2010 AFF Championship

2010 AFF Championship

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Tournament details
Host countries	Indonesia Vietnam
Dates	1–29 December
Teams	8
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Malaysia (1st title)
Runners-up	Indonesia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	18
Goals scored	51 (2.83 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Safee Sali (5 goals)
Best player	Firman Utina

The 2010 AFF Championship, sponsored by Suzuki and P&G and officially known as the 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup,^[1] took place on 1–29 December 2010.^[2] Indonesia and Vietnam hosted the preliminary stage from 1 to 7 December for Group A and 2 to 8 December for Group B. The semi-finals were played home and away with the first legs on 15 and 16 December 2010, and the second legs on 18 and 19 December 2010. The final was played over two legs on 26 December 2010 and 29 December 2010.^[3]

Indonesia appeared in their fourth final while the Philippines qualified for the semi-finals for the first time under the management of Simon McMenemy.^[4] Malaysia subsequently won their first ever title since they first appeared in the final in the inaugural edition,^[5] beating Indonesia 4–2 on aggregate in the finals. Malaysia became the first nation to win the AFF Cup (including tournaments held under earlier formats), despite losing two games in the tournament (both to Indonesia).

Hosts

On 17 February 2009, Vietnam declared their interest in hosting the eighth AFF Championship.^[6] On 21 April 2009, the Vietnamese newspaper VietNamNet announced that Vietnam would co-host the Championship along with Indonesia.^[7][8]

Venues

There were two main venues; the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta and the My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi with two secondary venues which will be used simultaneously with the main venue on the final match day of the group stage. Originally, the secondary venue for Group B was the Hàng Đẫy Stadium in Hanoi. However, on 22 November 2010, the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) announced that it would not be ready in time for the tournament due to ongoing renovations and was replaced by the Chùa Cuõi Stadium aka the Thiên Trường Stadium.^[9] For Group A, the original secondary venue was the Jalak Harupat Soreang Stadium in Bandung but on 24 November 2010 a week after an AFF meeting, it was announced that it would be replaced with the Gelora Sriwijaya Stadium.^[10] Teams qualifying for the semi-finals would also host a game, in this case, Malaysia whom qualified used their National Stadium for the semi final and final.

Jakarta

Palembang

Hanoi

Nam Dinh

Kuala Lumpur

Location of stadiums of the 2016 AFF Championship.
Yellow: Group Stage.
Red: Final.

Jakarta	Palembang	Hanoi	Nam Dinh	Kuala Lumpur
Gelora Bung Karno Stadium	Gelora Sriwijaya Stadium	Mỹ Đình National Stadium	Thiên Trường Stadium	Bukit Jalil National Stadium
Capacity: 88,083	Capacity: 36,000	Capacity: 40,000	Capacity: 30,000	Capacity: 87,411

Qualification

Qualification took place from 22 to 26 October 2010 in Laos. With the four lower ranked teams Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines and Timor Leste battling for two spots to the finals.^[3] However, the qualification tournament was held without Brunei, due to FIFA's continued suspension of the Football Federation of Brunei Darussalam.^[11]

Six teams qualified for the finals, based on tournament records:

•  Indonesia
•  Malaysia
•  Myanmar
•  Singapore
•  Thailand
•  Vietnam

Two teams qualified via the qualification tournament:

•  Laos (Qualification winners)
•  Philippines (Qualification runners-up)

Squads

Final tournament

Group stage

Key to colours in group tables
Top two placed teams advanced to the semi-finals

Group A

• All matches were played in Indonesia.
• Times listed are UTC+7.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Indonesia	3	3	0	0	13	2	+11	9
Malaysia	3	1	1	1	6	6	0	4
Thailand	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2
Laos	3	0	1	2	3	13	−10	1

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Group B

• All matches were played in Vietnam.
• Times listed are UTC+7

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Vietnam	3	2	0	1	8	3	+5	6
Philippines	3	1	2	0	3	1	+2	5
Singapore	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
Myanmar	3	0	1	2	2	9	−7	1

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Knockout stage

	Semi-finals							Final
	A2	Malaysia	2	0	2
	B1	Vietnam	0	0	0
								A2	Malaysia	3	1	4
								A1	Indonesia	0	2	2
	B2	Philippines	0	0	0
	A1	Indonesia	1	1	2

Semi-finals

First Leg

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Second Leg

Malaysia won 2–0 on aggregate.

