ASEAN Championship

	AFF Suzuki Cup 2016 final match first leg between Indonesia and Thailand
Tournaments
	1996; 1998; 2000; 2002; 2004/05; 2007; 2008; 2010; 2012; 2014; 2016; 2018;

ASEAN Championship
Founded	1996; 28 years ago
Region	AFF (Southeast Asia)
Number of teams	10 (finals); 11 (eligible to enter qualification)
Current champions	Thailand; (5th title)
Most successful team(s)	Thailand; (5 titles)
Website	affsuzukicup.com
	2018 AFF Championship

The AFF Championship (known formally as the ASEAN Football Federation Championship) is a biennial international association football competition, contested by the men's national teams of the member of ASEAN Football Federation (AFF), determining the sub-continental champion 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. After Asia Pacific Breweries withdrew as title sponsors, the competition was known as the AFF Championship for the 2007 edition. From 2008, Japanese auto-company Suzuki bought the naming rights for the competition, and the competition has therefore been named the AFF Suzuki Cup for sponsorship reasons.

The 11 AFF Championship tournaments have been won by four national teams: Thailand have won five titles, Singapore has four titles, and Malaysia and Vietnam have won one title each.

The most recent championship in 2016, was won by Thailand, who beat Indonesia 3–2 on aggregate in the final.

Organisation

Sports marketing, media and event management firm, Lagardère Sports has been involved in the tournament since the inaugural edition in 1996.

Between 1996 and 2006, Tiger Beer was the title sponsor. Suzuki Motors has been title sponsor of the tournament since 2008.^[1]

Championship results

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host	Champions	Score	Runners-up	Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1996	Singapore	Thailand	1–0	Malaysia	Vietnam	3–2	Indonesia
1998	Vietnam	Singapore	1–0	Vietnam	Indonesia	3–3 aet (5–4) pen	Thailand
2000	Thailand	Thailand	4–1	Indonesia	Malaysia	3–0	Vietnam
2002	Indonesia Singapore	Thailand	2–2 aet (4–2) pen	Indonesia	Vietnam	2–1	Malaysia

From 2004, the knockout stage is played over two legs on a home-and-away format.

Year	Hosts	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Hosts	Champions	Score	Runners-up	Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
2004/05	Malaysia Vietnam	Singapore	3–1 2–1	Indonesia	Malaysia	2–1	Myanmar
2004/05	Malaysia Vietnam	won 5–2 on aggregate			Malaysia	2–1	Myanmar

Since the 2007 edition, there was no third place match. Hence, semi-finalists are listed in alphabetical order. Moreover the away goals rule was initially not applied in the earlier tournaments, but only from the 2010 edition.

Year	Hosts	Final			Semi-finalists
Year	Hosts	Champions	Score	Runners-up	Semi-finalists
2007	Singapore Thailand	Singapore	2–1 1–1	Thailand	Malaysia and Vietnam
2007	Singapore Thailand	won 3–2 on aggregate			Malaysia and Vietnam
2008	Indonesia Thailand	Vietnam	2–1 1–1	Thailand	Indonesia and Singapore
2008	Indonesia Thailand	won 3–2 on aggregate			Indonesia and Singapore
2010	Indonesia Vietnam	Malaysia	3–0 1–2	Indonesia	Philippines and Vietnam
2010	Indonesia Vietnam	won 4–2 on aggregate			Philippines and Vietnam
2012	Malaysia Thailand	Singapore	3–1 0–1	Thailand	Malaysia and Philippines
2012	Malaysia Thailand	won 3–2 on aggregate			Malaysia and Philippines
2014	Singapore Vietnam	Thailand	2–0 2–3	Malaysia	Philippines and Vietnam
2014	Singapore Vietnam	won 4–3 on aggregate			Philippines and Vietnam
2016	Myanmar Philippines	Thailand	1–2 2–0	Indonesia	Myanmar and Vietnam
2016	Myanmar Philippines	won 3–2 on aggregate			Myanmar and Vietnam

Starting with the 2018 edition, a new format would be applied. The nine highest ranked teams would automatically qualify with the 10th and 11th ranked teams playing in a two-legged qualifier. The 10 teams would be split in two groups of five and play a round robin system with each team playing two home and two away fixtures. A draw will be made to determine where the teams play while the format of the knockout round would remain unchanged.^[2]

Year	Final			Semi-finalists
Year	Champions	Score	Runners-up	Semi-finalists
2018
2018

