Soccer Southeast Asian Championship
The Southeast Asian Football Championship ( English ASEAN Football Championship , Thai: อาเซียน ฟุตบอล แช ม เปีย น ชิพ) is a regional football competition between the ASEAN countries that has been held every two years since 1996. The host is the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) , a sub-organization of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
The long-standing sponsor of the competition was the Singaporean brewery Asia Pacific Breweries , which is why the tournament was named Tiger Cup based on one of their products ( Tiger Beer ) . After the contract was terminated, the 2007 championship was called the ASEAN Football Championship , and Suzuki has been the new main sponsor since 2008 , so the official name of the event has been the AFF Suzuki Cup since then .
Thailand was the only one to win five championships. Singapore follows with four, Vietnam with two and Malaysia with one title.
history
The first edition of the tournament took place in Singapore from September 2nd to 15th, 1996 , and all 10 Southeast Asian countries took part in the tournament. The participants were divided into two groups of 5 teams each and the two best in each group qualify for the semifinals. In the semifinals, Thailand beat Vietnam 4-2, while Malaysia beat Indonesia 3-1 . In the final, the Thais finally won 1-0 and became the first winner of this tournament.
For the 1998 tournament in Vietnam there was a qualification phase for the first time, in which six teams initially played for the remaining four places (the four semi-finalists from 1996 had already qualified). Again there was a group stage with subsequent knockout games, in the final Singapore beat hosts Vietnam 1-0.
In 2000 the third edition took place in Thailand, this time 9 teams took part. Thailand won the final against Indonesia 4-1. Two years later there was another Thai-Indonesian final in Jakarta. Thailand beat the hosts on penalties in front of 100,000 spectators at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium .
A rule change took place for the Tiger Cup 2004, so the semi-finals and finals were played in play-off mode. H. each team had to play against the opponent at home and away. Singapore won the two finals against Indonesia 3-1 and 2-1 and was the winner for the second time.
In 2005 the renaming of the tournament from 2007 was announced. Furthermore, it was decided to reintroduce the qualification used in 1998 in order to reduce the field of participants from 10 to 8.
First participations
Below are all national teams that have taken part in this tournament so far.
- Teams in bold became Southeast Asian champions when they first played.
- Teams in italics were hosts when they first participated.
- Teams in brackets participated for the first time under a different name.
| Year (s) | First time participant | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 |
 Brunei
|
 Cambodia
|
 Indonesia
|
 Laos
|
 Malaysia
|
.svg){kind=small} Myanmar
|
.svg){kind=small} Philippines
|
 Singapore
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 Thailand
|
 Vietnam
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| 1998-2002 | no first-time participants | |||
| 2004 |
 East Timor
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| 2007 – ongoing | no first-time participants | |||
The tournaments at a glance
Ranking list
| rank | country | title | Year (s) | 2nd place | final | Semifinals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Thailand
|
5 | 1996, 2000, 2002, 2014, 2016 | 3 | 8th | 10 | |
| 2 |
Singapore
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4th | 1998, 2004, 2007, 2012 | 4th | 5 | ||
| 3 |
Vietnam
|
2 | 2008, 2018 | 1 | 3 | 10 | |
| 4th |
Malaysia
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1 | 2010 | 3 | 4th | 9 | |
| 5 |
Indonesia
|
5 | 5 | 8th | |||
| 6th |
 Philippines
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4th | |||||
| 7th |
 Myanmar
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2 | |||||
| Respective record | |||||||