AFC Annual Awards

The AFC Annual Awards are awards given by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to the most outstanding performers of the Asian football season. The awards are presented at the end of each year at a special gala.

AFC Annual Awards
Date1994; 30 years ago (1994)
LocationVarious
Presented byAsian Football Confederation
First awarded1994
Websitewww.the-afc.com
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Player awards

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Main awards

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The following awards have separate articles.

Women's Player of the Year

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Continental winners

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Year Player Nation Club Ref.
1999 Sun Wen  China China Shanghai SVA
Not awarded from 2000 to 2002
2003 Bai Jie  China United States Washington Freedom
2004 Homare Sawa  Japan Japan NTV Beleza
2005 Natsuko Hara  Japan Japan NTV Beleza
2006 Ma Xiaoxu  China China Dalian Shide
2007 Ri Kum-suk  North Korea North Korea April 25
2008 Homare Sawa  Japan Japan NTV Beleza
2009 Not awarded
2010 Kate Gill  Australia Australia Perth Glory
2011 Aya Miyama  Japan Japan Okayama Yunogo Belle
2012 Aya Miyama  Japan Japan Okayama Yunogo Belle [1]
2013 Not awarded
2014 Katrina Gorry  Australia United States Kansas City [2]
2015 Aya Miyama  Japan Japan Okayama Yunogo Belle [3]
2016 Caitlin Foord  Australia Australia Sydney FC [4]
2017 Sam Kerr  Australia Australia Perth Glory [5]
2018 Wang Shuang  China France Paris Saint-Germain
2019 Saki Kumagai  Japan France Lyon [6]
Not awarded from 2020 to 2021
2022 Sam Kerr  Australia England Chelsea [7]
2023 Kiko Seike  Japan Japan Urawa Red Diamonds [8]

International winners

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Year Player Nation Club Ref.
2023 Ellie Carpenter  Australia France Lyon [8]

Foreign Player of the Year

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Year Player Nation Club Ref.
2012 Rogerinho  Brazil Kuwait Al-Kuwait [9]
2013 Muriqui  Brazil China Guangzhou Evergrande [10]
2014 Asamoah Gyan  Ghana United Arab Emirates Al-Ain [11]
2015 Ricardo Goulart  Brazil China Guangzhou Evergrande [12]

Asian All Stars

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The players from 1965 to 1985 were selected for the All-Star Games.

