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This post has been edited by nakata101: Jan 30 2011, 02:19 AM

Group stage

Group A





Group B




Group C





Group D




Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

21 January 2011 21:25 | Japan 3 - 2 Qatar | (Al Gharafa Stadium)
22 January 2011 00:25 | Uzbekistan 2 - 1 Jordan | (Khalifa Stadium )
22 January 2011 21:25 | Australia 1 - 0 (Extra time) Iraq | (Al Sadd Stadium)
23 January 2011 00:25 | Iran 0 - 1 (Extra time) South Korea | (Qatar Sports Club Stadium)

Semi-finals

25 January 2011 21:25 | Japan 2 - 2 (Penalty 3-0) South Korea | (Al Gharafa Stadium)
26 January 2011 00:25 | Uzbekistan 0 - 6 Australia | (Khalifa Stadium)

Third place

28 January 2011 23:00 | South Korea vs Uzbekistan | (Al Sadd Stadium)

Final

29 January 2011 23:00 | Japan vs Australia | ( Khalifa Stadium )

This post has been edited by nakata101: Jan 26 2011, 10:29 AM

Squad Stats (Need some time to update!!)

Group A
CHINA P.R.


KUWAIT


QATAR

UZBEKISTAN


Group B
JAPAN

JORDAN


SAUDI ARABIA


SYRIA





Group C
AUSTRALIA

BAHRAIN
INDIA

KOREA REPUBLIC


Group D
DPR KOREA
I.R. IRAN
IRAQ
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

This post has been edited by nakata101: Jan 10 2011, 07:10 PM

Reserved

This post has been edited by nakata101: Jan 10 2011, 06:44 PM

Reserved

Malaysia not compete?

no fun la open this tered then...

lost all 4 matches in qualification match...how to play

Now they still young, if they can keeping improve, they still got chance for Asia Cup 2015.

Seriously. open this thread are not for fun. We are asian, this asian cup is all about asian football.

This post has been edited by nakata101: Dec 30 2010, 09:37 AM

so, whos the big guns (players) that will b there?

tim cahill, park ji sung, lee (bolton)... summore..??

i reckon the champions of South East asia should be gave an automatic slot for this tourney..its like anti climax for us fan to watch this tourney without Msia team..

hahah.. then every region will start having their own regional tourney just to get automatic qualification.

anyway, hoping to see some young guns from japan and Korea.

TERED KAW NI X BEST BAH

fffuuuu defending champion iraq... i sappork u...

this idea
a good one
coz only asean got their cup AFF
not sure east asian or
china, japan, the koreans, hk got their region cup also

the competitiveness of the competition needs to be maintain, with the respect to the malaysia achievement, if they cant even put a good fight during the qualifying rounds, what is there for them to show in the asia cup given free spot was gave?, we dont want to go there only to get beaten and return home nothing

this is a good test to see how Qatar can live up to the expectation of being host to a major football tournament.

I would say Australia, Korea, Japan, or even Bahrain could be potential champion

This competition has been reduced to only as dress a rehearsal for World Cup 2022.... thats what people will be talking about all tournament long.

many of long serving Asian Stars will be missing after this.. but i also like to see how new stars like Kagawa and Honda do....

i have no doubt that Japan will win this one.. but i am more interested to lookout for the darkhorses and spoilers.... India showed they have something during the Asian Games... DPR Korea also hope to give an in-your-face performance to the capitalist world..

This post has been edited by aressandro10: Dec 30 2010, 10:58 AM

keisuke honda

Actually there are 6 team dint take part in qualify matchs.
The host nation: Qatar;
The top three finishers in the 2007 tournament: Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Korea Republic;
The winner of the 2008 AFC Challenge Cup: India;
The winner of the 2010 AFC Challenge Cup: Korea DPR.

half from the 12 team
should put AFF champion next AFC Cup

16 teams.....

