AFF Championship

	AFF Suzuki Cup 2016 final match first leg between Indonesia and Thailand
Tournaments
	1996; 1998; 2000; 2002; 2004; 2007; 2008; 2010; 2012; 2014; 2016; 2018; 2020; 2022;

AFF Championship
AFF Cup
	Symbol used since the 2018 edition
Organising body	AFF
Founded	1996; 28 years ago
Region	Southeast Asia
Number of teams	10 (finals); 11 (eligible to enter qualification)
Current champions	Thailand (6th title)
Most successful team(s)	Thailand (6 titles)
Website	affmitsubishielectriccup.com
	2022 AFF Championship

The ASEAN Football Federation Championship (less formally the AFF Championship or AFF Cup), currently known as the AFF Mitsubishi Electric Cup for sponsorship reason, is the primary association football tournament organized by the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF).

A biennial international association football competition, it is contested by the men's national teams of the AFF to determe the sub-continental champion of Southeast Asia. The competition has been held every two years since 1996 scheduled to be in the even-numbered year, except for 2007, and 2020 (which was postponed to 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic).

The AFF Championship title have been won by four national teams; Thailand have won six titles, Singapore has four titles, Vietnam has two titles and Malaysia with one title. To date, Thailand and Singapore are the only teams in history to have won consecutive titles; Thailand in 2000 and 2002 and also in 2014 and 2016, and Singapore in 2004 and 2007. It is one of the most watched football tournaments in the region.

Since 2018, the championship winners would compete in the following AFF–EAFF Champions Trophy, against the winner of the EAFF E-1 Football Championship, the champions of East Asia, to determine the champions of East and Southeast Asia.

Since joining the AFF in 2013, Australia has never competed in the AFF Championship.

History

The first ASEAN Championship took place in 1996 with the six founding members of ASEAN Federation competing with four nations being invited that came in that region. The final saw Thailand become the first champions of ASEAN as they defeated Malaysia 1–0 in Singapore.^[1] The top four nations automatically qualified through to the finals in the following edition. This meant the other six nations had to compete in qualifying for the remaining four spots. Myanmar, Singapore, Laos and Philippines all made it through to the main tournament.

Organisation

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

Sponsorship

Founded as the Tiger Cup after Singapore-based Asia Pacific Breweries brand Tiger Beer, it sponsored the competition from the competition's inauguration in 1996 until the 2004 edition. After Asia Pacific Breweries withdrew as title sponsor, the competition was known simply as the AFF Championship for the 2007 edition. In 2008, Japanese auto-company Suzuki bought the naming rights for the competition, and the competition was named the AFF Suzuki Cup until the 2020 edition.^[2] On 23 May 2022, AFF announced a new title sponsorship deal with Japanese company Mitsubishi Electric and the competition was named the AFF Mitsubishi Electric Cup starting in the 2022 edition.^[3]


Period	Sponsor	Name
1996 to 2004	Tiger Beer	Tiger Cup
2007	No title sponsor	AFF Championship
2008 to 2020	Suzuki	AFF Suzuki Cup
2022 to present	Mitsubishi Electric	AFF Mitsubishi Electric Cup

Format

From 2004, the knockout stage is played over two legs on a home-and-away format. Since the 2007 edition, there was no third place match; semi-finalists are listed in alphabetical order. The away goals rule has been applied for knockout stage since the 2010 edition.^[a]

Starting with the 2018 edition, a new format was 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 were split in two groups of five and play a round robin system, with each team playing two home and two away fixtures. A draw was made to determine where the teams play while the format of the knockout round remained unchanged.^[4]

