2009 Turkmenistan President's Cup

2009 Turkmenistan President’s Cup
Prezident Kubogy 2009
Tournament details
Host country Turkmenistan
Dates 20 February - 28 February
Teams 8 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s) 1 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played 16
Goals scored 33 (2.06 per match)
Top scorer(s) Turkmenistan Azat Garajaýew
(10 Different Players)
(2 goals)
Best player Turkmenistan 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.

Participating teams

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

Group stage

All times are local (UTC+5)

Group A

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
1. Latvia Skonto Rīga 7321080+8
2. Turkmenistan HTTU Aşgabat 6320163+3
3. Kyrgyzstan FC Abdysh-Ata 2302112-1
4. Iran FC Hemmat 13012010-10

Results

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

2009-02-20
18:00
FC Abdysh-Ata Kyrgyzstan 0 - 0 Latvia Skonto Rīga
Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat

2009-02-22
15:00
FC Hemmat Iran 0 - 6 Latvia Skonto Rīga
 8',  42' Igors Kozlovs
 10' Andrejs Perepļotkins
 68' Vladimir Dvalishvili
 85' (pen.) Kristaps Blanks
 90+3' Nikolos Kozasuks
Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat

2009-02-22
18:00
HTTU Aşgabat Turkmenistan 2 - 1 KyrgyzstanFC Abdysh-Ata
Pirmyrat Gazakow  5'
Berdi Şamyradow  33' (pen.)
 36' Pavel Sidorenko
Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat

2009-02-24
15:00
FC Abdysh-Ata Kyrgyzstan 0 - 0 Iran FC Hemmat
Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat

2009-02-24
18:00
Skonto RīgaLatvia 2 - 0 Turkmenistan HTTU Aşgabat
Andrejs Perepļotkins  45'
Aleksandrs Fertovs  83'
Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat

Group B

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
1. Turkmenistan FC Aşgabat 7321041+3
2. ArmeniaFC Gandzasar 33030220
3. TajikistanFC Parvoz 2302123-1
4. Bahrain Bahrain Youth Team 2302113-2

Results

2009-02-21
14:00
FC Parvoz Tajikistan 0 - 0 Armenia FC Gandzasar
Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat

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

2009-02-23
15:00
Bahrain Youth Team Bahrain 1 - 1 ArmeniaFC Gandzasar
Abdullah Naser Mohamed  83'  60'Dragan Galić
Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat

2009-02-23
18:00
FC Aşgabat Turkmenistan 1 - 0 Tajikistan FC Parvoz
Ruslan Mingazow  56' Yellow cardRed card 53' Masud Rahimov
Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat

2009-02-25
15:00
FC Parvoz Tajikistan 2 - 2 Bahrain Bahrain Youth Team
Mansurjon Hakimov  57',  90+1'  70' Abdullah Naser Mohamed
 85' Hamad Al Dahil
Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat

2009-02-25
18:00
FC GandzasarArmenia 1 - 1 Turkmenistan FC Aşgabat
Virgil Marşavela  90+3'  65' Döwlet Durdyýew
Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat

Knockout stage

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

Semi finals

2009-02-27
15:00
Skonto RīgaLatvia 1 1 ArmeniaFC Gandzasar
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
Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat

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

Third Place Play-off

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

Final

2009-02-28
17:00
Skonto RīgaLatvia 0 - 1 TurkmenistanHTTU Aşgabat
 66' Azat Garajaýew
Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
Attendance: 25.000
Referee: TurkmenistanÇarymyrat Gurbanow

Top scorers

Notes

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