This post has been edited by nakata101: Dec 30 2010, 12:58 PM

East Asian Football Championship
South Asian Football Federation Cup
Gulf Cup of Nations (Middle East)

for EAFC participants, usually they won't call their European-based players to play in this tournament

You all know why Malaysia not even have chance to enter asia level ?

see this lolx



This post has been edited by Syfq: Dec 30 2010, 09:11 PM

I'm going to watch Australia v Korea Republic match live thats the only big name games in the group stage, for semis wait till i know who play who then only buy tickets.

flashbang

watch again

Welcome to Asia! AFC prefer a country that can bring benefit to them such as China, India, Australia and Middle East

2015 will b our entry guaranteed s 4 now i love the oriental asia 2 win back what is belong 2 them THE CUP...japan or south korea dont matter s long s one of them bcum champion enuf liao i never big fan of arab win 4 sure haha

this competition is load of bullocks man.certain teams get free qualification, and this thing doesnt freaking represent the word ASIA.apa ingat asia=india japan, the china's and arab saja ka??how about the smaller ones??.

no wonder fifa never gave in demands to have more slots for asia in wc.

if its truly asia cup then should have a proper qualification systems some thing like euro or the wc.

This post has been edited by mhyug: Dec 31 2010, 04:49 PM

Please do more homework.... Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFC_Challenge_Cup , anyway i know u r anti-asia cup.

The AFC Challenge Cup is exactly what you said bro: to give opportunity for smaller teams to participate in the big tournament. FYI the AFC challenge cup is mainly participated by the Emerging Countries and a few of the Developing Countries. So each Asia Cup will have at least 2 of these countries participate, since Asia Cup is every 4 years and the AFC Challenge Cup is every 2 years. Those that didn't win the challenge cup, can still qualify via the asian cup qualifiers, like what u said about Estonia (AFC Asian Cup is not the only way for small countries to qualify, it is an easier alternatives). Chances are, it's easier to qualify if you play against countries of the same standard than to fight Asian giants. Of course if you think you can qualify via qualifiers like the Estonia example, then feel free to try.

It's a bit similar to the concept of qualifying for Europa Cup. For example, if you wanna play in Europe u gotta finish top 7 in the English league right? Another ALTERNATIVE is to win the league cup or FA Cup. Not really the same thing la, but my point here is these tournaments are "alternatives".

This post has been edited by pyroboy1911: Jan 1 2011, 11:45 AM

Safiq not so dumb already now, commentator damn dumb btw.

Against China that time maybe players not refreshed enough after Malaysia Cup. Before AFF got more time to rest since left the Asian games early.

discussing about the qualification..

1. qualify via challenge cup? - dont agree, shud b only 1 route, via asian cup qualifiers.. so then who r there r there on merit.. on this 2011 occasion, north korea - powerful nation - qualified via challenge cup?! wtf..

2. bye? host n defending champion enuff oredi.. 2nd & 3rd oso got bye ehh? haiyo...

exactly my pt.so be it if there is 1 2 3 or 100 major afc tourneys they should have proper qualy format.and up to date to man kind there is only one type wch is grp stage qualy.

its either that or we segregate asia in parts and move on from there.whats so fun about when the very same nations is going to be there come a few years even tho this tourney is so called for "new teams la", emerging la etc etc..

i agree with finals spot given through AFC Challenge Cup.

That one or two spot will do much more to the development of football in India or Krgystan than to already developed country like Saudi arabia or China..

they will become a stimulus, a reason for them to get better .....

the same can also be said to Champions qualifying route in UEFA Champions League... its about distributing the potential and benefit on wider scope..
whatever painful-minor-improvement these minnows country achive will all count for nothing if the drawn with Japan and Korea in the first round of asia Cup qualifying... let them fight among their peers and give a very meaningful reward to those who succeed... the sense of achivement will spur further developement..

if not, only the good will get better, while the bad will countinue on their spiral downward...

