ING Cup (football)

ING Cup is a pre-Olympics football tournament held at Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong from 30 July to 2 August 2008. Netherlands, Cameroon, U.S.A and Ivory Coast competed for the ING Cup as part of their teams' final preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Background

The ING Cup was hosted by the Hong Kong Football Association and organised by the Asian Football Confederation's (AFC) marketing partner World Sport Group (WSG).

Format

Since Netherlands and U.S.A are in the same group in the Olympic football tournament, they will not face each other in the ING Cup. Therefore, the winner of the ING Cup will be determined by the number of points gained from the matches played.

The point system was different from the regular football scoring system. A win earned 3 points, but a point was awarded for every goal scored. A draw still earned one point, and a loss did not gain or lose points.

Schedule

30 July

2 August

Match Day 1

2008-07-30
18:30 HKT
10:30 UTC
Cote D'Ivoire Ivory Coast 0 0 United States U.S.A.
(Report)
Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong
Attendance: 6,039

2008-07-30
20:45 HKT
12:45 UTC
Netherlands Netherlands 2 0 Cameroon Cameroon
Ryan Babel  87'
Roy Makaay  90'
(Report)
Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong
Attendance: 6,039

Match Day 2

2008-08-02
17:00 HKT
09:00 UTC
CameroonCameroon 1 0 United States U.S.A.
Aurélien Chedjou (Report)
Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong
Attendance: 6,728

Points table

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Netherlands 211031+27
 Cameroon 210112-14
 Ivory Coast 20201103
 United States 20110101

Goalscorers

The goal scorers from the ING Cup are as follows:

# Name Team Goals
1 Netherlands Ryan Babel Netherlands Netherlands 1
Netherlands Roy Makaay Netherlands Netherlands 1
Netherlands Urby Emanuelson Netherlands Netherlands 1
Cameroon Aurélien Chedjou Cameroon Cameroon 1
Ivory Coast Gervais Yao Kouassi Ivory Coast Côte d'Ivoire 1

Live Broadcast

TV Broadcast: TVB Pearl

References

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