2007

Asian Nations Cup 2007

Qualifying Tournament

Preliminary Round

22-12-05    Bangladesh     0-0 Pakistan
26-12-05    Pakistan       0-1 Bangladesh
             [Titu (Viraj Mahmud Hossain?) 84]

Bangladesh qualified for Qualifying Round; Pakistan also entered after
withdrawal Sri Lanka.

Qualifying Round

match details (qualifying)

NB: top-2 of all groups qualify

Group A
1.JAPAN         6  5  0  1 15- 2 15  [2 1 0 1 3-2 3]
2.SAUDI ARABIA  6  5  0  1 21- 4 15  [2 1 0 1 2-3 3]
3.Yemen         6  2  0  4  5-13  6
4.India         6  0  0  6  2-24  0

22- 2-06 Yokohama        Japan          6-0 India
                          [Shinji Ono 32', Makoto Hasebe 58', Takashi Fukunishi 68',
                           Tatsuhiko Kubo 78', 90', Hisato Sato 82']                                   
22- 2-06 Sana'a          Yemen          0-4 Saudi Arabia
                          [Ahmed Al Sawailh 14', 89', Mohammed Al Shlhoub 77', 90+2']                             
1- 3-06 New Delhi       India          0-3 Yemen
                          [Salem Abdullah 6', Fekri Al Hubaishi 43', Ali Al Nono 56' pen]
16- 8-06 Calcutta        India          0-3 Saudi Arabia
                          [Yasser Al Qahtani 2', 19', 50']                            
16- 8-06 Niigata         Japan          2-0 Yemen
                          [Yuki Abe 70', Hisato Sato 90+1']                                    
3- 9-06 Jeddah          Saudi Arabia   1-0 Japan
                          [Saleh Bashir 73']                                    
6- 9-06 Jeddah          Saudi Arabia   7-1 India
                          [Saleh Bashir 30', 46', Eisa Al Mehiani 33', Mohamed Ameen 57', Badr Al Hagbani 61',
                           Ahmed Al Suwaileh 78', 86' - NS Manju 22']                                    
6- 9-06 Sana'a          Yemen          0-1 Japan
                          [Kazuki Ganaha 90']                                   
11-10-06 Bangalore       India          0-3 Japan
                          [Ryuji Bando 23', 44', Kengo Nakamura 83']                                    
11-10-06 Jeddah          Saudi Arabia   5-0 Yemen
                          [Saleh Bashir 22', Mohammed Amin 27', Hassan Maaz 66', Issa Al Mahyani 68', 90+2']                
15-11-06 Sapporo         Japan          3-1 Saudi Arabia
                          [Marcus Tulio Tanaka 20', Kazuki Ganaha 29', 49' - Yasser Al Qahtani 33' pen]
15-11-06 Sana'a          Yemen          2-1 India
                          [Naswan Al Haggam 60', Ali Al Nono 82' - NP Pradeep 52'] 

Group B
1.IRAN          6  4  2  0 12- 2 14
2.SOUTH KOREA   6  3  2  1 15- 5 11
3.Syria         6  2  2  2 10- 6  8
4.Taiwan        6  0  0  6  0-24  0

22- 2-06 Tehran          Iran           4-0 Taiwan
                          [Andranik Teymourian 35', Mehrzad Madanchi 47', 60', Ali Daei 82']  
22- 2-06 Aleppo          Syria          1-2 South Korea
                          [Firas Al Khatib 49' - Kim Do-heon 5', Lee Chun-soo 50']                             
1- 3-06 Taipei          Taiwan         0-4 Syria
                          [Zyad Chabbo 29', 58', Jehad Al Houssain 45', Firas Al Khatib 64']                                 16- 8-06 Tehran          Iran           1-1 Syria
                          [Javad Nekounam 71' - Zyad Chaabo 88']                                    
16- 8-06 Taipei          Taiwan         0-3 South Korea
                          [Ahn Jung-hwan 32', Jung Jo-gook 55', Kim Do-heon 81']                              
2- 9-06 Seoul           South Korea    1-1 Iran
                          [Seol Ki-hyeon 45' - Vahid Hashemian 90']                                     
6- 9-06 Suwon           South Korea    8-0 Taiwan
                          [Seol Ki-hyeon 3', 43', Jung Jo-gook 4', 44', 88', Cho Jae-jin 64', 83' pen, Kim Do-heon 77']     
6- 9-06 Damascus        Syria          0-2 Iran
                          [Mohammad Nosrati 27', Javad Nekounam 51']                                     
11-10-06 Seoul           South Korea    1-1 Syria
                          [Cho Jae-jin 9' - Maher Al Said 18']                                    
11-10-06 Taipei          Taiwan         0-2 Iran
                          [Ali Karimi 11', 57']                                     
15-11-06 Tehran          Iran           2-0 South Korea
                          [Reza Enyati 48', Hossein Badamaki 90']                              
15-11-06 Damascus        Syria          3-0 Taiwan
                          [Tarek Al Jaban 51', Firas Al Khatib 62', 79']

