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The AFC Annual Awards are awards given by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to the most outstanding performers of the Asian football season. The awards are presented at the end of each year at a special gala.
| AFC Annual Awards | |
|---|---|
| Date | 1994 |
| Location | Various |
| Presented by | Asian Football Confederation |
| First awarded | 1994 |
| Website | www |
Main awards
The following awards have separate articles.
Women's Player of the Year
Continental winners
| Year | Player | Nation | Club | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Sun Wen |  China |
Shanghai SVA |
|
| Not awarded from 2000 to 2002 | ||||
| 2003 | Bai Jie | China |
 Washington Freedom |
|
| 2004 | Homare Sawa |  Japan |
NTV Beleza |
|
| 2005 | Natsuko Hara | Japan |
NTV Beleza |
|
| 2006 | Ma Xiaoxu | China |
Dalian Shide |
|
| 2007 | Ri Kum-suk |  North Korea |
April 25 |
|
| 2008 | Homare Sawa | Japan |
NTV Beleza |
|
| 2009 | Not awarded | |||
| 2010 | Kate Gill |  Australia |
Perth Glory |
|
| 2011 | Aya Miyama | Japan |
Okayama Yunogo Belle |
|
| 2012 | Aya Miyama | Japan |
Okayama Yunogo Belle |
[1] |
| 2013 | Not awarded | |||
| 2014 | Katrina Gorry | Australia |
Kansas City |
[2] |
| 2015 | Aya Miyama | Japan |
Okayama Yunogo Belle |
[3] |
| 2016 | Caitlin Foord | Australia |
Sydney FC |
[4] |
| 2017 | Sam Kerr | Australia |
Perth Glory |
[5] |
| 2018 | Wang Shuang | China |
 Paris Saint-Germain |
|
| 2019 | Saki Kumagai | Japan |
Lyon |
[6] |
| Not awarded from 2020 to 2021 | ||||
| 2022 | Sam Kerr | Australia |
 Chelsea |
[7] |
| 2023 | Kiko Seike | Japan |
Urawa Red Diamonds |
[8] |
International winners
| Year | Player | Nation | Club | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Ellie Carpenter | Australia |
Lyon |
[8] |
Foreign Player of the Year
| Year | Player | Nation | Club | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Rogerinho |  Brazil |
 Al-Kuwait |
[9] |
| 2013 | Muriqui | Brazil |
Guangzhou Evergrande |
[10] |
| 2014 | Asamoah Gyan |  Ghana |
 Al-Ain |
[11] |
| 2015 | Ricardo Goulart | Brazil |
Guangzhou Evergrande |
[12] |
Asian All Stars
The players from 1965 to 1985 were selected for the All-Star Games.
Futsal Player of the Year
| Year | Player | Nation | Club | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Kenichiro Kogure | Japan |
Nagoya Oceans |
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| 2007 | Vahid Shamsaei |  Iran |
Tam Iran Khodro Tehran |
|
| 2008 | Vahid Shamsaei | Iran |
Foolad Mahan |
|
| 2009 | Not awarded | |||
| 2010 | Mohammad Taheri | Iran |
Foolad Mahan |
|
| 2011 | Mohammad Keshavarz | Iran |
Giti Pasand Isfahan |
|
| 2012 | Rafael Henmi | Japan |
Nagoya Oceans |
[23] |
| 2013 | Suphawut Thueanklang |  Thailand |
Chonburi Bluewave |
[24] |
| 2014 | Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh | Iran |
 MFK Norilsk Nickel |
|
| 2015 | Vahid Shamsaei | Iran |
Tasisat Daryaei |
[25] |
| 2016 | Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh | Iran |
Giti Pasand |
[26] |
| 2017 | Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh | Iran |
Giti Pasand |
[27] |
