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2007 AFC Asian Cup
Piala Asia 2007 (Indonesian, Malaysian)
เอเชียนคัพ 2007 (Thai)
Cúp bóng đá châu Á 2007 (Vietnamese)
Tournament details
Host countriesIndonesia
Malaysia
Thailand
Vietnam
Dates7–29 July
Teams16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)8 (in 7 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Iraq (1st title)
Runners-up Saudi Arabia
Third place South Korea
Fourth place Japan
Tournament statistics
Matches played32
Goals scored84 (2.63 per match)
Attendance724,222 (22,632 per match)
Top scorer(s)Iraq Younis Mahmoud
Japan Naohiro Takahara
Saudi Arabia Yasser Al-Qahtani
(4 goals each)
Best player(s)Iraq Younis Mahmoud
Best goalkeeperIraq Noor Sabri
Fair play award Japan
← 2004
2011 →

The 2007 AFC Asian Cup was the 14th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The finals were held from 7 to 29 July 2007. For the first time in its history, the competition was co-hosted by four nations: Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam; it was the first time in football history more than two countries joined host of a major continental competition and the only one to had ever taken place until the UEFA Euro 2020.

Iraq won the continental title for the first time after defeating three-time champion Saudi Arabia 1–0 in the final. As the winner, Iraq represented the AFC in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup.

Before 2007 and every four years, Asia often held its continental tournament from 1956 until China in 2004. With the Summer Olympic Games and the European Football Championship also held in the same year as the Asian Cup, the AFC changed their tradition. From 2007, AFC decided to hold its continental tournament a year earlier, and every four years henceforth from that date.

An estimated worldwide television audience of 650 million people tuned in to watch the 2007 AFC Asian Cup.[1]

Australia participated for the first time since moving to the AFC from the OFC. Australia also happened to be the tournament's first nation aside from the co-hosts to qualify for the 2007 Asian Cup.

Host selection

The then-AFC President Mohammed Bin Hammam proposed and presented a move to have four host nations for the 2007 Asian Cup. However, he later regretted this decision and called it his "mistake", citing the financial and logistic difficulties in organising an event across four countries. He said that "It is proving very difficult for [the executive committee as they] have to have four organising committees, four media centres and there are also financial considerations." He also revealed that "[he would] definitely [not do] it [again]", if he had the choice.

In June 2005, the AFC warned Thailand that it needed to improve its facilities before 2007, otherwise it would be dropped, possibly being replaced with Singapore. On 12 August of the same year, the AFC confirmed that Thailand would be a co-host of the 2007 Asian Cup.[2] However, in October 2006, Thailand was again warned to improve its facilities in 90 days.[3]

Venues

Indonesia Jakarta Indonesia Palembang Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Shah Alam
Gelora Bung Karno Stadium Gelora Sriwijaya Stadium Bukit Jalil National Stadium Shah Alam Stadium
Capacity: 88,083 Capacity: 30,000 Capacity: 87,411 Capacity: 80,372
Indonesia
Malaysia
Thailand Bangkok Thailand
Vietnam
Vietnam Hanoi
Rajamangala Stadium Mỹ Đình National Stadium
Capacity: 49,722 Capacity: 40,192
Thailand Bangkok Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City
Supachalasai Stadium Army Stadium
Capacity: 19,793 Capacity: 25,000

Qualification

Main article: 2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification

The qualification ran from 22 February 2006 to 15 November 2006. For the first time, the defending champions (in this tournament, Japan) did not get automatic qualification. Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam automatically qualified as co-hosts. Twenty-four teams were split into six groups of four to compete for the 12 remaining spots in the final tournament.

