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Football at the Asian Games

Organising body	OCA
Founded	Men: 1951 Women: 1990
Region	Asia
Current champions	M: South Korea (2022)W: Japan (2022)
Most successful team(s)	M: South Korea (6 titles)W: China Japan North Korea (3 titles each)
2022 (M), 2022 (W)

The men's football tournament has been a regular Asian Games sporting event since the 1951 edition, while the women's tournament began in 1990.

The first Asian Games had football tournament.

Since the 2002 Asian Games, age limit for men teams is under-23 plus up to three overage players for each squad,[1] same as the age limit in football competitions at the Summer Olympics.

Although Kazakhstan is a member of the Olympic Council of Asia, they cannot participate in football due to their football federation KFF has been a member of the UEFA since 2002. The same rule applies to the Guam and Australia are members of the AFC, but they are members of Oceania National Olympic Committees.

Japan is the only nation to have won both Gold medals of Men's and Women's tournament in an Asian Games in the same year (2010).

• 1951-1998: Senior teams
• 2002-present: U-23 teams

Ed.	Year	Host		Final		Bronze medal match
Gold Medal	Score	Silver Medal	Bronze Medal	Score	Fourth Place
Senior national teams
1	1951 details	New Delhi		India	1–0	Iran		Japan	2–0	Afghanistan
2	1954 details	Manila	Republic of China	5–2	South Korea	Burma	5–4	Indonesia
3	1958 details	Tokyo	Republic of China	3–2	South Korea	Indonesia	4–1	India
4	1962 details	Jakarta	India	2–1	South Korea	Malaya	4–1	South Vietnam
5	1966 details	Bangkok	Burma	1–0	Iran	Japan	2–0	Singapore
6	1970 details	Bangkok	Burma South Korea	0–0 (a.e.t.)1		India	1–0	Japan
7	1974 details	Tehran	Iran	1–0	Israel	Malaysia	2–1	North Korea
8	1978 details	Bangkok	North Korea South Korea	0–0 (a.e.t.)1		China	1–0	Iraq
9	1982 details	New Delhi	Iraq	1–0	Kuwait	Saudi Arabia	2–02	North Korea
10	1986 details	Seoul	South Korea	2–0	Saudi Arabia	Kuwait	5–0	Indonesia
11	1990 details	Beijing	Iran	0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–1 p)	North Korea	South Korea	1–0	Thailand
12	1994 details	Hiroshima	Uzbekistan	4–2	China	Kuwait	2–1	South Korea
13	1998 details	Bangkok	Iran	2–0	Kuwait	China	3–0	Thailand
U-23 national teams
14	2002 details	Busan		Iran	2–1	Japan		South Korea	3–0	Thailand
15	2006 details	Doha	Qatar	1–0	Iraq	Iran	1–0 (a.e.t.)	South Korea
16	2010 details	Guangzhou	Japan	1–0	United Arab Emirates	South Korea	4–3	Iran
17	2014 details	Incheon	South Korea	1–0 (a.e.t.)	North Korea	Iraq	1–0	Thailand
18	2018 details	Jakarta–Palembang	South Korea	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Japan	United Arab Emirates	1–1(4–3 p)	Vietnam
19	2022 details	Hangzhou	South Korea	2–1	Japan	Uzbekistan	4–0	Hong Kong
20	2026 details	Aichi–Nagoya
21	2030 details	Doha
22	2034 details	Riyadh

*Under-23 tournament since 2002.
1 The title was shared.
2 Saudi Arabia were awarded the third-place playoff by default after the Korea DPR team were handed a two-year suspension for assaulting officials at the end of their semi-final.
3 2022 Asian Games men's qualifying was postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic

Team	Gold	Silver	Bronze
South Korea	6 (1970, 1978, 1986*, 2014*, 2018, 2022)	3 (1954, 1958, 1962)	3 (1990, 2002*, 2010)
Iran	4 (1974*, 1990, 1998, 2002)	2 (1951, 1966)	1 (2006)
India	2 (1951*, 1962)		1 (1970)
Myanmar	2 (1966, 1970*)		1 (1954)
Chinese Taipei	2 (1954, 1958)
Japan	1 (2010)	3 (2002, 2018, 2022)	2 (1951, 1966)
North Korea	1 (1978)	2 (1990, 2014)
Iraq	1 (1982)	1 (2006)	1 (2014)
Uzbekistan	1 (1994)		1 (2022)
Qatar	1 (2006*)
Kuwait		2 (1982, 1998)	2 (1986, 1994)
China		1 (1994)	2 (1978, 1998)
Saudi Arabia		1 (1986)	1 (1982)
United Arab Emirates		1 (2010)	1 (2018)
Israel		1 (1974*)
Malaysia			2 (1962, 1974)
Indonesia			1 (1958)

