Football at the 2018 Asian Games

Football at the 2018 Asian Games was held from 14 August to 1 September 2018 in Indonesia.^[1][2] One of the host cities, Palembang, hosted the women's event, while the men's matches are played in Bekasi, Cibinong, Cikarang, and Soreang.

Football at the 2018 Asian Games
Venues	Six stadiums across Indonesia
Dates	10 August – 1 September
Teams	25 (Men's) 11 (Women's)
Medalists
South Korea (men)  Japan (women)    Japan (men)  China (women)    United Arab Emirates (men)  South Korea (women)
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The Games' main stadium, the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta did not host the football events. The stadium hosted the ceremonies and the athletics.

All the top 20 nations sent their national football teams to the Asian Games excluding India. A total of 25 men's team and 11 women's team competed at the Asian Games. The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) refused to clear the Indian football team to participate in the tournament due its policy of only sending national teams that were ranked among the top eight at the continental level (India were ranked 14th at the time in Asia). The decision was opposed by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) who described the IOA as lacking "vision and competence", and that the IOA did not consider the recent form and upwards movement of the India national football team in FIFA World Rankings. This was the first time that the Indian football team did not participate in the tournament since the 1994 Asian Games.^[3] Several nations also refused to participate most notably including Tajikistan, Maldives, Yemen and Lebanon; the latter two teams will participate in 2019 AFC Asian Cup.

Competition schedule

All times are local Indonesia Western Standard Time (UTC+7).

G

Group stage

1⁄8

Round of 16

1⁄4

Quarter-finals

1⁄2

Semi-finals

B

Bronze medal match

F

Gold medal match

Date Event	Fri 10	Sat 11	Sun 12	Mon 13	Tue 14	Wed 15	Thu 16	Fri 17	Sat 18	Sun 19	Mon 20	Tue 21	Wed 22	Thu 23	Fri 24	Sat 25	Sun 26	Mon 27	Tue 28	Wed 29	Thu 30	Fri 31		Sat 01
Men	G		G		G					G				1⁄8				1⁄4		1⁄2				B	F
Women							G			G					1⁄4				1⁄2			B	F

Venues

Men's venues

Soreang	Cibinong	Bekasi	Cikarang
Jalak Harupat	Pakansari	Patriot Chandrabhaga	Wibawa Mukti
Capacity: 27,000	Capacity: 30,000	Capacity: 30,000	Capacity: 28,778
Cikarang Soreang Bekasi Cibinong

Women's venues

Palembang
Gelora Sriwijaya	Bumi Sriwijaya
Capacity: 23,000[4]	Capacity: 7,000[4]
Bumi Sriwijaya Gelora Sriwijaya

Participating nations and regions

Men's tournament

•  Bahrain
•  Bangladesh
•  China
•  Chinese Taipei
•  Hong Kong
•  Indonesia
•  Iran
•  Japan
•  Kyrgyzstan
•  Laos
•  Malaysia
•  Myanmar
•    Nepal
•  North Korea
•  Pakistan
•  Palestine
•  Qatar
•  Saudi Arabia
•  South Korea
•  Syria
•  Timor-Leste
•  Thailand
•  United Arab Emirates
•  Uzbekistan
•  Vietnam

Women's tournament

•  China
•  Chinese Taipei
•  Hong Kong
•  Indonesia (host)
•  Japan
•  Maldives
•  North Korea
•  South Korea
•  Tajikistan
•  Thailand
•  Vietnam

