Football at the 1986 Asian Games
Dates	20 September – 5 October
Nations	18
Medalists
South Korea    Saudi Arabia    Kuwait
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Football at the 1986 Asian Games was held in Seoul, South Korea from 20 September to 5 October 1986. Singapore was forced to withdraw as their team was unable to get visas to enter South Korea.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	South Korea Byun Byung-joo Cho Byung-deuk Cho Kwang-rae Cho Min-kook Cho Young-jeung Choi Soon-ho Chung Jong-soo Chung Yong-hwan Huh Jung-moo Kang Deuk-soo Kim Joo-sung Kim Pyung-seok Kim Sam-soo Kim Yong-se Lee Moon-young Lee Tae-ho Noh Soo-jin Park Chang-sun Park Kyung-hoon Yoo Byung-ok	Saudi Arabia Mohammed Abduljawad Majed Abdullah Bassem Abu-Dawood Fahad Al-Bishi Hussein Al-Bishi Saad Al-Dosari Abdullah Al-Hathloul Mohaisen Al-Jam'an Fahad Al-Musaibeah Abdulrahman Al-Roomi Mohammed Al-Shehrani Abdulrahman Al-Tekhaifi Yousuf Al-Thunayan Ismail Hakami Saleh Khalifa Salem Marwan Abdullah Masood Saleh Nu'eimeh Samir Sulaimani	Kuwait Adel Abbas Abdulaziz Al-Buloushi Nassir Al-Ghanim Muayad Al-Haddad Abdulaziz Al-Hajeri Salah Al-Hasawi Waleed Al-Jasem Jamal Al-Qabendi Khalid Al-Sharidah Hamoud Al-Shemmari Khaled Al-Shemmari Yussef Al-Suwayed Jabir Al-Zanki Naeem Saad Wael Sulaiman

Venues

Seoul	Busan
Olympic Stadium	Busan Stadium
Capacity: 69,950	Capacity: 30,000
Daegu	Daejeon	Gwangju
Daegu Stadium	Daejeon Stadium	Gwangju Stadium
Capacity: 23,278	Capacity: 30,000	Capacity: 30,000
Olympic Stadium Busan Stadium Daegu Stadium Daejeon Stadium Gwangju Stadium

Squads

Results

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	United Arab Emirates	4	3	1	0	5	2	+3	7
2	Iraq	4	3	0	1	12	4	+8	6
3	Oman	4	1	2	1	3	5	−2	4
4	Thailand	4	1	1	2	8	4	+4	3
5	Pakistan	4	0	0	4	2	15	−13	0

21 September

Iraq	4–0	Oman
Allawi 12', 70' Saeed 29' Radhi 80'

Daegu Stadium, Daegu

21 September

United Arab Emirates	1–0	Pakistan
Al-Talyani 25' (pen.)

Daegu Stadium, Daegu

23 September

United Arab Emirates	2–1	Thailand
Khamees 68' Al-Talyani 86'		Piyapong 7'

Daegu Stadium, Daegu

23 September

Pakistan	1–5	Iraq
Sarwar 26' (pen.)		Radhi 14' (pen.), 36' Hameed 21' Mohammed 34', 86'

Daegu Stadium, Daegu

25 September

Thailand	0–0	Oman

Daegu Stadium, Daegu

25 September

United Arab Emirates	2–1	Iraq
		Saeed

Daegu Stadium, Daegu

27 September

Oman	3–1	Pakistan

Daegu Stadium, Daegu

27 September

Thailand	1–2	Iraq
		Dirjal Mohammed

Daegu Stadium, Daegu

29 September

United Arab Emirates	0–0	Oman

Daegu Stadium, Daegu

29 September

Thailand	6–0	Pakistan

Daegu Stadium, Daegu

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	South Korea	3	2	1	0	7	2	+5	5
2	China	3	2	0	1	9	6	+3	4
3	Bahrain	3	1	1	1	4	5	−1	3
4	India	3	0	0	3	1	8	−7	0

20 September

South Korea	3–0	India
Noh Soo-jin 10' Choi Soon-ho 36' Park Chang-sun 84' (pen.)

