= AFC Asian Cup 1988

# Date       Fri Dec 2 - Sun Dec 18 1988 (16d)
# Teams      10
# Matches    24


▪ Group A
Fri Dec 2
  Qatar                  0-2 Iran                     @ Doha, Qatar
     (Karim Bavi 6' Farshad Pious 89')
Sat Dec 3
  United Arab Emirates   0-1 South Korea              @ Doha, Qatar
     (Lee Tae-ho 8'(p))
Sun Dec 4
  Japan                  0-0 Iran                     @ Doha, Qatar
Mon Dec 5
  Qatar                  2-1 United Arab Emirates     @ Doha, Qatar
     (Mansour Muftah 17' Muhsin Musabah 26'(og);
      Hassan Mohamed 35')
Tue Dec 6
  South Korea            2-0 Japan                    @ Doha, Qatar
     (Hwang Sun-hong 13' Kim Joo-sung 35')
Thu Dec 8
  Iran                   1-0 United Arab Emirates     @ Doha, Qatar
     (Farshad Pious 27')
Fri Dec 9
  Qatar                  2-3 South Korea              @ Doha, Qatar
     (Khalid Salman 47'(p),80'(p);
      Chung Hae-won 10',72' Kim Joo-sung 34')
Sat Dec 10
  United Arab Emirates   1-0 Japan                    @ Doha, Qatar
     (Abdulaziz Mohamed 86')
Sun Dec 11
  South Korea            3-0 Iran                     @ Doha, Qatar
     (Byun Byung-joo 26',57' Hwang Sun-hong 42')
Mon Dec 12
  Qatar                  3-0 Japan                    @ Doha, Qatar
     (Adel Khamis 58',82' Mansour Muftah 90')

▪ Group B
Fri Dec 2
  Syria                  0-2 Saudi Arabia             @ Doha, Qatar
     (Saleh Al-Mutlaq 20' Mohamed Al-Suwaiyed Shehrani 82')
Sat Dec 3
  Kuwait                 0-0 Bahrain                  @ Doha, Qatar
Sun Dec 4
  China PR               3-0 Syria                    @ Doha, Qatar
     (Gao Sheng 13' Xie Yuxin 14',19')
Mon Dec 5
  Saudi Arabia           0-0 Kuwait                   @ Doha, Qatar
Tue Dec 6
  Bahrain                0-1 China PR                 @ Doha, Qatar
     (Zhang Xiaowen 78')
Thu Dec 8
  Syria                  1-0 Kuwait                   @ Doha, Qatar
     (Walid Al-Nasser 63')
Fri Dec 9
  Saudi Arabia           1-1 Bahrain                  @ Doha, Qatar
     (Yousuf Jazea'a 78';
      Fayad Mahmoud 44'(p))
Sat Dec 10
  Kuwait                 2-2 China PR                 @ Doha, Qatar
     (Adel Abbas Hussain 60'(p) Mansour Basha Mohamed 62';
      Ma Lin 10',87')
Sun Dec 11
  Bahrain                0-1 Syria                    @ Doha, Qatar
     (Walid Abu Al-Sel 72'(p))
Mon Dec 12
  China PR               0-1 Saudi Arabia             @ Doha, Qatar
     (Fahad Al-Bishi 56')

▪ Semi-final
Wed Dec 14
  South Korea            2-1 China PR                 @ Doha, Qatar
     (Lee Tae-ho 93',103';
      Mai Chao 100')
Thu Dec 15
  Saudi Arabia           1-0 Iran                     @ Doha, Qatar
     (Majed Abdullah 16')

▪ Third place playoff
Sat Dec 17
  China PR               0-0 Iran                     @ Doha, Qatar   [Iran wins on penalties]

▪ Final
Sun Dec 18
  South Korea            0-0 Saudi Arabia             @ Doha, Qatar   [Saudi Arabia wins on penalties]