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	1	1	0	2
2	South Korea	1	0	1	2
3	China	0	1	0	1
4	United Arab Emirates	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	South Korea Song Bum-keun Hwang Hyun-soo Kim Min-jae Kim Jin-ya Jeong Tae-wook Kim Moon-hwan Son Heung-min Lee Jin-hyun Hwang Hee-chan Hwang In-beom Na Sang-ho Lee Si-young Cho Yu-min Jang Yun-ho Lee Seung-mo Hwang Ui-jo Lee Seung-woo Jo Hyeon-woo Kim Geon-ung Kim Jung-min	Japan Ryosuke Kojima Yoichi Naganuma Makoto Okazaki Ko Itakura Daiki Sugioka Ryo Hatsuse Teruki Hara Kaoru Mitoma Reo Hatate Koji Miyoshi Keita Endo Powell Obinna Obi Yuto Iwasaki Taishi Matsumoto Ayase Ueda Kota Watanabe Yuta Kamiya Daizen Maeda Takuma Ominami Yugo Tatsuta	United Arab Emirates Sultan Al-Mantheri Abdullah Hassan Al-Noubi Ahmed Rashed Salem Sultan Ismael Khaled Majed Suroor Ahmed Al-Attas Jassem Yaqoub Khaled Ibrahim Ali Eid Abdulrahman Al-Ameri Abdullah Ghanem Mohammed Al-Attas Hussain Abdullah Mohamed Al-Shamsi Hamad Jassim Mohammed Khalfan Shahin Suroor Zayed Al-Ameri Rashed Mohammed
Women details	Japan Sakiko Ikeda Risa Shimizu Aya Sameshima Shiori Miyake Hikari Takagi Saori Ariyoshi Emi Nakajima Mana Iwabuchi Yuika Sugasawa Yuka Momiki Mina Tanaka Rika Masuya Yu Nakasato Yui Hasegawa Moeno Sakaguchi Rin Sumida Aimi Kunitake Ayaka Yamashita	China Zhao Lina Han Peng Huang Yini Lou Jiahui Wu Haiyan Lin Yuping Wang Shuang Li Jiayue Ren Guixin Li Ying Wang Shanshan Wang Yan Li Tingting Zhao Rong Xiao Yuyi Yang Lina Gu Yasha Li Mengwen Bi Xiaolin Zhang Rui	South Korea Yoon Young-geul Jang Sel-gi Shin Dam-yeong Shim Seo-yeon Hong Hye-ji Lim Seon-joo Lee Min-a Cho So-hyun Jeon Ga-eul Ji So-yun Lee Geum-min Moon Mi-ra Han Chae-rin Choe Yu-ri Jang Chang Son Hwa-yeon Lee Hyun-young Jung Bo-ram Lee Eun-mi Kim Hye-ri

Men's competition

Main article: Football at the 2018 Asian Games – Men's tournament

The competition consisted of two stages; a group stage followed by a knockout stage.

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Indonesia (H)	4	3	0	1	11	3	+8	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Palestine	4	2	2	0	5	3	+2	8
3	Hong Kong	4	2	1	1	9	5	+4	7
4	Laos	4	1	0	3	4	8	−4	3
5	Chinese Taipei	4	0	1	3	0	10	−10	1

Source: Asian Games 2018
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uzbekistan	3	3	0	0	10	0	+10	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Bangladesh	3	1	1	1	2	4	−2	4
3	Thailand	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
4	Qatar	3	0	1	2	1	8	−7	1

Source: Asian Games 2018
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	China	3	3	0	0	11	1	+10	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Syria	3	2	0	1	6	5	+1	6
3	United Arab Emirates	3	1	0	2	5	4	+1	3
4	East Timor	3	0	0	3	3	15	−12	0
5	Iraq	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew, replaced by UAE[5]

Source: Asian Games 2018
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Vietnam	3	3	0	0	6	0	+6	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Japan	3	2	0	1	5	1	+4	6
3	Pakistan	3	1	0	2	2	8	−6	3
4	Nepal	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

Source: Asian Games 2018
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Malaysia	3	2	0	1	7	5	+2	6[a]	Advance to knockout stage
2	South Korea	3	2	0	1	8	2	+6	6[a]
3	Bahrain	3	1	1	1	5	10	−5	4
4	Kyrgyzstan	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1
5	United Arab Emirates	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Redrawn to Group C

Source: Asian Games 2018
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Notes:

1. Head-to-head result: Malaysia 2–1 South Korea.

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iran	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4	Advance to knockout stage
2	North Korea	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
3	Saudi Arabia	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
4	Myanmar	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4

Source: Asian Games 2018
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Ranking of third-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	A	Hong Kong	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4	Advance to knockout stage
2	F	Saudi Arabia	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
3	E	Bahrain	3	1	1	1	5	10	−5	4
4	C	United Arab Emirates	3	1	0	2	5	4	+1	3
5	D	Pakistan	3	1	0	2	2	8	−6	3
6	B	Thailand	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2

Source: Asian Games 2018 Archived 11 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) fair play points; 5) drawing of lots.

