= AFC Asian Cup 1996

# Date       Wed Dec 4 - Sat Dec 21 1996 (17d)
# Teams      12
# Matches    26


▪ Group A
Wed Dec 4
  United Arab Emirates   1-1 South Korea              @ Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
     (Khamees Saad Mubarak 40';
      Hwang Sun-hong 9')
  Indonesia              2-2 Kuwait                   @ Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
     (Widodo Cahyono Putro 20' Ronny Wabia 40';
      Hani Al Saqer 73' Badr Haji 84'(p))
Sat Dec 7
  United Arab Emirates   3-2 Kuwait                   @ Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
     (Hassan Saeed Ahmed 53' Adnan Al Talyani 55' Saad Bakheet Mubarak 80';
      Jasem Al-Huwaidi 9',44')
  South Korea            4-2 Indonesia                @ Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
     (Kim Do-hoon 5' Hwang Sun-hong 7',15' Ko Jeong-woon 55';
      Ronny Wabia 58' Widodo Cahyono Putro 65')
Tue Dec 10
  Kuwait                 2-0 South Korea              @ Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
     (Jasem Al-Huwaidi 60' Bashar Abdullah 87')
  United Arab Emirates   2-0 Indonesia                @ Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
     (Hassan Saeed Ahmed 15' Adnan Al Talyani 64')

▪ Group B
Thu Dec 5
  Iran                   1-2 Iraq                     @ Dubai, United Arab Emirates
     (Ali Daei 90'(p);
      Hussam Fawzi 37' Khalid Mohammed Sabbar 69')
  Saudi Arabia           6-0 Thailand                 @ Dubai, United Arab Emirates
     (Khalid Al-Temawi 10'(p),29'(p) Fahad Al-Mehallel 15',54' Khaled Massad 18' Sami Al-Jaber 52')
Sun Dec 8
  Thailand               1-3 Iran                     @ Dubai, United Arab Emirates
     (Kiatisuk Senamuang 80';
      Naeim Saadavi 38' Mehrdad Minavand 54' Ali Daei 70')
  Saudi Arabia           1-0 Iraq                     @ Dubai, United Arab Emirates
     (Fahad Al-Mehallel 26')
Wed Dec 11
  Iraq                   4-1 Thailand                 @ Dubai, United Arab Emirates
     (Haidar Mahmoud 17',50' Laith Hussein 23',63';
      Dusit Chalermsan 26')
  Saudi Arabia           0-3 Iran                     @ Dubai, United Arab Emirates
     (Ali Daei 12' Karim Bagheri 37' Khodadad Azizi 47')

▪ Group C
Fri Dec 6
  Japan                  2-1 Syria                    @ Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
     (Hassan Abbas 85'(og) Takuya Takagi 88';
      Nader Joukhadar 8')
  China PR               0-2 Uzbekistan               @ Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
     (Igor Shkvyrin 78' Oleg Shatskikh 90')
Mon Dec 9
  Syria                  0-3 China PR                 @ Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
     (Ma Mingyu 35' Gao Feng 49' Li Bing 73')
  Japan                  4-0 Uzbekistan               @ Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
     (Hiroshi Nanami 7' Kazuyoshi Miura 37' Masakiyo Maezono 86',90')
Thu Dec 12
  Japan                  1-0 China PR                 @ Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
     (Naoki Soma 90')
  Uzbekistan             1-2 Syria                    @ Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
     (Sergey Lebedev 53'(p);
      Nader Joukhadar 48' Ali Cheikh Dib 74')

▪ Quarter-final
Sun Dec 15
  Kuwait                 2-0 Japan                    @ Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
     (Jasem Al-Huwaidi 17',54')
  United Arab Emirates   1-0 Iraq                     @ Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
     (Abdulrahman Ibrahim 103')
Mon Dec 16
  South Korea            2-6 Iran                     @ Dubai, United Arab Emirates
     (Kim Do-hoon 11' Shin Tae-Yong 35';
      Karim Bagheri 31' Khodadad Azizi 52' Ali Daei 66',76',83',89'(p))
  Saudi Arabia           4-3 China PR                 @ Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
     (Yousuf Al-Thunayan 31',65' Sami Al-Jaber 34' Fahad Al-Mehallel 43';
      Zhang Enhua 6',89' Peng Weiguo 16')

▪ Semi-final
Thu Dec 19
  Iran                   0-0 Saudi Arabia             @ Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates   [Saudi Arabia wins on penalties]
  United Arab Emirates   1-0 Kuwait                   @ Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
     (Hassan Saeed Ahmed 69')

▪ Third place playoff
Sat Dec 21
  Iran                   1-1 Kuwait                   @ Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates   [Iran wins on penalties]
     (Ali Daei 40';
      Jasem Al-Huwaidi 15')

▪ Final
Sat Dec 21
  United Arab Emirates   0-0 Saudi Arabia             @ Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates   [Saudi Arabia wins on penalties]