Asian Footballer of the Year

1951 Sheoo Mewalal India
1952 Ho Cheng Yau Hong Kong
1953 Al-Aqqad Syria (Pan Arab Games runner-up)
1954 Kim Ji-sung  South Korea
1955 Mok Chun Wah Taiwan
1956 Neville D'Souza India  
1957 Sung Nak-Woon South Korea
1958 Yiu Cheuk Yin Taiwan
1959 Nahum Stelmach Israel
1960 Cho Yonn-Ok South Korea
1961 Choi Chung-Min South Korea
1962 Pradip Kumar Banerjee India
1963 Inder Singh India
1964 Mordechai Spegler Israel
1965 Aritatsu Og Japan
1966 Pak Doo-Ik North Korea
1967 Danny Borsuk Israel
1968 Kunishige Yamamoto Japan 
1969 Giora Spiegel Israel
1970 Suk Bahadur Burma  
1971 Ali Jabbari Iran 
1972 Ebrahim Ashtiani Iran
1973 Mokhtar Dahari Malaysia  Malaysia Cup e Pestabola Merdeka
1974 Gholam-Hossein Mazloumi Iran
1975 Fathi Kamel Kuwait
1976 Hassan Rowshan Iran
1977 Cha Bum-Kun South Korea
1978 Yasuhiko Okudera Japan
1979 Ali Parvin Iran
1980 Cha Bum-Kun South Korea
1981 Hussain Saeed Iraq
1982 Faisal Al-Dakhil Kuwait
1983 Piyapong Pue-on Thailand
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1984 Majed Abdullah Saudi Arabia
1985 Majed Abdullah Saudi Arabia
1986 Majed Abdullah Saudi Arabia
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 IFFHS

1987 Choi Soon-Ho South Korea
1988 Ahmed Radhi Iraq
1989 Kim Joo-Sung South Korea
1990 Kim Joo-Sung South Korea
1991 Kim Joo-Sung South Korea
1992 Mohammed Al-Deayea Saudi Arabia
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1993 Kazuyoshi Miura Japan
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 AFC

1994 Saeed Al-Owairan Saudi Arabia
1995 Masami Ihara Japan
1996 Khodadad Azizi Iran
1997 Hidetoshi Nakata Japan
1998 Hidetoshi Nakata Japan
1999 Ali Daei Iran
2000 Nawaf Al-Temyat Saudi Arabia
2001 Fan Zhiyi China
2002 Shinji Ono Japan
2003 Mehdi Mahdavikia Iran
2004 Ali Karimi Iran
2005 Hamad Al-Montashari Saudi Arabia
2006 Khalfan Ibrahm Qatar
2007 Yasser Al-Qahtani Saudi Arabia
2008 Server Djeparov Uzbekistan
2009 Yasuhito Endō Japan
2010 Saša Ognenovski Australia
2011 Server Djeparov Uzbekistan
2012 Lee Keun-Ho South Korea

 Best Footballer in Asia by Titan Sports

2013 Keisuke Honda	Japan
2014 Son Heung-min	South Korea
2015 Son Heung-min	South Korea
2016 Shinji Okazaki	Japan
2017 Son Heung-min	South Korea
2018 Son Heung-min	South Korea
2019 Son Heung-min	South Korea
2020 Son Heung-min	South Korea
2021 Son Heung-min	South Korea
2022 Son Heung-min	South Korea
2023 Son Heung-min	South Korea
2024 Akram Afif	        Qatar

2012	 Shinji Kagawa	 Manchester United
2013	 Keisuke Honda	 Japan
2014	 Mile Jedinak	 Crystal Palace
2015	 Son Heung-min	 Tottenham Hotspur
2016	 Shinji Okazaki	 Leicester City
2017	 Omar Kharbin	 Al Hilal
2018	 Makoto Hasebe	 Eintracht Frankfurt
2019	 Son Heung-min	 Tottenham Hotspur
2020	 Son Heung-min	 Tottenham Hotspur
2021	 Son Heung-min	 Tottenham Hotspur
2022	 Kim Min-jae	 Napoli
2023	 Son Heung-min	 Tottenham Hotspur
2024	 Akram Afif	 Al Sadd