Year Goalkeepers Defenders Midfielders Forwards Ref.
1965 Thailand Asvin Thonginnetr South Korea Kim Jung-suk
South Korea Cha Tae-sung
India Jarnail Singh
Taiwan Kwok Kam-hung 		India Yousuf Khan
South Vietnam Nguyen Ngoc Thanh
Myanmar Khin Maung Tun 		Taiwan Wong Chi-keung
Taiwan Cheung Chi-doy
South Vietnam Nguyen Van Ngon
South Vietnam Do Thoi Vinh
South Korea Cho Yoon-ok
Japan Yasuyuki Kuwahara
Singapore Majid Ariff
Myanmar Suk Bahadur 		[13]
1966 South Vietnam Pham Van Rang
Myanmar Khim Maung Tun 		South Korea Kim Jung-suk
South Korea Cha Tae-sung
India Jarnail Singh 		India Yousuf Khan
South Vietnam Nguyen Ngoc Thanh 		Taiwan Wong Chi-keung
Taiwan Cheung Chi-wai
Taiwan Cheung Chi-doy
South Vietnam Do Thoi Vinh
South Vietnam Nguyen Van Ngon
Singapore Majid Ariff
South Korea Cho Yoon-ok
Myanmar Suk Bahadur 		[14]
1967 India Peter Thangaraj
Myanmar Tin Aung 		South Korea Kim Jung-suk
India Jarnail Singh 		Israel Shmuel Rosenthal
Israel Giora Spiegel
Myanmar Maung Maung
Japan Aritatsu Ogi
Iran Parviz Ghelichkhani 		Taiwan Leung Wai-hung
Taiwan Cheung Chi-doy
Taiwan Wong Chi-keung
Japan Kunishige Kamamoto
Japan Ryuichi Sugiyama
Iran Homayoun Behzadi
Myanmar Suk Bahadur
Indonesia Soetjipto Soentoro
South Vietnam Do Thoi Vinh
South Korea Cho Yoon-ok
Singapore Majid Ariff 		[15][16][17]
1968 Malaysia Chow Chee Keong
Myanmar Tin Aung 		South Korea Kim Jung-suk
Japan Hiroshi Katayama
Malaysia M. Chandran
Thailand Narong Sangkasuwan
Pakistan Turab Ali
Indonesia Anwar Udjang 		Myanmar Suk Bahadur
Israel Shmuel Rosenthal
Japan Aritatsu Ogi 		Japan Kunishige Kamamoto
Japan Ryuichi Sugiyama
South Vietnam Do Thoi Vinh
South Vietnam Nguyen Van Ngon
India Inder Singh
Taiwan Wong Chi-keung
Indonesia Soetjipto Soentoro 		[18]
1982 Malaysia R. Arumugam Kuwait Mahboub Juma'a
South Korea Park Kyung-hoon
Thailand Amnart Chalermchaowarit
Malaysia Soh Chin Ann
Malaysia Wong Hong Nung
Singapore Terry Pathmanathan 		India Prasun Banerjee
India Parminder Singh
Malaysia Khalid Ali
Malaysia Reduan Abdullah
Malaysia Jamaluddin Norbit 		Kuwait Abdulaziz Al-Anberi
South Korea Chung Hae-won
Thailand Piyapong Pue-on
Malaysia Zainal Abidin Hassan
Malaysia Hassan Sani
Malaysia Mokhtar Dahari 		[19]
1985 Saudi Arabia Abdullah Al-Deayea
Malaysia R. Arumugam
India Atanu Bhattacharya 		China Lin Lefeng
China Jia Xiuquan
Kuwait Mahboub Juma'a
Iran Mohammad Panjali
Syria Radwan Al-Sheikh Hassan
South Korea Park Sung-hwa 		Kuwait Faisal Al-Dakhil
South Korea Lee Tae-ho
Saudi Arabia Saleh Khalifa Al-Dosari
Japan Kazushi Kimura 		Saudi Arabia Mohaisen Al-Jam'an
Saudi Arabia Majed Abdullah
Syria Marwan Madarati
Qatar Mansour Muftah
Qatar Mohammed Al-Mohanadi
Iraq Hussein Saeed
Thailand Piyapong Pue-on
Malaysia Zainal Abidin Hassan
Iran Nasser Mohammadkhani
China Gu Guangming 		[20]
1993 Japan Shigetatsu Matsunaga Saudi Arabia Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi
South Korea Hong Myung-bo
Japan Tetsuji Hashiratani
Iran Javad Zarincheh 		Saudi Arabia Fuad Anwar
Saudi Arabia Khaled Massad
South Korea Shin Hong-gi
Japan Ruy Ramos 		Japan Kazuyoshi Miura
Iran Ali Daei 		[21]
1997 Saudi Arabia Mohamed Al-Deayea China Zhang Enhua
Japan Naoki Soma
South Korea Hong Myung-bo
Saudi Arabia Mohammed Al-Jahani
Saudi Arabia Abdullah Zubromawi 		Iran Karim Bagheri
Japan Hidetoshi Nakata
South Korea Ha Seok-ju 		Iran Khodadad Azizi
South Korea Choi Yong-soo 		[22]
1998 China Jiang Jin China Fan Zhiyi
Japan Yutaka Akita
Saudi Arabia Abdullah Zubromawi
Uzbekistan Nikolay Shirshov 		Iran Mehdi Mahdavikia
Japan Hidetoshi Nakata
Japan Hiroshi Nanami
South Korea Yoo Sang-chul 		Iran Ali Daei
Kuwait Jasem Al Huwaidi 		[22]
1999 Uzbekistan Pavel Bugalo China Zhang Enhua
Japan Yuji Nakazawa
Saudi Arabia Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi
Saudi Arabia Hussein Sulaimani
Iraq Radhi Shenaishil 		Japan Hidetoshi Nakata
South Korea Kim Do-kyun
United Arab Emirates Sultan Rashid 		Iran Ali Daei
Japan Masashi Nakayama 		[22]
2000 China Jiang Jin
Indonesia Hendro Kartiko
Saudi Arabia Mohammed Al Daeyea 		China Fan Zhiyi
Japan Ryuzo Morioka
South Korea Hong Myung-bo
Kuwait Jamal Mubarak
Saudi Arabia Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi
Qatar Saoud Fath 		Iran Karim Bagheri
Iraq Abbas Obeid
Japan Shunsuke Nakamura
Japan Hiroshi Nanami
Saudi Arabia Nawaf Al-Temyat
Thailand Kiatisuk Senamuang 		Japan Naohiro Takahara
South Korea Lee Dong-gook 		[22]

