2004 AFF Championship

The 2004 AFF Championship (officially known as the 2004 Tiger Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 5th edition of the AFF Championship, the football championship of nations affiliated to the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF), and the last time under the name Tiger Cup. This was the first time a new format had been applied, in which the format was still in use until now. The group stage was jointly hosted by Vietnam and Malaysia from 7 to 16 December 2004, and the top two teams from each group advanced to the Semi-finals and the Final, which was played in a two-leg home-and-away format from 28 December 2004 to 16 January 2005. This was also the final AFF Cup to feature a third-place match, as it was removed in the 2007 edition.

Thailand were the two-time defending champions, but were eliminated in Group stage. Singapore won the tournament by a 5–2 victory in the two-legged final against Indonesia to secure their second title.

Summary

In the group matches, Indonesia, coached by former Thailand coach Peter Withe, emerged as the Group A winners with ten points, 17 goals scored and none conceded. They were the hot favourites to win the 2004 AFF Championship after bundling out the hosts Vietnam with an unexpected 3–0 victory. Less than a day after the match had ended, the Vietnam Football Federation requested the resignation from its national coach Edson Tavares, despite his requests to stay on until the last match. Singapore, led by Radojko Avramović pipped out the hosts by just a single point and remained unbeaten to become the only team in the championship to not lose a single match.

Following the tournament motto "Anything can happen", Myanmar, under coach Ivan Kolev emerged as the surprise, holding defending champions Thailand to a draw and beating Malaysia on their own turf.

Teams

All teams from member associations of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) participated with the exception of Brunei. However, they would be replaced by East Timor when sponsors Tiger Beer stated in May 2004 that the world's newest country at the time would be joining the competition. This kept the tournament at 10 teams.

Squads

Venues

Vietnam Hanoi	Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam Hai Phong	Indonesia Jakarta
Mỹ Đình National Stadium	Thống Nhất Stadium	Lạch Tray Stadium	Gelora Bung Karno Stadium
Capacity: 40,192	Capacity: 15,000	Capacity: 32,000	Capacity: 110,000

Singapore Singapore	Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
National Stadium	Jalan Besar Stadium	Bukit Jalil National Stadium	KLFA Stadium
Capacity: 55,000	Capacity: 6,000	Capacity: 100,000	Capacity: 18,000

Tournament

Group stage

Group A

All times are Indochina Time (ICT) – UTC+7
All matches played in Vietnam

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Indonesia	4	3	1	0	17	0	+17	10	Advance to knockout stage
Singapore	4	2	2	0	10	3	+7	8
Vietnam	4	2	1	1	13	5	+8	7
Laos	4	1	0	3	4	16	−12	3
Cambodia	4	0	0	4	2	22	−20	0

Laos	0–6	Indonesia
		Boaz 25' Ilham 28', 33' Kanyavong 52' (o.g.) Elie 60' Kurniawan 86'

Vietnam	1–1	Singapore
Thạch Bảo Khanh 51'		Indra 70'

Vietnam	9–1	Cambodia
Thạch Bảo Khanh 9', 23' Lê Công Vinh 57', 87', 89' Sampratna 63' (o.g.) Đặng Văn Thành 71', 83' Nguyễn Huy Hoàng 77'		Sokunthea 44'

Indonesia	0–0	Singapore

Laos	2–1	Cambodia
Luang-Amath 63', 73'		Darith 27'

Vietnam	0–3	Indonesia
		Mauly 18' Boaz 21' Ilham 45'

Singapore	6–2	Laos
Hasrin 7' Indra 19', 74' Thongphachan 39' (o.g.) Casmir 45', 90+2' (pen.)		Phaphouvanin 22' Luang-Amath 72' (pen.)

Indonesia	8–0	Cambodia
Ilham 5', 48', 56' Elie 30', 55' Kurniawan 74', 76' Ortizan 90'

Vietnam	3–0	Laos
Lê Công Vinh 10' Nguyễn Minh Phương 42' Thạch Bảo Khanh 75'

Cambodia	0–3	Singapore
		Dickson 20' Baihakki 26' Khairul 54'

Group B

All times are Malaysia Standard Time (MST) – UTC+8
All matches played in Malaysia

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Myanmar	4	3	1	0	6	2	+4	10	Advance to knockout stage
Malaysia	4	3	0	1	11	3	+8	9
Thailand	4	2	1	1	13	4	+9	7
Philippines	4	1	0	3	4	9	−5	3
Timor-Leste	4	0	0	4	2	18	−16	0

Philippines	0–1	Myanmar
		S. D. Thein 90+2'

Malaysia	5–0	Timor-Leste
Liew 27' Amri 47', 83' Fadzli 67' Shukor 85'

Thailand	1–1	Myanmar
T. Chaiman 14'		Z. L. Tun 89'

