2007 ASEAN Football Championship

2007 ASEAN Football Championship

Tournament details
Host countries	Singapore  Thailand
Dates	12 January – 4 February
Teams	8
Venue(s)	4 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Singapore (3rd title)
Runners-up	Thailand
Tournament statistics
Matches played	18
Goals scored	52 (2.89 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Noh Alam Shah (10 goals)
Best player	Noh Alam Shah
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The 2007 ASEAN Football Championship (Thai: อาเซียนฟุตบอลแชมเปียนชิพ 2007) was the 6th ASEAN Football Championship, hosted by Singapore and Thailand.

It was renamed from the Tiger Cup, due to the cup's main sponsor, Tiger Beer, not continuing their title sponsorship. This was the last event held at Singapore's National Stadium before its redevelopment.

Singapore set an AFF Cup record of a 15-match unbeaten run under coach Radojko Avramovic, stretching back to the 2004 Tiger Cup, and 17-match unbeaten run since the 4-0 defeat at home to neighbours Malaysia in the same competition on 18 December 2002.

Co-hosts

The 2007 AFF Cup was co-hosted by three time champions, Thailand, and defending champions and eventual winners Singapore. The two hosts are the only two teams that have won the championship since its inception in 1996.

Qualification

The qualifying round for the lower ranked teams in Southeast Asia was held at the Panaad Stadium, in Bacolod City, Philippines from November 12-20 2006. This tournament marks the first time that lower ranked teams were required to participate in the qualifying round (in previous tournaments all teams participated in the final tournament). The teams that competed were host nation (for the qualifying round only) the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, East Timor and Brunei. They were placed in a single group of five with each team playing each other once. The top two teams in the qualifying round, Philippines and Laos, advanced to the finals joined by automatic qualifiers Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam and Indonesia.

The finals was see six top ranked teams as automatic qualifiers joined by 2 teams from the qualification phase.

Qualifiers

Automatic qualifiers

•  Indonesia
•  Malaysia
•  Myanmar
•  Singapore (Co-hosts)
•  Thailand (Co-hosts)
•  Vietnam

From the qualifying tournament

•  Laos (Qualification winners)
•  Philippines (Qualification runner-up)

Squads

Final tournament

Group stage

Group A

• All matches played in Thailand
• Times are Thailand Standard Time (THA) – UTC+7

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Thailand	3	2	1	0	6	1	+5	7
Malaysia	3	1	1	1	4	1	+3	4
Myanmar	3	0	3	0	1	1	0	3
Philippines	3	0	1	2	0	8	−8	1

12 January 2007 16:30	Malaysia	4 – 0	Philippines	Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Abbas Daud (Singapore)
	Hairuddin  9', 80' Nizaruddin  16' Del Rosario  69' (o.g.)	Report

12 January 2007 19:00	Thailand	1 – 1	Myanmar	Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Hajime Matsuo (Japan)
	Nutnum  94'	Report	Si Thu Win  25'

14 January 2007 16:30	Malaysia	0 – 0	Myanmar	Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Vo Tri Minh (Vietnam)
		Report

14 January 2007 19:00	Thailand	4 – 0	Philippines	Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok Attendance: 30,000
	Chaikamdee  15', 28' Thonkanya  21' Samana  84'	Report

16 January 2007 19:00	Myanmar	0 – 0	Philippines	Thai Army Sports Stadium, Bangkok Attendance: 500 Referee: Abbas Daud (Singapore)
		Report

16 January 2007 19:00	Thailand	1 – 0	Malaysia	Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Hajime Matsuo (Japan)
	Chaikamdee  48'	Report

Group B

• All matches played in Singapore
• Times are Singapore Standard Time (SST) – UTC+8

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Singapore	3	1	2	0	13	2	+11	5
Vietnam	3	1	2	0	10	1	+9	5
Indonesia	3	1	2	0	6	4	+2	5
Laos	3	0	0	3	1	23	−22	0

13 January 2007 17:30	Indonesia	3 – 1	Laos	National Stadium, Singapore
	Atep  51', 75' Saktiawan  67'	Report	Xaysongkham  13'

13 January 2007 20:00	Singapore	0 – 0	Vietnam	National Stadium, Singapore Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Chanwalit Sananwai (Thailand)
		Report

15 January 2007 17:30	Indonesia	1 – 1	Vietnam	National Stadium, Singapore Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Mohamed Shahbuddin (Brunei)
	Saktiawan  90'	Report	Supardi  35' (o.g.)

