ASIAN PLAYER OF THE YEAR
The Asian Football Confederation has awarded this since 1994. Any Asian player can win the award. A list of finalists is announced before the winner is awarded with the prize in a presentation. The results in 2003 are:
| RANK | NAME | NATIONALITY |
| 1 | Mehdi Mahdavikia | Iran |
| FINALISTS | Therdsak Chaiman | Thailand |
| Maksim Shatskikh | Uzbekistan |
Mahdavikia had a good season, helping Hamburg to fourth in the Bundesliga for 2002/03. For the other finalists Chaiman had performed well in the Asian Champion's League for BEC Tero Sasana and Shatskikh had finished top goalscorer in the Ukraine league with Dynamo Kieve. Previous winners of the award are:
| YEAR | NAME | NATIONALITY |
| 1994 | Saeed Al-Owairan | Saudi Arabia |
| 1995 | Masami Ihara | Japan |
| 1996 | Khododad 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 |
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