Though the country boasts only one title, several players have left a lasting mark on the competition since it was inaugurated in the 2002-03 season.

Are you Son Heung-min or Sam Kerr? Could you be Akram Afif or Omar Khribin? Or is your playing style similar to that of Sardar Azmoun or Wu Lei? Answer the questions and find out.

But when the coronavirus-delayed season finally kicks off on Friday with an enticing encounter against Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, the Australian forward will be paying attention to much more than scoring goals for Lee Lim-saeng’s team.

Elsewhere, the action in the Chinese Taipei Premier League continues, clubs in Vietnam have returned to training, while home workouts remain the essential way to keep fit in many other countries, so join the-AFC.com as we look back at the highlights from on and off the field in the East and ASEAN Zones.

To select the candidates for each position, we have reflected match data from the tournament to draw up a statistics-based approach to present the outstanding performers.

We begin with five candidates for the all-important number one shirt. Review the nominees and then choose your favourite goalkeeper to helm the rearguard for this all-star XI in the poll below.

Dakik featured in nine of Al Ahed’s matches in their run to the final of the 2019 AFC Cup, where they defeated DPR Korea’s 4.25 SC 1-0 to lift their first ever continental title.

From Korea Republic’s triumph in 1956 to Qatar’s success last year, the competition has come to represent Asian football at its finest, the embodiment of all that is good about the game we love so dearly. Of course, much has changed since the AFC Asian Cup’s inaugural event.

Both on and off the pitch, the continental gathering has moved with the times and morphed from its somewhat humble beginnings into a showpiece tournament which is now admired around the world.