Results

Year	Host	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place	Number of teams
Year	Host	Final			Third place playoff			Number of teams
1996	Singapore	Thailand	1–0	Malaysia	Vietnam	3–2	Indonesia	10
1998	Vietnam	Singapore	1–0	Vietnam	Indonesia	3–3 (a.e.t.) (5–4 p)	Thailand	8
2000	Thailand	Thailand	4–1	Indonesia	Malaysia	3–0	Vietnam	9
2002	Indonesia Singapore	Thailand	2–2 aet (4–2) pen	Indonesia	Vietnam	2–1	Malaysia	9
Year	Group stage hosts	Final			Third place playoff or losing semi-finalists			Number of teams
Year	Group stage hosts	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place	Number of teams
2004	Malaysia Vietnam	Singapore	3–1 2–1	Indonesia	Malaysia	2–1	Myanmar	10
2004	Malaysia Vietnam	won 5–2 on aggregate			Malaysia	2–1	Myanmar	10
2007	Singapore Thailand	Singapore	2–1 1–1	Thailand	Malaysia and Vietnam			8
2007	Singapore Thailand	won 3–2 on aggregate			Malaysia and Vietnam			8
2008	Indonesia Thailand	Vietnam	2–1 1–1	Thailand	Indonesia and Singapore			8
2008	Indonesia Thailand	won 3–2 on aggregate			Indonesia and Singapore			8
2010	Indonesia Vietnam	Malaysia	3–0 1–2	Indonesia	Philippines and Vietnam			8
2010	Indonesia Vietnam	won 4–2 on aggregate			Philippines and Vietnam			8
2012	Malaysia Thailand	Singapore	3–1 0–1	Thailand	Malaysia and Philippines			8
2012	Malaysia Thailand	won 3–2 on aggregate			Malaysia and Philippines			8
2014	Singapore Vietnam	Thailand	2–0 2–3	Malaysia	Philippines and Vietnam			8
2014	Singapore Vietnam	won 4–3 on aggregate			Philippines and Vietnam			8
2016	Myanmar Philippines	Thailand	1–2 2–0	Indonesia	Myanmar and Vietnam			8
2016	Myanmar Philippines	won 3–2 on aggregate			Myanmar and Vietnam			8
Year		Final			Losing semi-finalists			Number of teams
Year		Winner	Score	Runner-up	Losing semi-finalists			Number of teams
2018		Vietnam	2–2 1–0	Malaysia	Philippines and Thailand			10
2018		won 3–2 on aggregate			Philippines and Thailand			10
Year	Host	Final			Losing semi-finalists			Number of teams
Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Losing semi-finalists			Number of teams
2020^[b]	Singapore^[c]	Thailand^[d]	4–0 2–2	Indonesia^[d]	Singapore and Vietnam			10
2020^[b]	Singapore^[c]	won 6–2 on aggregate			Singapore and Vietnam			10
Year		Final			Losing semi-finalists			Number of teams
Year		Winner	Score	Runner-up	Losing semi-finalists			Number of teams
2022								10

Performances by country

Team	Champions	Runners-up	Third place / Semi-finalists	Fourth place	Total Top 4
Thailand	6 (1996, 2000, 2002, 2014, 2016, 2020)	3 (2007, 2008, 2012)	1 (2018)	1 (1998)	11
Singapore	4 (1998, 2004, 2007, 2012)	–	2 (2008, 2020)	–	6
Vietnam	2 (2008, 2018)	1 (1998)	7 (1996, 2002, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2020)	1 (2000)	11
Malaysia	1 (2010)	3 (1996, 2014, 2018)	4 (2000, 2004, 2007, 2012)	1 (2002)	9
Indonesia	–	6 (2000, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2016, 2020)	2 (1998, 2008)	1 (1996)	9
Philippines	–	–	4 (2010, 2012, 2014, 2018)	–	4
Myanmar	–	–	1 (2016)	1 (2004)	2
Total	13	13	21	5	52

Participating nations

Team	1996 (10)	1998 (8)	2000 (9)	2002 (9)	2004 (10)	2007 (8)	2008 (8)	2010 (8)	2012 (8)	2014 (8)	2016 (8)	2018 (10)	2020 (10)	2022 (10)	Total
Australia^{[note 1]}	Not an AFF member									×	×	×	×	×	0
Brunei	GS	•	×	×	×	•	•	×	•	•	•	•	×		1
Cambodia	GS	•	GS	GS	GS	•	GS	•	•	•	GS	GS	GS	q	9
Indonesia	4th	3rd	2nd	2nd	2nd	GS	SF	2nd	GS	GS	2nd	GS	2nd	q	14
Laos	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	•	GS	GS	q	13
Malaysia	2nd	GS	3rd	4th	3rd	SF	GS	1st	SF	2nd	GS	2nd	GS	q	14
Myanmar	GS	GS	GS	GS	4th	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	SF	GS	GS	q	14
Philippines	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	•	SF	SF	SF	GS	SF	GS	q	13
Singapore	GS	1st	GS	GS	1st	1st	SF	GS	1st	GS	GS	GS	SF	q	14
Thailand	1st	4th	1st	1st	GS	2nd	2nd	GS	2nd	1st	1st	SF	1st	q	14
Timor-Leste	Part of Indonesia			×	GS	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS	GS		3
Vietnam	3rd	2nd	4th	3rd	GS	SF	1st	SF	GS	SF	SF	1st	SF	q	14