* = host

Year	Top scorer(s)	Goals
1951	Sheoo Mewalal	3
1954
1958
1962
1966
1970	Win Maung	5
1974	Gidi Damti	6
1978
1982	Hussein Saeed	4
1986	Salah Al-Hasawi	6
1990	Farshad Pious Seo Jung-won	4
1994	Hwang Sun-hong	11
1998	Faraj Laheeb	9
2002	Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht Satoshi Nakayama	5
2006	Odai Al-Saify	7
2010	Kensuke Nagai	5
2014	Ferdinand Sinaga	6
2018	Hwang Ui-jo	9
2022	Jeong Woo-yeong	8

Year	Team	Coaches
1951	India	Syed Abdul Rahim
1954	Republic of China	Lee Wai Tong
1958	Republic of China	Lee Wai Tong
1962	India	Syed Abdul Rahim
1966	Burma	German Zonin
1970	Burma South Korea	Sein Hlaing Han Hong-ki
1974	Iran	Frank O'Farrell
1978	North Korea South Korea	Pak Du-sok Ham Heung-chul
1982	Iraq	Ammo Baba
1986	South Korea	Kim Jung-nam
1990	Iran	Ali Parvin
1994	Uzbekistan	Rustam Akramov
1998	Iran	Mansour Pourheidari
2002	Iran	Branko Ivanković
2006	Qatar	Džemaludin Mušović
2010	Japan	Takashi Sekizuka
2014	South Korea	Lee Kwang-jong
2018	South Korea	Kim Hak-bum
2022	South Korea	Hwang Sun-hong

Participating nations

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Football at the Asian Games was a senior tournament until 1998.

Football at the Asian Games has been an under-23 tournament since 2002.

Nation	1951(6)	1954(12)	1958(14)	1962(8)	1966(11)	1970(10)	1974(15)	1978(14)	1982(16)	1986(18)	1990(14)	1994(18)	1998(23)	2002(24)	2006(28)	2010(24)	2014(29)	2018(25)	2022(21)	Years
Afghanistan	4th	12th	24th	25th	WD	4
Bahrain	14th	14th	12th	10th	7th	9th	18th	16th	13th	9
Bangladesh	13th	12th	14th	13th	DQ	20th	24th	24th	20th	15th	20th	10
Brunei	DQ	DQ	0
Cambodia	7th	19th	2
China	10th	3rd	7th	8th	6th	2nd	3rd	5th	5th	12th	15th	9th	7th	13
Chinese Taipei	1st	1st	DQ	9th	25th	18th	5
Hong Kong	5th	6th	9th	14th	22nd	14th	13th	10th	10th	14th	4th	11
India	1st	8th	4th	1st	8th	3rd	13th	8th	6th	16th	DQ	DQ	16th	10th	14th	14th	26th	9th	16
Indonesia	6th	4th	3rd	5th	5th	5th	4th	DQ	DQ	27th	11th	10th	11th	11
Iran	2nd	14th	2nd	8th	1st	8th	6th	1st	9th	1st	1st	3rd	4th	23rd	13th	6th	16
Iraq	5th	4th	1st	7th	DQ	2nd	DQ	3rd	DQ	6
Israel	5th	DQ	2nd	2
Japan	3rd	10th	12th	6th	3rd	4th	9th	9th	5th	9th	8th	7th	9th	2nd	11th	1st	5th	2nd	2nd	19
Jordan	DQ	19th	21st	7th	3
Kazakhstan	DQ	10th	1
Kuwait	6th	5th	2nd	3rd	7th	3rd	2nd	5th	10th	11th	18th	19th	12
Kyrgyzstan	17th	23rd	16th	20th	12th	5
Laos	21st	27th	23rd	3
Lebanon	12th	12th	2
Macau	28th	1
Malaysia	13th	3rd	10th	10th	3rd	7th	14th	15th	12th	12th	17th	23rd	16th	19th	12th	15
Maldives	20th	22nd	20th	17th	21st	5
Mongolia	DQ	23rd	DQ	21st	2
Myanmar ( Burma)	5th	3rd	11th	DQ	1st	1st	7th	12th	13th	16th	DQ	19th	10th	11
Nepal	16th	18th	18th	17th	29th	22nd	6
North Korea	4th	1st	4th	2nd	13th	8th	8th	5th	2nd	7th	5th	11
Oman	DQ	10th	10th	11th	9th	16th	6th	22nd	7
Pakistan	6th	9th	11th	17th	14th	23rd	21st	22nd	24th	17th	10
Palestine	DQ	21st	22nd	20th	14th	11th	15th	6
Philippines	11th	8th	8th	15th	4
Qatar	11th	13th	DQ	13th	5th	11th	1st	9th	21st	16th	9
Saudi Arabia	10th	3rd	2nd	5th	5th	6th	8th	8th	8
Singapore	9th	10th	4th	11th	26th	19th	17th	7
South Korea	2nd	2nd	2nd	11th	1st	8th	1st	9th	1st	3rd	4th	6th	3rd	4th	3rd	1st	1st	1st	18
South Yemen	15th	1
Syria	10th	12th	6th	WD	3
Tajikistan	14th	DQ	25th	13th	3
Thailand	7th	6th	6th	12th	6th	10th	11th	4th	15th	4th	4th	7th	7th	4th	18th	14th	16
East Timor	28th	24th	2
Turkmenistan	7th	8th	18th	DQ	13th	4
United Arab Emirates	5th	8th	15th	13th	18th	2nd	8th	3rd	8
Uzbekistan	1st	7th	16th	6th	8th	9th	5th	3rd	8
Vietnam ( South Vietnam)	7th	7th	4th	7th	9th	17th	19th	15th	14th	12th	4th	17th	12
Yemen ( North Yemen)	DQ	10th	17th	15th	DQ	3

