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
Location	Various
Presented by	Asian Football Confederation
First awarded	1994
Website	www.the-afc.com

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

Year	Player	Nation	Club	Ref.
1999	Sun Wen	China	Shanghai SVA
2003	Bai Jie	China	Washington Freedom
2004	Homare Sawa	Japan	NTV Beleza
2005	Natsuko Hara	Japan	NTV Beleza
2006	Ma Xiaoxu	China	Dalian Shide
2007	Ri Kum-suk	North Korea	April 25
2008	Homare Sawa	Japan	NTV Beleza
2009	Not awarded
2010	Kate Gill	Australia	Perth Glory
2011	Aya Miyama	Japan	Okayama Yunogo Belle
2012	Aya Miyama	Japan	Okayama Yunogo Belle
2013	Not awarded
2014	Katrina Gorry	Australia	Kansas City
2015	Aya Miyama	Japan	Okayama Yunogo Belle
2016	Caitlin Foord	Australia	Sydney FC
2017	Sam Kerr	Australia	Perth Glory
2018	Wang Shuang	China	Paris Saint-Germain
2019	Saki Kumagai	Japan	Lyon
Not awarded from 2020 to 2022
2022	Sam Kerr	Australia	Chelsea

Foreign Player of the Year

Year	Player	Nation	Club	Ref.
2012	Rogerinho	Brazil	Al-Kuwait
2013	Muriqui	Brazil	Guangzhou Evergrande
2014	Asamoah Gyan	Ghana	Al-Ain
2015	Ricardo Goulart	Brazil	Guangzhou Evergrande

Asian All Stars

Year	Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards	Ref.
1965	Asvin Thongin-nate	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
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
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
1968	Chow Chee Keong Tin Aung	Kim Jung-suk Hiroshi Katayama M. Chandran Narong Sangkasuwan Turab Ali Anwar Ujang	Suk Bahadur Shmuel Rosenthal Aritatsu Ogi	Kunishige Kamamoto Ryuichi Sugiyama Do Thoi Vinh Nguyen Van Ngon Inder Singh Wong Chi Keung Soetjipto Soentoro
1982	R. Arumugam	Mahboub Juma'a Park Kyung-hoon Aumnat Chareumchavalit 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
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
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
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
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
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
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

Futsal Player of the Year

Year	Player	Nation	Club	Ref.
2006	Kenichiro Kogure	Japan	Nagoya Oceans
2007	Vahid Shamsaei	Iran	Tam Iran Khodro Tehran
2008	Vahid Shamsaei	Iran	Foolad Mahan
2009	Not awarded
2010	Mohammad Taheri	Iran	Foolad Mahan
2011	Mohammad Keshavarz	Iran	Giti Pasand Isfahan
2012	Rafael Henmi	Japan	Nagoya Oceans
2013	Suphawut Thueanklang	Thailand	Chonburi Bluewave
2014	Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh	Iran	MFK Norilsk Nickel
2015	Vahid Shamsaei	Iran	Tasisat Daryaei
2016	Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh	Iran	Giti Pasand
2017	Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh	Iran	Giti Pasand
2018	Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh	Iran	Shenzhen Nanling Tielang
2019	Tomoki Yoshikawa	Japan	Nagoya Oceans
Not awarded from 2020 to 2022
2022	Moslem Oladghobad	Iran	Palma

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)

Men's Coach of the Year

Year	Coach	Team	Ref.
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
2013	Choi Yong-soo	FC Seoul
2014	Tony Popovic	Western Sydney Wanderers
2015	Ange Postecoglou	Australia
2016	Choi Kang-hee	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
2017	Takafumi Hori	Urawa Red Diamonds
2018	Go Oiwa	Kashima Antlers
2019	Chung Jung-yong	South Korea U20
Not awarded from 2020 to 2022
2022	Hajime Moriyasu	Japan

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
2013	Asako Takakura	Japan U16
2014	Asako Takakura	Japan U17
2015	Asako Takakura	Japan U20
2016	Chan Yuen-ting	Eastern Sports
2017	Asako Takakura	Japan
2018	Asako Takakura	Japan
2019	Asako Takakura	Japan
Not awarded from 2020 to 2022
2022	Shui Qingxia	China