Legend

1st – Champions
2nd – Runners-up
3rd – Third place
4th – Fourth place
SF – Semi-finalist

GS – Group stage
q – Qualified for the current tournament
•• — Qualified but withdrew
• – Did not qualify
× – Did not enter / Withdrew / Banned
– Hosts

Notes

^ Since joining the AFF in 2013, Australia has never competed in the AFF Championship. However, Australia competed in the EAFF Championship in 2013.

Awards

Tournament	Most Valuable Player	Top goalscorer(s)	Goals	Young Player of the Tournament	Fair play award
1996	Zainal Abidin Hassan	Natipong Sritong-In	7	N/A (awarded in 2020)	Brunei
1998	Nguyễn Hồng Sơn	Myo Hlaing Win	4		Not awarded
2000	Kiatisuk Senamuang	Gendut Doni Christiawan	5		Malaysia
2000	Kiatisuk Senamuang	Worrawoot Srimaka	5		Malaysia
2002	Therdsak Chaiman	Bambang Pamungkas	8		Not awarded
2004	Lionel Lewis	Ilham Jaya Kesuma	7
2007	Noh Alam Shah	Noh Alam Shah	10
2008	Dương Hồng Sơn	Budi Sudarsono	4		Thailand
		Agu Casmir
		Teerasil Dangda
2010	Firman Utina	Safee Sali	5		Philippines
2012	Shahril Ishak	Teerasil Dangda	5		Malaysia
2014	Chanathip Songkrasin	Safiq Rahim	6		Vietnam
2016	Chanathip Songkrasin	Teerasil Dangda	6		Thailand
2018	Nguyễn Quang Hải	Adisak Kraisorn	8		Malaysia
2020	Chanathip Songkrasin^[d]	Safawi Rasid	4	Pratama Arhan^[d]	Indonesia^[d]
		Bienvenido Marañón
		Chanathip Songkrasin^[d]
		Teerasil Dangda^[d]

Overall top goalscorers

As of 2020 final

Rank	Player	Goals
1	Teerasil Dangda	19
2	Noh Alam Shah	17
3	Worrawoot Srimaka	15
3	Lê Công Vinh	15
5	Lê Huỳnh Đức	14
6	Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto	13
7	Bambang Pamungkas	12
7	Kiatisuk Senamuang	12
9	Agu Casmir	11
9	Adisak Kraisorn	11
11	Khairul Amri	10

Bold denotes players still playing international football

Winning coaches

Year	Team	Coach
1996	Thailand	Thawatchai Sartjakul
1998	Singapore	Barry Whitbread
2000	Thailand	Peter Withe
2002	Thailand	Peter Withe
2004	Singapore	Radojko Avramović
2007	Singapore	Radojko Avramović
2008	Vietnam	Henrique Calisto
2010	Malaysia	K. Rajagopal
2012	Singapore	Radojko Avramović
2014	Thailand	Kiatisuk Senamuang^[1]
2016	Thailand	Kiatisuk Senamuang^[1]
2018	Vietnam	Park Hang-seo
2020	Thailand^[d]	Alexandré Pölking

Notes

^[1] - being the only person to win the competition as a player (1996, 2000, 2002) then coach (2014, 2016).

All-time ranking table

As of the 2020 edition

Rank	Team	Part	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Best finish
1	Thailand	13	78	49	18	11	169	91	+78	165	Champions (1996, 2000, 2002, 2014, 2016, 2020)
2	Singapore	13	62	31	15	16	112	62	+50	108	Champions (1998, 2004, 2007, 2012)
3	Vietnam	13	71	37	19	15	145	74	+71	130	Champions (2008, 2018)
4	Malaysia	13	69	30	15	24	120	81	+39	105	Champions (2010)
5	Indonesia	13	70	35	15	20	177	124	+53	120	Runners-up (2000, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2016, 2020)
6	Philippines	12	44	10	4	30	47	50	–3	34	Semi-finalists (2010, 2012, 2014, 2018)
7	Myanmar	13	46	15	7	24	58	101	-43	52	Semi-finalists (2004, 2016)
8	Laos	12	41	2	5	34	30	155	–125	11	Group stage (12 times)
9	Cambodia	8	30	4	0	26	29	102	–73	12	Group stage (8 times)
10	Timor-Leste	3	12	0	0	12	6	50	–44	0	Group stage (2004, 2018, 2020)
11	Brunei	1	4	1	0	3	1	15	–14	3	Group stage (1996)

