Millennium Super Soccer Cup

Millennium Super Soccer Cup

Sahara Cup
Tournament details
Host country	India
Dates	10–25 January 2001
Teams	13 (from 3 confederations)
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	FR Yugoslavia
Runners-up	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tournament statistics
Matches played	22
Goals scored	58 (2.64 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Tryggvi Guðmundsson Keisuke Ota Saša Ilić (3 goals each)

The Millennium Super Soccer Cup, known as the Sahara Cup for sponsorship reasons, was an international football tournament held in India from 10 January to 25 January 2001. ^[1] Yugoslavia were the eventual champions after defeating Bosnia and Herzegovina in the final. ^{[2] [3]}

Venues

Kolkata	Kochi	Goa
Salt Lake Stadium	Nehru Stadium	Fatorda Stadium
Capacity: 120,000	Capacity: 60,000	Capacity: 35,000

Teams

AFC   Bahrain   Bangladesh   Hong Kong   India   Indonesia (withdrew)   Iraq (withdrew)   Japan University XI   Jordan   Uzbekistan CAF   Cameroon (withdrew)

CONMEBOL   Chile   Uruguay B UEFA   Bosnia and Herzegovina   Iceland   Romania XI   FR Yugoslavia

Results

Group stage

Group I

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FR Yugoslavia	2	1	1	0	5	2	+3	4	Advance to knockout stage
2	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2	4
3	Bangladesh	2	0	0	2	1	6	–5	0
4	Iraq	Withdrew on 8 January without citing reasons [4]

12 January 2001 (2001-1-12)

19:30

Bosnia and Herzegovina	2–0	Bangladesh
Hota 55', 58'	Report

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium , Kochi

Referee: Vasan Surem (Indonesia)

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14 January 2001 (2001-1-14)

17:30

FR Yugoslavia	1–1	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Petković 86'	Report	Bešlija 75'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium , Kochi

Referee: Halim Abdul Hamid (Malaysia)

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16 January 2001 (2001-1-16)

19:00

FR Yugoslavia	4–1	Bangladesh
Ilić 19', 38' Rašović 80' Trobok 89'	Report	Firoj Mahmud 6'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium , Kochi

Referee: Michael Andrews (India)

Group II

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uruguay B	2	2	0	0	5	1	+4	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Iceland	2	1	0	1	4	2	+2	3
3	India	2	0	0	2	0	6	–6	0
4	Indonesia	Withdrew on 10 January

11 January 2001 (2001-1-11)

17:30

Uruguay B	2–1	Iceland
Alexandro Umpiérrez 26' (pen.) Ricardo Varela 29'	Report	Þórhallur Hinriksson 31'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium , Kochi

Attendance: 2,340

Referee: Halim Abdul Hamid (Malaysia)

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13 January 2001 (2001-1-13)

17:00

India	0–3	Iceland
	Report	Guðmundsson 44', 52', 69'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium , Kochi

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Arambekade G. C. Deshapriya (Sri Lanka)

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15 January 2001 (2001-1-15)

17:30

India	0–3	Uruguay B
	Report	Juan Selages 38' Ricardo Varela 58' Wilson Martirena 74'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium , Kochi

Referee: Arambekade G. C. Deshapriya (Sri Lanka)

Group III

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Jordan	2	2	0	0	3	0	+3	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Romania XI	2	1	0	1	4	3	+1	3
3	Hong Kong	2	0	0	2	2	6	–4	0
4	Cameroon	Withdrew on 10 January without citing reasons [4]

11 January 2001 (2001-1-11)

15:45

Romania XI	0–1	Jordan
	Report	Ibrahim 87'

Fatorda Stadium , Margao

Referee: Bala Sundaraj (India)

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14 January 2001 (2001-1-14)

15:30

Romania XI	4–2	Hong Kong
Liviu Zahariuc 4' Sasu 23' Sânmărtean 59' Ioan Luca 63'	Report	Kwok Yue Hung 22', 45'

Fatorda Stadium , Margao

Referee: A. M. Yapa (Sri Lanka)

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16 January 2001 (2001-1-16)

17:00

Jordan	2–0	Hong Kong
Al-Shaqran 49' Al-Shboul 84'	Report

Fatorda Stadium , Margao

Group IV

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Chile	3	3	0	0	5	0	+5	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Japan University XI	3	2	0	1	4	1	+3	6
3	Uzbekistan	3	1	0	2	5	4	+1	3
4	Bahrain	3	0	0	3	0	9	–9	0

10 January 2001 (2001-1-10)

15:00

Uzbekistan	0–2	Japan University XI
	Report	Ota 44' Horinouchi 87'

Salt Lake Stadium , Kolkata

Attendance: 12,500

Referee: S. Saleerajan (Malaysia)

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12 January 2001 (2001-1-12)

15:30

Uzbekistan	5–0	Bahrain
Bahadir Annamotov 15', 66' Aleksei Zhdanov 26' (pen.) Oybek Usmankhodjaev 53', 90'	Report

Salt Lake Stadium , Kolkata

Referee: Binod Kumar Singh (India)

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13 January 2001 (2001-1-13)

