2014 AFF Championship

Hosts

Singapore and Vietnam were announced as co-hosts of the group stage by the AFF Council on 3 April 2013. Initially the Philippines and Indonesia were also considered as possible co-hosts.

Venues

Qualification

Main article: 2014 AFF Championship qualification

Qualification was to have been scrapped for this edition of the tournament, but at the AFF Council Meeting in Naypyidaw, Myanmar in December 2013, it was decided that the qualifying round would be retained, and Laos were awarded the hosting rights. It was to involve the five lower ranked teams in the region, with games taking place between 12 and 20 October 2014.

In August 2013, Football Federation Australia became a full member of the AFF, thus making them eligible to compete in the ASEAN Football Championship starting with this edition of the tournament. However, Australia had no plans to compete against lower-ranked teams in the AFF Championship and that they would continue to play in future editions of the EAFF East Asian Cup.

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the tournament.

Draw

The draw for the tournament was held on 5 August 2014 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Squads

Main article: 2014 AFF Championship squads

Final tournament

Group stage

Tie-breaking criteria

Ranking in each group shall be determine as follows:

1. Greater number of points obtained in all the group matches;
2. Goal difference in all the group matches;
3. Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches. If two or more teams are equal on the basis on the above three criteria, the place shall be determined as follows:
4. Result of the direct match between the teams in question;
5. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams were tied and they met in the last round of the group;
6. Drawing lots by the Organising Committee.

Group A

• All matches were played in Vietnam.
• Times listed are local (UTC+7)

P. Younghusband Reichelt Lê Công Vinh Samsul

Ott Steuble Gier Lê Công Vinh Nguyễn Huy Hùng

Ramdhani Zulham Ketsada Vũ Minh Tuấn Phạm Thành Lương

Group B

• All matches were played in Singapore.
• Times listed are local (UTC+8) Due to problems with the pitch at the Singapore National Stadium, the ASEAN Football Federation have decided on using a second venue, the Jalan Besar Stadium, for Group B matches.

Chappuis

Safiq Chappuis Kyaw Ko Ko Hariss Khin Maung Lwin

Prakit Safiq Indra Putra

;Notes

Knockout stage

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Semi-finals

;First Leg Nguyễn Văn Quyết

;Second Leg Kroekrit Thailand won 3–0 on aggregate.

Norshahrul Đinh Tiến Thành Shukor Malaysia won 5–4 on aggregate.

Finals

;First Leg Kroekrit

;Second Leg Indra Putra Chanathip Thailand won 4–3 on aggregate.

Statistics

Winners

Awards

Discipline

In the final tournament, a player was suspended for the subsequent match in the competition for either getting a red card, or accumulating two yellow cards in two different matches.

*Players who received a card during the final are not included here.

Goalscorers

• MAS Mohd Safiq Rahim

• THA Charyl Chappuis

• VIE Lê Công Vinh

• THA Kroekrit Thaweekarn

• IDN Ramdhani Lestaluhu

• IDN Zulham Zamrun

• LAO Khampheng Sayavutthi

• MAS Indra Putra Mahayuddin

• PHI Patrick Reichelt

• PHI Phil Younghusband

• SIN Hariss Harun

• SIN Khairul Amri

• THA Adisak Kraisorn

• THA Chanathip Songkrasin

• VIE Vũ Minh Tuấn

• IDN Evan Dimas

• IDN Samsul Arif

• MAS Mohd Amri Yahyah

• MAS Norshahrul Idlan Talaha

• MAS Safee Sali

• MAS Shukor Adan

• MYA Kyaw Ko Ko

• MYA Kyaw Zayar Win

• PHI Manuel Ott

• PHI Martin Steuble

• PHI Paul Mulders

• PHI Rob Gier

• PHI Simone Rota

• SIN Shaiful Esah

• THA Mongkol Tossakrai

• THA Prakit Deeporm

• THA Tanaboon Kesarat

• VIE Ngô Hoàng Thịnh

• VIE Nguyễn Huy Hùng

• VIE Nguyễn Văn Quyết

• VIE Phạm Thành Lương

• VIE Quế Ngọc Hải

• VIE Võ Huy Toàn

• LAO Ketsada Souksavanh (playing against Indonesia)

• MYA Khin Maung Lwin (playing against Singapore)

• VIE Đinh Tiến Thành (playing against Malaysia)

Team statistics

This table shows the ranking of all participating teams.

Media coverage

Incidents and controversies

During a group match between Singapore and Malaysia at the Singapore National Stadium, irate Singaporean fans began throwing bottles of water and toilet rolls on the pitch and players gate tunnel at the end of the match due to what was seen as awful decision-making by Oman referee Ahmed Al-Kaf, who awarded the Malaysian side a penalty kick resulting in an advantage for them.

Other incidents occurred soon during the first semi-final between Malaysia and Vietnam in Shah Alam Stadium, where some of the Malaysian fans were seen pointing green laser lights on the field, as recorded on the match video in television camera. The laser incident is a continuation from Malaysian hooligans, as it also happened during the previous edition of AFF Championship semi-final against Vietnam and in the final against Indonesia in 2010.

At the end of Malaysia 1–2 loss to Vietnam, some Malaysian hooligan fans began attacking Vietnamese fans, resulting in injuries. The hooligans rushed to assault Vietnamese fans, who tried to flee and had no intention of fighting back. Bottles, smoke bombs and other dangerous objects continued to get thrown even after the Royal Malaysia Police arrived at the scene to quell the scuffles. This was heavily criticised by the Vietnamese side for the rioting shown by some of the Malaysian supporters. As a result, the website of the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) had been hacked in a denial of service attack, perhaps from Vietnam. Other Malaysian supporters together with the Malaysia Minister of Youth and Sports, Khairy Jamaluddin condemn the hooligan fans attitude and has offer their apologies to all Vietnamese fans, adding that five of the perpetrators had been arrested. Another nine people's was arrested for the same offence between 11 and 12 December.

The Philippines team received a death threat before their 2nd semi-final match against Thailand. Sources say the threat has something to do with the scuffle during 1st leg between Filipino defender Amani Aguinaldo and Thai striker Adisak Kraisorn, which led to Adisak being red-carded and suspended for the 2nd leg.

In the semi-final between Malaysia and Vietnam, the Vietnam had won the first-leg in Malaysia with a 2–1 score. However, in the second-leg played in Hanoi, Vietnam lost 2–4, thus losing 4–5 on aggregate with Malaysia advancing to the finals. After that defeat, the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) launched a probe into the defeat, citing potential match-fixing due to the seemingly apathetic performance of the players compared to the first-leg. However, the AFF said that the match was not fixed and went on to say that through Swiss-based sports integrity specialist Sportradar, no unusual betting had taken place during the match.

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