2013 SAFF Championship final

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2013 SAFF Championship Final
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Hamid Karimi holding the SAFF Title.
Event 2013 SAFF Championship
Date11 September 2013
Venue Dasarath Rangasala, Kathmandu
Man of the Match Mansur Faqiryar (Afghanistan)
Referee Tayeb Hasan Shamsuzzaman (Bangladesh)
Attendance6,500+
2011
2015

The 2013 SAFF Championship Final was the final match of the 2013 SAFF Championship which took place in Nepal on Wednesday, September 11, 2013, and was officiated by Tayeb Hasan Shamsuzzaman of Bangladesh. It was the 10th installment of the tournament since its inception in 1993. [1]

Contents

This final was the first time a final was repeated in the SAFF Championship and such this was a repeat final of the 2011 SAFF Championship in which India thrashed Afghanistan 4–0 in India.[ citation needed ] However, in this final Afghanistan won with goals coming from Mustafa Azadzoy and Sandjar Ahmadi in the 9th and 62nd minute respectively. This would be Afghanistan's first SAFF Championship win after losing in the 2011 SAFF Championship in the final to India. [2]

Road to the final

India entered the 2013 SAFF Championship as the reigning champion after defeating Afghanistan in the 2011 SAFF Championship. Afghanistan's best record previous was runners-up in the 2011 SAFF Championship. [3]

To the final, India struggled through and scraped by the group stage through head-to-edge edging out Pakistan from an own-goal by Samar Ishaq in a 1–0 win to the Indians. Later in the semi-finals, against Maldives, it took India until the 86th minute when Arnab Mondal opened the scoring to leave it a 1–0 win to proceed to the final.[ citation needed ]

Afghanistan, on the other hand, breezed by both Sri Lanka and Bhutan in the group stage with comfortable wins and a 0–0 stalemate with Maldives. To proceed to the final, Afghanistan won convincingly in a 1–0 win against the hosts Nepal with the lone goal coming from Sandjar Ahmadi in the 11th minute.[ citation needed ]

India entered the tournament as favorites to win but as matches progressed, many thought otherwise. Afghanistan entered the final as clear favorites to win, before the match, due to their journey and having their highest FIFA ranking, at the time, of 139. India, however, barely scraped by to the final and had a FIFA ranking of 145.[ citation needed ]

AfghanistanRoundIndia
OpponentResult Group stage OpponentResult
Flag of Bhutan.svg  Bhutan 3–0 Match 1Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 1–0
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka 3–1 Match 2Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh 1–1
Flag of Maldives.svg  Maldives 0–0 Match 3Flag of Nepal.svg    Nepal 1–2

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
Flag of Maldives.svg  Maldives 3210182+167
Flag of Afghanistan (2013-2021).svg  Afghanistan 321061+57
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka 310261593
Flag of Bhutan.svg  Bhutan 3003416120
Source: RSSSF
Final Standings

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
Flag of Nepal.svg    Nepal 321052+37
Flag of India.svg  India 31113304
Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 31113304
Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh 30122531
Source: RSSSF
OpponentResultKnockout stageOpponentResult
Flag of Nepal.svg    Nepal 1–0Semi-finalsFlag of Maldives.svg  Maldives 1–0

Squads

During the tournament, Afghanistan had the most diverse squad. While most other nations had almost all players playing for their domestic league, Afghanistan had five players playing outside of Asia with four in Europe and the rest in either India's I-League or its domestic league the Afghan Premier League. The average age of the Lions of Khorasan was 26 years of age with goalkeeper Hamidullah Yousafzai the oldest at 31 and youngest being Sidiq Walizada at 21.

India had all its players playing in its domestic I-League with four players being free agents. The average age of the Blue Tigers was 26 years of age, as well, with goalkeeper Sandip Nandy the oldest at 38 and Sandesh Jhingan the youngest at 20.

Match

Officials

Tayeb Shamsuzzaman of the Bangladesh was appointed the referee of the final and was assisted by Pakistani Moaid Al Sayeg and Issa Mahmoud Ahmad Al Amawi of Jordan. The fourth official was Adham Makhadmeh, also from Jordan.

Shamsuzzaman was listed as a FIFA referee in 1999. Since then, he had experience as a referee in the World Cup Qualifiers (AFC), AFC Cup, AFC Champions League, WAFF Championship and AFF Suzuki Cup.

Prior to the final, he refereed for five other games in the 2013 SAFF Championship. He was referee in Afghanistan-Bhutan and Bhutan-Maldives matches in Group A before moving to the Group B match India-Nepal. Then finishing the group stage by being the referee for Afghanistan-Maldives and the semi-final of Maldives-India.

In the games that Shamsuzzaman was the referee, he showed no more than two yellow cards in every game with that being Bhutan-Maldives and Afghanistan-Maldives. He gave the red card in the group-stage match between Bhutan national football team and Maldives national football team and giving the Bhutan goalkeeper Leki Dukpa a red card for tripping Ali Ashfaq just outside the penalty box after rushing to a one-on-one.

Details

Afghanistan  Flag of Afghanistan (2013-2021).svg2–0Flag of India.svg  India
Azadzoy Soccerball shade.svg9'
Ahmadi Soccerball shade.svg62'
Report
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Afghanistan
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India
GK1 Mansur Faqiryar Yellow card.svg 86'
DF27 Mujtaba Faiz
DF3 Haroon Fakhruddin (c)
DF14Farzad Ghulam
DF6 Mohammad Rafi
CM7 Mustafa Azadzoy
CM17 Mohammad Marouf Sub off.svg 71'
CW25 Mustafa Hadid
FW9 Yusef Mashriqi Yellow card.svg 41'Sub off.svg 90+2'
FW10 Balal Arezou
FW11 Sandjar Ahmadi Sub off.svg 76'
Substitutions:
MF12 Hashmatullah Barakzai Sub on.svg 71'
FW18 Ahmad Arash Hatifi Sub on.svg 76'
FW30 Waheed Nadeem Yellow card.svg 90+5'Sub on.svg 90+2'
Manager:
Mohammad Yousef Kargar
GK1 Subrata Pal
CB22 Syed Rahim Nabi
CB4 Nirmal Chettri Sub off.svg 86'
CB5 Arnab Mondal Yellow card.svg 58'
CM19 Gouramangi Singh (c)
CM7 Mehtab Hossain
CM14 Arata Izumi
CM6 Lenny Rodrigues
CW8 Francis Fernandes
FW10 Jeje Lalpekhlua Sub off.svg 60'
FW23 Robin Singh
Substitutions:
FW11 Sunil Chhetri Sub on.svg 60'
DF28 Dawson Fernandes Sub on.svg 86'
Manager:
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Wim Koevermans
Man of the Match:
Mansur Faqiryar (Afghanistan)

Assistant referees:
Moaid Al Sayeg (Pakistan)
Issa Mahmoud Ahmad Al Amawi (Jordan)
Fourth official:
Adham Makhadmeh (Jordan)

Match rules

  • 90 minutes.
  • 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Eight named substitutes.
  • Maximum of three substitutions.

References

  1. "How Afghanistan beat India to win 2013 SAFF Championships, their first international title" . Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  2. "SAFF Championship 2013". SAFF Championship. Archived from the original on 7 January 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
  3. "SAFF Championship: Why India's overwhelming domination is underproductive" . Retrieved 20 May 2023.