AFF Championship

AFF Championship

Founded	1996
Region	AFF (Southeast Asia)
Number of teams	8 (Finals)
Current champions	Thailand (4th title)
Most successful team(s)	Singapore Thailand (4 titles)
2016 AFF Championship

The AFF Championship (ASEAN Football Championship), is a biennial international association football competition organised 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. 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.

Results

Summaries

From 2004, the knockout stage is played over two legs on a home-and-away format without the away goals rule. However, the away goals rule was put into effect from 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		Singapore	3–1 0–1	Thailand		Malaysia	Philippines
			won 3–2 on aggregate
2014 Details	Singapore Vietnam		Thailand	2–0 2–3	Malaysia		Philippines	Vietnam
			won 4–3 on aggregate
2016 Details	Myanmar Philippines

Team performances

Team	1996	1998	2000	2002	2004	2007	2008	2010	2012	2014	2016
Australia	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNP
Brunei	GS	DNQ	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNQ	DNQ	DNP	DNQ	DNQ
Cambodia	GS	DNQ	GS	GS	GS	DNQ	GS	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
Indonesia	4th	3rd	2nd	2nd	2nd	GS	SF	2nd	GS	GS
Laos	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS
Malaysia	2nd	GS	3rd	4th	3rd	SF	GS	1st	SF	2nd
Myanmar	GS	GS	GS	GS	4th	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS
Philippines	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	DNQ	SF	SF	SF
Singapore	GS	1st	GS	GS	1st	1st	SF	GS	1st	GS
Thailand	1st	4th	1st	1st	GS	2nd	2nd	GS	2nd	1st
Timor-Leste	DNE	DNE	DNP	DNP	GS	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
Vietnam	3rd	2nd	4th	3rd	GS	SF	1st	SF	GS	SF

DNP = Did Not Participate

DNQ = Did Not Qualify

DNE = Did Not Enter (Timor Leste: was part of Indonesia; Australia: was part of the OFC)

GS = Group Stage

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

Medal table

Team	Champions	Runners-up	Third place / Semi-Finals	Fourth place
Thailand	4 (1996, 2000, 2002, 2014)	3 (2007, 2008, 2012)	-	1 (1998)
Singapore	4 (1998, 2004, 2007, 2012)	-	1 (2008)	-
Malaysia	1 (2010)	2 (1996, 2014)	4 (2000, 2004, 2007, 2012)	1 (2002)
Vietnam	1 (2008)	1 (1998)	5 (1996, 2002, 2007, 2010, 2014)	1 (2000)
Indonesia	-	4 (2000, 2002, 2004, 2010)	2 (1998, 2008)	1 (1996)
Philippines	-	-	3 (2010, 2012, 2014)	-
Myanmar	-	-	-	1 (2004)
Total	10	10	15	5

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

Top scorers

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

Overall top goalscorers

As of after 2014 AFF Championship, overall top goalscorer are

Players	Goals
Noh Alam Shah	17
Worrawoot Srimaka	15
Lê Huỳnh Đức	14
Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto Lê Công Vinh	13
Bambang Pamungkas Kiatisuk Senamuang	12
Agu Casmir	11
Teerasil Dangda Safee Sali Indra Putra Mahayuddin Khairul Amri	9

• 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	Lionel Lewis
2007	Noh Alam Shah
2008	Dương Hồng Sơn
2010	Firman Utina
2012	Shahril Ishak
2014	Chanathip Songkrasin

All-time ranking table

Note: Matches that ended in extra time or via penalty kicks are all treated as draws, no matter the result.

Note: This Table are updated from the first tournament to 2014 AFF Championship

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts.
Thailand	62	38	15	9	138	55	+83	129
Vietnam	57	28	15	14	125	70	+55	99
Singapore	51	27	12	12	101	54	+47	93
Malaysia	60	27	12	21	110	72	+38	93
Indonesia	52	26	12	14	140	77	+63	90
Myanmar	39	10	10	19	60	83	−23	40
Philippines	41	8	6	27	35	96	−61	30
Laos	33	2	5	29	28	141	−113	11
Cambodia	19	2	0	17	15	74	−59	6
Brunei	4	1	0	3	1	15	−14	3
Timor-Leste	4	0	0	4	2	18	−16	0

See also

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

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