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; 30 years ago (1994)
LocationVarious
Presented byAsian Football Confederation
First awarded1994
Websitewww.the-afc.com
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Player awards

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Main awards

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The following awards have separate articles.

Women's Player of the Year

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Year Player Nation Club Ref.
1999 Sun Wen   China   Shanghai SVA
Not awarded from 2000 to 2002
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 [1]
2013 Not awarded
2014 Katrina Gorry   Australia   Kansas City [2]
2015 Aya Miyama   Japan   Okayama Yunogo Belle [3]
2016 Caitlin Foord   Australia   Sydney FC [4]
2017 Sam Kerr   Australia   Perth Glory [5]
2018 Wang Shuang   China   Paris Saint-Germain
2019 Saki Kumagai   Japan   Lyon [6]
Not awarded from 2020 to 2021
2022 Sam Kerr   Australia   Chelsea [7]
2023 Kiko Seike   Japan   Urawa Red Diamonds [8]

Women's Player of the Year (international)

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

Foreign Player of the Year

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

Asian All Stars

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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

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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 [23]
2013 Suphawut Thueanklang   Thailand   Chonburi Bluewave [24]
2014 Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh   Iran   MFK Norilsk Nickel
2015 Vahid Shamsaei   Iran   Tasisat Daryaei [25]
2016 Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh   Iran   Giti Pasand [26]
2017 Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh   Iran   Giti Pasand [27]
2018 Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh   Iran   Shenzhen Nanling Tielang
2019 Tomoki Yoshikawa   Japan   Nagoya Oceans [28]
Not awarded from 2020 to 2021
2022 Moslem Oladghobad   Iran   Palma [29]
2023 Saeid Ahmadabbasi   Iran   Valdepeñas [8]

Coaching awards

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Coach of the Year

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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
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2006   Choe Kwang-sok   North Korea U20 (women)

Men's Coach of the Year

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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 [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

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Year Coach Team Ref,
2007   Tom Sermanni   Australia
2008   Kim Kwang-min   North Korea
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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

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Club of the Year

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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

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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

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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

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Referee of the Year

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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

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Year Referee Ref. Assistant referee Ref. Video assistant referee Ref.
2007   Mark Shield   Mohamed Hamad Al Ghamdi Not awarded
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 [63]
  Abu Bakar Al-Amri
2016   Alireza Faghani [64]   Reza Sokhandan [64]
  Mohammad Reza Mansouri
2017   Bakhtiyor Namazov [65] Not awarded
2018   Alireza Faghani   Reza Sokhandan
  Mohammad Reza Mansouri
2019
Not awarded from 2020 to 2021
2022   Chris Beath   Ashley Beecham   Ammar Al-Jneibi
  Anton Schetinin
2023   Yuichi Hatano
  Abdullah Al-Salehi
  Ibrahim Yousif Al Raeesi

Women's Referee of the Year

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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 [64]
  Uvena Fernandes

Association awards

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Fair Play Award

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Year Association Ref.
2022
2023 [8]

Other awards

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Diamond of Asia

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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

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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

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Year Name Ref.
2018   Wild Boars FC
  Futoshi Ikeda

Corporate Icon Award

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Year Name Ref.
2014   TV Asahi [110]
  NHK

Sportswriter of the Year

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Year Name Ref.
1996   Azam Mahmood [111]

See also

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