2006 AFC Challenge Cup

File:2006 afc challenge cup logo.gif

The AFC Challenge Cup 2006 was held between April 1 and April 16, 2006 in Bangladesh. 16 teams were split into 4 groups, the top 2 in each group qualifing for the Quarter finals, and from then on a straight knockout contest. There was no qualification stage. The cup winner was Tajikistan.

Selection of teams

The AFC divided their 45 member nations (apart from Template:AUSf) into 3 groups. [1]

The top 14 are classed as developed associations. Template:BHRf Template:CHNf Template:IDNf Template:IRNf Template:IRQf Template:JPNf Template:KUWf Template:QATf Template:KSAf Template:KORf Template:THAf Template:UAEf Template:UZBf Template:VIEf

The next 14 are classed as developing associations. Template:BANf Template:HKGf Template:INDf Template:JORf Template:LIBf Template:MASf Template:MDVf Template:MYAf Template:PRKf Template:OMAf Template:SINf Template:SYRf Template:TKMf Template:YEMf

The last 17 are classed as emerging associations, who need time to develop their football. These are the teams who will participate in the AFC Challenge Cup 2006. Template:AFGf Template:BHUf Template:BRUf Template:CAMf Template:TPEf Template:TLSf Template:GUMf Template:KGZf Template:LAOf Template:MACf Template:MGLf Template:NEPf Template:PAKf Template:PALf Template:PHIf Template:SRIf Template:TJKf

17 teams were selected in August, 2005 to take part. Template:MGLf, Template:LAOf and Template:TLSf were selected initially to take part, but were replaced by Template:BANf and Template:INDf, and the teams participating was reduced to 16.

Hosts and Stadia

The AFC decided at its annual meeting, that Bangladesh will host the opening ceremony and that Nepal would host the final unless Bangladesh makes it into the last two, in which case it would be held in Dhaka [2] [3]. It was originally planned that teams in Groups A and B will play the games in Nepal and teams in Groups C and D will be held in Bangladesh, but now only Bangladesh will host the tournament due to political unrest in Nepal [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]. The tournament was scheduled to take place between March 26 to April 9, 2006 but was changed to avoid clashes with Bangladesh's Independence Day on March 26 [10]. The two stadia that will be used during this tournament are: the Bangabandhu Stadium (holds 36,000 people) in Dhaka and the MA Aziz Stadium (holds 20,000 people) in Chittagong.

Teams

Some teams are not taking part with their 'main' national squad, as noted below:

• India is taking part with a mix of U-20 and 2nd League players.
• Kyrgyzstan is taking part with a young team, drawn mostly from the youth squad which qualified for the AFC Youth Championship 2006. [11]

Groups (Round 1)

Teams in Bold progress to the Quarter Finals, teams in italics are eliminated from the tournament.

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
India under-20s	5	3	1	2	0	3	1	+2
Template:TPEf	5	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1
Template:PHIf	2	3	0	2	1	2	3	-1
Template:AFGf	2	3	0	2	1	3	5	-2

1 April 2006

India under-20s	2 - 0	Template:AFGf	MA Aziz Stadium
Vimal Pariyar 29, 60
Template:TPEf	1 - 0	Template:PHIf	MA Aziz Stadium
Wei-Lun Chuang 19

3 April 2006

Template:AFGf	2 - 2	Template:TPEf	MA Aziz Stadium
Hafizullah Qadami 20, 23		Wei-Lun Chuang 48 Chien-Wei Liang 73
Template:PHIf	1 - 1	India under-20s	MA Aziz Stadium
Mark Alvin Valeroso 18		Vimal Pariyar 8

5 April 2006

India under-20s	0 - 0	Template:TPEf	MA Aziz Stadium
Template:PHIf	1 - 1	Template:AFGf	MA Aziz Stadium
Mark Alvin Valeroso 61		Sayed Maqsood 26

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Template:SRIf	7	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2
Template:NEPf	4	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1
Template:BRUf	4	3	1	1	1	2	2	0
Template:BHUf	1	3	0	1	2	0	3	-3

