2007 AFC Asian Cup

Infobox International Football Competition
tourney_name =
year = 2007
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size = 230px
caption = Logo of the 2007 Asian Cup
country = Indonesia
country2 = Malaysia
country3 = Thailand
country4 = Vietnam
dates = 7 July – 29 July
finalists = 16
venues = 8
cities = 7
champion = IRQ
champion-flagvar = 2004
count = 1
second = KSA
third = KOR
fourth = JPN
matches = 32
goals = 84
attendance = 724222
top_scorer =flagicon|IRQ Younis Mahmoud
flagicon|KSA Yasser Al-Qahtani
flagicon|JPN Naohiro Takahara
(4 goals)
player = flagicon|IRQ|2004 Younis Mahmoud
updated = The Asian Football Confederation's 2007 AFC Asian Cup finals were held from July 7 to July 29, 2007. For the first time in its history, the competition was co-hosted by four nations: Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. The tournament was won by first-time champions Iraq, who defeated Saudi Arabia 1-0 in the final. As the winner, Iraq will represent the AFC at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup.

The Asian Cup had previously been held every 4 years from 1956 onwards, the last cup being held in China in 2004. However, with the Summer Olympic Games and the European Football Championship also held in the same year as the Asian Cup (2004, 2008, 2012 etc.), the AFC decided to change their tradition and hold the tournament in 2007, and every four years henceforth from that date.

This was the first major AFC tournament in which Australia participated as a member.

Host selection

The decision to have four host nations for this edition of the Asian Cup was proposed and presented to the executive committee by AFC president Mohammed Bin Hammam. However, he later regretted this decision and called it his "mistake", citing the financial and logistic difficulties in organising an event across four countries.

He said that "It is proving very difficult for [the executive committee as they] have to have four organising committees, four media centres and there are also financial considerations." He also revealed that " [He would] definitely [not do] it [again] ," if he had the choice.

In June 2005, the Asian Football Confederation warned Thailand that it needed to improve its facilities before 2007, otherwise it would be dropped, possibly being replaced with Singapore. On August 12 of the same year, the AFC confirmed that Thailand would be a co-host of the 2007 Asian Cup. [cite news |url=http://www.the-afc.com/english/media/default.asp?mnsection=media&section=newsDetails&newsID=3783 |title= Thailand confirmed as AFC Asian Cup 2007 co-host |publisher=AFC |date=2005-08-12] However in October 2006, Thailand was again warned to improve its facilities in 90 days. [cite news |url=http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-6152785,00.html |title= Thailand handed 90-day Asian Cup reprieve |publisher=The Guardian |date=2006-10-17]

Venues

footballbox
date=2007-07-07
19:35 UTC+7
team1=fb-rt|THA
score=1 – 1
report= [http://www.afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/THAvIRQ070707.pdf (Report)]
team2=fb|IRQ|2004
goals1=S. Suksomkit goal|6|pen
goals2=Younis Mahmoud goal|32
stadium=Rajamangala National Stadium, Bangkok
attendance=30,000
referee=Kwon Jung-Chul flagicon|KOR ----footballbox
date=2007-07-08
17:20 UTC+7
team1=fb-rt|AUS
score=1 – 1
report= [http://www.afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/AUSvOMA070807.pdf (Report)]
team2=fb|OMA
goals1=Cahill goal|90+2
goals2=Badar goal|32
stadium=Rajamangala National Stadium, Bangkok
attendance=5,000
referee=Eddy Maillet flagicon|SEY ----footballbox
date=2007-07-12
17:20 UTC+7
team1=fb-rt|OMA
score=0 – 2
report= [http://www.afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/OMAvTHA120707.pdf (Report)]
team2=fb|THA
goals1=
goals2=P. Thonkanya goal|70 goal|78
stadium=Rajamangala National Stadium, Bangkok
attendance=19,000
referee=Lee Gi-Young flagicon|KOR ----footballbox
date=2007-07-13
17:20 UTC+7
team1=fb|IRQ|2004
score=3 – 1
team2=fb|AUS
report= [http://www.afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/IRQvAUS130707.pdf (Report)]
goals1=Nashat Akram goal|23
Hawar Mulla goal|60
Karrar Jassim goal|86
goals2=Viduka goal|47
stadium=Rajamangala National Stadium, Bangkok
attendance=6,000
referee=Jasim Karim flagicon|BHR ----footballbox
date=2007-07-16
19:35 UTC+7
team1=fb-rt|THA
score=0 – 4
report= [http://www.afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/THAvAUS160707.pdf (Report)]
team2=fb|AUS
goals1=
goals2=Beauchamp goal|21
Viduka goal|80 goal|83
Kewell goal|90
stadium=Rajamangala National Stadium, Bangkok
attendance=46,000
referee=Kwon Jong-Chul flagicon|KOR ----footballbox
date=2007-07-16
19:35 UTC+7
team1=fb-rt|OMA
score=0 – 0
report= [http://www.afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/OMAvIRQ160707.pdf (Report)]
team2=fb|IRQ|2004
goals1=
goals2=
stadium=Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok
attendance=500
referee=Eddy Maillet flagicon|SEY

