2013 EAFF East Asian Cup

Preliminary round 1

The first round of the Preliminary Competition was hosted by Guam between 18 and 22 July 2012. The winner of the group advanced to the second round.

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Matches

Ho Man Hou Vernon

Lopez DeVille

Awards

Goals

;4 goals

• GUM Jason Cunliffe

;3 goals

• MAC Chan Kin Seng

;1 goals

• GUM Zachary DeVille
• GUM Marcus Lopez
• MAC Ho Man Hou
• MAC Vernon
• NMI Joe Wang Miller
• NMI Kirk Schuler

Preliminary round 2

The second round of the preliminary competition was held in Hong Kong between 1 December and 9 December 2012. The winner of the group advanced to the final tournament.

Squads

Main article: 2013 EAFF East Asian Cup Preliminary Competition Round 2 squads

Matches

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Pak Song-chol
Ri Kwang-hyok
Pak Nam-chol
Ri Myong-jun

Ri Myong-jun
Pak Nam-chol
Jong Il-gwan

Babalj
Marrone
Thompson
Milligan
Garcia Lee Hong Lim

Ryang Yong-gi Pak Nam-chol
Pak Song-chol Cornthwaite Taggart
Behich
Mooy
Yang Chao-hsun

Awards

Goals

;4 goals

• AUS Archie Thompson
• PRK Ri Myong-jun

;3 goals

• PRK Pak Nam-chol

;2 goals

• AUS Eli Babalj
• AUS Aziz Behich
• AUS Richard García
• AUS Aaron Mooy
• AUS Adam Taggart
• HKG Chan Siu Ki
• PRK An Il-bom
• PRK Pak Song-chol

;1 goal

• AUS Robert Cornthwaite
• AUS Brett Emerton
• AUS Michael Marrone
• AUS Mark Milligan
• TPE Chen Hao-wei
• TPE Lo Chih-an
• GUM Elias Merfalen
• GUM Dylan Naputi
• HKG Chan Wai Ho
• HKG Lee Hong Lim
• PRK An Yong-hak
• PRK Jong Il-gwan
• PRK Pak Nam-chol
• PRK Ri Kwang-hyok
• PRK Ryang Yong-gi

;1 own goal

• Chinese Taipei Yang Chao-hsun

Final tournament

Squads

Main article: 2013 EAFF East Asian Cup Final squads

Matches

The final stage of the tournament was played in South Korea between 20 and 28 July 2013.

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Kakitani Kudo Sun Ke

Osako Jurić

Taggart Duke Sun Ke Yang Xu Wu Lei

Awards

Goals

;3 goals

• JPN Yoichiro Kakitani

;2 goals

• AUS Mitchell Duke
• CHN Sun Ke
• CHN Wang Yongpo
• JPN Yuya Osako

;1 goal

• AUS Adam Taggart
• AUS Tomi Jurić
• AUS Aaron Mooy
• CHN Wu Lei
• CHN Yang Xu
• CHN Yu Dabao
• JPN Manabu Saito
• JPN Masato Kudo
• JPN Yuzo Kurihara
• KOR Yun Il-lok

Final standings

Broadcasting

Controversies

At the final match between South Korea and Japan on 28 July, South Korean fans booed the start of the Japanese anthem and later upped the political sloganeering with a banner that covered most of the width of one end of the ground that read, in Korean, "The nation that forgets history has no future." (), apparently aiming at the Japanese leaders' reluctance to admit to wrongdoings during its militaristic and colonial past, after they displayed huge pictures of Ahn Jung-geun, who assassinated the first prime minister of Japan and then-Japanese resident-general of Korea Itō Hirobumi back in 1909, and Yi Sun-sin, a Korean naval commander who is famed for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Imjin war in the Joseon dynasty back in the 16th century. The banner was not removed until Korea Football Association (KFA) directed supporters to do so after the first half of the match. After the banner was taken down, "Red Devils," a group of South Korean football supporters, refused to cheer on the national team in the second half. On its Facebook page, the Seoul sector of the Red Devils wrote that its members would not bang drums or chant songs for South Korea in protest of the decision by the KFA to remove the banner.

Kuniya Daini, President of Japan Football Association, said "We ask the East Asian Football Federation to thoroughly investigate the matter and act in the appropriate fashion," and Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the incident was "extremely regrettable" and the Japanese government "will respond appropriately based on FIFA rules when the facts are revealed.", while KFA said "We are still investigating the matter. We have no official statement now".

Japanese Sports Minister Hakubun Shimomura went further on Tuesday, saying the style of the banners called into question "the nature of the people" in South Korea.

The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs then responded with a statement deploring Shimomura's "rude comments".

On 31 July, KFA issued a statement insisting that Japanese fans waving a large "rising sun" Japanese military flag had incited South Korean supporters.

Australia commitment to the ASEAN Football Federation is questioned due to its participation in this tournament while having not participated in a single edition of the AFF Championship, the top-level competition in the sub-confederation Australia which later became a member of in 2013.

References

References

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9. (24 October 2017). "Despite some continued criticism, Australian football is taking its ASEAN status very seriously". FourFourTwo.