Group C
1.UAE           6  4  1  1 11- 6 13
2.OMAN          6  4  0  2 14- 6 12
3.Jordan        6  3  1  2 10- 5 10
4.Pakistan      6  0  0  6  4-22  0

22- 2-06 Amman           Jordan         3-0 Pakistan
                          [Hatem Aqel 30' pen, Mahmoud Shelbaieh 38', Badran Al Shagran 41']                                
22- 2-06 Dubai           UAE            1-0 Oman
                          [Ismail Matar 15']                                     
1- 3-06 Wattayyah       Oman           3-0 Jordan
                          [Hashem Saleh 7', Ismael Sulaiman 18', Hassan Zaher 54']
1- 3-06 Karachi         Pakistan       1-4 UAE
                          [Muhammad Essa 60' - Mohammed Qassim 68', Ismail Matar 78', Salam Saad 81', Saeed Al Kas 88']     
16- 8-06 Amman           Jordan         1-2 UAE
                          [Rafaat Ali 88' - Mohammed Omar 52', Subait Khater 67']                     
16- 8-06 Islamabad       Pakistan       1-4 Oman           
                          [Muhammad Essa 79' pen - Bader Mubarak 15' pen, 35', Imad Ali 27', Ismail Al Ajmi 90']            
6- 9-06 Muscat          Oman           5-0 Pakistan
                          [Imad Ali 7', Fawsi Bashir 35', 85', Ismail Al Ajmi 45', Sultan Al Touqi 88']                     
6- 9-06 Dubai           UAE            0-0 Jordan                                   
11-10-06 Muscat          Oman           2-1 UAE
                          [Hassan Modhafar 24', Ismail Al Ajmi 28' - Mohammed Omar 57']                      
11-10-06 Lahore          Pakistan       0-3 Jordan
                          [Abdulhadi Al Maharmeh 16', Rafat Ali 37', Khaled Saed 85']                                   
15-11-06 Amman           Jordan         3-0 Oman
                          [Amer Deeb 80', Rafaat Ali 84', Hassouneh Al Shaikh 90']                                     
15-11-06 Abu Dhabi       UAE            3-2 Pakistan
                          [Ali Abbas 54', Mohammed Omar 58', 73' - Naveed Akram 23', Tanveer Ahmed 67']
          
Group D
1.AUSTRALIA     4  3  0  1  7- 3  9
2.BAHRAIN       4  1  1  2  3- 6  4  [2 1 1 0 2-1 4]
3.Kuwait        4  1  1  2  3- 4  4  [2 0 1 1 1-2 1]
-.Lebanon       withdrew

NB: Lebanon announced their wihdrawal on Aug 1, 2006, following the
   continuing war by Israel on the country; their withdrawal was
   accepted by AFC and their one result annulled.

22- 2-06 Manama          Bahrain        1-3 Australia
                          [Hussain Ali 35' - Archie Thompson 53', Josip Skoko 79', Ahmad Elrich 87' pen]              
22- 2-06 Beirut          Lebanon        1-1 Kuwait                   [annulled]
                          [Ali Nasereddine 67' - Fahad Al Hamad 25']                                   
1- 3-06 Kuwait City     Kuwait         0-0 Bahrain
16- 8-06 Sydney          Australia      2-0 Kuwait
                          [Travis Dodd 75', Sasho Petrovski 86']                                    
6- 9-06 Kuwait City     Kuwait         2-0 Australia
                          [Khalaf Al Mutairi 56', Bader Al Mutwaa 59']                                
11-10-06 Sydney          Australia      2-0 Bahrain
                          [John Aloisi 17', Mark Bresciano 24']                                  
15-11-06 Manama          Bahrain        2-1 Kuwait
                          [Talal Yousef 35' pen, Salman Issa 43' - Faraj Laheeb 70']