Futsal Player of the Year

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Year Player Nation Club Ref.
2006 Kenichiro Kogure Japan Japan Nagoya Oceans
2007 Vahid Shamsaei Iran Iran Tam Iran Khodro Tehran
2008 Vahid Shamsaei Iran Iran Foolad Mahan
2009 Not awarded
2010 Mohammad Taheri Iran Iran Foolad Mahan
2011 Mohammad Keshavarz Iran Iran Giti Pasand Isfahan
2012 Rafael Henmi Japan Japan Nagoya Oceans [23]
2013 Suphawut Thueanklang Thailand Thailand Chonburi Bluewave [24]
2014 Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh Iran Russia MFK Norilsk Nickel
2015 Vahid Shamsaei Iran Iran Tasisat Daryaei [25]
2016 Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh Iran Iran Giti Pasand [26]
2017 Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh Iran Iran Giti Pasand [27]
2018 Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh Iran China Shenzhen Nanling Tielang
2019 Tomoki Yoshikawa Japan Japan Nagoya Oceans [28]
Not awarded from 2020 to 2021
2022 Moslem Oladghobad Iran Spain Palma [29]
2023 Saeid Ahmadabbasi  Iran Spain Valdepeñas [8]

Coaching awards

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Coach of the Year

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Year Coach Team Ref.
1994 Thailand Charnwit Polcheewin Thailand Thai Farmers Bank
1995 South Korea Park Jong-hwan South Korea Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma
1996 China Ma Yuanan  China (women)
1997 South Korea Cha Bum-kun  South Korea
1998 Japan Takashi Kuwahara Japan Júbilo Iwata
1999 Uzbekistan Mahmoud Rakhimov  Uzbekistan
2000 France Philippe Troussier  Japan
2001 Saudi Arabia Nasser Al-Johar  Saudi Arabia
2002 Netherlands Guus Hiddink  South Korea
2003 South Korea Cha Kyung-bok South Korea Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
2004 Iraq Adnan Hamad  Iraq
2005
2006 North Korea Choe Kwang-sok  North Korea U20 (women)

Men's Coach of the Year

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Year Coach Team Ref.
2007 Uzbekistan Rauf Inileev  Uzbekistan
2008 Japan Akira Nishino Japan Gamba Osaka
2009 South Korea Huh Jung-moo  South Korea
2010 Japan Takeshi Okada  Japan
2011 Japan Norio Sasaki  Japan (women)
2012 South Korea Kim Ho-kon South Korea Ulsan Hyundai [30]
2013 South Korea Choi Yong-soo South Korea FC Seoul [31]
2014 Australia Tony Popovic Australia Western Sydney Wanderers [32]
2015 Australia Ange Postecoglou  Australia [33]
2016 South Korea Choi Kang-hee South Korea Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors [34]
2017 Japan Takafumi Hori Japan Urawa Red Diamonds [35]
2018 Japan Go Oiwa Japan Kashima Antlers
2019 South Korea Chung Jung-yong  South Korea U20 [36]
Not awarded from 2020 to 2021
2022 Japan Hajime Moriyasu  Japan
2023 Japan Go Oiwa  Japan U23 [8]

Women's Coach of the Year

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Year Coach Team Ref,
2007 Scotland Tom Sermanni  Australia
2008 North Korea Kim Kwang-min  North Korea
2009
2010 South Korea Kim Tae-hee  South Korea U17
2011 Japan Takako Tezuka
2012 Japan Asako Takakura [37]
2013 Japan Asako Takakura  Japan U16 [38]
2014 Japan Asako Takakura  Japan U17 [39]
2015 Japan Asako Takakura  Japan U20 [40]
2016 Hong Kong Chan Yuen-ting Hong Kong Eastern Sports [41]
2017 Japan Asako Takakura  Japan [42]
2018 Japan Asako Takakura  Japan
2019 Japan Asako Takakura  Japan [43]
Not awarded from 2020 to 2021
2022 China Shui Qingxia  China
2023 South Korea Park Youn-jeong  South Korea U20 [8]