2 April 2006

Template:NEPf	2 - 0	Template:BHUf	MA Aziz Stadium
Pradeep Maharjan 52, 70
Template:SRIf	1 - 0	Template:BRUf	MA Aziz Stadium
Weerarathna Jayasuriya 72

4 April 2006

Template:BRUf	2 - 1	Template:NEPf	MA Aziz Stadium
Adie Mohammed Salleh 10 Riwandi Wahit 42		Tashi Tsering 60
Template:BHUf	0 - 1	Template:SRIf	MA Aziz Stadium
		Chandradasa Galbodapayagalage 45+2

6 April 2006

Template:BHUf	0 - 0	Template:BRUf	MA Aziz Stadium
Template:SRIf	1 - 1	Template:NEPf	MA Aziz Stadium
Mohamed Izzadeen Mohamed Naufer 18		Pradeep Maharjan 74

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Template:PALf	7	3	2	1	0	16	1	+15
Template:BANf	7	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4
Template:CAMf	3	3	1	0	2	4	6	-2
Template:GUMf	0	3	0	0	3	0	17	-17

1 April 2006

Template:BANf	2 - 1	Template:CAMf	Bangabandhu National Stadium
Alfaz Ahmad 30 Mohammed Emily Hasan 60		Rithy Chan 66
Template:PALf	11 - 0	Template:GUMf	Bangabandhu National Stadium
Ahmed Keshkesh 6 Fahed Attal 14, 20, 26, 32, 45, 84 Francisco Atura 25 Ismail Al Amour 39 Ziyad Alkord 60, 67

3 April 2006

Template:GUMf	0 - 3	Template:BANf	Bangabandhu National Stadium
		Mohammed Emily Hasan 49 Abul Hossain 83, 85
Template:CAMf	0 - 4	Template:PALf	Bangabandhu National Stadium
		Ahmed Keshkesh 10 Al Sweirki 11, 74 Fahed Attal 30

5 April 2006

Template:PALf	1 - 1	Template:BANf	Bangabandhu National Stadium
Fahed Attal 30		Mehdi Hassan Topu 46

6 April 2006

Template:CAMf	3 - 0	Template:GUMf	Army Stadium
Sok Buntheang 37 Keo Kosal 40 Kouch Sokumpheak 63

Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Template:TJKf	6	3	2	0	1	6	1	+5
Template:KGZf	6	3	2	0	1	3	1	+2
Template:PAKf	4	3	1	1	1	3	4	-1
Template:MACf	1	3	0	1	2	2	8	-6

2 April 2006

Template:KGZf	0 - 1	Template:PAKf	Bangabandhu National Stadium
		Mohammed Essa 59
Template:TJKf	4 - 0	Template:MACf	Bangabandhu National Stadium
Khurshed Makhmudov 10 Yusuf Rabiev 13 Ibraguim Rabimov 55 Rustam Khojaev 77

4 April 2006

Template:PAKf	0 - 2	Template:TJKf	Bangabandhu National Stadium
		Numondzhon Hakimov 14 Odil Irgashev 18

6 April 2006

Template:TJKf	0 - 1	Template:KGZf	Bangabandhu National Stadium
		Andrey Krasnov 22
Template:PAKf	2 - 2	Template:MACf	Bangabandhu National Stadium
Ahmed Adeel 12 Mohammed Essa 42		Kin Seng Chan 16, 52

7 April 2006

Template:MACf	0 - 2	Template:KGZf	Bangabandhu National Stadium
		Roman Ablakimov 35 Azamat Ishenbaev 58

Quarter Finals

April 8 2006

Q1

Template:SRIf Mohamed Izzadeen Mohamed Naufer 44 Sanjaya Pradeep Kumara 70 Jeewantha Dhammika Ratnayaka 90

3 - 0

Template:TPEf

MA Aziz Stadium

April 9 2006

Q2	India under-20s	0 - 3	Template:NEPf Pradeep Maharjan 15, 26 Basanta Thapa 28	MA Aziz Stadium
Q3	Template:PALf	0 - 1	Template:KGZf Ruslan Djamshidov 90	Bangabandhu National Stadium

April 10 2006

Q4

Template:TJKf Ibraguim Rabimov 2 Khurshed Makhmudov 20 Dzhomikhon Muhidinov 31 Numondzhon Hakimov 52 Yusuf Rabiev 64 Shujoat Nematov 82