| 2018 | Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh | Iran |
Shenzhen Nanling Tielang |
|
| 2019 | Tomoki Yoshikawa | Japan |
Nagoya Oceans |
[28] |
| Not awarded from 2020 to 2021 | ||||
| 2022 | Moslem Oladghobad | Iran |
 Palma |
[29] |
| 2023 | Saeid Ahmadabbasi | Iran |
Valdepeñas |
[8] |
Coach of the Year
| Year | Coach | Team | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Charnwit Polcheewin |
Thai Farmers Bank |
|
| 1995 |  Park Jong-hwan |
Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma |
|
| 1996 | Ma Yuanan |
China (women) |
|
| 1997 | Cha Bum-kun |
South Korea |
|
| 1998 | Takashi Kuwahara |
Júbilo Iwata |
|
| 1999 |  Mahmoud Rakhimov |
Uzbekistan |
|
| 2000 | Philippe Troussier |
Japan |
|
| 2001 |  Nasser Al-Johar |
Saudi Arabia |
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| 2002 |  Guus Hiddink |
South Korea |
|
| 2003 | Cha Kyung-bok |
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma |
|
| 2004 |  Adnan Hamad |
Iraq |
|
| 2005 | |||
| 2006 | Choe Kwang-sok |
North Korea U20 (women) |
Men's Coach of the Year
| Year | Coach | Team | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Rauf Inileev |
Uzbekistan |
|
| 2008 | Akira Nishino |
Gamba Osaka |
|
| 2009 | Huh Jung-moo |
South Korea |
|
| 2010 | Takeshi Okada |
Japan |
|
| 2011 | Norio Sasaki |
Japan (women) |
|
| 2012 | Kim Ho-kon |
Ulsan Hyundai |
[30] |
| 2013 | Choi Yong-soo |
FC Seoul |
[31] |
| 2014 | Tony Popovic |
Western Sydney Wanderers |
[32] |
| 2015 | Ange Postecoglou |
Australia |
[33] |
| 2016 | Choi Kang-hee |
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors |
[34] |
| 2017 | Takafumi Hori |
Urawa Red Diamonds |
[35] |
| 2018 | Go Oiwa |
Kashima Antlers |
|
| 2019 | Chung Jung-yong |
South Korea U20 |
[36] |
| Not awarded from 2020 to 2021 | |||
| 2022 | Hajime Moriyasu |
Japan |
|
| 2023 | Go Oiwa |
Japan U23 |
[8] |
Women's Coach of the Year
| Year | Coach | Team | Ref, |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 |  Tom Sermanni |
Australia |
|
| 2008 | Kim Kwang-min |
North Korea |
|
| 2009 | |||
| 2010 | Kim Tae-hee |
South Korea U17 |
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| 2011 | Takako Tezuka |
||
| 2012 | Asako Takakura |
[37] | |
| 2013 | Asako Takakura |
Japan U16 |
[38] |
| 2014 | Asako Takakura |
Japan U17 |
[39] |
| 2015 | Asako Takakura |
Japan U20 |
[40] |
| 2016 |  Chan Yuen-ting |
Eastern Sports |
[41] |
| 2017 | Asako Takakura |
Japan |
[42] |
| 2018 | Asako Takakura |
Japan |
|
| 2019 | Asako Takakura |
Japan |
[43] |
| Not awarded from 2020 to 2021 | |||
| 2022 | Shui Qingxia |
China |
|
| 2023 | Park Youn-jeong |
South Korea U20 |
[8] |
Club of the Year
| Year | Club | Ref. |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma |
|
| Not awarded from 1997 to 1999 | ||
| 2000 | Al-Hilal |
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| 2001 | Suwon Samsung Bluewings |
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| 2002 | Pakhtakor Tashkent |
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| 2003 | Al-Ain |
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| 2004 | Al-Ittihad |
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| 2005 | Al-Ittihad |
