1976 AFC Asian Cup

Template:Pp-pc1 Template:Infobox international football competition The 1976 AFC Asian Cup was the 6th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The finals were hosted by Iran between 3 and 13 June 1976. The field of six teams was split into two groups of three. Iran won their third title in a row, beating Kuwait in the final.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Qualification

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Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearance
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:N/A	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Automatically qualified from Group 1	1975	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Automatically qualified from Group 1	1975	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	2 December 1975	Template:Sort
Template:FbTemplate:Refn	Template:Sort	2 December 1975	0 (debut)
Template:FbTemplate:Refn	Template:Sort	24 June 1975	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	23 June 1975	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	23 March 1975	0 (debut)
Template:FbTemplate:Refn	Template:Sort	24 March 1975	1 (1972)

Venues

The two host cities, Tehran and Tabriz, with two venues was used for the 1976 AFC Asian Cup.

Template:Location map+	Tehran	Tabriz
	Aryamehr Stadium	Reza Pahlavi Stadium
	Capacity: 100,000	Capacity: 25,000
	File:Race Esteghlal and Caspian2.jpg	File:Takhti Stadium Tabriz.jpg

Group stage

All times are Iran Standard Time (UTC+3:30)

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

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Final

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Ranking

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Goalscorers

With three goals, Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Nasser Nouraei and Fathi Kameel are the top scorers in the tournament. In total, 25 goals were scored by 16 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

3 goals

• Template:Flagicon Fathi Kameel
• Template:Flagicon Gholam Hossein Mazloumi
• Template:Flagicon Nasser Nouraei

2 goals

• Template:Flagicon Alireza Azizi
• Template:Flagicon Alireza Khorshidi
• Template:Flagicon Hassan Roshan

1 goal

• Template:Flagicon Abdulaziz Al-Anberi
• Template:Flagicon Ali Parvin
• Template:Flagicon Faisal Al-Dakhil
• Template:Flagicon Falah Hassan
• Template:Flagicon Faruq Ibrahim
• Template:Flagicon He Jia
• Template:Flagicon Kadhim Waal
• Template:Flagicon Mokhtar Dahari
• Template:Flagicon Sabah Abdul-Jalil
• Template:Flagicon Wang Jilian

External links

• Details at RSSSF

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