Gudeok Stadium, Busan

20 September

China	5–1	Bahrain
Ma Lin 21', 32' Liu Haiguang 43' Liu Zhongchang 80' Qin Guorong 82'		Bushagor 11'

Gudeok Stadium, Busan

22 September

China	2–1	India
Ma Lin 22', 25'		Mishra 37'

Gudeok Stadium, Busan

24 September

South Korea	0–0	Bahrain

Gudeok Stadium, Busan

26 September

Bahrain	3–0	India
Hisham 3', 45' Hassan 23'

Gudeok Stadium, Busan

28 September

South Korea	4–2	China
Park Chang-sun 20' (pen.) Kim Joo-sung 47' Lee Tae-ho 75' Cho Min-kook 77'		Li Hui 26' (pen.), 90' (pen.)

Gudeok Stadium, Busan

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Saudi Arabia	3	3	0	0	6	1	+5	6
2	Indonesia	3	1	1	1	2	3	−1	3
3	Qatar	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
4	Malaysia	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1

21 September

Malaysia	1–3	Saudi Arabia
Wong Hung Nung 12'		Al-Shahrani 28' Abdullah 30', 53'

Gwangju Stadium, Gwangju

21 September

Qatar	1–1	Indonesia
Salman 29'		Kabo 68'

Gwangju Stadium, Gwangju

23 September

Qatar	1–1	Malaysia
Al-Sowaidi 90'		Ahmad 33'

Gwangju Stadium, Gwangju

25 September

Indonesia	0–2	Saudi Arabia
		Abdullah 84', 87'

Gwangju Stadium, Gwangju

27 September

Indonesia	1–0	Malaysia
Sawor 35'

Gwangju Stadium, Gwangju

29 September

Qatar	0–1	Saudi Arabia
		Al-Jam'an 21'

Gwangju Stadium, Gwangju

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Kuwait	4	4	0	0	12	0	+12	8
2	Iran	4	3	0	1	12	1	+11	6
3	Japan	4	2	0	2	9	4	+5	4
4	Bangladesh	4	1	0	3	1	12	−11	2
5	Nepal	4	0	0	4	0	17	−17	0

20 September

Kuwait	4–0	Bangladesh
Al-Ghanim 24' Al-Hajeri 43' Abbas 51' H. Al-Shemmari 64'

Daejeon Stadium, Daejeon

20 September

Japan	5–0	Nepal
Tsunami 8' Hara 17', 39' Kimura 25', 29' (pen.)

Daejeon Stadium, Daejeon

22 September

Japan	0–2	Iran
		Abtahi 5' Mohammadkhani 17'

Daejeon Stadium, Daejeon

22 September

Nepal	0–5	Kuwait
		Al-Hasawi Al-Suwayed Al-Zanki

Daejeon Stadium, Daejeon

24 September

Iran	4–0	Bangladesh
Pious 61' Fathabadi 82', 89' Ghayeghran 90'

Daejeon Stadium, Daejeon

24 September

Japan	0–2	Kuwait
		Al-Suwayed 24' Al-Zanki 72'

Daejeon Stadium, Daejeon

26 September

Nepal	0–1	Bangladesh
		Aslam 48'

Daejeon Stadium, Daejeon

26 September

Iran	0–1	Kuwait
		Al-Hasawi 18'

Daejeon Stadium, Daejeon

28 September

Japan	4–0	Bangladesh
Hara 1', 71' Johnny 56' (o.g.) Tsunami 78'

Daejeon Stadium, Daejeon

28 September

Iran	6–0	Nepal
Derakhshan 8', 76' Bayani 44' (pen.) Fathabadi 51', 86' Yekkeh 61'

