2007 AFC President's Cup

2007 AFC President's Cup
Tournament details
Host country Pakistan
Dates 20–30 September
Teams 8 (from 8 associations)
Venue(s) 2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Kyrgyzstan Dordoi-Dynamo (2nd title)
Runners-up Nepal Mahendra Police Club
Tournament statistics
Matches played 15
Goals scored 66 (4.4 per match)
Top scorer(s) Sri Lanka Channa Ediri Bandanage (6 goals)
Best player Kyrgyzstan Valery Kashuba[1]

The 2007 AFC President's Cup was the third edition of the AFC President's Cup, a competition for football clubs in countries categorized as "emerging nations" by the Asian Football Confederation. The eight teams that competed were split up into two groups and play each other team in their group once. The winner of each group then played the runner up in the other group in the semi-finals, and the winners of the semi-final matches played in the final match to determine the winner. There was no third place match. Games were played in Lahore, Pakistan, between 20 and 30 September 2007.

Qualifying teams

Association Team Qualifying method App Last app.
Bhutan Bhutan Transport United 2006 A-Division champions 3rd 2006
Cambodia Cambodia Khemara Kelia 2006 Cambodian League champions 2nd 2006
Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei Tatung 2006 Intercity Football League champions 2nd 2006
Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan Dordoi-Dynamoth 2006 Kyrgyzstan League champions 3rd 2006
Nepal Nepal Mehandra Police Club 2006–07 Martyr's Memorial A-Division League champions 1st none
Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan Army 2006–07 Pakistan Premier League champions 2nd 2006
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Ratnam 2006–07 Kit Premier League champions 2nd 2006
Tajikistan Tajikistan Regar-TadAZ 2006 Tajik League champions 2nd 2005

Group stage

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Tajikistan Regar TadAZ 3300161+159
Sri Lanka Ratnam Sports Club 311195+44
Bhutan Transport United 3102421−173
Pakistan Pakistan Army 301268−21

20 September 2007
20:15
Pakistan Army Pakistan 3 – 3 Sri Lanka Ratnam Sports Club
Draz  18'
Riaz  45+2'
Shabbir  58' 		Report E.B. Channa  10'
Mohideen  13'
Jayasuriya  43'
Punjab Stadium, Lahore
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Abdulrahman Recho (Syria)

20 September 2007
23:00
Transport United Bhutan 0 – 13 Tajikistan Regar-TadAZ
Report Makhmudov  18', 28', 45+2', 61', 76'
Abdullayev  35',  63'
Rustamov  37', 54'
Umarbaev  66'
Barotov  74'
Kholbekov  80'
Rabimov  87'
Punjab Stadium, Lahore
Attendance: 300
Referee: Sgt Win Cho (Myanmar)

22 September 2007
19:30
Regar-TadAZ Tajikistan 2 – 1 Pakistan Pakistan Army
Abdullayev  65'
Hakimov  68' 		Report Draz  73'
Punjab Stadium, Lahore
Attendance: 800
Referee: Kadhum Auda (Iraq)

22 September 2007
22:15
Ratnam Sports Club Sri Lanka 6 – 1 Bhutan Transport United
Mohideen  13'
E.B. Channa  17', 69', 73', 82', 90' 		Report Gyeltshen  42'
Punjab Stadium, Lahore
Attendance: 300
Referee: Mukhtar Al Yarimi (Yemen)

25 September 2007
12:00
Transport United Bhutan 3 – 2 Pakistan Pakistan Army
Dorji  5', 74'
Jamtsho  27' 		Report Shabbir  45'
Riaz  90+2'
Punjab Stadium, Lahore
Attendance: 200
Referee: Kadhum Auda (Iraq)

25 September 2007
12:00
Regar-TadAZ Tajikistan 1 – 0 Sri Lanka Ratnam Sports Club
Abdullayev  66' Report
Railway Stadium, Lahore
Attendance: 100
Referee: Naser Al-Ghafary (Jordan)

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Kyrgyzstan Dordoi-Dynamo 3300120+129
Nepal Mahendra Police Club 311167−14
Cambodia Khemara 3102510−53
Chinese Taipei Tatung 301206−61

21 September 2007
19:30
Khemara Cambodia 0 – 4 Kyrgyzstan Dordoi-Dynamo
Report Ishenbaev  14', 36'
Krasnov  34' (pen.), 39'
Punjab Stadium, Lahore
Attendance: 500
Referee: Naser Al-Ghafary (Jordan)