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| 2006 | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors |
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| 2007 | Urawa Red Diamonds |
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| 2008 | Gamba Osaka |
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| 2009 | Pohang Steelers |
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| 2010 | Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma |
|
| 2011 |  Al-Sadd |
|
| 2012 | Ulsan Hyundai |
[44] |
| 2013 | Guangzhou Evergrande |
[45] |
| 2014 | Western Sydney Wanderers |
[46] |
| 2015 | Guangzhou Evergrande |
[47] |
National Team of the Year
| Year | Men's team | Ref. | Women's team | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Saudi Arabia |
China |
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| Not awarded from 1997 to 1999 | ||||
| 2000 | Japan |
Not awarded | ||
| 2001 | China |
|||
| 2002 | South Korea |
|||
| 2003 |  Iraq |
China |
||
| 2004 | Japan |
China U19 |
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| 2005 | Japan |
Japan U17 |
||
| 2006 | Australia |
North Korea U20 |
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| 2007 | Iraq |
North Korea |
||
| 2008 | Japan |
North Korea |
||
| 2009 | South Korea |
Japan U20 |
||
| 2010 | Japan |
Australia |
||
| 2011 | Japan |
Japan |
||
| 2012 | South Korea U23 |
[48] | Japan |
[49] |
| 2013 | Iraq U20 |
[50] | South Korea U19 |
[51] |
| 2014 |  Palestine |
[52] | Japan U17 |
|
| 2015 | Australia |
[53] | Japan |
[54] |
Futsal Team of the Year
Referee of the Year
| Year | Referee | Ref. | Assistant referee | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Pirom Un-prasert |
 Al Musawi Mohamed Ahmed |
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| 2002 | Toru Kamikawa |
Ali Al Traifi |
||
| 2003 | Masoud Moradi |
Not awarded | ||
| 2004 | Lu Jun |
|||
| 2005 |  Shamsul Maidin |
|||
| 2006 | Shamsul Maidin |
|||
Men's Referee of the Year
| Year | Referee | Ref. | Assistant referee | Ref. | Video assistant referee | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Mark Shield |
Mohamed Hamad Al Ghamdi |
Not awarded | |||
| 2008 | Ravshan Irmatov |
 Tammam Hamdoun |
||||
| 2009 | Ravshan Irmatov |
Matthew Cream |
||||
| 2010 | Ravshan Irmatov |
Toru Sagara |
||||
| 2011 | Ravshan Irmatov |
Abdukhamidullo Rasulov |
||||
| 2012 | Yuichi Nishimura |
[58] | Abdukhamidullo Rasulov |
[59] | ||
| 2013 | Ben Williams |
[60] | Toshiyuki Nagi |
[61] | ||
| 2014 | Ravshan Irmatov |
[62] | Matthew Cream |
|||
| 2015 | Fahad Al-Mirdasi |
[63] | Abdulah Al-Shalwai |
[63] | ||
| Abu Bakar Al-Amri | ||||||
| 2016 | Alireza Faghani |
[64] | Reza Sokhandan |
[64] | ||
| Mohammad Reza Mansouri | ||||||
| 2017 | Bakhtiyor Namazov |
[65] | Not awarded | |||
| 2018 | Alireza Faghani |
Reza Sokhandan |
||||
| Mohammad Reza Mansouri | ||||||
| 2019 | ||||||
| Not awarded from 2020 to 2021 | ||||||
| 2022 | Chris Beath |
Ashley Beecham |
Ammar Al-Jneibi |
|||
| Anton Schetinin | ||||||
| 2023 | Yuichi Hatano Abdullah Al-Salehi Ibrahim Yousif Al Raeesi |
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Women's Referee of the Year
