1980 AFC Asian Cup

The 1980 AFC Asian Cup was the 7th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The finals were hosted by Kuwait between 15 and 30 September 1980. The field of ten teams was split into two groups of five each. Kuwait won their first championship, beating South Korea in the final 3–0.<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	Template:Sort	13 June 1976	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	22 November 1979	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	23 November 1979	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	15 January 1979	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	16 January 1979	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	12 May 1979	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	11 May 1979	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	29 December 1978	Template:Sort
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	29 December 1978	Template:Sort

Venues

Template:Location map	Kuwait City
	Sabah Al-Salem Stadium
	Capacity: 22,000
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Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1980 AFC Asian Cup squads.

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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Statistics

Goalscorers

7 goals

• Template:Flagicon Choi Soon-ho
• Template:Flagicon Behtash Fariba

5 goals

• Template:Flagicon Faisal Al-Dakhil

4 goals

• Template:Flagicon Jasem Yaqoub
• Template:Flagicon Xu Yonglai

3 goals

• Template:Flagicon Shen Xiangfu
• Template:Flagicon Hossein Faraki
• Template:Flagicon Chung Hae-won

2 goals

• Template:Flagicon Abdolreza Barzegari
• Template:Flagicon Hamid Alidousti
• Template:Flagicon Saad Al-Houti
• Template:Flagicon Tukamin Bahari
• Template:Flagicon Zulkifli Hamzah
• Template:Flagicon Choi Jae-pil
• Template:Flagicon Kim Bok-man
• Template:Flagicon Pak Jong-hun
• Template:Flagicon Mansoor Muftah
• Template:Flagicon Jamal Keshek
• Template:Flagicon Ahmed Chombi

1 goal

• Template:Flagicon Ashraf Uddin Ahmed Chunnu
• Template:Flagicon Kazi Salahuddin
• Template:Flagicon Chen Jingang
• Template:Flagicon Li Fubao
• Template:Flagicon Hassan Roshan
• Template:Flagicon Iraj Danaeifard
• Template:Flagicon Abdulaziz Al-Anberi
• Template:Flagicon Fathi Kameel
• Template:Flagicon Abdah Alif
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• Template:Flagicon Hwang Sang-hoi
• Template:Flagicon Kim Jong-man
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• Template:Flagicon Hwang Seok-keun
• Template:Flagicon Lee Jung-il
• Template:Flagicon Jawdat Suleiman
• Template:Flagicon Ghanem Al-Hajri

Awards

Top scorer

• Template:Flagicon Choi Soon-ho
• Template:Flagicon Behtash Fariba

Team of the Tournament

Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Template:Flagicon Nasser Hejazi	Template:Flagicon Naeem Saad Template:Flagicon Soh Chin Aun Template:Flagicon Mahboub Juma'a Template:Flagicon Mehdi Dinvarzadeh	Template:Flagicon Abdolreza Barzegari Template:Flagicon Saad Al-Houti Template:Flagicon Lee Young-moo	Template:Flagicon Choi Soon-ho Template:Flagicon Faisal Al-Dakhil Template:Flagicon Jasem Yaqoub

External links

• South Korea International Matches
• Kuwait Football Association
• All-Star Team New Straits Times, 2 October 1980, Page 27
• Details at RSSSF

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