2009 Men's Hockey Asia Cup

2009 Men's Hockey Asia Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Malaysia
City	Kuantan
Teams	7
Top three teams
Champions	South Korea (3rd title)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	82 (5.13 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Kim Byung-Hoon (6 goals)
Best player	You Hyo-Sik
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The 2009 Men's Hockey Asia Cup is the eighth tournament to date in Hockey Asia Cup for men. It was held from May 9 to May 16, 2009 in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. Korea qualified into the 2010 World Cup in New Delhi, India, after defeating Pakistan 1–0 in the final.

Background

The tournament was originally awarded to Dubai, United Arab Emirates by the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) in a 2008 meeting. However, it was swapped to Malaysia due to inability of hockey facility to complete in Dubai Sports City on time.^[1] Only eight teams were to compete in this tournament, divided by two pools. However, Sri Lanka withdrew from the tournament few days before the commencement, having replaced Oman before the withdrawal. Although the tournament is reduced to seven teams, the format of the competition remains unchanged.^[2] The tournament is sponsored by AirAsia with MYR500,000.^[3]

Results

All times are Malaysian Standard Time (UTC+8)

Pools

Pool A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
South Korea	7	3	2	1	0	13	3	+10
Malaysia	7	3	2	1	0	12	3	+9
Japan	3	3	1	0	2	8	7	+1
Bangladesh	0	3	0	0	3	1	21	−20

9 May 2009 17:00 South Korea  1 – 1  Malaysia Jin Kyung-Min 53' Mohamad Nor Nabil Fiqri 35' Umpires: Javed Shiekh (IND) Anwaar Hussein (PAK)

9 May 2009 19:00 Japan  5 – 0  Bangladesh Ryuji Furufato 7' Kenta Tanaka 33' Daisuke Suzuki 59' Katsuyoshi Nagasawa 67' Hiroki Sakamoto 69' Umpires: Raghu Prasad (IND) Weng Haiqin (CHN)

11 May 2009 17:00 Japan  2 – 3  South Korea Kei Kawakami 20' Mizawa Takayasu 53' Jin Kyung-Min 12' Lee Nam-Yong 22' 35' Umpires: Raghu Prasad (IND) Anwar Hussain (PAK)

11 May 2009 19:00 Bangladesh  1 – 7  Malaysia Muhammad Zahidul Islam 28' Mohd. Shahrun Nabil Abdullah 4' Azlan Misron 13' Chua Boon Huat 15' Mohd. Amin Rahim 20' Tengku Ahmad Tajuddin Abdul Jalil 39' 43' Ismail Abu 50'

12 May 2009 17:00 South Korea  9 – 0  Bangladesh Lee Nam-Yong 2' Kim Byung-Hoon 16' 37' 49' 67' Nam Hyun-Woo 29' 32' Jin Kyung-Min 60' You Hyo-Sik 68'

12 May 2009 19:00 Malaysia  4 – 1  Japan Tengku Ahmad Tajuddin Abdul Jalil 4' Kevinder Singh Makbul Singh 33' Chua Boon Huat 60' Selvaraju Sandrakasi 67' Ryuji Furusato 41' Umpires: Latifur Rahman (BAN) John Wright (RSA)

Pool B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Pakistan	4	2	1	1	0	4	3	+1
China	2	2	0	2	0	3	3	0
India	1	2	0	1	1	4	5	−1

9 May 2009 15:00 Pakistan  1 – 1  China Akhtar Ali 69' Hu Huiren 61'

10 May 2009 18:00 India  2 – 3  Pakistan Prabhjot Singh 15' Rajpal Singh 45' Abdul Haseem Khan 33' 36' Sohail Abbas 54'

12 May 2009 15:00 China  2 – 2  India Lu Fenghui 45' Yu Yang 59' Sandeep Singh 31' 34'

Fifth to seventh place classification

Seventh place

14 May 2009 09:00 Bangladesh  1 – 11  India Iqbal Nadir Prince Sandeep Singh 10' 13' Hari Prasad 34' Arjun Halappa 39' V. R. Raghunath 43' S. V. Sunil 48' 57' Rajpal Singh 65' Sardara Singh 66' 69' Prabhjot Singh 67'

Fifth and sixth place

15 May 2009 17:00 India  5 – 1  Japan Rajpal Singh 2' Sandeep Singh 21' Tushar Khandekar 64' 69' Prabhjot Singh 66' Hiroki Sakamoto 31'

First to fourth place classification

Semi-finals

14 May 2009 17:00 South Korea  5 – 1  China Kim Byung-Hoon 28' You Hyo-Sik 38' 41' 68' Guo Zhong-Qiang 56' Sun Zhixin 10' Umpires: Javed Shiekh (IND) Simon Taylor (NZL)

14 May 2009 19:30 Pakistan  4 – 2  Malaysia Rehan Butt 18' 63' Akhtar Ali 46' Abdul Haseem Khan 66' Ismail Abu 3' 69' Umpires: John Wright (RSA) Raghu Prasad (IND)

Third and fourth place

16 May 2009 17:00 China  3 – 3 (7 – 6 PSO)  Malaysia Sang Yi 19' 46' Jiang Xishang 66' Ismail Abu 1' Chua Boon Huat 32' Mohamad Nor Nabil Fiqri 64' Umpires: Raghu Prasad (IND) Fernando Gomez (ARG)

		Penalty strokes
	Song Yi Hu Huiren Lu Fenghui Liu Xiantang Sun Tianjun ---- Song Yi Hu Huiren Liu Xiantang Sun Tianjun	7 – 6	Mohd Shukri Abdul Mutalib Nabil Fiqri Mohd Nor Jiwa Mohan Mohd Amin Rahim Kavinder Singh ---- Mohd Amin Rahim Jiwa Mohan Mohd Shukri Abdul Mutalib Nabil Fiqri Mohd Nor

Final

16 May 2009 19:30 South Korea  1 – 0  Pakistan Kim Byung-Hoon 66' Umpires: Javed Sheikh (IND) John Wright (RSA)

2009 Men's Hockey Asia Cup Winners
South Korea Third title

Awards

Topscorer	Best Player	Best Goalkeeper	Man of the match (final)
Kim Byung-Hoon	You Hyo-Sik	Kumar Subramaniam	Hong Eun-Seung

References