| Year | Referee | Ref. | Assistant referee | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Tammy Ogston |
 Liu Hsiu-mei |
||
| 2008 | Sachiko Baba |
Hisae Yoshizawa |
||
| 2009 | Hong Eun-ah |
Zhang Lingling |
||
| 2010 | Sachiko Yamagishi |
Shiho Ayukai |
||
| 2011 | Sachiko Yamagishi |
Sarah Ho |
||
| 2012 | Sachiko Yamagishi |
[66] | Kim Kyoung-min |
[67] |
| 2013 | Sachiko Yamagishi |
[68] | Allyson Flynn |
[69] |
| 2014 |  Rita Gani |
[70] | Kim Kyoung-min |
|
| 2015 | ||||
| 2016 | Kate Jacewicz |
[64] | Renae Coghill |
[64] |
 Uvena Fernandes |
Fair Play Award
| Year | Nation | Ref. |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Iran |
|
| 2002 | South Korea |
|
| 2003 | South Korea |
|
| 2004 | China |
|
| 2005 | Hong Kong |
|
| 2006 | South Korea |
|
| 2007 | Japan |
|
| South Korea | ||
| 2008 | Japan |
|
 Chinese Taipei | ||
| 2009 | Japan |
|
| 2010 | Japan |
|
| 2011 | South Korea |
|
| 2012 | Uzbekistan |
[71] |
| 2013 | China |
[72] |
| 2014 | South Korea |
[73] |
| 2015 | Japan |
[74] |
Member Association of the Year
| Year | Inspiring MA | Ref. | Developing MA | Ref. | Aspiring MA | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | China |
[76] |  Jordan |
[77] |  Pakistan |
[78] |
| 2014 | Japan |
[79] | North Korea |
[80] |  Kyrgyzstan |
[81] |
| 2015 | Japan |
[82] | Hong Kong |
[83] |  Bangladesh |
[84] |
| 2016 | Japan |
[85] | India |
[86] |  Bhutan |
[87] |
| 2017 | Iran |
[88] |  Vietnam |
[89] |  Afghanistan |
[90] |
| 2018 | Japan |
North Korea |
 Mongolia |
|||
| 2019 | Japan |
[91] | Hong Kong |
[91] |  Guam |
[91] |
President Recognition Award for Grassroots Football
| Year | Nations | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Japan |
[92] | ||
| 2014 | India |
 Philippines |
 Tajikistan |
[93] |
| 2015 | Vietnam |
Japan |
 Brunei |
[94] |
| 2016 | Australia |
Philippines |
[95] | |
Dream Asia Award
Regional Association of the Year
Diamond of Asia
| Year | Name | Ref. |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Abdul Rahman bin Saud Al Saud |
|
| 2005 | Saburō Kawabuchi |
|
| 2006 |  Sepp Blatter |
|
| 2007 |  Lennart Johansson |
|
| 2008 | Ken Naganuma |
|
| 2009 | Farouk Bouzo |
|
| 2010 | Najib Razak |
|
| 2011 | Ahmad Shah of Pahang |
|
| 2012 | Hamzah Abu Samah |
[105] |
| 2013 | Chung Mong-joon |
[106] |
| 2014 | Junji Ogura |
[107] |
| 2015 | Abdullah Khalid Al Dabal |
[54] |
| 2016 |  Issa Hayatou |
[108] |
| 2017 | Yousuf al-Serkal |
[109] |
| 2018 | Zhang Jilong |
|
| 2019 | Abdullah of Pahang |
[97] |
| Not awarded from 2020 to 2021 | ||
| 2022 | Saoud Al-Mohannadi |
|
| 2023 | Gianni Infantino |
[8] |
Match Commissioner of the Year
| Year | Name | Ref. |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Kamarudin Sakhari |
|
| Mary Catherine Rivilla |
||
| 2009 |  Mazen Ramadan |
|
 Kanya Keomany |
||
| 2010 |  Abdul Ghafoor Abdul Hameed |
|
| Emily Lau Cheuk-chi |
Special Recognition Award
| Year | Name | Ref. |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Wild Boars FC |
|
| Futoshi Ikeda |
Corporate Icon Award
Sportswriter of the Year
| Year | Name | Ref. |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Azam Mahmood |
[111] |
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