Football At The 2018 Asian Games

One of the host cities, Palembang, hosted the women's event, while the men's matches are played in Bekasi, Cibinong, Cikarang, and Soreang.

Football at the 2018 Asian Games
Venues	Six stadiums across Indonesia
Dates	10 August – 1 September
Teams	25 (Men's) 11 (Women's)
Medalists
South Korea (men)  Japan (women)    Japan (men)  China (women)    United Arab Emirates (men)  South Korea (women)
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The Games' main stadium, the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta did not host the football events. The stadium hosted the ceremonies and the athletics.

All the top 20 nations sent their national football teams to the Asian Games excluding India. A total of 25 men's team and 11 women's team competed at the Asian Games. The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) refused to clear the Indian football team to participate in the tournament due its policy of only sending national teams that were ranked among the top eight at the continental level (India were ranked 14th at the time in Asia). The decision was opposed by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) who described the IOA as lacking "vision and competence", and that the IOA did not consider the recent form and upwards movement of the India national football team in FIFA World Rankings. This was the first time that the Indian football team did not participate in the tournament since the 1994 Asian Games. Several nations also refused to participate most notably including Tajikistan, Maldives, Yemen and Lebanon; the latter two teams will participate in 2019 AFC Asian Cup.

All times are local Indonesia Western Standard Time (UTC+7).

Men's venues

Soreang	Cibinong	Bekasi	Cikarang
Jalak Harupat	Pakansari	Patriot Chandrabhaga	Wibawa Mukti
Capacity: 27,000	Capacity: 30,000	Capacity: 30,000	Capacity: 28,778
Cikarang   Soreang   Bekasi   Cibinong

Women's venues

Palembang
Gelora Sriwijaya	Bumi Sriwijaya
Capacity: 23,000	Capacity: 7,000
Bumi Sriwijaya   Gelora Sriwijaya

Men's tournament

Women's tournament

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	1	1	0	2
2	South Korea	1	0	1	2
3	China	0	1	0	1
4	United Arab Emirates	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	South Korea Song Bum-keun Hwang Hyun-soo Kim Min-jae Kim Jin-ya Jeong Tae-wook Kim Moon-hwan Son Heung-min Lee Jin-hyun Hwang Hee-chan Hwang In-beom Na Sang-ho Lee Si-young Cho Yu-min Jang Yun-ho Lee Seung-mo Hwang Ui-jo Lee Seung-woo Jo Hyeon-woo Kim Geon-ung Kim Jung-min	Japan Ryosuke Kojima Yoichi Naganuma Makoto Okazaki Ko Itakura Daiki Sugioka Ryo Hatsuse Teruki Hara Kaoru Mitoma Reo Hatate Koji Miyoshi Keita Endo Powell Obinna Obi Yuto Iwasaki Taishi Matsumoto Ayase Ueda Kota Watanabe Yuta Kamiya Daizen Maeda Takuma Ominami Yugo Tatsuta	United Arab Emirates Sultan Al-Mantheri Abdullah Hassan Al-Noubi Ahmed Rashed Salem Sultan Ismael Khaled Majed Suroor Ahmed Al-Attas Jassem Yaqoub Khaled Ibrahim Ali Eid Abdulrahman Al-Ameri Abdullah Ghanem Mohammed Al-Attas Hussain Abdullah Mohamed Al-Shamsi Hamad Jassim Mohammed Khalfan Shahin Suroor Zayed Al-Ameri Rashed Mohammed
Women details	Japan Sakiko Ikeda Risa Shimizu Aya Sameshima Shiori Miyake Hikari Takagi Saori Ariyoshi Emi Nakajima Mana Iwabuchi Yuika Sugasawa Yuka Momiki Mina Tanaka Rika Masuya Yu Nakasato Yui Hasegawa Moeno Sakaguchi Rin Sumida Aimi Kunitake Ayaka Yamashita	China Zhao Lina Han Peng Huang Yini Lou Jiahui Wu Haiyan Lin Yuping Wang Shuang Li Jiayue Ren Guixin Li Ying Wang Shanshan Wang Yan Li Tingting Zhao Rong Xiao Yuyi Yang Lina Gu Yasha Li Mengwen Bi Xiaolin Zhang Rui	South Korea Yoon Young-geul Jang Sel-gi Shin Dam-yeong Shim Seo-yeon Hong Hye-ji Lim Seon-joo Lee Min-a Cho So-hyun Jeon Ga-eul Ji So-yun Lee Geum-min Moon Mi-ra Han Chae-rin Choe Yu-ri Jang Chang Son Hwa-yeon Lee Hyun-young Jung Bo-ram Lee Eun-mi Kim Hye-ri

The competition consisted of two stages; a group stage followed by a knockout stage.

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Indonesia (H)	4	3	0	1	11	3	+8	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Palestine	4	2	2	0	5	3	+2	8
3	Hong Kong	4	2	1	1	9	5	+4	7
4	Laos	4	1	0	3	4	8	−4	3
5	Chinese Taipei	4	0	1	3	0	10	−10	1

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uzbekistan	3	3	0	0	10	0	+10	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Bangladesh	3	1	1	1	2	4	−2	4
3	Thailand	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
4	Qatar	3	0	1	2	1	8	−7	1

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	China	3	3	0	0	11	1	+10	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Syria	3	2	0	1	6	5	+1	6
3	United Arab Emirates	3	1	0	2	5	4	+1	3
4	East Timor	3	0	0	3	3	15	−12	0
5	Iraq	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew, replaced by UAE

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Vietnam	3	3	0	0	6	0	+6	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Japan	3	2	0	1	5	1	+4	6
3	Pakistan	3	1	0	2	2	8	−6	3
4	Nepal	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Malaysia	3	2	0	1	7	5	+2	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	South Korea	3	2	0	1	8	2	+6	6
3	Bahrain	3	1	1	1	5	10	−5	4
4	Kyrgyzstan	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1
5	United Arab Emirates	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Redrawn to Group C