21 September 2007
22:15
Mahendra Police Club Nepal 0 – 0 Chinese Taipei Tatung
Report
Punjab Stadium, Lahore
Attendance: 500
Referee: Vo Minh Tri (Vietnam)

23 September 2007
19:30
Tatung Chinese Taipei 0 – 1 Cambodia Khemara
Report Sokumpheak  1'
Punjab Stadium, Lahore
Attendance: 500
Referee: Sgt Win Cho (Myanmar)

23 September 2007
22:15
Dordoi-Dynamo Kyrgyzstan 3 – 0 Nepal Mahendra Police Club
Kudrenko  23'
Krasnov  33', 59' 		Report
Punjab Stadium, Lahore
Attendance: 500
Referee: Vo Minh Tri (Vietnam)

25 September 2007
15:30
Mahendra Police Club Nepal 6 – 4 Cambodia Khemara
Thapa  12', 79'
Budhathoki  16'
Pandey  25'
Rai  30'
Rijal  85' 		Report Loch  23'
Chet  68' (pen.)
Sokumpheak  70', 78'
Punjab Stadium, Lahore
Attendance: 200
Referee: Abdulrahman Recho (Syria)

25 September 2007
15:30
Tatung Chinese Taipei 0 – 5 Kyrgyzstan Dordoi-Dynamo
Report Muladjanov  11'
Kornilov  18', 63', 84', 89'
Railway Stadium, Lahore
Attendance: 300
Referee: Mukhtar Al Yarimi (Yemen)

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

27 September 2007
19:30
Regar-TadAZ Tajikistan 1 – 2 Nepal Mahendra Police Club
Rustamov  26' Report Rai  32'
Budhathoki  90+1'
Punjab Stadium, Lahore
Attendance: 500
Referee: Vo Minh Tri (Vietnam)

28 September 2007
19:30
Dordoi-Dynamo Kyrgyzstan 1 – 1 (a.e.t.) Sri Lanka Ratnam Sports Club
Tetteh  21' Report Jayasuriya  44'
  Penalties  
4 – 3
Punjab Stadium, Lahore
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Abdulrahman Recho (Syria)

Final

30 September 2007
19:30
Mahendra Police Club Nepal 1 – 2 Kyrgyzstan Dordoi-Dynamo
Rai  90+2' (pen.) Report Ishenbaev  8' (pen.)
Kornilov  74'
Punjab Stadium, Lahore
Attendance: 2000
Referee: Kadhum Auda (Iraq)
Mahendra Police Club
Dordoi-Dynamo
MAHENDRA POLICE CLUB:
GK 1Ritesh Thapa
DF 3Rakesh Shrestha
DF 5Dipendra Paudel
DF 16Dipak Paudel 7'
DF 26Rabin Shrestha  68'
MF 7Parbat Pandey
MF 9 Kunjan Shrestha
MF 12 Arjun Rijal 67'
MF 15Anant Thapa
FW10Ramesh Budhathoki (c)  45'
FW 18 Ju Manu Rai  90+3'
Substitutes:
DF6Ganesh Budhathoki  68'
MF25Roshan Karki  46'
Manager:
Nepal Birat Krishna Shrestha
DORDOI-DYNAMO:
GK 16Valery Kashuba
DF 3Talant Samsaliev 64'
DF 4Ruslan Sydykov (c)
DF 20Igor Kudrenko
MF 5Sergey Knyazev  90+3'
MF 7Aibek Bokoev  68'
MF 8 Valery Berezovsky
MF 11 Azamat Ishenbaev  81'
MF 18Vadim Kharchenko
FW15Andrey Krasnov  54'
FW 22 David Tetteh
Substitutes:
FW 9Roman Kornilov  54'
MF 13Davron Askarov  68'
MF 17Marlen Kasymov  81'
Manager:
Kyrgyzstan Boris Podkorytov

OFFICIALS

AFC President's Cup 2007
Kyrgyzstan
Dordoi-Dynamo
Second Title

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Dordoi-Dynamo retain AFC President's Cup after defeating Mahendra 2-1". The-AFC.com. Asian Football Confederation. 2007-10-05. Retrieved 2012-05-08.

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