Team Qualified as Date qualification was secured Previous appearances in tournament1, 2
 Indonesia 00Co-hosts 7 August 2004 3 (1996, 2000, 2004)
 Malaysia 2 (1976, 1980)
 Thailand 5 (1972, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004)
 Vietnam3 2 (19564, 19604)
 Australia Group D winner 16 August 2006 0 (debut)
 Qatar Group F winner 6 September 2006 6 (1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, 2004)
 Japan Group A winner 6 September 2006 5 (1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004)
 Saudi Arabia Group A runner-up 6 September 2006 6 (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004)
 Iran Group B winner 11 October 2006 10 (1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004)
 South Korea Group B runner-up 11 October 2006 10 (1956, 1960, 1964, 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004)
 United Arab Emirates Group C winner 11 October 2006 6 (1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2004)
 Oman Group C runner-up 11 October 2006 1 (2004)
 Iraq Group E winner 11 October 2006 5 (1972, 1976, 1996, 2000, 2004)
 China Group E runner-up 11 October 2006 8 (1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004)
 Bahrain Group D runner-up 15 November 2006 2 (1988, 2004)
 Uzbekistan Group F runner-up 15 November 2006 3 (1996, 2000, 2004)
1 Bold indicates champion for that year
2 Italic indicates host
3 Vietnam's debut since the unification of Vietnam at 1975

Seeds

For the first time, the seeds are based on the October 2006 FIFA World Rankings instead of the basis of the performance from the previous AFC Asian Cup competition. This was to ensure that the same number of strong teams do not meet in the early stage.[4]

The four seeded teams were announced on 19 December 2006. The seeds comprised Pot 4 in the draw. Pot 1 consists of the teams from all co-hosts.

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4

 Indonesia (153)
 Malaysia (152)
 Thailand (137)
 Vietnam (172)

 China (84)
 Iraq (83)
 United Arab Emirates (87)
 Bahrain (97)

 Qatar (58)
 Uzbekistan (45)
 Saudi Arabia (64)
 Oman (72)

 Australia (39)
 Iran (38)
 Japan (47)
 South Korea (51)

The draw was held on 19 December 2006 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.

Match ball

The Official Match Ball for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup was launched by Nike on 15 May 2007, making it the first time ever that a ball had been launched specifically for any football competition in Asia.[5] The Nike Mercurial Veloci AC features four blue stripes with gold trim with each host city's name inscribed, as well as the AFC Asian Cup logo.[6]

Officials

16 referees and 24 assistant referees were officially cleared following a fitness test on 2 July in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. One referee and two assistant referees were also named from the CAF.[7]

† Replaced Singapore Shamsul Maidin after the referee pulled out with injury.[8]

Official song

The AFC selected "I Believe", a 2004 single by Thai singer Tata Young as the tournament's official song.[9]

Squads

Further information: 2007 AFC Asian Cup squads

Tournament summary

Participating countries.
Results of the participating teams

The Asian Cup saw many upsets in the early stages of the tournament, with Australia and South Korea performed poorly in the group stage.

In Group A, Oman held favourites Australia to a surprising draw. Oman took the lead and would have won save for an injury time goal from Tim Cahill. Next, hosts and lowest-ranked team in the competition, Vietnam, shocked Gulf Champions UAE with a 2–0 victory. In the same group, Qatar held Japan to a shock 1–1 draw. The result caused Japan coach Ivica Osim to fly into a rage in which he branded his players as 'amateurs' and reduced his interpreter to tears.[10] In Group D, Indonesia continued the undefeated streak of the hosts by defeating Bahrain 2–1. Malaysia ended up as the only host country to drop their match, losing to China 5–1. Thailand recorded just its 2nd win in the Asian Cup finals (their other was in 1972 against Cambodia), and its first ever win in regulation, when they beat Oman 2–0 on 12 July. Meanwhile, Australia was upset by a 3–1 defeat against Iraq the following day, leaving them floundering in the tournament despite high expectations at the third place. However, Australia's 4–0 demolition of Thailand at the last match day saw them into the quarterfinals, as Oman was unable to overcome Iraq in a goalless draw.

Vietnam continued to stun all predictions when drew 2006 ASIAD champion Qatar 1–1 while Japan finally thrashed the UAE 3–1. Though, Vietnam was crushed 1–4 by Asian champion Japan last match, but the UAE's 2–1 comeback win over Qatar witnessed Vietnam's first time ever to qualify into the next round, and became the only host to progress through despite being in the group of three champions. On the other hand, while Malaysia continued its poor form with 0–5 and 0–2 loss to Uzbekistan and Iran, thus went out of tournament with no point, China's shocking elimination occurred when they got a hammered 0–3 defeat on the hand of the Uzbeks, despite having drawn 2–2 with Iran and was expected to qualify from group stage with an easy win.