19:00

Chile	1–0	Japan University XI
Tapia 34'	Report

Salt Lake Stadium , Kolkata

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15 January 2001 (2001-1-15)

15:00

Chile	2–0	Bahrain
Tapia 29' Martel 80'	Report

Salt Lake Stadium , Kolkata

Referee: P. K. Bose (India)

The match was originally scheduled for 10 January, but was later postponed as the Chilean team had trouble with its equipment, which was kept at Johannesburg at the day of the match. ^[5]

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17 January 2001 (2001-1-17)

17:00

Chile	2–0	Uzbekistan
Villaseca 41' Meléndez 86'	Report

Salt Lake Stadium , Kolkata

Referee: S. Saleerajan (Malaysia)

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17 January 2001 (2001-1-17)

19:00

Bahrain	0–2	Japan University XI
	Report	Ota 39' Hideki Sekine 79'

Salt Lake Stadium , Kolkata

Referee: Binod Kumar Singh (India)

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	18 January – Kochi
	Uruguay B	2
					22 January – Kolkata
	Bosnia and Herzegovina  (golden goal)	3
					Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
	20 January – Kolkata
					Chile	0
	Chile	2
									25 January – Kolkata
	Iceland	0
									Bosnia and Herzegovina	0
	20 January – Goa
									FR Yugoslavia	2
	FR Yugoslavia	2
					23 January – Kolkata
	Romania XI	0
					FR Yugoslavia	1
	21 January – Kolkata
					Japan University XI	0
	Jordan	0
	Japan University XI	4

Quarter-finals

18 January 2001 (2001-1-18)

19:00

Uruguay B	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Pereira 12' Juan Segales 59'	Report	Kavazović 40' Muharemović 83' Bešlija 97'

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium , Kochi

Referee: Halim Abdul Hamid (Malaysia)

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20 January 2001 (2001-1-20)

16:30

FR Yugoslavia	2–0	Romania
Ilić 30' Bogdanović 45'	Report

Fatorda Stadium , Margao

Referee: Balu Sundarraj (India)

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20 January 2001 (2001-1-20)

18:30

Chile	2–0	Iceland
González 37', 50'	Report

Salt Lake Stadium , Kolkata

Referee: Hassan Marshoud (Jordan)

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21 January 2001 (2001-1-21)

17:00

Jordan	0–4	Japan University XI
	Report	Fujita 31' Ota 54' Yoshimura 58' Hideki Sekine 67'

Salt Lake Stadium , Kolkata

Referee: Binod Kumar Singh (India)

Semi-finals

22 January 2001 (2001-1-22)

17:00

Bosnia and Herzegovina	1–0	Chile
Muharemović 75'	Report

Salt Lake Stadium , Kolkata

Referee: Rungkly Mangkol (Thailand)

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23 January 2001 (2001-1-23)

17:00

FR Yugoslavia	1–0	Japan University XI
Duljaj 5'	Report

Salt Lake Stadium , Kolkata

Referee: S. Salerajan (Malaysia)

Final

25 January 2001 (2001-1-25)

17:00

Bosnia and Herzegovina	0–2	FR Yugoslavia
	Report	Duljaj 6' Bogdanović 45'

Salt Lake Stadium , Kolkata

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Rungkly Mangkol (Thailand)

Statistics

Goalscorers

3 goals

• Tryggvi Guðmundsson
• Keisuke Ota
• Saša Ilić

2 goals

• Mirsad Bešlija
• Almedin Hota
• Dželaludin Muharemović
• Sebastián González
• Héctor Tapia
• Kwok Yue Hung
• Hideki Sekine
• Juan Selages
• Ricardo Varela
• Bahadir Annamotov
• Oybek Usmankhodjaev
• Igor Bogdanović
• Igor Duljaj

1 goal

• Firoj Mahmud Titu
• Zehrudin Kavazović
• Fernando Martel
• Rodrigo Meléndez
• Marco Villaseca
• Þórhallur Hinriksson
• Yoshimasa Fujita
• Satoshi Horinouchi
• Keiji Yoshimura
• Badran Al-Shaqran
• Haitham Al-Shboul
• Faisal Ibrahim
• Ioan Luca
• Lucian Sânmărtean
• Marius Sasu
• Liviu Zahariuc
• Wilson Martirena
• Daniel Pereira
• Alexandro Umpiérrez
• Aleksei Zhdanov
• Dušan Petković
• Vuk Rašović
• Goran Trobok

References

1. Sengupta, Somnath (10 May 2011). "India National Football Team: The Tactical Dilemma". thehardtackle.com. The Hard Tackle. Archived from the original on 2 January 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
2. "Yugoslavia romp to glory". telegraphindia.com. 25 January 2001. Archived from the original on 15 July 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
3. "Mirna Bosna" (in Serbian). glas-javnosti.rs. 25 January 2001. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
4. "Millennium Super Soccer Cup - India 2001".
5. Retamal, Rodrigo (16 January 2017). "La inolvidable desventura chilena de la Copa Millenium" [The unforgettable misadventures of Chile at the Millennium Cup]. La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 December 2020.

External links

• Official website
• Tournament page at RSSSF