AFC President's Cup 2009

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The AFC President's Cup 2009 was the fifth edition of the AFC President's Cup , the club competition for the weakest Asian football associations. All eleven participating teams were reigning national champions.

As in 2008, the competition was not held entirely in one place. The preliminary round groups were each played as a tournament in a city. The competition took place from May 6th to May 16th, 2009. The defending champion is the two-time winner Regar TadAZ from Tajikistan .

Qualified teams

team League / title
TajikistanTajikistan Regar TadAZ 1st Tajik League: 2008 champions
NepalNepal Nepal Police Club Martyr's Memorial A-Division League : Champion 2006/07
TaiwanRepublic of China (Taiwan) Taiwan Power Company FC Enterprise Football League : 2008 champions
PakistanPakistan WAPDA FC Pakistan Premier League : 2008 champions
BangladeshBangladesh Abahani Ltd. Dhaka B. League : Champions 2008
Sri LankaSri Lanka Sri Lanka Army FC Kit Premier League : Champions 2008/09
TurkmenistanTurkmenistan FC Ashgabat Ýokary League : Champions 2008
BhutanBhutan Yedzin FC A-Division (Bhutan) : Champion 2008
CambodiaCambodia Phnom Penh Crown Cambodian 1st division : 2008 champions
KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan Dordoi dynamo Kyrgyz 1st division : champions 2008
Myanmar 1974Myanmar Kan Baw Za Myanmar Premier League : 2008 champions

Group stage

Group A

The host association was the Nepal Police Club . The games took place at Dashrath Stadium in Kathmandu , Nepal .

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. TajikistanTajikistan Regar TadAZ  3  1  2  0 005: 300  +2 05
 2. PakistanPakistan WAPDA FC  3  1  2  0 003: 100  +2 05
 3. TaiwanRepublic of China (Taiwan) Taiwan Power Company FC  3  1  0  2 005: 800  −3 03
 4th NepalNepal Nepal Police Club  3  0  2  1 004: 500  −1 02
May 14, 2009
Regar TadAZ 0-0 WAPDA FC
Nepal Police Club 2: 3 Taiwan Power Company FC
May 16, 2009
WAPDA FC 0-0 Nepal Police Club
Taiwan Power Company FC 1: 3 Regar TadAZ
May 18, 2009
Regar TadAZ 2: 2 Nepal Police Club
Taiwan Power Company FC 1: 3 WAPDA FC

Group B

The host association was Abahani Ltd. Dhaka . The games took place at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka , Bangladesh .

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. TurkmenistanTurkmenistan FC Ashgabat  2  1  1  0 005: 100  +4 04th
 2. BangladeshBangladesh Abahani Ltd. Dhaka  2  1  1  0 002: 100  +1 04th
 3. Sri LankaSri Lanka Sri Lanka Army FC  2  0  0  2 002: 700  −5 00
May 12, 2009
Sri Lanka Army FC 1: 2 Abahani Ltd. Dhaka
May 14, 2009
FC Ashgabat 5: 1 Sri Lanka Army FC
May 16, 2009
Abahani Ltd. Dhaka 0-0 FC Ashgabat

Group C

The host club was the Dordoi Dynamo . The games took place at the Spartak Stadium in Bishkek , Kyrgyzstan .

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan Dordoi dynamo  3  3  0  0 012: 200 +10 09
 2. Myanmar 1974Myanmar Kan Baw Za  3  2  0  1 009: 700  +2 06th
 3. CambodiaCambodia Phnom Penh Crown  3  1  0  2 007: 800  −1 03
 4th BhutanBhutan Yedzin FC  3  0  0  3 003:140 −11 00
June 10, 2009
Dordoi dynamo 7-0 Yedzin FC
Kan Baw Za 4: 3 Phnom Penh Crown
June 12, 2009
Phnom Penh Crown 1: 3 Dordoi dynamo
Yedzin FC 2: 4 Kan Baw Za
June 14, 2009
Phnom Penh Crown 3: 1 Yedzin FC
Dordoi dynamo 2: 1 Kan Baw Za

Final round

The semi-finals and finals were played in the Tajik city of Tursunsoda on the stadium of the host Regar TadAZ . The final round took place between September 25 and 27, 2009.

Semifinals

date Result
September 25, 2009 FC Ashgabat TurkmenistanTurkmenistan 1: 2 KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan Dordoi dynamo
September 25, 2009 Regar TadAZ TajikistanTajikistan 4: 3 a.d. PakistanPakistan WAPDA FC

final

date Result
September 27, 2009 Regar TadAZ TajikistanTajikistan 2-0 KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan Dordoi dynamo

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Firdavs Murtazoyev: Tajikistan to host AFC president's Cup finals. Media group “ASIA-Plus” (Dushanbe, Tajikistan), July 20, 2009, accessed on January 13, 2014 (English).