This article lists the confirmed national football squads for the 2011 AFC Asian Cup tournament held in Qatar

Qatar

Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...

 between 7 January and 29 January 2011. 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 28 December 2010. Replacement of injured players was permitted until 6 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. Player's age is their age on the opening day of the tournament.

Head coach:   Bruno Metsu

Bruno Metsu

Bruno Metsu , also known as Abdul Karim, is a retired French footballer and is the current manager of Qatari side Al-Gharafa...

Head coach:   Vadim Abramov

Vadim Abramov

Vadim Abramov is a former Uzbekistan football player of Armenian descent and the current manager of Uzbekistan since 2010. Abramov was born in 1953 in Baku, Azerbaijan.-2011 Asian Cup:He was the coach of the Uzbekistan team at the 2011 AFC Asian Cup....

Head coach:   Goran Tufegdžić

Goran Tufegdžić

Goran Tufegdžić is a football coach and former player. He is the current coach of Kuwait national football team....

Head coach:   Gao Hongbo

Gao Hongbo

Gao Hongbo is a Chinese retired football player and a current coach which managed China national football team from 2009 to 2011. Appointed in May 2009, Gao became the youngest man to take the helm in 30 years. Gao was a big name in his professional life as a footballer. He was a prolific striker...

Head coach:   Alberto Zaccheroni

Head coach:   Adnan Hamad

Adnan Hamad

Adnan Hamad , is a former Iraqi international soccer player, in the position of striker. He has had many spells as Iraq Coach more recently in 2008...

Head coach:   José Peseiro

José Peseiro

José Vítor dos Santos Peseiro is a football manager, who most notably served as an assistant for Carlos Queiroz during his Real Madrid tenure and as a manager for Sporting until his resignation in October 2005....

 (fired after the first match, replaced by   Nasser Al-Johar

Nasser Al-Johar

-Coaching:Al-Johar coached the Saudi Arabia national football team for both the 2000 AFC Asian Cup and 2002 FIFA World Cup , though he was fired for failing to take the team to a Cup win that year...

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Head coach:   Valeriu Tiţa

Valeriu Tiţa

Valeriu Tiţa is a Romanian football coach. He is the former manager of Syrian club Al-Ittihad Aleppo with whom he won the AFC Cup in 2010 and former manager of the Syrian national team....

Head coach: Cho Kwang-Rae

Cho Kwang-Rae

Cho Kwang-Rae is a South Korean football manager, who managed Anyang LG Cheetahs formerly. Now, he is managing South Korea after succeeding Huh Jung Moo, who led Korea to the round of 16 for the first time in foreign soil in 2010 World Cup in South Africa.- Club career :*1978–1979 POSCO -...

Head coach:   Holger Osieck

Holger Osieck

Holger Osieck is a German football coach and current coach of the Australian national association football team. Prior to the Australian role, he most recently managed J.League club Urawa Red Diamonds, where he won the 2007 AFC Champions League. He served as an assistant coach of West Germany...

Head coach:   Salman Sharida

Salman Sharida

Salman Ahmed Sharida is a football coach and a former Bahraini international footballer.He represented Bahrain during the Asian Games in 1974. He became a coach, and managed the Bahrain national football team for a period of time...

Head coach:   Bob Houghton

Head coach: Jo Tong-Sop

Head coach:   Srečko Katanec

Srecko Katanec

Srečko Katanec is a Slovenian football manager and a former player capped for Yugoslavia and Slovenia. His last position was as the manager of the United Arab Emirates national football team.-Career:...

Head coach:   Wolfgang Sidka

Wolfgang Sidka

Wolfgang Sidka is an association football manager. He led SV Werder Bremen to victory in the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1998. He was head coach of the Iraq national football team, having signed on August 9, 2010 and was sacked on August 2, 2011.-Manager:-References:...

Head coach:   Afshin Ghotbi

Afshin Ghotbi

Afshin Ghotbi is an Iranian-American football coach and current head coach of the Japanese side Shimizu S-Pulse in J-League.-Early life:Though his family were from Shiraz, Mr. Afshin Ghotbi was born in the country's capital Tehran...