Son, Taremi, Kamada, Minamino: Who are Asia's top UEFA Champions League performers?

Most appearances by Asian nationals in the European Champion Clubs' Cup/UEFA Champions League (including qualifying)

69: Maksim Shatskikh (UZB – Dynamo Kyiv)
59: Ji-Sung Park (KOR – PSV Eindhoven, Manchester United)
58: Heung-Min Son (KOR – Bayer Leverkusen, Tottenham Hotspur)
37: Vladimir Maminov (UZB – Lokomotiv Moskva)
33: Shinji Kagawa (JPN – Borussia Dortmund, Manchester United)
31: Atsuto Uchida (JPN – Schalke)
27: Sardar Azmoun (IRN – Rostov, Zenit, Leverkusen)
24: Takumi Minamino (JPN – Salzburg, Liverpool, Monaco)
24: Oleg Pashinin (UZB – Lokomotiv Moskva)
23: Yuto Nagatomo (JPN – Internazionale, Galatasaray, Marseille)

Top-scoring Asian nationals in the European Champion Clubs' Cup/UEFA Champions League (including qualifying)

Uzbekistan's Maksim Shatskikh in action for Dynamo in 2002Getty Images

23: Maksim Shatskikh (UZB – Dynamo Kyiv)
21: Heung-Min Son (KOR – Bayer Leverkusen, Tottenham Hotspur)
8: Sardar Azmoun (IRN – Rostov, Zenit, Leverkusen)
8: Mehdi Taremi (IRN – Porto)
5: Hee-Chan Hwang (KOR – Salzburg, Leipzig)
5: Ji-Sung Park (KOR – PSV Eindhoven, Manchester United)
4: Ali Daei (IRN – Bayern München, Hertha Berlin)
4: Shinji Kagawa (JPN – Borussia Dortmund, Manchester United)
4: Takumi Minamino (JPN – Salzburg, Liverpool, Monaco)
3: Keisuke Honda (JPN – CSKA Moskva)
3: Daichi Kamada (JPN – Eintracht Frankfurt)
3: Vladimir Maminov (UZB – Lokomotiv Moskva)
3: Mehdi Mahdavikia (IRN – Hamburg)

Most appearances by Asian nationals in UEFA club competition*

Vladimir Maminov made 76 UEFA competition appearances©Getty Images

80: Heung-Min Son (KOR – Bayer Leverkusen, Tottenham Hotspur)
76: Vladimir Maminov (UZB – Lokomotiv Moskva)
75: Maksim Shatskikh (UZB – Dynamo Kyiv, Arsenal Kyiv)
70: Ji-Sung Park (KOR – PSV Eindhoven, Manchester United)
56: Shinji Kagawa (JPN – Borussia Dortmund, Manchester United, PAOK)
54: Takumi Minamino (JPN – Salzburg, Liverpool)
52: Makoto Hasebe (JPN – Wolfsburg, Eintracht Frankfurt)
49: Oleg Pashinin (UZB – Lokomotiv Moskva)
47: Odil Akhmedov (UZB – Anji, Krasnodar)
44: Sardar Azmoun (IRN – Rostov, Zenit, Leverkusen)

Top-scoring Asian nationals in UEFA club competition

29: Heung-Min Son (KOR – Bayer Leverkusen, Tottenham Hotspur)
23: Maksim Shatskikh (UZB – Dynamo Kyiv, Arsenal Kyiv)
14: Daichi Kamada (JAP – Eintracht Frankfurt)
13: Sardar Azmoun (IRN – Rubin, Rostov, Zenit, Leverkusen)
11: Hee-Chan Hwang (KOR – Salzburg, Leipzig)
11: Shinji Kagawa (JPN – Borussia Dortmund, Manchester United)
11: Takumi Minamino (JPN – Salzburg, Liverpool)
10: Bum-Kun Cha (KOR – Bayer Leverkusen)
9: Mehdi Taremi (IRN – Porto)
7: Alireza Jahanbakhsh (IRN – AZ Alkmaar, Feyenoord)

Notable firsts

Bum-Kun Cha with the UEFA Cup in 1988©Getty Images

First Asian player to feature in/win a UEFA club competition final
Bum-Kun Cha (KOR, Mönchengladbach 3-3agg Eintracht Frankfurt, Frankfurt win on away goals, 1979/80 UEFA Cup)

First Asian player to feature in a European Champion Clubs' Cup/UEFA Champions League final
Ji-Sung Park (KOR, Barcelona 3-1 Manchester United, 2010/11)

Nation-by-nation: Most appearances by Asian players in UEFA club competition*

China's Wu Lei in action for EspanyolGetty Images

Afghanistan – 8: Agim Meto (Besa, Flamurtari, Laç)
Bahrain – 11: Abdulla Yusuf Helal (Slavia Praha, Liberec)
Bangladesh – NONE
Bhutan – NONE
Brunei – NONE
Cambodia – NONE
China – 13: Wu Lei (Espanyol)
Chinese Taipei – NONE
East Timor – NONE
India – 1= Reginald Pickett (Ipswich Town), Gurpreet Singh Sandhu (Stabæk)
Indonesia – 1: Yulianto Kurniawan (Luzern)
Iran – 44: Sardar Azmoun (Rubin, Rostov, Zenit, Leverkusen)
Iraq – 16: Brwa Nouri (Åtvidaberg, Östersund)

Shinji Kagawa last played in UEFA competition for PAOKGetty Images

Japan – 56: Shinji Kagawa (Borussia Dortmund, Manchester United, PAOK)
Jordan – 25: Musa Suleiman (APOEL)
Korea DPR – 10: Kwang-Ryong Pak (Basel, Vaduz)
Korea Republic – 80: Heung-Min Son (Leverkusen, Tottenham)
Kuwait – NONE
Kyrgyzstan – 16: Gulzhigit Alykulov (Kairat Almaty)
Laos – NONE
Lebanon – 15: Bassel Jradi (Nordsjælland, Strømsgodset, Hajduk Split, Apollon Limassol)
Malaysia – NONE
Maldives – NONE
Mongolia – NONE
Myanmar – NONE
Nepal – NONE
Northern Mariana Islands – NONE

Oman's Ali Al-Habsi with Bolton in 2007ddp images via AFP

Oman – 6: Ali Al-Habsi (Lyn, Bolton Wanderers)
Pakistan – NONE
Philippines – NONE
Qatar – 2: Hussein Yasser (Braga)
Saudi Arabia – NONE
Singapore – 2: Fandi Ahmad (Groningen)
Sri Lanka – NONE
Syria – 2: Mohamed Afash (Ionikos)
Tajikistan – 10: Parvizdzhon Umarbaev (Lokomotiv Plovdiv)
Thailand – NONE
Turkmenistan – 14= Nazar Bayramov (Karvan Evlakh, Neftçi), Ruslan Mingazov (Skonto, Jablonec, Slavia Praha)
United Arab Emirates – 1: Hamid Al Kamali (Valletta)
Uzbekistan – 76: Vladimir Maminov (Lokomotiv Moskva)
Vietnam – NONE
Yemen – NONE

*UEFA club competitions means European Champion Clubs' Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europa Conference League, European/South American Cup, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, UEFA Super Cup and UEFA Intertoto Cup