Daejeon Stadium, Daejeon

Knockout round

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Gold medal match
	1 October
	United Arab Emirates	2 (3)
					3 October
	Indonesia (p)	2 (4)
					Indonesia	0
	1 October
					South Korea	4
	South Korea (p)	1 (5)
									5 October
	Iran	1 (4)
									South Korea	2
	1 October
									Saudi Arabia	0
	Saudi Arabia (p)	1 (9)
					3 October
	Iraq	1 (8)
					Saudi Arabia (p)	2 (5)
	1 October
					Kuwait	2 (4)			Bronze medal match
	Kuwait (p)	1 (5)
									4 October
	China	1 (4)
									Indonesia	0
									Kuwait	5

Quarterfinals

1 October

Saudi Arabia	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Iraq
Al-Shahrani 39'		Mohammed 51'
Penalties
	9–8

Olympic Stadium, Seoul

1 October

South Korea	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Iran
Park Chang-sun 34' (pen.)		Bavi 84'
Penalties
Park Chang-sun Kim Joo-sung Choi Soon-ho Cho Young-jeung Lee Tae-ho	5–4	Ghayeghran Changiz Namjoo-Motlagh Mohammadkhani Hajiloo

Gudeok Stadium, Busan

1 October

United Arab Emirates	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Indonesia
K. Ghanim 78' Fahad Khamees 96'		Yacob 48' Salem Saeed 104' (o.g)
Penalties
Khalil Ghanim Saleem Saeed Fahad Khamees Abdul Rahman Mohammed Adnan Al Talyani	3–4	Sumardi Ricky Yacob Robby Darwis Sutrisno Adolf Kabo

Olympic Stadium, Seoul

1 October

Kuwait	1–1 (a.e.t.)	China
Al-Suwayed 39'		Al-Sharidah 37' (o.g.)
Penalties
	5–4

Gudeok Stadium, Busan

Semifinals

3 October

South Korea	4–0	Indonesia
Cho Kwang-rae 29' Choi Soon-ho 52', 75' Lee Tae-ho 67'

Olympic Stadium, Seoul

3 October

Saudi Arabia	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Kuwait
Al-Shahrani 53' Al-Thunayan 79'		Al-Suwayed 18' Al-Hasawi 66'
Penalties
Al-Nu'eimeh Al-Shahrani Al-Jam'an Al-Thunayan Al-Nafisah	5–4	Al-Suwayed Al-Qabendi H. Al-Shemmari Al-Jasem Al-Haddad

Olympic Stadium, Seoul

Bronze medal match

4 October

Indonesia	0–5	Kuwait
		Al-Qabendi 24' Al-Hajeri 38', 78' Saad 52' Al-Hasawi 84'

Olympic Stadium, Seoul

Gold medal match

5 October

South Korea	2–0	Saudi Arabia
Cho Kwang-rae 7' Byun Byung-joo 84'

Olympic Stadium, Seoul

Final standing

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	South Korea	6	4	2	0	14	3	+11	10
	Saudi Arabia	6	3	2	1	9	6	+3	8
	Kuwait	7	5	2	0	20	3	+17	12
4	Indonesia	6	1	2	3	4	14	−10	4
5	United Arab Emirates	5	3	2	0	7	4	+3	8
6	Iran	5	3	1	1	13	2	+11	7
7	Iraq	5	3	1	1	13	5	+8	7
8	China	4	2	1	1	10	7	+3	5
9	Japan	4	2	0	2	9	4	+5	4
10	Oman	4	1	2	1	3	5	−2	4
11	Thailand	4	1	1	2	8	4	+4	3
12	Bahrain	3	1	1	1	4	5	−1	3
13	Qatar	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
14	Bangladesh	4	1	0	3	1	12	−11	2
15	Malaysia	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1
16	India	3	0	0	3	1	8	−7	0
17	Pakistan	4	0	0	4	2	15	−13	0
18	Nepal	4	0	0	4	0	17	−17	0