15 January 2007 20:00	Singapore	11 – 0	Laos	National Stadium, Singapore Attendance: 5,224 Referee: U Hla Tint (Myanmar)
	Ridhuan  10' Alam Shah  11', 24', 61', 72', 76', 88', 90+2' Shahril  47' Khairul  71' Dickson  78'	Report

17 January 2007 20:00	Vietnam	9 – 0	Laos	Jalan Besar Stadium, Singapore Attendance: 1,005
	Le Cong Vinh  1', 28', 58' Phan Thanh Binh  29', 73' (pen.), 81', 84' Nguyen Van Bien  45', 90'	Report

17 January 2007 20:00	Singapore	2 – 2	Indonesia	National Stadium, Singapore Attendance: 13,819 Referee: Chanwalit Sananwai (Thailand)
	Alam Shah  10' (pen.) Indra Sahdan  52'	Report	Ilham  27' Zaenal  56'

Knockout stage

Note: Although the knockout stages were two-legged, away goals rule was not applied. If the total aggregate score of both teams after both matches remained the same, extra time would have been played, followed by a penalty shootout if necessary.

	Semifinals							Finals
	A1	Thailand	2	0	2
	B2	Vietnam	0	0	0
								A1	Thailand	1	1	2
								B2	Singapore	2	1	3
	B1	Singapore	1	1	2 (5)
	A2	Malaysia	1	1	2 (4)

Semi-finals

First Leg

23 January 2007 20:00 UTC+8	Malaysia	1 – 1	Singapore	Shah Alam Stadium, Malaysia Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Wan Daxue (China)
	Hardi  57'	Report	Alam Shah  73'

24 January 2007 19:00 UTC+7	Vietnam	0 – 2	Thailand	My Dinh Stadium, Vietnam Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Jimmy Napitupulu (Indonesia)
		Report	Thonglao  28' Thonkanya  81'

Second Leg

27 January 2007 20:00 UTC+8	Singapore	1 – 1 (a.e.t)	Malaysia	National Stadium, Singapore Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Cheung Yim Yau (Hong Kong)
	Ridhuan  74'	Report	Eddy Helmi  57'
		Penalties
	Indra Sahdan Alam Shah Mustafic Fazrul Jiayi	5 – 4	Hardi Rezal Samransak Thirumurgan Khyril

2–2 on aggregate, Singapore win by penalties

28 January 2007 19:00 UTC+7	Thailand	0 – 0	Vietnam	Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Suresh Srinivasan (India)
		Report

Thailand win 2–0 on aggregate

Final

After a group stage with two pools of four the two host nations met in a two game final. In the first leg of the final, a controversial penalty was awarded to Singapore at the 83rd minute of the match, and the Thailand team walked off the pitch as a protest to the referee's decision. The Thailand team returned to the pitch at the 98th minute, and Singapore later won 2-1.

In the second leg of the final, Singapore had a goal controversially chalked off for being offside, but finally drew 1-1 to fellow co-host Thailand, with Khairul Amri scoring the decisive goal in the closing stages of the match, thus giving Singapore their 2nd title in succession, winning with an aggregate score of 3-2, and successfully defending the title. While Thailand can point to the controversial penalty for their defeat in the first leg, they failed to defeat Singapore in the Bangkok second-leg. It could have been worse for Thailand had the match officials seen Thai midfielder Datsakorn Thonglao head-butt Singapore's Khairul Amri to vent his anger after the equaliser.^[1]

First Leg

31 January 2007 20:00 UTC+8	Singapore	2 – 1	Thailand	National Stadium, Singapore Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Chappanimuthu Ravichandran (Malaysia)
	Alam Shah  17' Mustafic  83' (pen.)	Report	Thonkanya  50'

Second Leg

4 February 2007 19:00 UTC+7	Thailand	1 – 1	Singapore	Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Jimmy Napitupulu (Indonesia)
	Thonkanya  81'	Report	Khairul  49'

Singapore win 3–2 on aggregate

Awards

2007 ASEAN Football Champion
Singapore Third title

Most Valuable Player	Golden Boot
Mohd Noh Alam Shah	Mohd Noh Alam Shah

Goalscorers

References

External links

• ASEAN Football Championship 2007 at ASEAN Football Federation official website
• AFF Football Championship 2007 at FutbolPlanet.de
• ASEAN Football Federation Championship 2007 - Details at RSSSF