ASEAN Football Championship

ASEAN Football Championship

Founded	1996
Region	AFF (Southeast Asia)
Number of teams	8 (Finals)
Current champions	Malaysia (1st title)
Most successful team	Thailand Singapore (3 titles each)

The ASEAN Football Championship (AFF Championship), is a biennial international association football competition organized by the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF), contested by the national teams of Southeast Asia. It was founded as the Tiger Cup after Singapore-based Asia Pacific Breweries, makers of Tiger Beer, sponsored the competition from its inauguration in 1996 until the 2004 edition. The competition was renamed as the ASEAN Football Championship for the 2007 edition as a result of a termination of the sponsorship deal. From 2008, Japanese auto-company Suzuki bought the naming rights for the competition, and the competition has been renamed The AFF Suzuki Cup.

Since it was inaugurated, the cup has been won three times by both Singapore and Thailand while Vietnam and Malaysia has won the cup once each. Indonesia has never won the competition but managed to be runner-up more than other countries, which is 4 times a runner-up..

Results

Summaries

From 2004, the knockout stage is played over two legs on a home-and-away format with no away goals rule. However, it was put in effect starting with the 2010 edition.

Year	Host		Final				Third Place Match
			Champion	Score	Second Place		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1996 Details	Singapore		Thailand	1–0	Malaysia		Vietnam	3–2	Indonesia
1998 Details	Vietnam		Singapore	1–0	Vietnam		Indonesia	3–3 after extra time (5-4) on penalties	Thailand
2000 Details	Thailand		Thailand	4–1	Indonesia		Malaysia	3–0	Vietnam
2002 Details	Indonesia Singapore		Thailand	2–2 after extra time (4–2) on penalties	Indonesia		Vietnam	2–1	Malaysia
2004 Details	Malaysia Vietnam		Singapore	3–1* *2–1	Indonesia		Malaysia	2–1	Myanmar
			won 5–2 on aggregate

Since the 2007 edition, there was no official third place match. Hence, there were no official third place and fourth place being awarded. Semi-finalists are listed in alphabetical order

Year	Host		Final				Semi-Finals
			Champion	Score	Second Place		Semifinalist	Semifinalist
2007 Details	Singapore Thailand		Singapore	*2–1 1–1*	Thailand		Malaysia	Vietnam
			won 3–2 on aggregate
2008 Details	Indonesia Thailand		Vietnam	2–1* *1–1	Thailand		Indonesia	Singapore
			won 3–2 on aggregate
2010 Details	Indonesia Vietnam		Malaysia	*3–0 1–2*	Indonesia		Philippines	Vietnam
			won 4–2 on aggregate
2012 Details	Malaysia Thailand

* = Host

Team Performances

Team	1996	1998	2000	2002	2004	2007	2008	2010
Brunei	GS	DNQ	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNQ	DNQ	DNP
Cambodia	GS	DNQ	GS	GS	GS	DNQ	GS	DNQ
Indonesia	4th	3rd	2nd	2nd	2nd	GS	SF	2nd
Laos	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS
Malaysia	2nd	GS	3rd	4th	3rd	SF	GS	1st
Myanmar	GS	GS	GS	GS	4th	GS	GS	GS
Philippines	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	DNQ	SF
Singapore	GS	1st	GS	GS	1st	1st	SF	GS
Timor-Leste			DNP	DNP	GS	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
Thailand	1st	4th	1st	1st	GS	2nd	2nd	GS
Vietnam	3rd	2nd	4th	3rd	GS	SF	1st	SF

DNP = Did Not Participate

DNQ = Did Not Qualify

GS = Group Stage

SF = Semi Final (since 2007 there is no official 3rd place match)

TBD = To be determined

Top scorers

Year	Players	Goals
1996	Netipong Srithong-in	7
1998	Myo Hlaing Win	4
2000	Gendut Donny Christiawan Worrawoot Srimaka	5
2002	Bambang Pamungkas	8
2004	Ilham Jaya Kesuma	7
2007	Mohd Noh Alam Shah	10
2008	Budi Sudarsono Agu Casmir Teerasil Dangda	4
2010	Mohd Safee Mohd Sali	5

Overall top goalscorers

After AFF Suzuki Cup 2010, overall top goalscorer are

Players	Goals
Noh Alam Shah	17
Worrawoot Srimaka	15
Lê Huỳnh Đức	14
Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto	13
Bambang Pamungkas Kiatisuk Senamuang	12
Agu Casmir	11

• Bold denotes players still playing international football.

Most Valuable Players

Year	Player
1996	Zainal Abidin Hassan
1998	No Award
2000	Kiatisuk Senamuang
2002	Therdsak Chaiman
2004	Lionel Lewis
2006/7	Noh Alam Shah
2008	Dương Hồng Sơn
2010	Firman Utina

See also

• Football at the Southeast Asian Games
• East Asian Football Championship
• Gulf Cup of Nations
• SAFF Championship
• West Asian Football Federation Championship

External links

• ASEAN Football Federation official website
• AFF Cup at RSSSF.com