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 (1994)
LocationVarious
Presented byAsian Football Confederation
First award1994
Websitewww.the-afc.com

Player awards

Main awards

The following awards have separate articles.

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
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

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