Football at the 2002 Asian Games

Football
at the 2002 Asian Games
Football ; at the 2002 Asian Games
Venues	Munsu Football Stadium; Masan Stadium; Gudeok Stadium; Yangsan Stadium; Changwon Stadium; Asiad Main Stadium
Dates	27 September – 13 October
Competitors	573 from 25 nations
Medalists
	Iran (men); North Korea (women)
	Japan (men); China (women)
	South Korea (men); Japan (women)
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Football at the 2002 Asian Games was held in Busan, Changwon, Yangsan and Ulsan, South Korea from 27 September to 13 October 2002.

Age limit for the men teams is under-23, same as the age limit in football competitions in Olympic Games, while three overage players are allowed among each squad.

Schedule

●	Round	●	Last round	P	Preliminary round	¼	Quarterfinals	½	Semifinals	F	Finals

Event↓/Date →	27th Fri	28th Sat	29th Sun	30th Mon	1st Tue	2nd Wed	3rd Thu	4th Fri	5th Sat	6th Sun	7th Mon	8th Tue	9th Wed	10th Thu	11th Fri	12th Sat	13th Sun
Men	P	P		P	P		P		P			¼		½			F
Women						●		●			●		●		●

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Iran Ebrahim Mirzapour Mehdi Amirabadi Yahya Golmohammadi Saeid Lotfi Javad Nekounam Iman Mobali Javad Kazemian Ali Daei Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht Mehdi Rahmati Hossein Kaebi Moharram Navidkia Abolfazl Hajizadeh Mohsen Bayatinia Ali Badavi Siavash Akbarpour Jalal Kameli Mofrad Mohammad Nosrati Hamid Azizzadeh Ershad Yousefi	Japan Yosuke Fujigaya Teruyuki Moniwa Shohei Ikeda Daisuke Nasu Yuichi Komano Yuki Abe Yoshito Okubo Kazuyuki Morisaki Daisuke Matsui Ryoichi Maeda Tatsuya Tanaka Yuichi Nemoto Keita Suzuki Naohiro Ishikawa Hikaru Mita Takuya Nozawa Hayuma Tanaka Takaya Kurokawa Satoshi Nakayama Takeshi Aoki	South Korea Lee Woon-jae Cho Byung-kuk Hyun Young-min Park Yo-seb Kim Young-chul Park Yong-ho Byun Sung-hwan Kim Do-heon Lee Chun-soo Park Ji-sung Choi Tae-uk Lee Young-pyo Kim Dong-jin Park Kyu-seon Cho Sung-hwan Kim Yong-dae Choi Sung-kuk Kim Eun-jung Park Dong-hyuk Lee Dong-gook
Women details	North Korea Ri Jong-hui Yun In-sil Jo Song-ok Sin Kum-ok Ra Mi-ae Ri Kum-suk Pak Kum-chun Ho Sun-hui Jin Pyol-hui Yun Yong-hui Jang Ok-gyong Song Jong-sun O Kum-ran Ri Un-gyong Yang Kyong-hui Chon Kyong-hwa Ri Hyang-ok Kim Un-ok	China Xiao Zhen Sun Rui Li Jie Gao Hongxia Fan Yunjie Zhao Lihong Pu Wei Bai Lili Bai Jie Sun Wen Xie Caixia Zhou Xiaoxia Meng Jun Bi Yan Ren Liping Liu Yali Pan Lina Zhao Yan	Japan Nozomi Yamago Yuka Miyazaki Yoshie Kasajima Yasuyo Yamagishi Tomoe Sakai Yumi Obe Yayoi Kobayashi Mai Nakachi Tomomi Miyamoto Homare Sawa Mio Otani Mai Aizawa Kanako Ito Mito Isaka Naoko Kawakami Miyuki Yanagita Karina Maruyama Miho Fukumoto

Medal table

Draw

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

* Mongolia and Jordan withdrew from the competition and were replaced by Afghanistan and Palestine. Tajikistan was suspended by FIFA and was replaced by North Korea.

Squads

Final standing

Men

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	Iran	6	4	2	0	16	2	+14	14
	Japan	6	5	0	1	13	4	+9	15
	South Korea	6	5	1	0	17	2	+15	16
4	Thailand	6	4	0	2	10	7	+3	12
5	China	4	3	0	1	9	1	+8	9
5	Kuwait	4	3	0	1	9	1	+8	9
7	Bahrain	4	2	0	2	10	6	+4	6
8	North Korea	4	2	0	2	7	4	+3	6
9	Oman	3	2	0	1	8	5	+3	6
10	India	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6
11	Qatar	3	1	2	0	13	2	+11	5
12	Lebanon	3	1	1	1	12	3	+9	4
13	United Arab Emirates	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4
14	Hong Kong	3	1	0	2	4	3	+1	3
15	Yemen	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	3
16	Uzbekistan	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
17	Malaysia	3	1	0	2	3	6	−3	3
18	Turkmenistan	3	1	0	2	4	8	−4	3
19	Vietnam	3	0	1	2	0	5	−5	1
20	Bangladesh	3	0	0	3	1	9	−8	0
21	Palestine	3	0	0	3	0	9	−9	0
22	Maldives	3	0	0	3	1	12	−11	0
23	Pakistan	3	0	0	3	0	14	−14	0
24	Afghanistan	3	0	0	3	0	32	−32	0