Team awards

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Club of the Year

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Year Club Ref.
1996 South Korea Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma
Not awarded from 1997 to 1999
2000 Saudi Arabia Al-Hilal
2001 South Korea Suwon Samsung Bluewings
2002 Uzbekistan Pakhtakor Tashkent
2003 United Arab Emirates Al-Ain
2004 Saudi Arabia Al-Ittihad
2005 Saudi Arabia Al-Ittihad
2006 South Korea Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
2007 Japan Urawa Red Diamonds
2008 Japan Gamba Osaka
2009 South Korea Pohang Steelers
2010 South Korea Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
2011 Qatar Al-Sadd
2012 South Korea Ulsan Hyundai [44]
2013 China Guangzhou Evergrande [45]
2014 Australia Western Sydney Wanderers [46]
2015 China Guangzhou Evergrande [47]

National Team of the Year

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Year Men's team Ref. Women's team Ref.
1996  Saudi Arabia  China
Not awarded from 1997 to 1999
2000  Japan Not awarded
2001  China
2002  South Korea
2003  Iraq  China
2004  Japan  China U19
2005  Japan  Japan U17
2006  Australia  North Korea U20
2007  Iraq  North Korea
2008  Japan  North Korea
2009  South Korea  Japan U20
2010  Japan  Australia
2011  Japan  Japan
2012  South Korea U23 [48]  Japan [49]
2013  Iraq U20 [50]  South Korea U19 [51]
2014  Palestine [52]  Japan U17
2015  Australia [53]  Japan [54]

Futsal Team of the Year

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Year Team Ref.
2002  Iran
2003  Iran
2004  Iran
2005  Iran
2006  Japan
2007
2008  Iran
2009
2010  Iran
2011 Japan Nagoya Oceans
2012  Japan [55]
2013 Thailand Chonburi Bluewave [56]
2014  Japan
2015 Iran Tasisat Daryaei [57]

Referee awards

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Referee of the Year

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Year Referee Ref. Assistant referee Ref.
1996 Thailand Pirom Un-prasert Oman Al Musawi Mohamed Ahmed
2002 Japan Toru Kamikawa Saudi Arabia Ali Al Traifi
2003 Iran Masoud Moradi Not awarded
2004 China Lu Jun
2005 Singapore Shamsul Maidin
2006 Singapore Shamsul Maidin

Men's Referee of the Year

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Year Referee Ref. Assistant referee Ref. Video assistant referee Ref.
2007 Australia Mark Shield Saudi Arabia Mohamed Hamad Al Ghamdi Not awarded
2008 Uzbekistan Ravshan Irmatov Syria Tammam Hamdoun
2009 Uzbekistan Ravshan Irmatov Australia Matthew Cream
2010 Uzbekistan Ravshan Irmatov Japan Toru Sagara
2011 Uzbekistan Ravshan Irmatov Uzbekistan Abdukhamidullo Rasulov
2012 Japan Yuichi Nishimura [58] Uzbekistan Abdukhamidullo Rasulov [59]
2013 Australia Ben Williams [60] Japan Toshiyuki Nagi [61]
2014 Uzbekistan Ravshan Irmatov [62] Australia Matthew Cream
2015 Saudi Arabia Fahad Al-Mirdasi [63] Saudi Arabia Abdulah Al-Shalwai [63]
Oman Abu Bakar Al-Amri
2016 Iran Alireza Faghani [64] Iran Reza Sokhandan [64]
Iran Mohammad Reza Mansouri
2017 Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Namazov [65] Not awarded
2018 Iran Alireza Faghani Iran Reza Sokhandan
Iran Mohammad Reza Mansouri
2019
Not awarded from 2020 to 2021
2022 Australia Chris Beath Australia Ashley Beecham United Arab Emirates Ammar Al-Jneibi
Australia Anton Schetinin
2023 Japan Yuichi Hatano
Oman Abdullah Al-Salehi
United Arab Emirates Ibrahim Yousif Al Raeesi

Women's Referee of the Year

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Year Referee Ref. Assistant referee Ref.
2007 Australia Tammy Ogston Chinese Taipei Liu Hsiu-mei
2008 Japan Sachiko Baba Japan Hisae Yoshizawa
2009 South Korea Hong Eun-ah China Zhang Lingling
2010 Japan Sachiko Yamagishi Japan Shiho Ayukai
2011 Japan Sachiko Yamagishi Australia Sarah Ho
2012 Japan Sachiko Yamagishi [66] South Korea Kim Kyoung-min [67]
2013 Japan Sachiko Yamagishi [68] Australia Allyson Flynn [69]
2014 Malaysia Rita Gani [70] South Korea Kim Kyoung-min
2015
2016 Australia Kate Jacewicz [64] Australia Renae Coghill [64]
India Uvena Fernandes

