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
Date	1994; 31 years ago (1994)
Location	Various
Presented by	Asian Football Confederation
First award	1994
Website	www.the-afc.com
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Player awards

Main awards

The following awards have separate articles.

• Player of the Year
• Asian International Player of the Year
• Youth Player of the Year

Women's Player of the Year

Continental winners

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

International winners

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

Foreign Player of the Year

Year	Player	Club	Ref.
2012	Rogerinho	Al Kuwait	[9]
2013	Muriqui	Guangzhou Evergrande	[10]
2014	Asamoah Gyan	Al Ain	[11]
2015	Ricardo Goulart	Guangzhou Evergrande	[12]

Asian All Stars

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

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

Futsal Player of the Year

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

Coaching awards

Coach of the Year

Year	Coach	Team	Ref.
1994	Charnwit Polcheewin	Thai Farmers Bank
1995	Park Jong-hwan	Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma
1996	Ma Yuanan	China (women)
1997	Cha Bum-kun	South Korea
1998	Takashi Kuwahara	Júbilo Iwata
1999	Mahmoud Rakhimov	Uzbekistan
2000	Philippe Troussier	Japan
2001	Nasser Al-Johar	Saudi Arabia
2002	Guus Hiddink	South Korea
2003	Cha Kyung-bok	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
2004	Adnan Hamad	Iraq
2005
2006	Choe Kwang-sok	North Korea U20 (women)
2007	Rauf Inileev	Uzbekistan
2008	Akira Nishino	Gamba Osaka
2009	Huh Jung-moo	South Korea
2010	Takeshi Okada	Japan
2011	Norio Sasaki	Japan (women)
2012	Kim Ho-kon	Ulsan Hyundai	[30]
2013	Choi Yong-soo	FC Seoul	[31]
2014	Tony Popovic	Western Sydney Wanderers	[32]
2015	Ange Postecoglou	Australia	[33]
2016	Choi Kang-hee	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	[34]
2017	Takafumi Hori	Urawa Red Diamonds	[35]
2018	Go Oiwa	Kashima Antlers
2019	Chung Jung-yong	South Korea U20	[36]
Not awarded from 2020 to 2021
2022	Hajime Moriyasu	Japan
2023	Go Oiwa	Japan U23	[8]

Women's Coach of the Year

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

Team awards

Club of the Year

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

National Team of the Year

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

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

Referee awards

Referee of the Year

Year	Referee	Ref.	Assistant referee	Ref.	Video assistant referee	Ref.
1996	Pirom Un-prasert		Al Musawi Mohamed Ahmed		Not awarded
2002	Toru Kamikawa		Ali Al Traifi
2003	Masoud Moradi		Not awarded
2004	Lu Jun
2005	Shamsul Maidin
2006	Shamsul Maidin
2007	Mark Shield		Mohamed Hamad Al Ghamdi
2008	Ravshan Irmatov		Tammam Hamdoun
2009	Ravshan Irmatov		Matthew Cream
2010	Ravshan Irmatov		Toru Sagara
2011	Ravshan Irmatov		Abdukhamidullo Rasulov
2012	Yuichi Nishimura	[58]	Abdukhamidullo Rasulov	[59]
2013	Ben Williams	[60]	Toshiyuki Nagi	[61]
2014	Ravshan Irmatov	[62]	Matthew Cream
2015	Fahad Al-Mirdasi	[63]	Abdulah Al-Shalwai Abu Bakar Al-Amri	[63]
2016	Alireza Faghani	[64]	Reza Sokhandan Mohammad Reza Mansouri	[64]
2017	Bakhtiyor Namazov	[65]	Not awarded
2018	Alireza Faghani		Reza Sokhandan
2019
Not awarded from 2020 to 2021
2022	Chris Beath		Ashley Beecham Anton Schetinin		Ammar Al-Jneibi
2023	Yuichi Hatano Abdullah Al-Salehi Ibrahim Yousif Al Raeesi

Women's Referee of the Year

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

Association awards

Fair Play Award

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

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

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

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

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

Other awards

Diamond of Asia

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

Match Commissioner of the Year

Year	Name	Ref.
2008	Kamarudin Sakhari Mary Catherine Rivilla
2009	Mazen Ramadan Kanya Keomany
2010	Abdul Ghafoor Abdul Hameed Emily Lau Cheuk-chi

Special Recognition Award

Year	Name	Ref.
2018	Wild Boars FC Futoshi Ikeda

Corporate Icon Award

Year	Name	Ref.
2014	TV Asahi NHK	[110]

Sportswriter of the Year

Year	Name	Ref.
1996	Azam Mahmood	[111]

See also

• Asian Football Hall of Fame