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2012 AFC Annual Awards
Date	29 November 2012
Location	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Presented by	Asian Football Confederation
Highlights
AFC Player of the Year	Men's: Lee Keun-ho Women's: Aya Miyama
AFC Coach of the Year	Men's: Kim Ho-kon Women's: Asako Takakura
AFC Youth Player of the Year	Men's: Mohannad Abdul-Raheem Women's: Hanae Shibata
AFC International Player of the Year	Shinji Kagawa
AFC Futsal Player of the Year	Rafael Henmi
Website	www.the-afc.com
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The 2012 AFC Annual Awards was the top football players and coaches of the year in Asia.

Among five candidates, Lee Keun-Ho win the Asian Footballer of the Year award for his role in winning AFC Champions League for his club team. ^[1]

Aya Miyama, Japan women's football team player which won 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was awarded Asian Women Footballer of the Year for the second time in a row.

Hanae Shibata and Mohannad Abdul-Raheem becomes the Youth Player of the Year. Ulsan Hyundai which won 2012 AFC Champions League was named as the Club of the Year. Both Japan and South Korea's Olympic teams was named as women's and men's team was named as National Team of the Year.

Yuichi Nishimura and Sachiko Yamagishi were named as men's referee of the year. Kim Ho-Kon was awarded as the Coach of the Year. Rafael Henmi was awarded as Futsal Player of the Year. Giti Pasand, winner of the 2012 AFC Futsal Club Championship was named as Futsal Club of the Year. Fair Play Award was given to the Uzbekistan national football team. Football Federation of Iran was awarded as the Best Football Federation in Asia.

Winners

Men

Asian Footballer of the Year

Rank	Player	Nationality	Club	Notes
1st	Lee Keun-Ho	South Korea	Ulsan Hyundai
—	Ali Karimi	Iran	Persepolis
—	Zheng Zhi	China	Guangzhou Evergrande

International players

Rank	Player	Nationality	Club	Notes
1st	Shinji Kagawa	Japan	Borussia Dortmund/ Manchester United
—	Mark Schwarzer	Australia	Fulham
—	Yuto Nagatomo	Japan	Inter Milan

Foreign players

Rank	Player	Nationality	Club	Notes
1st	Rogerinho	Brazil	Kuwait SC	[1]
—	Ricardo Oliveira	Brazil	Al Jazira
—	Bruno Correa	Brazil	Sepahan/ Al Nasr

Coach of the year

Rank	Coach	Nationality	Club	Notes
1st	Kim Ho-Kon	South Korea	Ulsan Hyundai

National team of the year

Gender	Team	Nationality	Notes
Men	South Korea national under-23 football team	South Korea
Women	Japan women's national football team	Japan

Club of the year

Rank	Club	Nationality	Notea
1st	Ulsan Hyundai	South Korea

Women

Rank	Player	Nationality	Club	Notes
1st	Aya Miyama	Japan	Okayama Yunogo Belle
—	Yuki Ogimi	Japan	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam
—	Homare Sawa	Japan	INAC Leonessa

Young Player

Gender	Player	Nationality	Club
Men	Mohannad Abdul-Raheem	Iraq	Duhok SC
Women	Hanae Shibata	Japan	Urawa Red Diamonds

Futsal Player

Player	Nationality	Club
Katsutoshi Rafael Henmi	Japan	Nagoya Oceans

See also

• Asian Footballer of the Year
• Asian Young Footballer of the Year

References

External links

• Official page