The 2004 ASEAN Football Championship, also known as the 2004 Tiger Cup was an ASEAN football championship jointly hosted by Vietnam and Malaysia, and participated by the national football teams of various countries in South-East Asia.
The championship started off with group matches, where the top two teams from each group advanced to the semi-finals and the final, which was played in a home and away format.
Summary
In the group matches, Indonesia, coached by former Thailand coach Peter Withe, emerged as the Group A winners with ten points, 17 goals scored and non conceded. They were the hot favourites to win the 2004 Tiger Cup after bundling out the hosts Vietnam with an unexpexted 3-0 victory. Less than a day after the match had ended, the Vietnam Football Federation requested the resignation from its national coach Edson Tavares , despite his requests to stay on until the last match. Singapore, led by Radojko Avramovic pipped out the hosts by just a single point and remained to be the only team in the championship to not lose a single match.
Following the tournament motto "Anything can happen", Myanmar, under coach Ivan Kolev emerged as the surprise packages, holding defending champions Thailand to a draw and beating Malaysia on their own turf. Thailand
Teams
Of the 11 countries situated in the South-East Asian region, only Brunei did not participate in this edition, while the world's newest country, Timor Leste (or East Timor) was invited by ASEAN to compete.
First round
The teams in Group A will be playing their matches at Thong Nhat Stadium and My Dinh National Stadium, Vietnam while the teams in Group B will be playing their matches at National Stadium, Bukit Jalil, Malaysia.
Notes
- All times local (UTC +07:00 in Vietnam, UTC +08:00 in Malaysia)
- Half-time scores are in brackets
- Abbreviations:
- Pld: games played
- W: won
- D: drawn
- L: lost
- GF: goals for
- GA: goals against
- GD: goal difference
- Pts: points
- Tie-breakers
- For teams which finish level on points, the following tie-breakers will be used:
- greater number of points in the matches between the teams in question;
- greater goal difference in matches between the teams in question;
- greater number of goals scored in matches between the teams in question;
- greater goal difference in all group games;
- greater number of goals scored in all group games;
Group A
Group B
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| December 8, 2004
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| Philippines
| 0 – 1 (0-0)
| Myanmar
| 18:00
| National Stadium, Bukit Jalil
| Details
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| Timor Leste
| 0 – 5 (0-1)
| Malaysia
| 20:45
| National Stadium, Bukit Jalil
| Details
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| December 10, 2004
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| Thailand
| 1 – 1 (1-0)
| Myanmar
| 18:00
| National Stadium, Bukit Jalil
| Details
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| Malaysia
| 4 – 1 (1-0)
| Philippines
| 20:45
| National Stadium, Bukit Jalil
| Details
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| December 12, 2004
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| Timor Leste
| 0 – 8 (0-2)
| Thailand
| 18:00
| National Stadium, Bukit Jalil
| Details
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| Myanmar
| 1 – 0 (1-0)
| Malaysia
| 20:45
| National Stadium, Bukit Jalil
| Details
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| December 14, 2004
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| Philippines
| 2 – 1 (0-0)
| Timor Leste
| 18:00
| National Stadium, Bukit Jalil
| Details
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| Malaysia
| 2 – 1 (0-1)
| Thailand
| 20:45
| National Stadium, Bukit Jalil
| Details
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| December 16, 2004
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| Myanmar
| 3 – 1 (2-1)
| Timor Leste
| 18:00
| National Stadium, Bukit Jalil
| Details
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| Thailand
| 3 – 1 (1-1)
| Philippines
| 20:45
| National Stadium, Bukit Jalil
| Details
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Knock-out phase
Semi-finals
Final - First Leg
3/4 Place Match
Final - Second Leg
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