Group B

footballbox
date=2007-07-10
17:20 UTC+7
team1=fb-rt|IDN
score=2 – 1
report= [http://www.afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/IDNvBHR100707.pdf (Report)]
team2=fb|BHR
goals1=Budi S. goal|14
Bambang goal|64
goals2=S. Mahmood goal|27
stadium=Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta
attendance=65,000
referee=Yuichi Nishimura flagicon|JPN ----footballbox
date=2007-07-11
19:35 UTC+7
team1=fb-rt|KOR
score=1 – 1
report= [http://www.afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/KORvKSA110707.pdf (Report)]
team2=fb|KSA
goals1=Choi Sung-Kuk goal|66
goals2=Y. Al-Qahtani goal|77|pen
stadium=Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta
attendance=45,110
referee=Mark Shield flagicon|AUS ----footballbox
date=2007-07-14
19:35 UTC+7
team1=fb-rt|KSA
score=2 – 1
report= [http://www.afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/KSAvIDN140707.pdf (Report)]
team2=fb|IDN
goals1=Y. Al-Qahtani goal|12
Saad goal|90
goals2=Elie goal|20
stadium=Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta
attendance=87,000
referee=Ali Al-Badwawi flagicon|UAE ----footballbox
date=2007-07-15
19:35 UTC+7
team1=fb-rt|BHR
score=2 – 1
report= [http://www.afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/BHRvKOR150707.pdf (Report)]
team2=fb|KOR
goals1=Salman I. goal|43
Ismaeel goal|85
goals2=Kim Do-Heon goal|4
stadium=Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta
attendance=9,000
referee=Baojie Sun flagicon|CHN ----footballbox
date=2007-07-18
17:20 UTC+7
team1=fb-rt|IDN
score=0 – 1
team2=fb|KOR
report= [http://www.afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/IDNvKOR180707.pdf (Report)]
goals1=
goals2=Kim Jung-Woo goal|33
stadium=Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta
attendance=87,000
referee=Mark Shield flagicon|AUS ----footballbox
date=2007-07-18
17:20 UTC+7
team1=fb-rt|KSA
score=4 – 0
team2=fb|BHR
report= [http://www.afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/KSAvBHR180707.pdf (Report)]
goals1=A. Al Mousa goal|18
A. Al-Qahtani goal|45
Taiseer goal|68 goal|80
goals2=
stadium=Jakabaring Stadium, Palembang
attendance=500
referee=Yuichi Nishimura flagicon|JPN

