2007 ASEAN Football Championship

2007 ASEAN Football Championship
Tournament details
Host countries  Singapore
 Thailand
Dates 12 January – 4 February
Teams 8
Venue(s) 4 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions  Singapore (3rd title)
Runners-up  Thailand
Tournament statistics
Matches played 18
Goals scored 52 (2.89 per match)
Top scorer(s) Noh Alam Shah
(10 goals)
Best player Noh Alam Shah
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The 2007 ASEAN Football Championship (Thai: อาเซียนฟุตบอลแชมเปียนชิพ 2007) was the 6th ASEAN Football Championship, hosted by Singapore and Thailand.

It was renamed from the Tiger Cup, due to the cup's main sponsor, Tiger Beer, not continuing their title sponsorship. This was the last event held at Singapore's National Stadium before its redevelopment.

Singapore set an AFF Cup record of a 15-match unbeaten run under coach Radojko Avramovic, stretching back to the 2004 Tiger Cup, and 17-match unbeaten run since the 4-0 defeat at home to neighbours Malaysia in the same competition on 18 December 2002.

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Co-hosts

The 2007 AFF Cup was co-hosted by three time champions, Thailand, and defending champions and eventual winners Singapore. The two hosts are the only two teams that have won the championship since its inception in 1996.

Qualification

Main article: 2007 ASEAN Football Championship qualification

The qualifying round for the lower ranked teams in Southeast Asia was held at the Panaad Stadium, in Bacolod City, Philippines from November 12-20 2006. This tournament marks the first time that lower ranked teams were required to participate in the qualifying round (in previous tournaments all teams participated in the final tournament). The teams that competed were host nation (for the qualifying round only) the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, East Timor and Brunei. They were placed in a single group of five with each team playing each other once. The top two teams in the qualifying round, Philippines and Laos, advanced to the finals joined by automatic qualifiers Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam and Indonesia.

The finals was see six top ranked teams as automatic qualifiers joined by 2 teams from the qualification phase.

Qualifiers

Automatic qualifiers
From the qualifying tournament

Squads

Main article: 2007 ASEAN Football Championship squads

Final tournament

Group stage

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Thailand 3 2 1 0 6 1 +5 7
 Malaysia 3 1 1 1 4 1 +3 4
 Myanmar 3 0 3 0 1 1 0 3
 Philippines 3 0 1 2 0 8 −8 1
12 January 2007
16:30
 Malaysia  4 – 0  Philippines Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Abbas Daud (Singapore)
Hairuddin  9', 80'
Nizaruddin  16'
Del Rosario  69' (o.g.)		 Report
12 January 2007
19:00
 Thailand  1 – 1  Myanmar Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Hajime Matsuo (Japan)
Nutnum  94' Report Si Thu Win  25'
14 January 2007
16:30
 Malaysia  0 – 0  Myanmar Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok
Attendance: 28,000
Referee: Vo Tri Minh (Vietnam)
Report
14 January 2007
19:00
 Thailand  4 – 0  Philippines Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok
Attendance: 30,000
Chaikamdee  15', 28'
Thonkanya  21'
Samana  84'		 Report
16 January 2007
19:00
 Myanmar  0 – 0  Philippines Thai Army Sports Stadium, Bangkok
Attendance: 500
Referee: Abbas Daud (Singapore)
Report
16 January 2007
19:00
 Thailand  1 – 0  Malaysia Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Hajime Matsuo (Japan)
Chaikamdee  48' Report

