Asian Footballer of the Year
From Football Legends
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 ---- The Asia-Oceania Soccer Handbook 1984 Majed Abdullah Saudi Arabia 1985 Majed Abdullah Saudi Arabia 1986 Majed Abdullah Saudi Arabia ---- 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 ---- legend 1993 Kazuyoshi Miura Japan ---- 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