Performances by country

Team	1996	1998	2000	2002	2004/05	2007	2008	2010	2012	2014	2016	2018	Total
Brunei	GS	•	×	×	×	•	•	×	•	•	•	•	1
Cambodia	GS	•	GS	GS	GS	•	GS	•	•	•	GS	GS	7
Indonesia	4th	3rd	2nd	2nd	2nd	GS	SF	2nd	GS	GS	2nd	GS	12
Laos	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	•	GS	11
Malaysia	2nd	GS	3rd	4th	3rd	SF	GS	1st	SF	2nd	GS	q	12
Myanmar	GS	GS	GS	GS	4th	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	SF	GS	12
Philippines	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	•	SF	SF	SF	GS	q	11
Singapore	GS	1st	GS	GS	1st	1st	SF	GS	1st	GS	GS	GS	12
Thailand	1st	4th	1st	1st	GS	2nd	2nd	GS	2nd	1st	1st	q	12
East Timor			×	×	GS	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS	2
Vietnam	3rd	2nd	4th	3rd	GS	SF	1st	SF	GS	SF	SF	q	12

Legend

1st — Champions
2nd — Runners-up
3rd — Third place
4th — Fourth place
SF — Semi-finalist
GS — Group stage

q — Qualified for upcoming tournament
• — Did not qualify
× — Did not participate / Withdrew / Banned
XX — Country did not exist (Timor Leste: was part of Indonesia)
— Hosts

Team	Champions	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Semi-finalists	Total Top 4
Thailand	5 (1996, 2000, 2002, 2014, 2016)	3 (2007, 2008, 2012)	–	1 (1998)	–	9
Singapore	4 (1998, 2004/05, 2007, 2012)	–	–	–	1 (2008)	5
Malaysia	1 (2010)	2 (1996, 2014)	2 (2000, 2004/05)	1 (2002)	2 (2007, 2012)	8
Vietnam	1 (2008)	1 (1998)	2 (1996, 2002)	1 (2000)	4 (2007, 2010, 2014, 2016)	9
Indonesia	–	5 (2000, 2002, 2004/05, 2010, 2016)	1 (1998)	1 (1996)	1 (2008)	8
Philippines	–	–	–	–	3 (2010, 2012, 2014)	3
Myanmar	–	–	–	1 (2004/05)	1 (2016)	2
Total	11	11	5	5	12	44

Awards

Top scorers

Year	Player	Goals
1996	Natipong Sritong-In	7
1998	Myo Hlaing Win	4
2000	Gendut Doni Christiawan	5
2000	Worrawoot Srimaka	5
2002	Bambang Pamungkas	8
2004/05	Ilham Jaya Kesuma	7
2007	Noh Alam Shah	10
2008	Budi Sudarsono	4
	Agu Casmir
	Teerasil Dangda
2010	Safee Sali	5
2012	Teerasil Dangda	5
2014	Safiq Rahim	6
2016	Teerasil Dangda	6

Overall top goalscorers

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Player with 5 or more goals

Rank	Player	Goals
1	Noh Alam Shah	17
2	Teerasil Dangda	15
	Worrawoot Srimaka
	Lê Công Vinh
5	Lê Huỳnh Đức	14
6	Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto	13
7	Bambang Pamungkas	12
7	Kiatisuk Senamuang	12
9	Agu Casmir	11
10	Khairul Amri	10
10	Adisak Kraisorn	10

Rank	Player	Goals
12	Safee Sali	9
	Indra Putra Mahayuddin
	Sarayoot Chaikamdee
15	Ilham Jaya Kesuma	8
Norshahrul Idlan Talaha
17	Boaz Solossa	7
	Zaenal Arif
	Mohd Amri Yahyah
	Myo Hlaing Win
	Netipong Srithong-in
	Nguyễn Hồng Sơn

Rank	Player	Goals
23	Budi Sudarsono	6
	Gendut Doni Christiawan
	K. Sanbagamaran
	Muhamad Khalid Jamlus
	Soe Myat Min
	Indra Sahdan Daud
	Shahril Ishak
30	Therdsak Chaiman	5
	Nguyễn Vũ Phong
	Phan Thanh Bình

Bold denotes players still playing international football.

Most valuable players

Year	Player
1996	Zainal Abidin Hassan
1998	Nguyễn Hồng Sơn
2000	Kiatisuk Senamuang
2002	Therdsak Chaiman
2004/05	Lionel Lewis
2007	Noh Alam Shah
2008	Dương Hồng Sơn
2010	Firman Utina
2012	Shahril Ishak
2014	Chanathip Songkrasin
2016	Chanathip Songkrasin

General statistics

As of 2016

Rank	Team	Part	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Dif	Pts
1	Thailand	11	63	40	14	9	141	55	+86	134
2	Indonesia	11	58	29	12	17	145	83	+62	99
3	Vietnam	11	57	28	15	14	121	68	+53	99
4	Singapore	11	52	26	14	12	95	49	+46	92
5	Malaysia	11	57	25	12	20	101	65	+36	87
6	Myanmar	11	41	12	9	20	63	86	−23	45
7	Philippines	10	39	6	7	26	28	92	−64	25
8	Laos	10	33	2	5	26	26	129	−103	11
9	Cambodia	6	22	2	0	20	19	82	−63	6
10	Brunei	1	4	1	0	3	1	15	−14	3
11	East Timor	1	4	0	0	4	2	18	−16	0

General statistics (Qualification)