Group E
1.IRAQ          6  3  2  1 12- 8 11  [2 1 1 0 3-2 4]
2.CHINA         6  3  2  1  7- 3 11  [2 0 1 1 2-3 1]
3.Singapore     5  1  1  3  4- 6  4
4.Palestine     5  1  1  3  3- 9  4


22- 2-06 Guangzhou       China          2-0 Palestine
                          [Du Wei 23', Li Weifeng 62']                                
22- 2-06 Singapore       Singapore      2-0 Iraq
                          [Khairul Amri 24', Noh Alam Shah 83']                                     
1- 3-06 Al-Ain (UAE)    Iraq           2-1 China
                          [Mahdi Karim 16', Hawar Mohammed 67' - Tao Wei 54']
1- 3-06 Amman (Jordan)  Palestine      1-0 Singapore
                          [Fahed Attal 75']                                
16- 8-06 Tianjin         China          1-0 Singapore
                          [Shao Jiayi 90+3' pen]                                
17- 8-06 Amman (Jordan)  Palestine      0-3 Iraq
                          [Younes Mahmoud 58', 61', Mohammed Nasser 89']                                     
6- 9-06 Al-Ain (UAE)    Iraq           2-2 Palestine
                          [Saleh Sadir 70', Hawar Mulla Mohammad 75' - Taiseer Amer 13', Ismail Al Amour 78']
6- 9-06 Singapore       Singapore      0-0 China                                    
11-10-06 Al-Ain (UAE)    Iraq           4-2 Singapore
                          [Younis Mahmoud 35', 68', Mahdi Karim 60', Hawar Taher 90+3'
                           - Egmar Goncalves 9', Khairul Amri 62']
11-10-06 Amman (Jordan)  Palestine      0-2 China
                          [Mao Jianqing 27', Sun Xiang 64']                                     
15-11-06 Changsha        China          1-1 Iraq
                          [Han Peng 40' - Alwan Ahmad 65']                                      
15-11-06 Singapore       Singapore      n/p Palestine
                          [cancelled due to travel difficulties faced by Palestine]

Group F
1.QATAR         6  5  0  1 14- 4 15
2.UZBEKISTAN    6  3  2  1 14- 4 11
3.Hongkong      6  2  2  2  5- 7  8
4.Bangladesh    6  0  0  6  1-19  0

22- 2-06 Hongkong        Hongkong       0-3 Qatar
                          [Hussain Yasser 11', Syed Bechir 44', Magid Hassan 90+5']                                    
22- 2-06 Toshkent        Uzbekistan     5-0 Bangladesh
                          [Alexander Geynrikh 10', 52', Server Djeparov 24', Maksim Shatskikh 34', 84']                 
1- 3-06 Dhaka           Bangladesh     0-1 Hongkong
                          [Chan Siu Ki 82']                         
1- 3-06 Doha            Qatar          2-1 Uzbekistan
                          [Adel Lamy 45', Ali Naser 49' - Bilal Mohammed 20' OG]
16- 8-06 Chittagong      Bangladesh     1-4 Qatar
                          [Mohamad Arman 23' - Wesam Rizik 7' pen, Adel Lamy 36', Khalfan Ibrahim 38', 74']                 
16- 8-06 Toshkent        Uzbekistan     2-2 Hongkong
                          [Anvarjon Soliev 18', Maksim Shatskikh 35' - Sham Kwok Keung 66', 87']                            
6- 9-06 Hongkong        Hongkong       0-0 Uzbekistan                               
6- 9-06 Doha            Qatar          3-0 Bangladesh
                          [Hussain Yasser 25', Adel Lamy 30', Saad Al Shammari 52']                               
11-10-06 Dhaka           Bangladesh     0-4 Uzbekistan
                          [Ilyas Zeytullaev 11', Ulugbek Bakaev 18', Server Djeparov 22', Maksim Shatskikh 39' pen]         
11-10-06 Doha            Qatar          2-0 Hongkong
                          [Bilal Rajab 43', Hussain Yasser 53']                                
15-11-06 Hongkong        Hongkong       2-0 Bangladesh
                          [Guy Ambassa 43', 74' pen]                               
15-11-06 Toshkent        Uzbekistan     2-0 Qatar
                          [Leonid Koshelev 31', Ilyas Zeytullaev 52']

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Final Tournament (South East Asia, 2007)

Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam (the four hosts) qualified automatically.