This post has been edited by aressandro10: Jan 2 2011, 08:02 AM

aressandro10, distributing - thats d important word
dont get me wrong, i agree with d idea.. but d way of d implementation is another matter..

giv d chance 2 d so called emerging nations.. im fine wit it
but at d same time, its a bit unfair 2 d so called developing nations (including ours).. looks like philipines hav better chance 2 b in asian cup rather than malaysia..

i realize afc always like 2 do grouping.. dont know y
imho, ranking way much better than grouping..

compare to the others, i think nations like ours has the ability to stand on our own feet. Our problem is, instead of standing, we just only like to sit on our couch and watch EPL on tv all this while

while for countries like Philipine or India, they really need alot to spur any sort of interest even among their countryman. A spot the in Asia Cup can just do that.

AFC role, for me is more challenging than UEFA's role. It would be fanstactic if the whole of Asia can compete on merit to qualify. but Asia is soo vast and the gap between the good and the not are too wide. Its AFC's responsibility to inject some 'will' in those countries that otherwise, would just give up.

i am very impressed with AFC Challenge Cup winner India during the Asia Games. They have benefited a lot from that tournament.

world ranking only give indication of national team performance while the AFC Classification covers the state of football in the country as a whole. If you read about it, its pretty comprehensive.

This post has been edited by aressandro10: Jan 2 2011, 08:23 AM

Discussion aside, I was checking in to Qatar airways earlier and some of the Malaysian officials contingent to the Asian Cup is also same flight. Among them is world cup referee subkhiddin salleh. Will try to take pics later when in the departure hall

some of them already here since 2 weeks ago and staying at damn good hotel

hooo your going sana kah??fuuu rich man

hehe din ask where he stayed

my family stayed here la

Anyway, pics! stalker mode:



but after that we talked a bit la, during immigration line up and baggage claim. Another China referee also there, they intro him to me selepas salam2 dan bergoodluck2, they left.

Subkhiddin said he will retire after Asian Cup 2011

yes, he is already 44...next year 45. but just now he talked with another women, she ask him if he gonna retire after this..but he said see first..if he still fit, and no problems with job, then maybe FA can give extension. They also discuss about the FA, how the youngsters perform etc. Inside scoop, i'm becoming LYN's spy

Oh Datuk Yap Nyim Keong also there, he used Business class. He criticized the Indo press I dunno he comes to watch Asian Cup, or just to vacation as he claimed. He said no AFC officials invite him there, so he merajuk and dun wanna watch

This post has been edited by pyroboy1911: Jan 3 2011, 12:03 AM

hoo family kat sana ka.anyway enjoy~~

haha yea, dont care how la they qualify etc. just watch the game i wanna find out about tickets for the Qatar v Malaysia Olympic squad friendly as well.

How much is the ticket price for the Asia Cup... i suspect it will be plentiful and readily available...

so far, for the normal one is about Qatar Riyal 40, more or less RM40. when i buy my South Korea v Australia match, theres still plenty of seats. now i check, nearly all the seats around me are booked. left the seats behind the goals, corners etc. Semi finals tickets for good seats are also more or less booked, but i dont wanna buy those tickets first coz dunno who will be playing. Final i din check, coz i am flying back on that day

cheaper tickets for the not so nice seats are about QR25 i think, and children price is QR5 only! VIP ticket is QR100, so overall the tickets are relatively cheap i would say.

korea and japan.... nice...

venue? kick-off time?

i check Qatar football website, no news yet....

Are u going to support Park .... Enjoy!!

20 january rite?

I think Japan got higher chances?

China have 11 U23 players in 23-man squad

Hao Junmin

Most of them are the player who beat France 1-0 last year and draw with Malaysia U23 at 2009, of cause not to forget about the Asian Games few month ago....

