2009 Turkmenistan President's Cup

2009 Turkmenistan President’s Cup
Prezident Kubogy 2009
Tournament details
Host country  Turkmenistan
Dates 20 February - 28 February
Teams (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s) (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played 16
Goals scored 33 (2.06 per match)
Top scorer(s) Azat Garajaýew
(10 Different Players)
(2 goals)
Best player Krendelev

The 15th edition of the Turkmenistan President’s Cup was played from February 20 to 28 with the participation of eight clubs.

Three of the eight teams participating in the 15th edition of the tournament competed for the Cup for the first time – the runners-up of Kyrgyzstan League, a participant of ‘the golden match’ in the national championships FC Abdysh-Ata, FC Hemmat from Iran and the youth team from Bahrain.

The bronze-medal winner of Virsliga, the 1996 Turkmenistan President’s Cup finalist Skonto Rīga and the bronze-medal winner of the championships of Armenia FC Gandzasar Kapan competed in the tournament for the second time. The defending Turkmenistan President’s Cup winner HTTU Aşgabat– for the fourth time, a finalist of the 2007 and 2008 international tournaments FC Aşgabat made the third attempt to win the prize.

The teams were split in two groups: Group A – Defending champions Turkmenistan’s HTTU Aşgabat was pooled with Kyrgyzstan runners-up Abdysh-Ata, Latvian giants Skonto and Iranian outfit Hemmat Golestan; Group B – Tajikistan runner-ups Parvoz, Gandzasar from Armenia, Bahrain youth team and Turkmenistan champions Aşgabat were in Group B.

Two best teams in each group qualified to the final stage and competed for the main prize, the runners-up competed for the third place.

The winning team was awarded with US$20,000 while the runners-up team was given US$10,000.

HTTU beat Aşgabat 2-1 in the final of previous year.

Contents

Participating teams

Team Qualifying method
FC Aşgabat Ýokary Liga 2008 winners
HTTU Aşgabat Ýokary Liga 2008 runners-up
FC Abdysh-Ata Kyrgyzstan League 2008 runners-up
Skonto Rīga Virsliga 2008 3rd place
FC Parvoz Tajik League 2008 runners-up
FC Gandzasar Armenian Premier League 2008 3rd place
Hemmat Golestan Iranian regional league team
Bahrain Youth Team

Group stage

All times are local (UTC+5)

Group A

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
1. Skonto Rīga 7 3 2 1 0 8 0 +8
2. HTTU Aşgabat 6 3 2 0 1 6 3 +3
3. FC Abdysh-Ata 2 3 0 2 1 1 2 -1
4. FC Hemmat 1 3 0 1 2 0 10 -10

Results

2009-02-20
15:00
HTTU Aşgabat 4 - 0 FC Hemmat Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
Daýançgylyç Urazow  6'
Begli Nurmyradow  27'
Azat Garajaýew  74'
Pirmyrat Gazakow  76'
2009-02-20
18:00
FC Abdysh-Ata 0 - 0 Skonto Rīga Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat

2009-02-22
15:00
FC Hemmat 0 - 6 Skonto Rīga Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
 8',  42' Igors Kozlovs
 10' Andrejs Perepļotkins
 68' Vladimir Dvalishvili
 85' (pen.) Kristaps Blanks
 90+3' Nikolos Kozasuks
2009-02-22
18:00
HTTU Aşgabat 2 - 1 FC Abdysh-Ata Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
Pirmyrat Gazakow  5'
Berdi Şamyradow  33' (pen.)
 36' Pavel Sidorenko

2009-02-24
15:00
FC Abdysh-Ata 0 - 0 FC Hemmat Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
2009-02-24
18:00
Skonto Rīga 2 - 0 HTTU Aşgabat Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
Andrejs Perepļotkins  45'
Aleksandrs Fertovs  83'

Group B

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
1. FC Aşgabat 7 3 2 1 0 4 1 +3
2. FC Gandzasar 3 3 0 3 0 2 2 0
3. FC Parvoz 2 3 0 2 1 2 3 -1
4. Bahrain Youth Team 2 3 0 2 1 1 3 -2

Results

2009-02-21
14:00
FC Parvoz 0 - 0 FC Gandzasar Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
2009-02-21
18:00
FC Aşgabat 2 - 0 Bahrain Youth Team Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
Arif Mirzoyew  64'
Ruslan Mingazow  72'
 42' Hussein Jalil

2009-02-23
15:00
Bahrain Youth Team 1 - 1 FC Gandzasar Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
Abdullah Naser Mohamed  83'  60'Dragan Galić
2009-02-23
18:00
FC Aşgabat 1 - 0 FC Parvoz Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
Ruslan Mingazow  56'  53' Masud Rahimov

2009-02-25
15:00
FC Parvoz 2 - 2 Bahrain Youth Team Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
Mansurjon Hakimov  57',  90+1'  70' Abdullah Naser Mohamed
 85' Hamad Al Dahil
2009-02-25
18:00
FC Gandzasar 1 - 1 FC Aşgabat Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
Virgil Marşavela  90+3'  65' Döwlet Durdyýew

Knockout stage

  Semi-finals Final
27 February - Olympic Stadium
  Skonto Rīga (p)   1  
 FC Gandzasar  1  
 
28 February - Olympic Stadium
      Skonto Rīga  0
    HTTU Aşgabat  1
Third place
27 February - Olympic Stadium 28 February - Olympic Stadium
  FC Aşgabat  0  FC Gandzasar  1
  HTTU Aşgabat  1     FC Aşgabat  2

Semi finals

2009-02-27
15:00
Skonto Rīga 1 – 1 FC Gandzasar Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
Aleksandrs Fertovs  19'  58' David Khanishvili
  Penalties  
Andrejs Perepļotkins
Aleksandrs Fertovs
Raivis Hščanovičs
Igors Tarasovs
Vladimir Dvalishvili
3 – 2 Virgil Marşavela
Ara E. Khachatryan
David Khanishvili
Teofilo Leandro
Arsen Avetisyan

2009-02-27
18:00
FC Aşgabat 0 - 1 HTTU Aşgabat Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
 89' Berdi Şamyradow

Third Place Play-off

2009-02-28
14:00
FC Gandzasar 1 - 2 FC Aşgabat Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
Da Silva 56'  34' Gahrymanberdi Çoňkaýew
 80' Vyacheslav Krendelev

Final

2009-02-28
17:00
Skonto Rīga 0 - 1 HTTU Aşgabat Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
Attendance: 25.000
Referee: Çarymyrat Gurbanow
 66' Azat Garajaýew

Top scorers

Notes

# Scorer Goals (Pen.) Team
1 Pirmyrat Gazakow 2 HTTU Aşgabat
= Igors Kozlovs 2 Skonto Rīga
= Andrejs Perepļotkins 2 Skonto Rīga
= Ruslan Mingazow 2 FC Aşgabat
= Mansurjon Hakimov 2 FC Parvoz
= Abdullah Naser Mohamed 2 Bahrain Youth Team
= Berdi Şamyradow 2 HTTU Aşgabat
= Aleksandrs Fertovs 2 Skonto Rīga
= Azat Garajaýew 2 HTTU Aşgabat
= Gahrymanberdi Çoňkaýew 2 FC Aşgabat