- 2000 AFC Asian Cup
Infobox International Football Competition
tourney_name =
year = 2000
other_titles = Asian Cup Lebanon 2000
size = 200px
caption = Logo of the 2000 Asian Cup
country = Lebanon
dates =October 12 –October 29
num_teams = 12
confederations =
venues = 3
cities = 3
champion = JPN
count = 2
second = KSA
third = KOR
fourth = PRC
matches = 26
goals = 77
attendance =
top_scorer = flagicon|South KoreaLee Dong-Gook (6 goals)
player = flagicon|JapanHiroshi Nanami
updated =The
Asian Football Confederation 's 2000 AFC Asian Cup finals were held inLebanon betweenOctober 12 andOctober 29 . Japan defeated defending champion Saudi Arabia in the final match inBeirut .Qualification
*fb|Lebanon qualified automatically as host.
*fb|Saudi Arabia qualified automatically as defending champions.42 teams participated in a preliminary tournament. It was divided into 10 groups and the first-placed team of each group thus qualified. A total of 84 games were held, starting with the Oman versus Kyrgyzstan game on August 3, 1999.
The other 10 qualifying teams were:
footballbox|date=
2000-10-13
time=17:05 GMT+2
team1 = fb-rt|South Korea
score = 2–2
report=
team2 = fb|China
goals1 =Lee Young-Pyo goal|29Noh Jung-Yoon goal|57
goals2 =Ma Mingyu goal|35Fan Zhiyi goal|65|pen.
stadium =International Olympic Stadium , Tripoli
attendance=
referee=Omer Al-Mehanah (Saudi Arabia)----footballbox|date=2000-10-13
time=19:45 GMT+2
team1 = fb-rt|Kuwait
score = 0–0
report=
team2 = fb|Indonesia
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium =International Olympic Stadium , Tripoli
attendance=
referee=Tajaddin Fares (Syria)----footballbox|date=2000-10-16
time=17:05 GMT+2
team1 = fb-rt|China
score = 4–0
report=
team2 = fb|Indonesia
goals1 = Li Ming goal|1Shen Si goal|7|pen.Yang Chen goal|15Qi Hong goal|89
goals2 =
stadium =International Olympic Stadium , Tripoli
attendance=
referee=Nabil Ayad (Lebanon)----footballbox|date=2000-10-16
time=19:45 GMT+2
team1 = fb-rt|South Korea
score = 0–1
report=
team2 = fb|Kuwait
goals1 =
goals2 = Al-Houwaidi goal|42
stadium =International Olympic Stadium , Tripoli
attendance=
referee=Brian Hall (United States)----footballbox|date=2000-10-19
time=19:35 GMT+2
team1 = fb-rt|China
score = 0–0
report=
team2 = fb|Kuwait
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium =International Olympic Stadium , Tripoli
attendance=
referee=----footballbox|date=2000-10-19
time=19:35 GMT+2
team1 = fb-rt|South Korea
score = 3–0
report=
team2 = fb|Indonesia
goals1 =Lee Dong-Gook goal|30 goal|75 goal|89
goals2 =
stadium =Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium ,Beirut
attendance=
referee=Toru Kamikawa (Japan)Group C
coring players
6 goals
*flagicon|KORLee Dong-Gook 5 goals
*flagicon|JPNAkinori Nishizawa
*flagicon|JPNNaohiro Takahara 3 goals
*flagicon|CHNQi Hong
*flagicon|CHNYang Chen
*flagicon|IRNAli Daei
*flagicon|JPNHiroshi Nanami
*flagicon|KSATalal Al-Meshal
*flagicon|KSAMohammad Al-Shalhoub
*flagicon|KSANawaf Al-Temyat 2 goals
*flagicon|CHN Li Ming
*flagicon|IRNKarim Bagheri
*flagicon|IRNHamid Reza Estili
*flagicon|IRQ|1991Sabah Jadir Khalaf
*flagicon|JPNTomokazu Myojin
*flagicon|KUWJassem Al-Houwaidi
*flagicon|THASakesan Pituratana 1 goal
*flagicon|CHNFan Zhiyi
*flagicon|CHNShen Si
*flagicon|CHNSu Maozhen
*flagicon|IRQ|1991Qathan Ch. Drain
*flagicon|IRQ|1991Abbas Obeid Jassim
*flagicon|IRQ|1991Haydar Mahmoud Majid
*flagicon|JPNHideaki Kitajima
*flagicon|JPNShigeyoshi Mochizuki
*flagicon|JPNHiroaki Morishima
*flagicon|JPNShinji Ono
*flagicon|JPNAtsushi Yanagisawa
*flagicon|KUWBashar Abdullah
*flagicon|LIBAbbas Chahrour
*flagicon|LIBLuis Fernández
*flagicon|LIBMoussa Hojeij
*flagicon|QATMohamed Gholam Al-Balooshi
*flagicon|QATMohammed Salem Al-Enazi
*flagicon|QATAbdul-Nasser Ali Al-Obaidly
*flagicon|KSAMarzouk Mohammed Al-Otaibi
*flagicon|KORKim Sang-Sik
*flagicon|KORLee Young-Pyo
*flagicon|KORNoh Jung-Yoon
*flagicon|UZBMirdjalal Kasimov
*flagicon|UZBSergey Lushan 1 own goal
*flagicon|CHNFan Zhiyi ("for Japan")
*flagicon|JPNRyuzo Morioka ("for Saudi Arabia")Top scoring teams
21 goals
*fb|Japan11 goals
*fb|China
*fb|Saudi Arabia9 goals
*fb|South Korea7 goals
*fb|Iran5 goals
*fb|Iraq|19913 goals
*fb|Kuwait
*fb|Lebanon
*fb|Qatar2 goals
*fb|Thailand
*fb|Uzbekistan0 goal
*fb|Indonesia
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