Bahrain shocked the whole tournament by defeating South Korea 2–1 in Group D, leaving the Koreans in the verge of elimination when Indonesia was beaten 1–2 by Saudi Arabia. However, South Korea finally progressed with a 1–0 win over host Indonesia and with Saudi Arabia destroyed Bahrain 4–0, it was enough to seal them in.

In the quarterfinals, Iraq defeated Vietnam 2–0, while South Korea needed a penalty shootout to eliminate Iran 4–2. Japan also needed a penalty shootout to defeat Australia 4–3 (this was the first time Australian 'keeper Mark Schwarzer had ever come out on the losing end of a penalty shoot-out), and Saudi Arabia won over Uzbekistan 2–1. Iraq upset South Korea in the semi-finals by winning 4–3 on penalties, resulting in thousands of Iraqis celebrating in the streets of Baghdad. Over 50 Iraqis were killed by terrorist bombs targeting these crowds.[11] In the other semi-finals, Saudi Arabia topped defending champions Japan 3–2 to make an all-Arab affair for the final match.

Iraq went on to defeat Saudi Arabia 1–0 taking the Asian Cup title. Iraqi forward and captain Younis Mahmoud was given the title of Most Valuable Player. South Korea took third place narrowly beating Japan in penalties 6–5. It was the third consecutive match in the tournament that South Korea played 0–0 before a penalty shootout. Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea, as the top three national teams in the tournament, all received automatic berths to the 2011 Asian Cup along with the next hosts Qatar.[12]

Group stage

Group A

Main article: 2007 AFC Asian Cup Group A
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Iraq 3 1 2 0 4 2 +2 5 Advance to knockout stage
2  Australia 3 1 1 1 6 4 +2 4
3  Thailand (H) 3 1 1 1 3 5 −2 4
4  Oman 3 0 2 1 1 3 −2 2
Source: Asian Cup 2007
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Thailand 1–1 Iraq
Sutee 6' (pen.) Report Mahmoud 32'
Attendance: 30,000
Australia 1–1 Oman
Cahill 90+2' Report Al-Maimani 32'
Attendance: 5,000
Oman 0–2 Thailand
Report Pipat 70', 78'
Attendance: 19,000
Iraq 3–1 Australia
Akram 22'
M. Mohammed 60'
Jassim 86'		 Report Viduka 47'
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Jasim Karim (Bahrain)
Thailand 0–4 Australia
Report Beauchamp 21'
Viduka 80', 83'
Kewell 90'
Attendance: 46,000
Oman 0–0 Iraq
Report
Attendance: 500

Group B

Main article: 2007 AFC Asian Cup Group B
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Japan 3 2 1 0 8 3 +5 7 Advance to knockout stage
2  Vietnam (H) 3 1 1 1 4 5 −1 4
3  United Arab Emirates 3 1 0 2 3 6 −3 3
4  Qatar 3 0 2 1 3 4 −1 2
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Main article: Vietnam v United Arab Emirates (2007 AFC Asian Cup)
Vietnam 2–0 United Arab Emirates
Huỳnh Quang Thanh 64'
Lê Công Vinh 73'		 Report
Attendance: 39,450
Referee: Talaat Najm (Lebanon)
Japan 1–1 Qatar
Takahara 61' Report Soria 88'
Attendance: 5,000
Qatar 1–1 Vietnam
Soria 79' Report Phan Thanh Bình 32'
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Masoud Moradi (Iran)
United Arab Emirates 1–3 Japan
Al-Kass 66' Report Takahara 22', 27'
S. Nakamura 42' (pen.)
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Satop Tongkhan (Thailand)
Vietnam 1–4 Japan
Suzuki 8' (o.g.) Report Maki 12', 59'
Endō 31'
S. Nakamura 53'
Attendance: 40,000
Qatar 1–2 United Arab Emirates
Soria 42' (pen.) Report Al-Kass 60'
Khalil 90+4'
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Masoud Moradi (Iran)