Knock-out Stages

Knockout Map

Round8-with third
July 21 - Bangkok|fb|IRQ|2004|2|fb|VIE|0
July 22 - Kuala Lumpur|fb|IRN|0 (2)|fb|KOR (PSO)|0 (4)
July 21 - Hanoi|fb|JPN (PSO)|1 (4)|fb|AUS|1 (3)
July 22 - Jakarta|fb|KSA|2|fb|UZB|1
July 25 - Kuala Lumpur|fb|IRQ|2004 (PSO)|0 (4)|fb|KOR|0 (3)
July 25 - Hanoi|fb|JPN|2|fb|KSA|3
July 29 - Jakarta|fb|IRQ|2004|1|fb|KSA|0
July 28 - Palembang|fb|KOR (PSO)|0 (6)|fb|JPN|0 (5)

Quarter-finals

footballbox
date=2007-07-21
17:20 UTC+7
team1=fb-rt|JPN
score=1 – 1
(aet)
report= [http://www.afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/JPNvAUS210707.pdf (Report)]
team2=fb|AUS
goals1=Takahara goal|72
goals2=Aloisi goal|69
stadium=My Dinh National Stadium, Hanoi
attendance=25,000
referee=Saad Kameel Al Fadhli flagicon|KUW

penshootoutbox
penalties1 = S.Nakamura pengoal
Endo pengoal
Komano pengoal
Takahara penmiss|over crossbar
Nakazawa pengoal
penaltyscore = 4–3
penalties2 = penmiss|saved Kewell
penmiss|saved Neill
pengoal Cahill
pengoal Carle
pengoal Carney----footballbox
date=2007-07-21
20:20 UTC+7
team1=fb|IRQ|2004
score=2 – 0
report= [http://www.afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/IRQvVIE210707.pdf (Report)]
team2=fb|VIE
goals1=Younis Mahmoud goal|2 goal|66
goals2=
stadium=Rajamangala National Stadium, Bangkok
attendance=9,720
referee=Yuichi Nishimura flagicon|JPN ----footballbox
date=2007-07-22
18:20 UTC+8
team1=fb-rt|IRN
score=0 – 0
(aet)
report= [http://www.afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/IRNvKOR220707.pdf (Report)]
team2=fb|KOR
goals1=
goals2=
stadium=Bukit Jalil Stadium, Kuala Lumpur
attendance=8,629
referee=Ali Al-Badwawi flagicon|UAE

penshootoutbox
penalties1 = F. Zandi pengoal
M. Mahdavikia penmiss|saved
R. Enayati pengoal
R. Khatibi penmiss|saved
penaltyscore = 2–4
penalties2 = pengoal Lee Chun-Soo
pengoal Kim Sang-Sik
penmiss|saved Kim Do-Heon
pengoal Cho Jae-Jin
pengoal Kim Jung-Woo----footballbox
date=2007-07-22
20:20 UTC+8
team1=fb-rt|KSA
score=2 – 1
report= [http://www.afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/KSAvUZB220707.pdf (Report)]
team2=fb|UZB
goals1=Y. Al-Qahtani goal|3
A. Al-Mousa goal|75
goals2=Solomin goal|81
stadium=Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta
attendance=12,000
referee=Kwon Jung-Chul flagicon|KOR

emi-finals

footballbox
date=2007-07-25
18:20 UTC+8
team1=fb|IRQ|2004
score=0 – 0
(aet)
report= [http://www.afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/IRQvKOR250707.pdf (Report)]
team2=fb|KOR
goals1=
goals2=
stadium=Bukit Jalil Stadium, Kuala Lumpur
attendance=12,500
referee=Saad Kameel Al Fadhli flagicon|KUW

penshootoutbox
penalties1 = Hawar M. pengoal
Qusai M. pengoal
Haidar A. pengoal
Ahmed M. pengoal
penaltyscore = 4 – 3
penalties2 = pengoal Lee Chun-Soo
pengoal Lee Dong-Gook
pengoal Cho Jae-Jin
penmiss|saved Yeom Ki-Hoon
penmiss|hit post Kim Jung-Woo----footballbox
date=2007-07-25
20:20 UTC+7
team1=fb-rt|JPN
score=2 – 3
report= [http://www.afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/JPNvKSA250707.pdf (Report)]
team2=fb|KSA
goals1=Nakazawa goal|37
Abe goal|53
goals2=Y. Al-Qahtani goal|35
Mouath goal|47 goal|57
stadium=My Dinh National Stadium, Hanoi
attendance=10,000
referee=Matthew Breeze flagicon|AUS