Group A (in Thailand)
1.IRAQ          3  1  2  0  4- 2  5
2.AUSTRALIA     3  1  1  1  6- 4  4
3.Thailand      3  1  1  1  3- 5  4
4.Oman          3  0  2  1  1- 3  2

7- 7-07 Rajamangala     Thailand       1-1 Iraq
8- 7-07 Rajamangala     Australia      1-1 Oman
12- 7-07 Rajamangala     Thailand       2-0 Oman
13- 7-07 Rajamangala     Iraq           3-1 Australia
16- 7-07 Rajamangala     Thailand       0-4 Australia
16- 7-07 Supachalasai    Oman           0-0 Iraq

Group B (in Vietnam)
1.JAPAN         3  2  1  0  8- 3  7
2.VIETNAM       3  1  1  1  4- 5  4
3.UAE           3  1  0  2  3- 6  3
4.Qatar         3  0  2  1  3- 4  2

8- 7-07 My Dinh         Vietnam        2-0 UAE
9- 7-07 My Dinh         Japan          1-1 Qatar
12- 7-07 My Dinh         Vietnam        1-1 Qatar
13- 7-07 My Dinh         UAE            1-3 Japan
16- 7-07 My Dinh         Vietnam        1-4 Japan
16- 7-07 'Army'          Qatar          1-2 UAE

Group C (in Malaysia)
1.IRAN          3  2  1  0  6- 3  7
2.UZBEKISTAN    3  2  0  1  9- 2  6
3.China         3  1  1  1  7- 6  4
4.Malaysia      3  0  0  3  1-12  0

10- 7-07 Bukit Jalil     Malaysia       1-5 China
11- 7-07 Bukit Jalil     Iran           2-1 Uzbekistan
14- 7-07 Bukit Jalil     Malaysia       0-5 Uzbekistan
15- 7-07 Bukit Jalil     China          2-2 Iran
18- 7-07 Bukit Jalil     Malaysia       0-2 Iran
18- 7-07 Shah Alam       Uzbekistan     3-0 China

Group D (in Indonesia)
1.SAUDI ARABIA  3  2  1  0  7- 2  7
2.SOUTH KOREA   3  1  1  1  3- 3  4
3.Indonesia     3  1  0  2  3- 4  3
4.Bahrain       3  1  0  2  3- 7  3

10- 7-07 Jakarta (GBK)   Indonesia      2-1 Bahrain
11- 7-07 Jakarta (GBK)   South Korea    1-1 Saudi Arabia
14- 7-07 Jakarta (GBK)   Indonesia      1-2 Saudi Arabia
15- 7-07 Jakarta (GBK)   Bahrain        2-1 South Korea
18- 7-07 Jakarta (GBK)   Indonesia      0-1 South Korea
18- 7-07 Jakarta (Jbg)   Saudi Arabia   4-0 Bahrain

NB: GBK = Gelora Bung Karno; Jbg = Jakabaring

Qzarterfinals
21- 7-07 Rajamangala     Iraq           2-0 Vietnam
21- 7-07 My Dinh         Japan          1-1 Australia               [aet, 4-3 pen]
22- 7-07 Bukit Jalil     Iran           0-0 South Korea             [aet, 2-4 pen]
22- 7-07 Jakarta (GBK)   Saudi Arabia   2-1 Uzbekistan

Semifinal
25- 7-07 Bukit Jalil     Iraq           0-0 South Korea             [aet, 4-3 pen]
25- 7-07 My Dinh         Japan          2-3 Saudi Arabia

Third Place Match
28- 7-07 Jakarta (Jbg)   South Korea    0-0 Japan                   [aet, 6-5 pen]

Final
29- 7-07 Jakarta (GBK)   Iraq           1-0 Saudi Arabia