2007_AFF_Championship
2007 AFF Championship
International football competition
The 2007 AFF Championship was the 6th edition of the AFF Championship, the football championship of Southeast Asia. The group stage was co-hosted by Singapore and Thailand from 12 to 17 January. Knockout stage with two-leg Home-and-away format was hosted from 23 January to 4 February 2007.
| 2007 Kejohanan Bola Sepak ASEAN 2007 東盟足球錦標賽 2007 ஏசியான் கால்ப கோப்பை 2007 อาเซียนฟุตบอลแชมเปียนชิพ | |
|---|---|
| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Singapore Thailand (for group stage) |
| Dates | 12 January – 4 February |
| Teams | 8 |
| Venue(s) | 4 (in 3 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Singapore (3rd title) |
| Runners-up |  Thailand |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 18 |
| Goals scored | 50 (2.78 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Noh Alam Shah (10 goals) |
| Best player(s) | Noh Alam Shah |
← 2004 2008 → | |
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 Avramović, stretching back to the 2004 AFF Championship, and 17-match unbeaten run since the 4–0 defeat at home to neighbours Malaysia in the same competition on 18 December 2002.
Group stage was co-hosted Thailand and Singapore from 12 to 17 January 2007. The two hosts are the only two teams that have won the championship since its inception in 1996. Both nations with Malaysia and Vietnam were qualified from group stage and would host the knockout stage with Home-and-away format from 23 to 28 January 2007.
The qualifying round for the lower ranked teams in Southeast Asia was held in Bacolod, Philippines from 12 to 20 November 2006. It was played in a single round-robin format with the top two teams advancing to the finals. This was the first time since 1998 where a qualification tournament was held.
Six teams as qualified directly to the finals.
Two teams qualified via the qualification tournament.
Laos (Qualification winners)
Philippines (Qualification runner-up)
Qualified teams
The following eight teams qualified for the tournament.
| Country | Previous best performance |
|---|---|
| Thailand | Winners (1996, 2000, 2002) |
| Singapore | Winners (1998, 2004) |
 Indonesia | Runners-up (2000, 2002, 2004) |
 Malaysia | Runners-up (1996) |
 Myanmar | Fourth-place (2004) |
 Vietnam | Runners-up (1998) |
 Laos | Group stage (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004) |
 Philippines | Group stage (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004) |
| Bangkok |
Hanoi | |
|---|---|---|
| Supachalasai Stadium | Thai Army Sports Stadium | Mỹ Đình National Stadium |
| Capacity: 40,000 | Capacity: 20,000 | Capacity: 40,192 |
| Singapore |
Shah Alam | |
| National Stadium | Jalan Besar Stadium | Shah Alam Stadium |
| Capacity: 55,000 | Capacity: 6,000 | Capacity: 80,372 |
Group stage
| Key to colours in group tables |
|---|
| Top two placed teams advanced to the semi-finals |
Group A
| 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 |
| Malaysia | 4–0 | Philippines |
|---|---|---|
Hairuddin  9', 80' Nizaruddin 16' Del Rosario 69' (o.g.) |
Report |
| Thailand | 4–0 | Philippines |
|---|---|---|
| Sarayuth 15', 28' Pipat 21' Natthapong 84' |
Report |
Group B
| 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 |
| Singapore | 11–0 | Laos |
|---|---|---|
| Ridhuan 10' Alam Shah 11', 24', 61', 72', 76', 88', 90+2' Shahril 47' Khairul 71' Dickson 78' |
Report |
| Vietnam | 9–0 | Laos |
|---|---|---|
| Lê Công Vinh 1', 28', 58' Phan Thanh Bình 29', 73' (pen.), 81', 84' Nguyễn Văn Biển 45', 90' |
Report |
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 (a.e.t.)
| 1 | 1 | 2 (5) | |||||||||
| A2 | Malaysia
| 1 | 1 | 2 (4) | |||||||||
Semi-finals
- First Leg
- Second Leg
| Singapore | 1–1 (a.e.t.) | Malaysia |
|---|---|---|
| Ridhuan 74' |
Report | Eddy 57' |
| Penalties | ||
Sahdan  Alam Shah Mustafić Fazrul Shi J.Y. |
5–4 | Hardi Rezal Samransak Thirumurgan  Khyril |
2–2 on aggregate. Singapore won via a penalty shootout.
Thailand won 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 Thailand, with Khairul Amri scoring the decisive goal in the closing stages of the match, 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 second leg in Bangkok. It could have been worse for Thailand had the match officials seen Thai midfielder Datsakorn Thonglao headbutt Singapore's Khairul Amri to vent his anger after the equaliser.[1]
First leg
Second leg
Singapore won 3–2 on aggregate.
| 2007 AFF Championship |
|---|
 Singapore Third title |
| Most Valuable Player | Golden Boot |
|---|---|
| Noh Alam Shah |
Noh Alam Shah |
- 10 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Own goal
Supardi Nasir (playing against Vietnam)- Anton del Rosario (playing against Malaysia)
This table shows all team performance.
- Hamdan Saaid. "ASEAN Football Federation Championship 2007 - Details". RSSSF. Retrieved 2010-03-02.
- Withers, Andy. "Thailand". Fox Sports.
- ASEAN Football Federation official website