Malaysia	4–1	Philippines
Liew 17' Khalid 67', 77' (pen.) Kaironnisam 74'		Gould 90+3'

Timor-Leste	0–8	Thailand
		B. Yodyingyong 17' S. Domtaisong 41' W. Jitkuntod 53' T. Chaiman 59' S. Chaikamdee 63', 65', 67' Y. Kornjan 84'

Malaysia	0–1	Myanmar
		S. M. Min 20'

Philippines	2–1	Timor-Leste
Caligdong 90+1', 90+3'		Januário 59'

Malaysia	2–1	Thailand
Khalid 63', 65'		S. Chaikamdee 45'

Myanmar	3–1	Timor-Leste
S. M. Min 4' (pen.) S. D. Thein 43' M. H. Win 51'		S. Diamantino 15' (pen.)

Thailand	3–1	Philippines
I. Poolsap 42' S. Sainui 56' S. Domtaisong 89'		Caligdong 27'

Knockout stage

Semi-finals			Finals

A1	Indonesia	1	4	5

B2	Malaysia	2	1	3
	A1	Indonesia	1	1	2

		A2	Singapore	3	2	5
B1	Myanmar	3	2	5

A2	Singapore (a.e.t.)	4	4	8			Third place play-off


	B2	Malaysia	2

	B1	Myanmar	1

Semi-finals

First Leg

Indonesia	1–2	Malaysia
Kurniawan 6'		Liew 28', 47'

Myanmar	3–4	Singapore
S. M. Min 34', 90' M. Thu 36'		Bennett 20' Casmir 38' Alam Shah 63' Shahril 81'

Second Leg

Singapore	4–2 (a.e.t.)	Myanmar
Alam Shah 74', 94', 96' Casmir 108'		S. M. Min 15' A. K. Moe 50'

Singapore win 8–5 on aggregate

Malaysia	1–4	Indonesia
Khalid 28'		Kurniawan 59' Charis 74' Ilham 77' Boaz 84'

Indonesia win 5–3 on aggregate

Third place play-off

Malaysia	2–1	Myanmar
Khalid 15' Ismail 56'		S. M. Min 52'

Final

First Leg

Indonesia	1–3	Singapore
Mahyadi 90'		Bennett 3' Khairul 39' Casmir 69'

Second Leg

Singapore	2–1	Indonesia
Indra 6' Casmir 41' (pen.)		Elie 77'

Singapore win 5–2 on aggregate

Awards

2004 AFF Championship
Singapore Second title

Most Valuable Player	Golden Boot
Singapore Lionel Lewis	Indonesia Ilham Jaya Kesuma

Goal scorers

7 goals

Indonesia Ilham Jaya Kesuma

6 goals

5 goals

Indonesia Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Cambodia Hing Darith
Cambodia Hang Sokunthea
Indonesia Charis Yulianto
Indonesia Mahyadi Panggabean
Indonesia Muhammad Mauli Lessy
Indonesia Ortizan Solossa
Laos Visay Phaphouvanin
Malaysia Mohd Fadzli Saari
Malaysia Mohamad Nor Ismail
Malaysia Muhamad Kaironnisam Sahabudin Hussain
Malaysia Muhammad Shukor Adan
Myanmar Aung Kyaw Moe
Myanmar Min Thu
Myanmar Zaw Lynn Tun
Myanmar Myo Hlaing Win
Philippines Chad Gould
Singapore Baihakki Khaizan
Singapore Itimi Dickson
Singapore Hasrin Jailani
Singapore Sharil Ishak
Thailand Weerayut Jitkuntod
Thailand Yuttajak Kornjan
Thailand Ittipol Poolsap
Thailand Sarif Sainui
Thailand Banluesak Yodyingyong
Timor-Leste Januário do Rego
Timor-Leste Simon Diamantino
Vietnam Nguyễn Huy Hoàng
Vietnam Nguyễn Minh Phương

Own goal

Cambodia Sun Sampratna (For Vietnam)
Laos Sengphet Thongphachan (For Singapore)
Laos Siththalay Kanyavong (For Indonesia)

Team statistics

This table will show the ranking of teams throughout the tournament.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Finals
1	Singapore	8	6	2	0	23	10	+13
2	Indonesia	8	4	1	3	24	8	+16
Semifinals
3	Malaysia	7	5	0	2	16	9	+7
4	Myanmar	7	3	1	3	12	12	0
Eliminated in the group stage
5	Thailand	4	2	1	1	13	4	+9
6	Vietnam	4	2	1	1	13	5	+8
7	Philippines	4	1	0	3	4	9	−5
8	Laos	4	1	0	3	4	16	−12
9	Timor-Leste	4	0	0	4	2	18	−16
10	Cambodia	4	0	0	4	2	22	−20

Notes

General

Stokkermans, Karel. . RSSSF.

Specific

External links

at AseanFootball.org