Indonesia won 2–0 on aggregate.

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^† The first leg of the semi-finals was supposed to be played in the Philippines. However, due to the unavailability of a stadium that passes AFF standards, both legs were hosted by Indonesia.^[12]

Final

First Leg

Second Leg

Malaysia won 4–2 on aggregate

Awards

2010 AFF Championship Champion
Malaysia First title

Most Valuable Player	Golden Boot	Fair Play Award
Firman Utina	Safee Sali	Vietnam

Incidents

During the group match between Indonesia and Malaysia at Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, some Indonesian fans are seen pointing green laser lights towards Malaysian goalkeeper, Mohd Sharbinee when Indonesia scored a fifth goals as seen at 4:06 minutes on the match video in YouTube.^[13] Other incidents also occur soon after Malaysia's semi-final home leg against Vietnam, when goalkeeper Bùi Tấn Trường stated that he was targeted with green laser pointers from the Malaysian fans when he want prepare for goal kicks and when saving the ball, which caused him to turn his head away.^[14] During the final, Malaysia's fans again targeted the opposition players with green laser pointers. The first leg, also at the National Stadium, Bukit Jalil, was stopped for eight minutes starting in the 53rd minute when the Indonesian players walked off in protest and complained to referee Masaaki Toma about the laser lights.^[15][16] Malaysia scored the first goal right after play was resumed.^[17] The return-leg final in Jakarta saw Indonesian fans also pointing green laser lights again towards Malaysian goalkeeper face, Khairul Fahmi Che Mat.^{[18][19][20][21]}

Media coverage

2010 AFF Championship Broadcasters in Southeast Asia
Country	Network Station	Television Station	Radio Station
Brunei	Radio Televisyen Brunei	RTB TV1	Radio Nasional Brunei
Cambodia	National Radio and Television of Cambodia	National Television of Cambodia	National Radio of Cambodia
Indonesia	Media Nusantara Citra	RCTI	Trijaya FM
Laos	Lao National Radio and Television	Lao National Television	Lao National Radio
Malaysia	RTM	TV1	Hot FM
Myanmar	Myanmar Radio and Television	Myanmar Television	Myanmar Radio
Philippines	ABS-CBN	Studio 23	DZSR Sports Radio 918
Singapore	Media Corporation of Singapore, SingTel	MediaCorp TV Channel 5, mio TV	938LIVE
Thailand	Channel 7 (Thailand)	CH7	NBT Network 1 Radio in Thailand
Timor-Leste	Radio-Televisão Timor Leste	Televisão Timor Leste	Radio Timor Leste
Vietnam	Vietnam Television	VTV2	Voice of Vietnam

Goalscorers

5 goals

• Safee Sali

3 goals

• Cristian Gonzáles
• Muhammad Ridwan

2 goals

1 goal

Own goals

• Mohd Asraruddin Putra Omar (playing against Indonesia)

Markus Zulkifli Fadhli Shas Hamka Huy Hoang Safiq Kunanlan Firman Arif Safee Sali González

Team statistics

This table shows all team performance.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Final
1	Malaysia	7	3	2	2	12	8	+4
2	Indonesia	7	6	0	1	17	6	+11
Semi-finals
3	Vietnam	5	2	1	2	8	5	+3
4	Philippines	5	1	2	2	3	3	0
Eliminated in the group stage
5	Singapore	3	1	1	1	3	3	0
6	Thailand	3	0	2	1	3	4	–1
7	Myanmar	3	0	1	2	2	9	–7
8	Laos	3	0	1	2	3	13	–10

References

External links

• AFF Suzuki Cup official website
• ASEAN Football Federation official website