2014 AFF Championship

2014 AFF Championship

Tournament details
Host countries	Singapore Vietnam
Dates	22 November – 20 December
Teams	8 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)	8 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Thailand (4th title)
Runners-up	Malaysia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	18
Goals scored	65 (3.61 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Mohd Safiq Rahim (6 goals)
Best player	Chanathip Songkrasin
Fair play award	Vietnam

The 2014 AFF Championship, sponsored by Suzuki and officially known as the 2014 AFF Suzuki Cup,^[1] was the tenth edition of the AFF Championship, an international football competition consisting of national teams of member nations of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF).

Co-hosting rights to the group stages were awarded to Singapore and Vietnam with matches being held on 22 November to 20 December 2014. Meanwhile, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand also hosted knock-out stage matches, as their teams advanced to the semi-finals.^[2] Singapore were the defending champion, but failed to qualify from the group stage.^[3]

Thailand won the tournament 4–3 in a two-legged final against Malaysia,^[4] with manager Kiatisuk Senamuang being the first man to win the competition as a player then manager.^[5]

Hosts

Singapore and Vietnam were declared as co-hosts at the AFF Council on 3 April 2013.^[6] Initially the Philippines and Indonesia were also considered as possible co-hosts.^[7][8]

Venues

Kallang, Singapore		Hanoi, Vietnam
National Stadium	Jalan Besar Stadium	Mỹ Đình National Stadium	Hàng Đẫy Stadium
Capacity: 55,000	Capacity: 8,000	Capacity: 40,192	Capacity: 22,500
Manila Hanoi Bangkok Singapore Shah Alam Kuala Lumpur Location of stadiums of the 2014 AFF Championship. Blue: Finals; Green: Semi-Finals and Group Stage; Yellow: Group Stage.
Bangkok, Thailand	Shah Alam, Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Manila, Philippines
Rajamangala Stadium	Shah Alam Stadium[9]	Bukit Jalil National Stadium[10]	Rizal Memorial Stadium[11]
Capacity: 49,722	Capacity: 80,372	Capacity: 87,411	Capacity: 12,873

Qualification

Qualification was to have been scrapped for this edition of the tournament,^[12] but at the AFF Council Meeting in Naypyidaw, Myanmar in December 2013, it was decided that the qualifying round would be retained, and Laos were awarded the hosting rights.^[13] It was to involve the five lower ranked teams in the region, with games taking place between the dates of 12–20 October 2014.^[2]

In August 2013, Football Federation Australia became a full member of the AFF,^[14] thus making them eligible to compete in the ASEAN Football Championship starting with this edition of the tournament. However, Australia had no plans to compete against lower-ranked teams in AFF Championship and that they would continue to play in future editions of the EAFF East Asian Cup.^[15]

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the tournament.

Country	Previous best performance
Singapore	Winners (1998, 2004, 2007, 2012)
Vietnam	Winners (2008)
Thailand	Winners (1996, 2000, 2002),
Malaysia	Winners (2010)
Indonesia	Runner-up (2000, 2002, 2004, 2010)
Philippines	Semi-finals (2010, 2012)
Myanmar	Fourth place (2004)
Laos	Group stage (1996 to 2012)

Draw

The draw for the tournament was held on 5 August 2014 in Hanoi, Vietnam.^[16]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Vietnam (co-host)  Singapore (co-host)	Malaysia  Philippines	Thailand  Indonesia	Myanmar (Qualification Winners)  Laos (Qualification Runners up)

Squads

Final tournament

Group Stage

Key to colours in group tables
	Top two placed teams advanced to the semi-finals

Tie-breaking criteria

Ranking in each group shall be determine as follows:

1. Greater number of points obtained in all the group matches;
2. Goal difference in all the group matches;
3. Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches.

If two or more teams are equal on the basis on the above three criteria, the place shall be determined as follows:

1. Result of the direct match between the teams concerned;
2. Kicks from the penalty mark if the teams concerned are still on the field of play;
3. Drawing lots by the Organising Committee.

Group A

• All matches to be played in Vietnam.
• Times listed are local (UTC+7)

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Vietnam	3	2	1	0	8	3	+5	7
Philippines	3	2	0	1	9	4	+5	6
Indonesia	3	1	1	1	7	7	0	4
Laos	3	0	0	3	2	12	−10	0

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Group B

• All matches to be played in Singapore.
• Times listed are local (UTC+8)

Due to problems with the pitch at the National Stadium,^[17] the Asean Football Federation have decided for two venues for the Group B matches.^[18]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Thailand	3	3	0	0	7	3	+4	9
Malaysia	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
Singapore	3	1	0	2	6	7	−1	3
Myanmar	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1

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Notes

Knockout stage

	Semifinals							Final
	A2	Philippines	0	0	0
	B1	Thailand	0	3	3
								B1	Thailand	2	2	4
								B2	Malaysia	0	3	3
	B2	Malaysia	1	4	5
	A1	Vietnam	2	2	4

Semi-finals

First Leg

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Second Leg

Thailand won 3–0 on aggregate.

Malaysia won 5–4 on aggregate.

Finals

First Leg

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Second Leg

Thailand won 4–3 on aggregate.

