Football West Asian Cup 2019
| Football West Asian Cup 2019 | |
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| 2019 WAFF Championship | |
 West Asian Football Federation logo |
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| Number of nations | 9 |
| West Asian Champion |
 Bahrain (1st title)
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| venue |
 Iraq
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| Opening game | July 30, 2019 |
| Endgame | August 14, 2019 |
| Games | 17th |
| Gates | 34 (⌀: 2 per game) |
| Top scorer |
Hussein Ali (3 goals)
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 yellow cards
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50 (⌀: 2.94 per game) |
 Yellow-red cards
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1 (⌀: 0.06 per game) |
 Red cards
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1 (⌀: 0.06 per game) |
The 2019 West Asian Football Championship (officially 2019 WAFF Championship , also known as the 2019 Asiacell WAFF Championship for sponsorship reasons ) was the ninth edition of the tournament and took place in Iraq from July 30th to August 14th, 2019 . Iraq hosted the competition for the first time.
Nine teams from the West Asian region played for the title of West Asian champion. With the defending champions Qatar , Oman and the United Arab Emirates , three members of the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) did not participate.
The winner was Bahrain for the first time , beating the hosts from Iraq 1-0 in the final .
Venue and mode
The tournament was initially due to take place in December 2017 in Amman , the capital of Jordan , but was then postponed several times. In May 2018, the event was re-assigned to Iraq, which is now hosting an international tournament again after 30 years. The championship was supposed to take place in November 2018, but was postponed to July / August 2019.
The mode has changed compared to the 2013/14 tournament . The nine participating teams were divided into a group of five and one of four teams. Group A was held in Karbala and Group B in Erbil , the capital of the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan . In the group stage, the teams played against each other once. The two group winners reached the final. A game for third place did not take place.
Group stage
Group A
All matches took place in Karbala stage in Karbala instead. Times in local time ( UTC + 3 ).
| Pl. | country | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Diff. | Points |
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| 1. |
Iraq
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4th | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5: 2 | +3 | 10 |
| 2. |
 Palestine
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4th | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6: 5 | +1 | 7th |
| 3. |
 Yemen
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4th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4: 5 | −1 | 4th |
| 4th |
 Lebanon
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4th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3: 4 | −1 | 4th |
| 5. |
 Syria
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4th | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5: 7 | −2 | 2 |
| July 30, 2019, 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. | |||
| Iraq | - | Lebanon | 1: 0 (0: 0) |
| Yemen | - | Palestine | 0: 1 (0: 1) |
| August 2, 2019, 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. | |||
| Palestine | - | Iraq | 1: 2 (1: 1) |
| Lebanon | - | Syria | 2: 1 (0: 0) |
| August 5, 2019, 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. | |||
| Syria | - | Yemen | 1: 1 (0: 1) |
| Lebanon | - | Palestine | 0-0 |
| August 8, 2019, 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. | |||
| Yemen | - | Lebanon | 2: 1 (2: 1) |
| Syria | - | Iraq | 0-0 |
| August 11, 2019, 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. | |||
| Palestine | - | Syria | 4: 3 (1: 1) |
| Iraq | - | Yemen | 2: 1 (2: 0) |
Group B
All games took place in the Franso Hariri Stadium in Erbil . Times in local time ( UTC + 3 ).
| Pl. | country | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Diff. | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
Bahrain
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2-0 | +2 | 7th |
| 2. |
 Jordan
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4: 2 | +2 | 4th |
| 3. |
 Kuwait
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3: 3 | ± 0 | 4th |
| 4th |
 Saudi Arabia
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1: 5 | −4 | 1 |
| August 4, 2019, 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. | |||
| Jordan | - | Bahrain | 0: 1 (0: 0) |
| Saudi Arabia | - | Kuwait | 1: 2 (1: 1) |
| August 7, 2019, 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. | |||
| Bahrain | - | Saudi Arabia | 0-0 |
| Kuwait | - | Jordan | 1: 1 (1: 0) |
| August 10, 2019, 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. | |||
| Jordan | - | Saudi Arabia | 3: 0 (0: 0) |
| Kuwait | - | Bahrain | 0: 1 (0: 0) |
final
| Iraq | Bahrain | |||||||
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Jalal Hassan - Alaa Ali Mhawi , Saad Natiq , Ahmad Ibrahim , Dhurgham Ismail (77th Mohammed Qasim ) - Mahdi Kamel (69th Ayman Hussein ), Amjad Attwan , Ibrahim Bayesh , Safaa Hadi , Hussein Ali - Mohannad Abdul-Raheem (46th) Alaa Abbas ) Coach: Srečko Katanec ( Slovenia )
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Sayed Jaffer - Mohamed Adel (83rd Sayed Baqer ), Ahmed Bughammar , Ahmed Nabeel , Waleed al-Hayam - Abdulwahab al-Malood , Ali Haram (78th Mohammed al-Hardan ), Mohamed Abdulwahab - Kamil al-Aswad , Mohamed al- Romaihi , Isa Moosa (46th Sami al-Husaini ) Coach: Hélio Sousa ( Portugal )
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 0: 1 Moosa (39th)
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Mhawi (43rd), Ibrahim (90th + 5 ')
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b After countless delays, WAFF Championship returns . In: FootballPalestine.com . June 14, 2019. Accessed July 30, 2019.
- ↑ a b Iraq to host WAFF Championship . In: The-AFC.com . May 22, 2018. Retrieved July 30, 2019.