Team awards

Team of the Year

Year	Club	Ref.	Men's national team	Ref.	Women's national team	Ref.	Futsal team	Ref.
1996	Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma		Saudi Arabia		China		Not awarded
Not awarded from 1997 to 1999
2000	Al-Hilal		Japan		Not awarded
2001	Suwon Samsung Bluewings		China
2002	Pakhtakor Tashkent		South Korea				Iran
2003	Al-Ain		Iraq		China		Iran
2004	Al-Ittihad		Japan		China U19		Iran
2005	Al-Ittihad		Japan		Japan U17		Iran
2006	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors		Australia		North Korea U20		Japan
2007	Urawa Red Diamonds		Iraq		North Korea
2008	Gamba Osaka		Japan		North Korea		Iran
2009	Pohang Steelers		South Korea		Japan U20
2010	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma		Japan		Australia		Iran
2011	Al-Sadd		Japan		Japan		Nagoya Oceans
2012	Ulsan Hyundai		South Korea U23		Japan		Japan
2013	Guangzhou Evergrande		Iraq U20		South Korea U19		Chonburi Bluewave
2014	Western Sydney Wanderers		Palestine		Japan U17		Japan
2015	Guangzhou Evergrande		Australia		Japan		Tasisat Daryaei

Referee awards

Referee of the Year

Year	Referee	Ref.	Assistant referee	Ref.
1996	Pirom Un-prasert		Al Musawi Mohamed Ahmed
2002	Toru Kamikawa		Ali Al Traifi
2003	Masoud Moradi		Not awarded
2004	Lu Jun
2005	Shamsul Maidin
2006	Shamsul Maidin

Men's Referee of the Year

Year	Referee	Ref.	Assistant referee	Ref.	Video assistant referee
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		Abdukhamidullo Rasulov
2013	Ben Williams		Toshiyuki Nagi
2014	Ravshan Irmatov		Matthew Cream
2015	Fahad Al-Mirdasi		Abdulah Al-Shalwai
			Abu Bakar Al-Amri
2016	Alireza Faghani		Reza Sokhandan
			Mohammad Reza Mansouri
2017	Bakhtiyor Namazov		Not awarded
2018	Alireza Faghani		Reza Sokhandan
			Mohammad Reza Mansouri
2022	Chris Beath		Ashley Beecham
			Anton Schetinin		Ammar Al-Jneibi

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		Kim Kyoung-min
2013	Sachiko Yamagishi		Allyson Flynn
2014	Rita Gani		Kim Kyoung-min
2015
2016	Kate Jacewicz		Renae Coghill
			Uvena Fernandes

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
2013	China
2014	South Korea
2015	Japan

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

Year	Inspiring MA	Ref.	Developing MA	Ref.	Aspiring MA	Ref.
2013	China		Jordan		Pakistan
2014	Japan		North Korea		Kyrgyzstan
2015	Japan		Hong Kong		Bangladesh
2016	Japan		India		Bhutan
2017	Iran		Vietnam		Afghanistan
2018	Japan		North Korea		Mongolia
2019	Japan		Hong Kong		Guam

Year	Ruby	Gold	Diamond	Platinum	Ref.
2022	Guam	Hong Kong	Lebanon	Uzbekistan

President Recognition Award for Grassroots Football

Year	Nations			Ref.
2013	Japan
2014	India	Philippines	Tajikistan
2015	Vietnam	Japan	Brunei
2016	Australia	Philippines	Brunei

Year	Inspiring MA	Developing MA	Aspiring MA	Ref.
2017	China	Singapore	Bhutan
2018	China	Singapore	Palestine
2019	China	Singapore	Brunei
Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2022	Australia	Guam	India

Dream Asia Award

Year	Nation	Ref.
2010	Australia
2011	Qatar
2012	United Arab Emirates
2013	Myanmar
2014	Qatar
2015	Japan
2016	Qatar
2017	Japan
2018	China (Inspiring)
	Malaysia (Developing)
	Mongolia (Aspring)

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
2013	Chung Mong-joon
2014	Junji Ogura
2015	Abdullah Khalid Al Dabal
2016	Issa Hayatou
2017	Yousuf al-Serkal
2018	Zhang Jilong
2019	Abdullah of Pahang
2022	Saoud Al-Mohannadi

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

Sportswriter of the Year

Year	Name	Ref.
1996	Azam Mahmood

See also

• Asian Football Hall of Fame
• AFC Century Award