Incidents and controversies

During a group match between Singapore and Malaysia at the Singapore National Stadium, irate Singaporean fans began throwing bottles of water and toilet rolls on the pitch and players gate tunnel at the end of the match due to what was seen as awful decision-making by Oman referee Ahmed Al-Kaf, who awarded the Malaysian side a penalty kick resulting in an advantage for them.^[19]

Other incidents occurred soon during the 1st semi-final between Malaysia and Vietnam in Shah Alam Stadium, where some of the Malaysian fans were seen pointing green laser lights on the field, as recorded on the match video in television camera.^[20] The laser incident is a continuation from Malaysian hooligans, as it also happened during the previous edition of AFF Championship semi-final against Vietnam and in the final against Indonesia in 2010.^[21][22]

At the end of Malaysia 1–2 loss to Vietnam, some Malaysian hooligan fans began attacking Vietnamese fans, resulting in injuries.^[20] The hooligans rushed to assault Vietnamese fans, who tried to flee and had no intention of fighting back. Bottles, smoke bombs and other dangerous objects continued to get thrown even after the Royal Malaysia Police arrived at the scene to quell the scuffles.^[23] This was heavily criticised by the Vietnamese side for the rioting shown by some of the Malaysian supporters. As a result, the website of the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) had been hacked in a denial of service attack, perhaps from Vietnam.^[24] Other Malaysian supporters together with the Malaysia Minister of Youth and Sports, Khairy Jamaluddin condemn the hooligan fans attitude and has offer their apologies to all Vietnamese fans, adding that five of the perpetrators had been arrested.^[25][26][27] Another nine people's was arrested for the same offence between 11–12 December.^[28]

The Philippines team received a death threat before their 2nd semi-final match against Thailand. Sources say the threat has something to do with the scuffle during 1st leg between Filipino defender Amani Aguinaldo and Thai striker Adisak Kraisorn, which lead to Adisak being red-carded and suspended for the 2nd leg.^[29]

In the semi-final between Malaysia and Vietnam, the Vietnam had won the first-leg in Malaysia with a 2–1 score. However, in the second-leg played in Hanoi, Vietnam lost 4–2, thus losing 5–4 on aggregate with Malaysia advancing to the finals. After that defeat, the Vietnam Football Federation launched a probe into the defeat, citing potential match-fixing due to the seemingly apathetic performance of the players compared to the first-leg.^[30] However, the AFF said that the match was not fixed and went on to say that through Swiss-based sports integrity specialist Sportradar, no unusual betting had taken place during the match.^[31]

Statistics

Winner

2014 AFF Championship Champion
Thailand Fourth title

Awards

Most Valuable Player	Top Scorer Award	Fair Play Award
Chanathip Songkrasin	Mohd Safiq Rahim	Vietnam

Discipline

In the final tournament, a player was suspended for the subsequent match in the competition for either getting a red card, or accumulating two yellow cards in two different matches.

Player	Offences	Suspensions
Rizky Pora	in Group A v Philippines	Group A v Laos
Supardi Nasir	in Group A v Laos
Vũ Minh Tuấn	in Group A v Indonesia in Group A v Philippines	Semi-finals (1st Leg) v Malaysia
Mohd Amri Yahyah	in Group B v Myanmar in Group B v Singapore	Semi-finals (1st Leg) v Vietnam
Shukor Adan	in Group B v Thailand in Group B v Singapore	Semi-finals (1st Leg) v Vietnam
Gary Steven Robbat	in Group B v Myanmar	Group B v Thailand
Baihakki Khaizan	in Group B v Thailand in Group B v Myanmar	Group B v Malaysia
Adisak Kraisorn	Semi-finals (1st leg) v Philippines	Semi-finals (2nd leg) v Philippines

*Players who received a card during the final are not included here.

Goalscorers

6 goals

• Mohd Safiq Rahim

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Team statistics

This table will show the ranking of teams throughout the tournament.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Finals
1	Thailand	7	5	1	1	14	6	+8
2	Malaysia	7	3	1	3	13	12	+1
Semifinals
3	Vietnam	5	3	1	1	12	8	+4
4	Philippines	5	2	1	2	9	7	+2
Eliminated in the group stage
5	Indonesia	3	1	1	1	7	7	0
6	Singapore	3	1	0	2	6	7	–1
7	Myanmar	3	0	1	2	2	6	–4
8	Laos	3	0	0	3	2	12	–10

Media coverage

2014 AFF Championship television broadcasters in Southeast Asia
Country	Broadcast network	Television station
Australia	None
Brunei	RTB	RTB1
Cambodia	TVK	TVK
Indonesia	MNC Media	RCTI, MNC TV, Global TV
Laos	LNTV	LNTV1
Malaysia	Media Prima, Astro	TV3, TV9, Astro Arena
Myanmar	MRTV	MRTV
Philippines	ABS-CBN Corporation	ABS-CBN Sports+Action
Singapore	MediaCorp	Okto: Sports on Okto
Thailand	BBTV, TrueVisions	CH7, 7HD True Sport HD,
Timor-Leste	RTTL	TTL
Vietnam	VTV	VTV 2 and VTV 6[32]
2014 AFF Championship international television broadcasters
Asia-wide	Fox International Channels	Fox Sports Asia

References

External links

• Tournament Website The Official Tournament Website
• ASEAN Football Federation The Official Federation Website

ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Championship Tournaments Singapore 1996 Vietnam 1998 Thailand 2000 Indonesia–Singapore 2002 Malaysia–Vietnam 2004 Thailand–Singapore 2007 Indonesia–Thailand 2008 Indonesia–Vietnam 2010 Malaysia–Thailand 2012 Singapore–Vietnam 2014 Myanmar–Philippines 2016 Qualification 1996 Myanmar–Singapore 1998 2000 2002 2004 Philippines 2007 Cambodia 2008 Laos 2010 Myanmar 2012 Laos 2014 Cambodia 2016 Squads 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2007 2008 2010 2012 2014

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