Group C

Main article: 2007 AFC Asian Cup Group C
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Iran 3 2 1 0 6 3 +3 7 Advance to knockout stage
2  Uzbekistan 3 2 0 1 9 2 +7 6
3  China 3 1 1 1 7 6 +1 4
4  Malaysia (H) 3 0 0 3 1 12 −11 0
Source: Asian Cup 2007
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Malaysia 1–5 China
Indra Putra 74' Report Han Peng 15', 55'
Shao Jiayi 36'
Wang Dong 51', 90+3'
Attendance: 21,155
Referee: Muhsen Basma (Syria)
Iran 2–1 Uzbekistan
Hosseini 55'
Kazemian 78'		 Report Rezaei 16' (o.g.)
Attendance: 1,863
Uzbekistan 5–0 Malaysia
Shatskikh 10', 89'
Kapadze 30'
Bakayev 45+2' (pen.)
Ibrahimov 85'		 Report
Attendance: 7,137
China 2–2 Iran
Shao Jiayi 7'
Mao Jianqing 33'		 Report Zandi 45+1'
Nekounam 74'
Attendance: 5,938
Malaysia 0–2 Iran
Report Nekounam 29' (pen.)
Teymourian 77'
Attendance: 4,520
Referee: Muhsen Basma (Syria)
Uzbekistan 3–0 China
Shatskikh 72'
Kapadze 86'
Geynrikh 90+4'		 Report
Attendance: 2,200

Group D

Main article: 2007 AFC Asian Cup Group D
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Saudi Arabia 3 2 1 0 7 2 +5 7 Advance to knockout stage
2  South Korea 3 1 1 1 3 3 0 4
3  Indonesia (H) 3 1 0 2 3 4 −1 3
4  Bahrain 3 1 0 2 3 7 −4 3
Source: Asian Cup 2007
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Indonesia 2–1 Bahrain
Budi 14'
Bambang 64'		 Report Mahmood 27'
Attendance: 60,000
South Korea 1–1 Saudi Arabia
Choi Sung-kuk 66' Report Y. Al-Qahtani 77' (pen.)
Attendance: 15,000
Saudi Arabia 2–1 Indonesia
Y. Al-Qahtani 12'
Al-Harthi 90'		 Report Elie 17'
Attendance: 88,000
Bahrain 2–1 South Korea
Isa 43'
Abdul-Latif 85'		 Report Kim Do-heon 4'
Attendance: 9,000
Referee: Sun Baojie (China)
Indonesia 0–1 South Korea
Report Kim Jung-woo 34'
Attendance: 88,000
Saudi Arabia 4–0 Bahrain
Al-Mousa 18'
A. Al-Qahtani 45'
Al-Jassim 68', 79'		 Report
Attendance: 500

Knockout stage

Main article: 2007 AFC Asian Cup knockout stage
 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
21 July – Bangkok
 
 
 Iraq2
 
25 July – Kuala Lumpur
 
 Vietnam0
 
 Iraq (pen.)0 (4)
 
22 July – Kuala Lumpur
 
 South Korea0 (3)
 
 Iran0 (2)
 
29 July – Jakarta
 
 South Korea (pen.)0 (4)
 
 Iraq1
 
21 July – Hanoi
 
 Saudi Arabia0
 
 Japan (pen.)1 (4)
 
25 July – Hanoi
 
 Australia1 (3)
 
 Japan2
 
22 July – Jakarta
 
 Saudi Arabia3 Third place
 
 Saudi Arabia2
 
28 July – Palembang
 
 Uzbekistan1
 
 South Korea (pen.)0 (6)
 
 
 Japan0 (5)
 

Quarter-finals

Japan 1–1 (a.e.t.) Australia
Takahara 72' Report Aloisi 70'
Penalties
Nakamura soccer ball with check mark
Endō soccer ball with check mark
Komano soccer ball with check mark
Takahara soccer ball with red X
Nakazawa soccer ball with check mark		 4–3 soccer ball with red X Kewell
soccer ball with red X Neill
soccer ball with check mark Cahill
soccer ball with check mark Carle
soccer ball with check mark Carney
Attendance: 25,000
Iraq 2–0 Vietnam
Mahmoud 2', 65' Report
Attendance: 9,720
Iran 0–0 (a.e.t.) South Korea
Report
Penalties
Zandi soccer ball with check mark
Mahdavikia soccer ball with red X
Enayati soccer ball with check mark
Khatibi soccer ball with red X		 2–4 soccer ball with check mark Lee Chun-soo
soccer ball with check mark Kim Sang-sik
soccer ball with red X Kim Do-heon
soccer ball with check mark Cho Jae-jin
soccer ball with check mark Kim Jung-woo
Attendance: 8,629
Saudi Arabia 2–1 Uzbekistan
Y. Al-Qahtani 3'
Al-Mousa 75'		 Report Solomin 82'
Attendance: 12,000

