Summary Lee helped Ulsan Hyundai win the AFC Champions League for the first time this year.
Ulsan Hyundai s Lee Keun-Ho and four others will vie for the Asian player of the year award, the Asian Football Confederation announced Sunday.
Iran s Ali Karimi, the 2004 AFC player of the year, and the Iran national team s Mohsen Bengar are also among those nominated, Asian football s governing body said in a statement.
The other two are Socceroo defender Lucas Neill of Australia and Guangzhou Evergrande s defender Zheng Zhi of China.
Lee, a winger for South Korea s national team, helped Ulsan Hyundai win the AFC Champions League for the first time this year.
The women s player of the year award will go to a Japanese, with all three nominees coming from the Japan national team which won silver in the London Olympics earlier this year.
They are captain Homare Sawa, last year s winner Aya Miyama and Nadeshiko striker Yuki Ogimi. Sawa won the FIFA Women s World Player of the Year award last year.
For Asian international player of the year -- a new category -- nominations went to Fulham s goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer of Australia, Manchester United s Japanese midfielder Shinji Kagawa and Inter Milan s defender Yuto Nagatomo, also from Japan.
For the AFC foreign player of the year award, another new category, three Brazilians have been short-listed.
They are Sepahan s striker Bruno Correa; 2012 ACL top scorer Ricardo Oliveira who plays for Al Jazira; and Rogerio de Assis Silva Coutinho, a midfielder for the 2012 AFC Cup champions Kuwait SC.
The awards will be presented on November 29 in Kuala Lumpur, where the AFC is based. Last year Uzbekistan s midfield maestro Server Djeparov won Asian player of the year.