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Singapore 3 1 2 0 13 2 +11 5
 Vietnam 3 1 2 0 10 1 +9 5
 Indonesia 3 1 2 0 6 4 +2 5
 Laos 3 0 0 3 1 23 −22 0
13 January 2007
17:30
 Indonesia  3 – 1  Laos National Stadium, Singapore
Atep  51', 75'
Saktiawan  67'		 Report Sounthalay  13'
13 January 2007
20:00
 Singapore  0 – 0  Vietnam National Stadium, Singapore
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Chanwalit Sananwai (Thailand)
Report
15 January 2007
17:30
 Indonesia  1 – 1  Vietnam National Stadium, Singapore
Attendance: 4,500
Referee: Mohamed Shahbuddin (Brunei)
Saktiawan  90' Report Supardi  35' (o.g.)
15 January 2007
20:00
 Singapore  11 – 0  Laos National Stadium, Singapore
Attendance: 5,224
Referee: U Hla Tint (Myanmar)
Ridhuan  10'
Alam Shah  11', 24', 61', 72', 76', 88', 90+2'
Shahril  47'
Khairul  71'
Dickson  78'		 Report
17 January 2007
20:00
 Vietnam  9 – 0  Laos Jalan Besar Stadium, Singapore
Attendance: 1,005
Le Cong Vinh  1', 28', 58'
Phan Thanh Binh  29', 73' (pen.), 81', 84'
Nguyen Van Bien  45', 90'		 Report
17 January 2007
20:00
 Singapore  2 – 2  Indonesia National Stadium, Singapore
Attendance: 13,819
Referee: Chanwalit Sananwai (Thailand)
Alam Shah  10' (pen.)
Indra Sahdan  52'		 Report Ilham  27'
Zaenal  56'

Knockout stage

Note: Although the knockout stages were two-legged, away goals rule was not applied. If the total aggregate score of both teams after both matches remained the same, extra time would have been played, followed by a penalty shootout if necessary.

  Semifinals Finals
                         
A1   Thailand 2 0 2  
B2   Vietnam 0 0 0  
    A1   Thailand 1 1 2
  B2   Singapore 2 1 3
B1   Singapore 1 1 2 (5)
A2   Malaysia 1 1 2 (4)  

Semi-finals

First Leg
23 January 2007
20:00 UTC+8
 Malaysia  1 – 1  Singapore Shah Alam Stadium, Malaysia
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Wan Daxue (China)
Hardi  57' Report Alam Shah  73'
24 January 2007
19:00 UTC+7
 Vietnam  0 – 2  Thailand My Dinh Stadium, Vietnam
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Jimmy Napitupulu (Indonesia)
Report Thonglao  28'
Thonkanya  81'
Second Leg
27 January 2007
20:00 UTC+8
 Singapore  1 – 1 (a.e.t)  Malaysia National Stadium, Singapore
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Cheung Yim Yau (Hong Kong)
Ridhuan  74' Report Eddy Helmi  57'
  Penalties  
Indra Sahdan
Alam Shah
Mustafic
Fazrul
Jiayi		 5 – 4 Hardi
Rezal
Samransak
Thirumurgan
Khyril

2–2 on aggregate, Singapore win by penalties

28 January 2007
19:00 UTC+7
 Thailand  0 – 0  Vietnam Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Suresh Srinivasan (India)
Report

Thailand win 2–0 on aggregate

Final

After a group stage with two pools of four the two host nations met in a two game final. In the first leg of the final, a controversial penalty was awarded to Singapore at the 83rd minute of the match, and the Thailand team walked off the pitch as a protest to the referee's decision. The Thailand team returned to the pitch at the 98th minute, and Singapore later won 2-1.

In the second leg of the final, Singapore had a goal controversially chalked off for being offside, but finally drew 1-1 to fellow co-host Thailand, with Khairul Amri scoring the decisive goal in the closing stages of the match, thus giving Singapore their 2nd title in succession, winning with an aggregate score of 3-2, and successfully defending the title. While Thailand can point to the controversial penalty for their defeat in the first leg, they failed to defeat Singapore in the Bangkok second-leg. It could have been worse for Thailand had the match officials seen Thai midfielder Datsakorn Thonglao head-butt Singapore's Khairul Amri to vent his anger after the equaliser.[1]

First Leg
31 January 2007
20:00 UTC+8
 Singapore  2 – 1  Thailand National Stadium, Singapore
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Chappanimuthu Ravichandran (Malaysia)
Alam Shah  17'
Mustafic  83' (pen.)		 Report Thonkanya  50'
Second Leg
4 February 2007
19:00 UTC+7
 Thailand  1 – 1  Singapore Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Jimmy Napitupulu (Indonesia)
Thonkanya  81' Report Khairul  49'

Singapore win 3–2 on aggregate

Awards

 2007 ASEAN Football Champion 

Singapore
Third title
Most Valuable Player Golden Boot
Mohd Noh Alam Shah Mohd Noh Alam Shah

Goalscorers

10 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goal

References

  1. ^ Withers, Andy. "Thailand". Fox Sports. http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/asiancup/team/0,24451,Thailand,00.html. 

External links

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