Women's tournaments

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The first women's tournament was held in the 1990 Asian Games.[2]

Edition	Year	Host		Final		Third place match	Number of teams
Winner	Score	Runner-up	3rd place	Score	4th place
1	1990details	Beijing	China	No playoffs	Japan	North Korea	No playoffs	Chinese Taipei	6
2	1994details	Hiroshima	China	2–0	Japan	Chinese Taipei	No playoffs	South Korea	4
3	1998details	Bangkok	China	1–0 (g.g.)	North Korea	Japan	2–1	Chinese Taipei	8
4	2002details	Busan	North Korea	No playoffs	China	Japan	No playoffs	South Korea	6
5	2006details	Doha	North Korea	0–0 (a.e.t.)(4–2 p)	Japan	China	2–0	South Korea	8
6	2010details	Guangzhou	Japan	1–0	North Korea	South Korea	2–0	China	7
7	2014details	Incheon	North Korea	3–1	Japan	South Korea	3–0	Vietnam	11
8	2018details	Jakarta–Palembang	Japan	1–0	China	South Korea	4–0	Chinese Taipei	11
9	2022details	Hangzhou	Japan	4–1	North Korea	China	7–0	Uzbekistan	16
10	2026details	Aichi–Nagoya
11	2030details	Doha
12	2034details	Riyadh

Team	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Japan	3 (2010, 2018, 2022)	4 (1990, 1994*, 2006, 2014)	2 (1998, 2002)
North Korea	3 (2002, 2006, 2014)	3 (1998, 2010, 2022)	1 (1990)
China	3 (1990*, 1994, 1998)	2 (2002, 2018)	2 (2006, 2022*)
South Korea			3 (2010, 2014*, 2018)
Chinese Taipei			1 (1994)

* = host

Participating nations

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Nation	1990(6)	1994(4)	1998(8)	2002(6)	2006(8)	2010(7)	2014(11)	2018(11)	2022(16)	Years
Bangladesh	12th	1
Cambodia	WD	0
China	1st	1st	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	2nd	3rd	9
Chinese Taipei	4th	3rd	4th	5th	5th	7th	4th	6th	8
Hong Kong	6th	8th	8th	14th	4
India	8th	9th	13th	3
Indonesia	9th	1
Iran	WD	0
Japan	2nd	2nd	3rd	3rd	2nd	1st	2nd	1st	1st	9
Jordan	8th	7th	10th	3
Maldives	DQ	11th	10th	2
Mongolia	16th	1
Myanmar	10th	1
Nepal	11th	1
North Korea	3rd	2nd	1st	1st	2nd	1st	6th	2nd	8
Philippines	DQ	7th	1
Singapore	15th	1
South Korea	5th	4th	5th	4th	4th	3rd	3rd	3rd	5th	9
Tajikistan	11th	1
Thailand	DQ	7th	6th	6th	6th	7th	8th	6
Uzbekistan	4th	1
Vietnam	6th	6th	7th	5th	4th	5th	9th	7

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1. ^ "PFF chief names Akhtar as head coach of Asian Games team". The Nation. August 29, 2010. Archived from the original on October 8, 2012. Retrieved September 26, 2011. Faisal Saleh Hayat have confirmed that since 2002, football at the Asian Games changed to age-limit and now it is a "U-23 + 3 overage" tournament.
2. ^ "Asian Games (Women's Tournament)". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 15 August 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2014.