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). 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.
Qualification
Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearance 13 June 1976 22 November 1979 0 (debut) 23 November 1979 0 (debut) 15 January 1979 0 (debut) 16 January 1979 0 (debut) 12 May 1979 0 (debut) 11 May 1979 29 December 1978 29 December 1978
Venues Kuwait City Sabah Al-Salem Stadium Capacity: 22,000
Squads For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1980 AFC Asian Cup squads.
Group stage All times are Arab Standard Time (UTC+3) Group A
Group B
Knockout stage
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Winners
Statistics Goalscorers
With seven goals, Choi Soon-ho from South Korea and Behtash Fariba from Iran are the top scorers in the tournament. In total, 76 goals were scored by 36 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.
7 goals Choi Soon-ho Behtash Fariba 5 goals Faisal Al-Dakhil 4 goals
Jasem Yaqoub
3 goals
Shen Xiangfu Xu Yonglai Hossein Faraki Chung Hae-won Mansoor Muftah
2 goals
Abdolreza Barzegari Hamid Alidoosti Saad Al-Houti Tukamin Bahari Zulkifli Hamzah Choi Jae-pil Kim Bok-man O Yung-su Pak Jong-hun Jamal Keshek Ahmed Chombi
1 goal
Ashraf Uddin Ahmed Chunnu Kazi Salahuddin Cai Jinbiao Chen Jingang Li Fubao Hassan Roshan Iraj Danaeifard Abdulaziz Al-Anberi Fathi Kameel Abdah Alif Jong Won-song Kim Gwang-hun Kim Jong-man Hwang Seok-keun Lee Jung-il Jawdat Suleiman Ghanem Al-Hajri
Awards Top scorer Choi Soon-ho Behtash Fariba
Team of the Tournament GoalkeeperDefendersMidfieldersForwards Nasser Hejazi Naeem Saad Soh Chin Aun Mahboub Juma'a Mehdi Dinvarzadeh Abdolreza Barzegari Saad Al-Houti Lee Young-moo Choi Soon-ho Faisal Al-Dakhil Jasem Yaqoub
References
External links South Korea International Matches Kuwait Football Association All-Star Team New Straits Times, 2 October 1980, Page 27 Details at RSSSF