This article lists the confirmed national football squads for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup tournament jointly held in
Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...
,
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
,
Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...
and
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...
between 7 July and 29 July 2007.
Before announcing their final squad, several teams named a provisional squad of 23 to 30 players, but each country's final squad of 23 players had to be submitted by 16 June 2007. Replacement of injured players was permitted until 24 hours before the team's first Asian Cup game. Players marked (
c) were named as captain for their national squad. Number of caps counts until the start of the tournament, including all pre-tournament friendlies.
Group A
Thailand
Head coach:
Charnwit Polcheewin
Charnwit Polcheewin () is a Thai football coach.
Managerial career
In club level, he brought Thai Farmers Bank to two consecutive AFC Champions League (then Asian Club Championship) titles in 1993–94 and 1994–95. He coached Thailand durin ...
Iraq
Head coach:
Jorvan Vieira
Jorvan Vieira (born 29 September 1953) is a Brazilian-Portuguese football coach and former player who played for Botafogo, Vasco da Gama and Portuguesa in the Brazil Serie A, and current manager.
Career
Playing career
Vieira was born in Duque ...
Australia
Head coach:
Graham Arnold
Graham James Arnold (born 3 August 1963) is an Australian association football, professional football manager and former player who is currently the head coach of the Iraq national football team, Iraq national team. Arnold was first appointed ...
Oman
Head coach:
Gabriel Calderón
Gabriel Humberto Calderón (born 7 February 1960) is an Argentinian professional football manager and former player, who is currently the manager of UAE Pro League side, Khor Fakkan Club.
Calderón played in several teams including Argentine Ra ...
Group B
Vietnam
Head coach:
Alfred Riedl
Alfred Riedl (2 November 1949 – 8 September 2020) was an Austrian football player and manager. As a player he was a striker.
Playing career
Club career
Riedl first played for Austria Wien from 1967 to 1972, before leaving Austria to play f ...
United Arab Emirates
Head coach:
Bruno Metsu
Bruno Jean Cornil Metsu (28 January 1954 – 15 October 2013) was a French footballer and football manager. During his senior playing career from 1973 to 1987, he played for seven different clubs in France.
From 1988 until his death, he was the ...
Japan
Head coach:
Ivica Osim
Ivan Osim (6 May 1941 – 1 May 2022), best known as Ivica Osim, was a Bosnian professional Football player, footballer and Manager (association football), football manager. Widely regarded as one of the greatest Bosnian football managers of all ...
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* Replaced Ryūji Bando who pulled out with injury.
Qatar
Head coach: Džemaludin Mušović
Džemaludin Mušović (born 30 October 1944) is a Bosnian retired football manager and player. He is regarded as one of the most successful Bosnian football managers.
Club career
Mušović joined Hajduk Split from Sarajevo in 1966 for 13 million ...
Group C
Malaysia
Head coach: Norizan Bakar
Norizan bin Bakar (born 27 January 1961 in Kampung Datuk Kaya Man, Perlis) is a former Malaysian association football, football player. He currently the Director of Football for Felcra F.C.
Club career
Norizan played for his home state Perli ...
China
Head coach: Zhu Guanghu
Zhu Guanghu (; born 25 September 1949, in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese football coach and a former player. As a player, he was predominantly remembered for his time at Shanghai Football Team before going into management where he started of ...
Iran
Head coach: Amir Ghalenoei
Ardeshir "Amir" Ghalenoei (; born 22 November 1963) is an Iranian association football, football coach and former player who currently manages Iran national football team. He has been the most successful coach in the Iran Pro League and managed se ...
Uzbekistan
Head coach: Rauf Inileev
Rauf Talgatovich Inileev () (born 8 September 1950) is a association football, football manager (association football), manager and former football player, player.
Playing career
In 1973, he joined FC Pakhtakor, Pakhtakor Tashkent and played fo ...
* Replaced Asror Aliqulov who pulled out with injury.
Group D
Indonesia
Head coach: Ivan Kolev
Bahrain
Head coach: Milan Máčala
Milan Máčala (born 4 August 1943) is a Czech football coach who coached various clubs in the Czech Republic and the Middle East.
He has previously coached in the area with the national teams of Oman, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwai ...
South Korea
Head coach: Pim Verbeek
Peter Tim Dirk "Pim" Verbeek (12 March 1956 – 28 November 2019) was a Dutch football manager who last coached the Oman national football team.
Playing career
As a player, Verbeek was a defender or a midfielder and spent his entire career at S ...
Saudi Arabia
Head coach: Hélio dos Anjos
Hélio César dos Anjos Pinto (born 7 March 1958), known as Hélio dos Anjos, is a Brazilian professional football coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He is the current head coach of Náutico.
After a short playing career, Hé ...
Player representation
;Clubs represented by five or more players
;By club nationality
;By club Federation
;By representatives of domestic league
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:2007 Afc Asian Cup Squads
AFC Asian Cup squads