Association awards

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Fair Play Award

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Year Nation Ref.
1996  Iran
2002  South Korea
2003  South Korea
2004  China
2005  Hong Kong
2006  South Korea
2007  Japan
 South Korea
2008  Japan
 Chinese Taipei
2009  Japan
2010  Japan
2011  South Korea
2012  Uzbekistan [71]
2013  China [72]
2014  South Korea [73]
2015  Japan [74]

Member Association of the Year

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Year Nation Ref.
2005  Qatar
2006  North Korea
2007  China
 Japan
2008  Iran
 Australia
2009  North Korea
 Japan
2010  Japan
2011  Japan
2012  Iran [75]
Year Inspiring MA Ref. Developing MA Ref. Aspiring MA Ref.
2013  China [76]  Jordan [77]  Pakistan [78]
2014  Japan [79]  North Korea [80]  Kyrgyzstan [81]
2015  Japan [82]  Hong Kong [83]  Bangladesh [84]
2016  Japan [85]  India [86]  Bhutan [87]
2017  Iran [88]  Vietnam [89]  Afghanistan [90]
2018  Japan  North Korea  Mongolia
2019  Japan [91]  Hong Kong [91]  Guam [91]
Year Platinum Diamond Gold Ruby Ref.
2022  Uzbekistan  Lebanon  Hong Kong  Guam
2023  Japan  Thailand    Nepal  Laos [8]

President Recognition Award for Grassroots Football

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Year Nations Ref.
2013  Japan [92]
2014  India  Philippines  Tajikistan [93]
2015  Vietnam  Japan  Brunei [94]
2016  Australia  Philippines [95]
Year Inspiring MA Developing MA Aspiring MA Ref.
2017  China  Singapore  Bhutan [96]
2018  Palestine
2019  Brunei [97]
Year Gold Silver Bronze Ref.
2022  Australia  Guam  India
2023  India  Vietnam [8]

Dream Asia Award

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Year Nation Ref.
2010  Australia
2011  Qatar
2012  United Arab Emirates [98]
2013  Myanmar [99]
2014  Qatar [100]
2015  Japan [101]
2016  Qatar [102]
2017  Japan [103]
2018  China (Inspiring) [104]
 Malaysia (Developing)
 Mongolia (Aspring)

Regional Association of the Year

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Year Association Ref.
2022
Central Asian Football Association
2023 [8]

Other awards

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Diamond of Asia

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Year Name Ref.
2004 Saudi Arabia Abdul Rahman bin Saud Al Saud
2005 Japan Saburō Kawabuchi
2006 Switzerland Sepp Blatter
2007 Sweden Lennart Johansson
2008 Japan Ken Naganuma
2009 Syria Farouk Bouzo
2010 Malaysia Najib Razak
2011 Malaysia Ahmad Shah of Pahang
2012 Malaysia Hamzah Abu Samah [105]
2013 South Korea Chung Mong-joon [106]
2014 Japan Junji Ogura [107]
2015 Saudi Arabia Abdullah Khalid Al Dabal [54]
2016 Cameroon Issa Hayatou [108]
2017 United Arab Emirates Yousuf al-Serkal [109]
2018 China Zhang Jilong
2019 Malaysia Abdullah of Pahang [97]
Not awarded from 2020 to 2021
2022 Qatar Saoud Al-Mohannadi
2023 Switzerland Gianni Infantino [8]

Match Commissioner of the Year

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Year Name Ref.
2008 Malaysia Kamarudin Sakhari
Philippines Mary Catherine Rivilla
2009 Lebanon Mazen Ramadan
Laos Kanya Keomany
2010 Maldives Abdul Ghafoor Abdul Hameed
Hong Kong Emily Lau Cheuk-chi

Special Recognition Award

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Year Name Ref.
2018 Thailand Wild Boars FC
Japan Futoshi Ikeda

Corporate Icon Award

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Year Name Ref.
2014 Japan TV Asahi [110]
Japan NHK

Sportswriter of the Year

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Year Name Ref.
1996 Bangladesh Azam Mahmood [111]

See also

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