2004 TIGER CUP

The '2004 ASEAN Football Championship', also known as the '2004 Tiger Cup' was an ASEAN football championship jointly hosted by Vietnam and Malaysia, and participated by the national football teams of various countries in South-East Asia.
The championship started off with group matches, where the top two teams from each group advanced to the semi-finals and the final, which was played in a home and away format.

Contents

Summary

Teams

First round

Notes

Group A

Group B

Knock-out phase

Semi-finals

Final - First Leg

3/4 Place Match

Final - Second Leg

External links

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 Tiger Cup after bundling out the hosts Vietnam with an unexpexted 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 Avramovic pipped out the hosts by just a single point and remained to be 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

Of the 11 countries situated in the South-East Asian region, only Brunei did not participate in this edition, while the world's newest country, Timor Leste (or East Timor) was invited by ASEAN to compete.

'Group A' ★ Cambodia ★ Indonesia ★ Laos ★ Singapore ★ Vietnam

'Group B' ★ Malaysia ★ Myanmar ★ Philippines ★ Thailand ★ Timor Leste

First round

The teams in Group A played their matches at Thong Nhat Stadium and My Dinh National Stadium, Vietnam while the teams in Group B played their matches at National Stadium, Bukit Jalil, Malaysia.

Notes

★ All times local (UTC +07:00 in Vietnam, UTC +08:00 in Malaysia)

★ Half-time scores are in brackets

★ Abbreviations:

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★ Pld: games played

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★ W: won

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★ D: drawn

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★ L: lost

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★ GF: goals for

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★ GA: goals against

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★ GD: goal difference

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★ Pts: points

★ Tie-breakers

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★ For teams which finish level on points, the following tie-breakers will be used:

★ # greater number of points in the matches between the teams in question;

★ # greater goal difference in matches between the teams in question;

★ # greater number of goals scored in matches between the teams in question;

★ # greater goal difference in all group games;

★ # greater number of goals scored in all group games;

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1. Indonesia Indonesia	4	3	1	0	17	0	+17	'10'
2. Singapore Singapore	4	2	2	0	10	3	+7	'8'
3. Vietnam Vietnam	4	2	1	1	13	5	+8	'7'
4. Laos Laos	4	1	0	3	4	16	-12	'3'
5. Cambodia Cambodia	4	0	0	4	2	22	-20	'0'

December 7, 2004
'Vietnam'	'1 – 1' (0-0)Indra Sahdan Daud '70 - - Thach Bao Khan '51	'Singapore'	17:00	Thong Nhat Stadium	''Details''
'Indonesia'	'6 – 0' (3-0)	'Laos'	19:30	Thong Nhat Stadium	''Details''
December 9, 2004
'Vietnam'	'9 – 1' (2-1)	'Cambodia'	17:00	Thong Nhat Stadium	''Details''
'Indonesia'	'0 – 0' (0-0)	'Singapore'	19:30	Thong Nhat Stadium	''Details''
December 11, 2004
'Laos'	'2 – 1' (0-1)	'Cambodia'	17:00	My Dinh National Stadium	''Details''
'Vietnam'	'0 – 3' (0-3)	'Indonesia'	19:30	My Dinh National Stadium	''Details''
December 13, 2004
'Singapore'	'6 – 2' (4-1)	'Laos'	17:00	My Dinh National Stadium	''Details''
'Indonesia'	'8 – 0' (2-0)	'Cambodia'	19:30	My Dinh National Stadium	''Details''
December 15, 2004
'Vietnam'	'3 – 0' (2-0)	'Laos'	17:00	My Dinh National Stadium	''Details''
'Cambodia'	'0 – 3' (0-2)	'Singapore'	19:30	My Dinh National Stadium	''Details''

Group B

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

December 8, 2004
'Philippines'	'0 – 1' (0-0)	'Myanmar'	18:00	National Stadium, Bukit Jalil	''Details''
'Timor Leste'	'0 – 5' (0-1)	'Malaysia'	20:45	National Stadium, Bukit Jalil	''Details''
December 10, 2004
'Thailand'	'1 – 1' (1-0)	'Myanmar'	18:00	National Stadium, Bukit Jalil	''Details''
'Malaysia'	'4 – 1' (1-0)	'Philippines'	20:45	National Stadium, Bukit Jalil	''Details''
December 12, 2004
'Timor Leste'	'0 – 8' (0-2)	'Thailand'	18:00	National Stadium, Bukit Jalil	''Details''
'Myanmar'	'1 – 0' (1-0)	'Malaysia'	20:45	National Stadium, Bukit Jalil	''Details''
December 14, 2004
'Philippines'	'2 – 1' (0-0)	'Timor Leste'	18:00	National Stadium, Bukit Jalil	''Details''
'Malaysia'	'2 – 1' (0-1)	'Thailand'	20:45	National Stadium, Bukit Jalil	''Details''
December 16, 2004
'Myanmar'	'3 – 1' (2-1)	'Timor Leste'	18:00	National Stadium, Bukit Jalil	''Details''
'Thailand'	'3 – 1' (1-1)	'Philippines'	20:45	National Stadium, Bukit Jalil	''Details''

Knock-out phase

Semi-finals

December 28, 2004
'Indonesia'	'1 – 2' (1-1)	'Malaysia'	19:45	Stadium Utama Senayan	''Details''
January 3, 2005
'Malaysia'	'1 – 4' (1-0)	'Indonesia'	20:00	National Stadium, Bukit Jalil	''Details''
'''Indonesia' advances to final with 5-3 aggregate.''
December 29, 2004
'Myanmar'	'3 – 4' (2-2)	'Singapore'	19:30	Cheras Stadium	''Details''
January 2, 2005
'Singapore'	'4 – 2' (AET)(0-1)	'Myanmar'	19:30	National Stadium, Singapore	''Details''
''Match was 1-2 at full-time, aggregate was tied 5-5. 'Singapore' advances on 8-5 aggregate in extra time.''

Final - First Leg

January 8, 2005
'Indonesia'	'1 – 3' (0-2)	'Singapore'	19:45	Stadium Utama Senayan	''Details''

3/4 Place Match

January 15, 2005
'Myanmar'	'1 – 2' (0-1)	'Malaysia'	19:30	Jalan Besar Stadium	''Details''

Final - Second Leg

January 16, 2005
'Singapore'	'2 – 1' (2-0)	'Indonesia'	19:30	National Stadium, Singapore	''Details''
'''Singapore' wins the Tiger Cup with 5-2 aggregate.''

2004 Tiger Cup Champion
Singapore 'Singapore' 'Second Title'

External links

★ The Tiger Cup 2004 Official Website

★ News articles on the 2004 Tiger Cup