= AFC Asian Cup 2000

# Date       Thu Oct 12 - Sun Oct 29 2000 (17d)
# Teams      12
# Matches    26


▪ Group A
Thu Oct 12
  Lebanon                0-4 Iran                     @ Beirut, Lebanon
     (Karim Bagheri 19' Hamid Estili 75',87' Ali Daei 90')
  Iraq                   2-0 Thailand                 @ Tripoli, Lebanon
     (Qahtan Chathir 27' Haidar Mahmoud 60')
Sun Oct 15
  Lebanon                2-2 Iraq                     @ Beirut, Lebanon
     (Abbas Chahrour 28' Moussa Hojeij 76';
      Sabah Jeayer 5',22')
  Iran                   1-1 Thailand                 @ Beirut, Lebanon
     (Ali Daei 73';
      Seksan Piturat 12')
Wed Oct 18
  Iran                   1-0 Iraq                     @ Sidon, Lebanon
     (Ali Daei 77')
  Lebanon                1-1 Thailand                 @ Beirut, Lebanon
     (Luís Fernandes 83';
      Seksan Piturat 58')

▪ Group B
Fri Oct 13
  South Korea            2-2 China PR                 @ Tripoli, Lebanon
     (Lee Young-pyo 30' Noh Jung-yoon 58';
      Su Maozhen 36' Fan Zhiyi 66'(p))
  Kuwait                 0-0 Indonesia                @ Tripoli, Lebanon
Mon Oct 16
  South Korea            0-1 Kuwait                   @ Tripoli, Lebanon
     (Jasem Al-Huwaidi 43')
  China PR               4-0 Indonesia                @ Tripoli, Lebanon
     (Li Ming 2' Shen Si 7'(p) Yang Chen 10' Qi Hong 90')
Thu Oct 19
  China PR               0-0 Kuwait                   @ Tripoli, Lebanon
  South Korea            3-0 Indonesia                @ Beirut, Lebanon
     (Lee Dong-gook 30',76',90')

▪ Group C
Sat Oct 14
  Saudi Arabia           1-4 Japan                    @ Sidon, Lebanon
     (Ryuzo Morioka 90'(og);
      Atsushi Yanagisawa 26' Naohiro Takahara 39' Hiroshi Nanami 54' Shinji Ono 90')
  Qatar                  1-1 Uzbekistan               @ Sidon, Lebanon
     (Mohammed Gholam 61';
      Mirjalol Qosimov 73')
Tue Oct 17
  Saudi Arabia           0-0 Qatar                    @ Sidon, Lebanon
  Japan                  8-1 Uzbekistan               @ Sidon, Lebanon
     (Hiroaki Morishima 7' Akinori Nishizawa 14',25',49' Naohiro Takahara 18',20',57' Hideaki Kitajima 79';
      Sergey Lushan 29')
Fri Oct 20
  Japan                  1-1 Qatar                    @ Beirut, Lebanon
     (Akinori Nishizawa 61';
      Abdulnasser Al-Obaidly 22')
  Saudi Arabia           5-0 Uzbekistan               @ Sidon, Lebanon
     (Marzouk Al-Otaibi 18' Mohammad Al-Shalhoub 35',78',86' Nawaf Al-Temyat 88')

▪ Quarter-final
Mon Oct 23
  China PR               3-1 Qatar                    @ Sidon, Lebanon
     (Li Ming 9' Qi Hong 38' Yang Chen 54';
      Mohammed Salem Al-Enazi 65')
  Iran                   1-2 South Korea              @ Tripoli, Lebanon
     (Karim Bagheri 71';
      Kim Sang-sik 90' Lee Dong-gook 99')
Tue Oct 24
  Japan                  4-1 Iraq                     @ Beirut, Lebanon
     (Hiroshi Nanami 8',29' Naohiro Takahara 11' Tomokazu Myojin 62';
      Abbas Obeid 4')
  Kuwait                 2-3 Saudi Arabia             @ Beirut, Lebanon
     (Bashar Abdullah 62' Jasem Al-Huwaidi 68';
      Nawaf Al-Temyat 45',109' Talal Al-Meshal 72')

▪ Semi-final
Thu Oct 26
  China PR               2-3 Japan                    @ Beirut, Lebanon
     (Qi Hong 30' Yang Chen 48';
      Fan Zhiyi 21'(og) Akinori Nishizawa 53' Tomokazu Myojin 61')
  South Korea            1-2 Saudi Arabia             @ Beirut, Lebanon
     (Lee Dong-gook 90';
      Talal Al-Meshal 76',80')

▪ Third place playoff
Sun Oct 29
  China PR               0-1 South Korea              @ Beirut, Lebanon
     (Lee Dong-gook 76')

▪ Final
Sun Oct 29
  Japan                  1-0 Saudi Arabia             @ Beirut, Lebanon
     (Shigeyoshi Mochizuki 30')