Notes

^ Except the 2020 edition due to all matches were hosted in only venue.
^ Postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
^ The 2020 AFF Championship was hosted in a centralized venue due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia. On 28 September 2021, it was announced that Singapore would host the tournament.^[5]
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Due to non-compliance with conditions set by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Thailand and Indonesia were not allowed to be represented by their national flags.^[6]^[7] The sanctions took effect in October 2021.^[8] Thailand is represented by its national team logo while Indonesia is represented by its coat of arms.

References

^ "About AFF". aseanfootball.org.
^ "Global News News.2008 | Global Suzuki". www.globalsuzuki.com. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
^ "AFF Announces Mitsubishi Electric As The New Title Sponsor Of AFF Mitsubishi Electric Cup 2022". www.affmitsubishielectriccup.com. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
^ "New format confirmed for AFF Suzuki Cup". Football Channel Asia. 14 March 2016. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
^ Noronha, Anselm (28 September 2021). "Singapore to host AFF Suzuki Cup 2020: Teams, how to watch & more | Goal.com". Goal.com. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
^ "Thailand loses right to host tournaments". Bangkok Post. Bangkok Post Public Co. Ltd. Retrieved 25 November 2021. The country has also been denied the right to display its national flag at any such events (international football events).
^ "Chairman Of PSSI: Regarding The Flag At AFF 2020, We Will Follow Whatever The Decision Is". VOI – Waktunya Merevolusi Pemberitaan. 24 November 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
^ "WADA confirms non-compliance of five Anti-Doping Organizations (7 October 2021)". World Anti-Doping Agency. 7 October 2021. Retrieved 4 December 2021.

External links

Official website
AFF Cup at RSSSF.com

[Australia-13] Since joining the AFF in 2013, Australia has never competed in the AFF Championship. However, Australia competed in the EAFF Championship in 2013.

[4] Except the 2020 edition due to all matches were hosted in only venue.

[6] Postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[8] The 2020 AFF Championship was hosted in a centralized venue due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia. On 28 September 2021, it was announced that Singapore would host the tournament.^[5]

[Flag_of_Indonesia_and_Thailand_in_2020_AFF_Championship-12] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Due to non-compliance with conditions set by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Thailand and Indonesia were not allowed to be represented by their national flags.^[6]^[7] The sanctions took effect in October 2021.^[8] Thailand is represented by its national team logo while Indonesia is represented by its coat of arms.

[AbouttheAFF-1] "About AFF". aseanfootball.org.

[2] "Global News News.2008 | Global Suzuki". www.globalsuzuki.com. Retrieved 4 October 2022.

[3] "AFF Announces Mitsubishi Electric As The New Title Sponsor Of AFF Mitsubishi Electric Cup 2022". www.affmitsubishielectriccup.com. Retrieved 24 May 2022.

[5] "New format confirmed for AFF Suzuki Cup". Football Channel Asia. 14 March 2016. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2016.

[7] Noronha, Anselm (28 September 2021). "Singapore to host AFF Suzuki Cup 2020: Teams, how to watch & more | Goal.com". Goal.com. Retrieved 29 September 2021.

[Bangkok_Post_Public_Co._Ltd-9] "Thailand loses right to host tournaments". Bangkok Post. Bangkok Post Public Co. Ltd. Retrieved 25 November 2021. The country has also been denied the right to display its national flag at any such events (international football events).

[10] "Chairman Of PSSI: Regarding The Flag At AFF 2020, We Will Follow Whatever The Decision Is". VOI – Waktunya Merevolusi Pemberitaan. 24 November 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2021.

[11] "WADA confirms non-compliance of five Anti-Doping Organizations (7 October 2021)". World Anti-Doping Agency. 7 October 2021. Retrieved 4 December 2021.

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AFF Championship

Contents

History

Organisation

Sponsorship

Format

Results

Performances by country

Participating nations

Notes

Awards

Overall top goalscorers

Winning coaches

All-time ranking table

See also

Notes

References

External links

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