Third place play-off

footballbox
date = 2007-07-28
19:35 UTC+8
team1 = fb-rt|KOR
score = 0 – 0
(aet)
report = [http://afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/KORvJPN280707.pdf (Report)]
team2 = fb|JPN
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium = Jakabaring Stadium, Palembang
attendance = 10,000
referee = Ali Al-Badwawi flagicon|UAEpenshootoutbox
penalties1 = Cho Jae-Jin pengoal
Oh Bum-Seok pengoal
Lee Chun-Soo pengoal
Lee Ho pengoal
Kim Jin-Kyu pengoal
Kim Chi-Woo pengoal
penaltyscore = 6 – 5
penalties2 = pengoal S. Nakamura
pengoal Endo
pengoal Abe
pengoal Komano
pengoal Nakazawa
penmiss|saved Hanyu

Final

footballbox
date = 2007-07-29
19:35 UTC+8
team1 = fb|IRQ|2004
score = 1 – 0
report = [http://afcasiancup.com/shared/data/30/IRQvKSA290707.pdf (Report)]
team2 = fb|KSA
goals1 = Younis Mahmoud goal|76
goals2 =
stadium = Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta
attendance = 60,000
referee = Mark Shield flagicon|AUS

Winners

Awards

Goalscorers

4 goals:
* Younis Mahmoud
* Yasser Al-Qahtani
* Naohiro Takahara3 goals:
* Mark Viduka
* Sebastián Quintana
* Maksim Shatskikh2 goals:
* Han Peng
* Shao Jiayi
* Wang Dong
* Javad Nekounam
* Seiichiro Maki
* Shunsuke Nakamura
* Malek Mouath
* Ahmed Al-Mousa
* Taisir Al-Jassim
* Pipat Thonkanya
* Saeed Alkas
* Timur Kapadze1 goal:
* John Aloisi
* Michael Beauchamp
* Tim Cahill
* Harry Kewell
* Ismaeel Abdullatif
* Salman Isa
* Sayed Mahmood Jalal
* Mao Jianqing
* Elie Aiboy
* Bambang Pamungkas
* Budi Sudarsono
* Seyed Jalal Hosseini
* Javad Kazemian
* Andranik Teymourian
* Ferydoon Zandi
* Nashat Akram
* Hawar Mulla Mohammed
* Karrar Jassim
* Yuki Abe
* Yasuhito Endo
* Yuji Nakazawa
* Indra Putra Mahayuddin
* Badar Al-Maimani
* Saad Al-Harthi
* Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani
* Choi Sung-Kuk
* Kim Do-Heon
* Kim Jung-Woo
* Sutee Suksomkit
* Faisal Khalil
* Pavel Solomin
* Ulugbek Bakaev
* Aleksandr Geynrikh
* Aziz Ibragimov
* Phan Thanh Bình
* Huỳnh Quang Thanh
* Lê Công VinhOwn goals:
* Rahman Rezaei (1)
* Keita Suzuki (1)

Top scoring teams

12 goals
*fb|KSA

11 goals
*fb|JPN

10 goals
*fb|UZB

7 goals
*fb|AUS
*fb|CHN
*fb|IRQ|2004

6 goals
*fb|IRN

4 goals
*fb|VIE

3 goals
*fb|BHR
*fb|IDN
*fb|KOR
*fb|QAT
*fb|THA
*fb|UAE

1 goal
*fb|MAS
*fb|OMA

References

External links

* [http://www.afcasiancup.com/en/ AFC Asian Cup 2007]
* [http://www.rsssf.com/tables/07asch.html Asian Cup 2007 at RSSSF]