japan	3 - 1	Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg P.R. China		Image:Flag of Iran.svg Iran	4 - 2	Image:Flag of Bahrain.svg Bahrain
2007 Details	Indonesia/Malaysia Thailand/Vietnam