Knockout stage

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Gold medal match

23 August – Bekasi

Palestine

0

27 August – Bekasi

Syria

1

Syria

0

23 August – Bekasi

Vietnam (a.e.t.)

1

Vietnam

1

29 August – Cibinong

Bahrain

0

Vietnam

1

23 August – Cikarang

South Korea

3

Uzbekistan

3

27 August – Bekasi

Hong Kong

0

Uzbekistan

3

23 August – Cikarang

South Korea (a.e.t.)

4

Iran

0

1 September – Cibinong

South Korea

2

South Korea (a.e.t.)

2

24 August – Bekasi

Japan

1

China

3

27 August – Cibinong

Saudi Arabia

4

Saudi Arabia

1

24 August – Bekasi

Japan

2

Malaysia

0

29 August – Cibinong

Japan

1

Japan

1

24 August – Cikarang

United Arab Emirates

0

Bronze medal match

Indonesia

2 (3)

27 August – Cibinong

1 September – Cibinong

United Arab Emirates (p)

2 (4)

United Arab Emirates (p)

1 (5)

Vietnam

1 (3)

24 August – Cikarang

North Korea

1 (3)

United Arab Emirates (p)

1 (4)

Bangladesh

1

North Korea

3

Women's competition

Main article: Football at the 2018 Asian Games – Women's tournament

The competition consisted of two stages; a group stage followed by a knockout stage.

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Korea	3	3	0	0	22	1	+21	9	Advance to Knockout stage
2	Chinese Taipei	3	2	0	1	12	2	+10	6
3	Indonesia (H)	3	1	0	2	6	16	−10	3
4	Maldives	3	0	0	3	0	21	−21	0

Source: Asian Games 2018
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	China	3	3	0	0	25	0	+25	9	Advance to Knockout stage
2	North Korea	3	2	0	1	24	2	+22	6
3	Hong Kong	3	1	0	2	6	16	−10	3
4	Tajikistan	3	0	0	3	1	38	−37	0

Source: Asian Games 2018
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	2	2	0	0	9	0	+9	6	Advance to Knockout stage
2	Vietnam	2	1	0	1	3	9	−6	3
3	Thailand	2	0	0	2	2	5	−3	0

Source: Asian Games 2018
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Ranking of third-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	C	Thailand	2	0	0	2	2	5	−3	0	Advance to knockout stage
2	B	Hong Kong	2	0	0	2	0	15	−15	0
3	A	Indonesia	2	0	0	2	0	16	−16	0

Source: Asian Games 2018 Archived 26 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) fair play points; 5) drawing of lots.

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	24 August – Palembang
	South Korea	5
					28 August – Palembang
	Hong Kong	0
					South Korea	1
	25 August – Palembang
					Japan	2
	Japan	2
									31 August – Palembang
	North Korea	1
									Japan	1
	24 August – Palembang
									China	0
	Chinese Taipei (p)	0 (4)
					28 August – Palembang
	Vietnam	0 (3)
					Chinese Taipei	0
	25 August – Palembang
					China	1			Bronze medal match
	China	5
									31 August – Palembang
	Thailand	0
									South Korea	4
									Chinese Taipei	0

References

1. "Football Sports Technical Handbook" (PDF). Indonesia Asian Games 2018 Organizing Committee. 15 February 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 May 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
2. "Asian Games: Indonesia 'ready for 2018 Asiad'". The Straits Times. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
3. "IOA lacks competence to understand that football is global sport: AIFF". The Times of India. 1 July 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
4. "Football Sports Technical Handbook [Stadium Seating Capacity]" (PDF). asiangames2018.id. 15 February 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
5. "Asian Games: Iraq withdraw from football tournament". Reuters. 1 August 2018. Archived from the original on 2 August 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2023.

External links

• Football at the 2018 Asian Games Archived 1 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine
• Official Result Book – Football