Semi-finals

Iraq 0–0 (a.e.t.) South Korea
Report
Penalties
M. Mohammed soccer ball with check mark
Munir soccer ball with check mark
Abdul-Amir soccer ball with check mark
Mnajed soccer ball with check mark		 4–3 soccer ball with check mark Lee Chun-soo
soccer ball with check mark Lee Dong-gook
soccer ball with check mark Cho Jae-jin
soccer ball with red X Yeom Ki-hun
soccer ball with red X Kim Jung-woo
Attendance: 12,500
Japan 2–3 Saudi Arabia
Nakazawa 37'
Abe 53'		 Report Y. Al-Qahtani 35'
Mouath 47', 57'
Attendance: 10,000

Third place play-off

South Korea 0–0 (a.e.t.) Japan
Report
Penalties
Cho Jae-jin soccer ball with check mark
Oh Beom-seok soccer ball with check mark
Lee Chun-soo soccer ball with check mark
Lee Ho soccer ball with check mark
Kim Jin-kyu soccer ball with check mark
Kim Chi-woo soccer ball with check mark		 6–5 soccer ball with check mark S. Nakamura
soccer ball with check mark Endō
soccer ball with check mark Abe
soccer ball with check mark Komano
soccer ball with check mark Nakazawa
soccer ball with red X Hanyu
Attendance: 10,000

Final

Main article: 2007 AFC Asian Cup Final
Iraq 1–0 Saudi Arabia
Mahmoud 72' Report
Attendance: 60,000

Statistics

Goalscorers

With four goals, Younis Mahmoud, Naohiro Takahara and Yasser Al-Qahtani are the top scorers in the tournament. In total, 84 goals were scored by 57 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.

4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal

Awards

Most Valuable Player[13]

Top scorer

Best Goalkeeper[13]

Best Defender[13]

Fair Play Award[13]

Most Entertaining Team[13]

Team of the tournament

The Toshiba All-Star XI was voted for by fans on the official Asian Cup website.[14][15]

Goalkeeper Defenders Midfielders Forwards

South Korea Lee Woon-jae

Japan Yuji Nakazawa
Australia Lucas Neill
Iraq Bassim Abbas
Iran Rahman Rezaei

Japan Shunsuke Nakamura
Australia Harry Kewell
South Korea Lee Chun-soo
Iraq Nashat Akram

Japan Naohiro Takahara
Saudi Arabia Yasser Al-Qahtani

Final standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts PCT Result
1  Iraq 6 3 3 0 7 2 +5 12 .750 1st
2  Saudi Arabia 6 4 1 1 12 6 +6 13 .750 2nd
3  South Korea 6 1 4 1 3 3 0 7 .500 3rd
4  Japan 6 2 3 1 11 7 +4 9 .583
5  Iran 4 2 2 0 6 3 +3 8 .750 Eliminated
in the
quarterfinals
6  Uzbekistan 4 2 0 2 10 4 +6 6 .500
7  Australia 4 1 2 1 7 5 +2 5 .500
8  Vietnam 4 1 1 2 4 7 −3 4 .375
9  China 3 1 1 1 7 6 +1 4 .500 Eliminated
in the
first stage
10  Thailand 3 1 1 1 3 5 −2 4 .500
11  Indonesia 3 1 0 2 3 4 −1 3 .333
12  United Arab Emirates 3 1 0 2 3 6 −3 3 .333
13  Bahrain 3 1 0 2 3 7 −4 3 .333
14  Qatar 3 0 2 1 3 4 −1 2 .333
15  Oman 3 0 2 1 1 3 −2 2 .333
16  Malaysia 3 0 0 3 1 12 −11 0 .000
Source: rsssf.com

See also

References

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