1972 AFC Asian Cup

The 1972 AFC Asian Cup was the 5th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), that was hosted in Thailand. The finals were held in Thailand between 7 May and 19 May 1972. It was won by Iran.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Qualification

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Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearance
Template:FbTemplate:Refn	Template:Sort and Template:Sort	30 May 1971	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	19 May 1968	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	30 May 1971	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	1971	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	22 December 1971	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	21 December 1971	0 (debut)

Squads

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Venue

Template:Location map	Bangkok
	National Stadium
	Capacity: 26,000

Group allocation matches

• Winners divided over different groups

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Group stage

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

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Final

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Goalscorers

5 goals

• Template:Flagicon Hossein Kalani

4 goals

• Template:Flagicon Ali Jabbari
• Template:Flagicon Park Lee-Chun

3 goals

• Template:Flagicon Doeur Sokhom
• Template:Flagicon Prapon Tantariyanond

2 goals

• Template:Flagicon Safar Iranpak
• Template:Flagicon Ich Narding
• Template:Flagicon Tol Kimchi

1 goal

• Template:Flagicon Parviz Ghelichkhani
• Template:Flagicon Ammo Yousif
• Template:Flagicon Sea Cheng Eang
• Template:Flagicon Sok Sun Hean
• Template:Flagicon Tes Sean
• Template:Flagicon Fayez Marzouq
• Template:Flagicon Ibrahim Duraiham
• Template:Flagicon Jawad Khalaf
• Template:Flagicon Mohammad Sultan
• Template:Flagicon Cha Bum-Kun
• Template:Flagicon Lee Hoi-Taek
• Template:Flagicon Park Su-Deok
• Template:Flagicon Supakit Meelarpkit

External links

• Details at RSSSF
• FIFA results record, used to update dates and locations
• AFC Report

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