6 - 1

Template:BANf Alfaz Ahmed 18

Bangabandhu National Stadium

Semi Finals

April 12 2006

S1	Template:SRIf Weerarathna Jayasuriya 65	1 - 1	Template:NEPf Basanta Thapa 84	MA Aziz Stadium
	Penalties: Kamaldeen Fuard - scored Chathura Gunarathna - scored Chathura Madurange Weerasingha - scored Ediribandanage Channa - scored Jeewantha Dhammika Ratnayaka - scored	5 - 3	K C Anjan - scored Tashi Tsering - scored Nabin Neupane - scored Pradeep Maharjan - missed

April 13 2006

S2

Template:KGZf

0 - 2

Template:TJKf Yusuf Rabiev 51, 90+3

Bangabandhu National Stadium

Final

April 16 2006

Template:SRIf

0 - 4

Template:TJKf Dzhormikhon Muhidinov 1, 70 Khurshed Makhmudov 45 Numondzhin Hakimov 61

Bangabandhu National Stadium

AFC Challenge Cup 2006 Champions: TAJIKISTAN First title

Top Scorers

8 goals

• Fahed Attal (Other spellings: Fahad Al Atal, Fahad Attal)

5 goals

• Pradeep Maharjan

4 goals

• Yusuf Rabiev

3 goals

• Vimal Pariyar
• Dzhomikhon Muhidinov (or Dzhormikhon Muhidinov)
• Khurshed Makhmudov
• Numondzhon Hakimov (or Numondzhin Hakimov)

2 goals

• Ziyad Alkord (Other spelling: Ziad Al Kurd)
• Ahmed Keshkesh
• Al Sweirki (Other spelling: Ibrahem Alswerki, Ibraham Al Swerki)
• Mohammed Emily Hasan (Other spelling: Zahid Hasan Emili)
• Abul Hossain (or Mohammed Abul Hossain)
• Alfaz Ahmad (Other spelling: Mohammed Alfaz)
• Hafizullah Qadami
• File:Chinese Taipei Soccer Flag.png Wei-Lun Chuang (or Chuang Wei-Lun)
• Mark Alvin Valeroso (or just Alvin Valeroso)
• Mohammed Essa (or Mohammad Essa)
• Kin Seng Chan (or Chan Kin-Seng)
• Mohamed Izzadeen Mohamed Naufer
• Weerarathna Jayasuriya (Other spelling: Kasun Weerarathne)
• Ibraguim Rabimov (Other spelling: Ibrahim Rabimov)
• Basanta Thapa

1 goal

• Rustam Khojaev (Other spelling: Rustam Khodjaev)
• Odil Irgashev
• Shujoat Nematov
• Rithy Chan (or Chan Rithy)
• Sok Buntheang
• Keo Kosal
• Kouch Sokumpheak
• Chandradasa Galbodapayagalage (Other spelling: Galboda PC Karunaratne)
• Sanjaya Pradeep Kumara
• Jeewantha Dhammika Ratnayaka
• Andrey Krasnov
• Roman Ablakimov
• Azamat Ishenbaev (Other spelling: Azamat Ishenbayev)
• Ruslan Djamshidov
• Francisco Atura (or Alam)
• Ismail Al Amour (or Ismael Alamour)
• Mehdi Hassan Topu
• Adie Mohammed Salleh (or Eed Mohammed salih)
• Riwandi Wahit or Rwandi Waheed)
• File:Chinese Taipei Soccer Flag.png Chien-Wei Liang
• Tashi Tsering (Or did Bijay Gurung score the goal?)
• Sayed Maqsood
• Ahmed Adeel

Awards

[12]

• Fair Play Trophy: Sri Lanka
• Golden Boot: Fahed Attal of Palestine
• Most Valuable Player: Ibraguim Rabimov of Tajikistan

External links

• Official Site of the AFC Challenge Cup Bangladesh 2006
• AFC Challenge Cup 2006 Results and Fixtures
• AFC Challenge Cup 2006 at RSSSF
• AFC Challenge Cup 2006 at Futbol Planet.de