This post has been edited by nakata101: Jan 5 2011, 10:20 AM

Goal.com's Top 10 Players to Watch at the Asian Cup



Goal.com

This post has been edited by AKace: Jan 5 2011, 09:07 PM

hehe on the contrary, club level aside, i am studying in Australia so if Malaysia isn't playing in it, i might as well go for my "second home"

i have no idea bro, that info i also got from here. Qatar's FA site is horribly out of date.

one more day b4 the show kick off starts anyone going 2 catch the 1st 2 match starting on fri n sat 7.15pm n 4.15pm qatar time respectively which i dont know is equal 2 what local time haha

This post has been edited by skylinelover: Jan 6 2011, 06:36 PM

Convert to local time : (I might be wrong too, damn... no night match at local time. )
07 January 2011 14:15 | QATAR vs UZBEKISTAN
08 January 2011 11:15 | KUWAIT vs CHINA P.R.

Qatar is 5 hours slower than Msia, so if the match is 4.15pm, then it will be 9.15pm im Msia

O... thx.... i thought is 5 hour early than local time.

do homework 1st before open thred

never mind la

lorr... aku gurau je ngan naka tu... rileks la. saje je alorrrrrr

Sry, master....

http://www.the-afc.com/uploads/Documents/c...ch_schedule.pdf

aiya little bit of sarcasm pun tak boleh ka take some chill pill yo haha

anyway imma prepare my USTREAM 2day at 9.15 pm sharp...harap2 the line no suck 2nite lar

go http://www.ustream.tv/ n click sports...i m sure there will b live streaming feed there haha

This post has been edited by skylinelover: Jan 7 2011, 03:08 PM

u might wanna start watching earlier for some opening ceremony

in what time that is starting?

i think the opening ceremony starts at about 6pm local time, which is 11pm Malaysia time.

Anyone joined Fantasy Cup?

http://fantasy.afcasiancup.com/invite.php?id=1606

This post has been edited by sKyWiR3pT3lTd: Jan 7 2011, 07:34 PM

And it begins!

Fireworks just finished, can hear and see it from my home. wanna take pic but too late, finish ady

AAARGGGHHHHH!!!!!! I MISSED THE OPENING CEREMONY!!!!!!!

big goal opening 4 uzbek in few seconds but missed both haha

Being the host Qatar is expected to perform but from the looks of it, they might not even make it out of the group stage, with Kuwait and China both strong teams as well..

Warghahaa.. another chance to shoot by uzbek.. seems miscue like low cross to nobody...

This post has been edited by zarjaz: Jan 8 2011, 12:43 AM

haha boring game with so many shots hit the post n yes qatar play is like malaysia play of few years ago...qatar running like headless chicken very lucky not 2 get bash by uzbek miscue 2 much

2nd Goal for Uzbek
What a wholesale goal given such free promotion by Qatar....

based on qatar performance, i guess we can get a good result against their olympic squad this 20 january

i'm surprised to see INDIA qualify for this tournament..hope MY can do it on next attempt...

they qualified as the champions of AFC Challenge Cup 2008, a tournament for EMERGING nations

1st goal was a wonder goal..2nd goal was just sloppy from qatar..uzbeks deserved to win

i was very impressed with the camera angles and instant replays..felt like watching a WC match..dont remember it being this good in 2007

during qualifying, we were beaten 3-1 home and away by that Uzbekistan team... of course our team has improve by leaps and bounds since them.. but still the difference in terms of physical attribute was too obvious... thats the glass ceiling that hampers all south east asian team really..

A horrible performance by Qatar I would say. Not only that, the fact that the whole world is looking at their match, plus their promise of showing the world they are worthy to host the performance..they are certainly inviting criticism here. Plus the Emir of Qatar is present to watch, he won't be happy

last night goals



remind me of world cup 2006 opening with spectacular fest

ahmedooooooooo terbaekkkkk gol 1st tu.

when china play, ben williams will be the ref again. wtf AFC?

haha china bribe double dose him again i guess

haha yea when ref's name appear on screen i was like...oh China's gonna win