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2011 SAFF Championship

FieldValue
year2011
image2011 SAFF Championship logo.svg
size150px
captionLogo 2011 SAFF Championship
countryIndia
dates2–11 December
num_teams8
venues1
cities1
championIndia
count6
secondAfghanistan
second-flagvar2004
matches15
goals44
top_scorerIND Sunil Chhetri (7 goals)
playerIND Sunil Chhetri
prevseason[2009](2009-saff-championship)
nextseason[2013](2013-saff-championship)

| second-flagvar = 2004

The 2011 South Asian Football Federation Championship, sponsored by Karbonn Mobiles and officially named Karbonn SAFF Championship 2011, was the 9th tournament of the SAFF Championship, which held in New Delhi, India.

Venue

It was originally scheduled to take place in Orissa, India, but was switched to New Delhi by the executive committee of the All India Football Federation on 22 September.

The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi was the main venue for the tournament. It is also the home stadium for India national football team and hosted the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

New Delhi
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Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Capacity: **60,000**
[[File:Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium CWG opening ceremony.jpg200px]]

Squads

Main article: 2011 SAFF Championship squads

Draw

The draw ceremony took place on 2 November 2011 at New Delhi's Le Meridien Hotel was attended by a host of dignitaries including AIFF General Secretary Kushal Das, SAFF General Secretary Alberto Colaco and Maldives Football Association General Secretary Shah Ismail.

Group AGroup B

(The FIFA rankings of the teams at the start of the tournament are given in brackets in the table)

Group stage

All times are Indian Standard Time (IST) – UTC+5:30

Key to colours in group tables

Group A

Nipuna

Yamrali

Clifford
Chhetri

Amiri
Arezou
Sharityar
Mashriqi

Chhetri
Warakagoda

Group B

Ashfaq

Knockout stage

Bracket

| 9 December — New Delhi||1||3 | 9 December — New Delhi| |1||0 | 11 December — New Delhi|****|4||0|

Semi-finals

Chhetri

Final

Main article: 2011 SAFF Championship Final

Clifford
Jeje
Sushil

Champion

Awards

Fair Play AwardTop ScorerPlayer of the Tournament
IND Sunil ChhetriIND Sunil Chhetri

Statistics

Goalscorers

;7 goals

  • IND Sunil Chhetri

;6 goals

  • AFG Balal Arezou

;3 goals

  • IND Clifford Miranda

;2 goals

  • AFG Sandjar Ahmadi
  • AFG Ata Yamrali
  • IND Syed Rahim Nabi
  • IND Jeje Lalpekhlua
  • MDV Ali Ashfaq
  • MDV Ahmed Thariq
  • SRI Nipuna Bandara
  • SRI Mohamed Zain

;1 goal

  • AFG Zohib Islam Amiri
  • AFG Mohammad Mashriqi
  • AFG Djelaludin Sharityar
  • BAN Shahedul Alam Shahed
  • BHU Chencho Gyeltshen
  • IND Sushil Kumar Singh
  • MDV Shamweel Qasim
  • NEP Bharat Khawas
  • NEP Sandip Rai
  • NEP Sagar Thapa
  • PAK Samar Ishaq

;Own goal

  • SRI Bandara Warakagoda (against India)

Other statistics

  • Most wins IND India 4 wins
  • Most Losses BHU Bhutan 3 loss
  • Most Draws PAK Pakistan 3 draws
  • First goal of the tournament Ali Ashfaq for MDV Maldives vs NEP Nepal
  • Most goals scored in a match AFG Afghanistan 8 Goals vs BHU Bhutan
  • Lowest scores in a match 1. BAN Bangladesh vs PAK Pakistan 0-0
  1. PAK Pakistan vs MDV Maldives 0-0
  • Most Goals in a match by one player Balal Arezou for vs 4 Goals
  • Fastest Goal of the tournament Ata Yamrali for vs in 4 Minutes
  • Best Defender Djelaludin Sharityar of
  • Best match of the tournament vs 1-0

Broadcasting

YouTube Live

In a deal with World Sport Group and SAFF's exclusive marketing and media partner, all matches were shown live on YouTube. The live matches are accessible globally through SAFF Youtube Channel except in India, where they were available on a delayed basis the following day.

Television

CountriesBroadcaster
TEN Action+
NEO Sports
Ariana TV1
Doordarshan2
MNBC One

1 Only Afghan matches 2 Only Indian matches

References

References

  1. (2 December 2011). "Karbonn mobile becomes title sponsor of SAFF Championship". Indian Football Network.
  2. "AIFF Executive committee meeting". All India Football Federation.
  3. "Exe. Committee enthusiastic about AIFF-FIFA Dev. Prog". All India Football Federation.
  4. "Maldives in group of death". Maldives Soccer.
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