Organising body | National Football Association of Brunei Darussalam (NFABD) and AFF |
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Founded | 2002 |
Region | Southeast Asia |
Number of teams | Max 11, number of AFF member |
Current champions | East Timor (1st title) |
Most successful team(s) | Thailand (2 titles) |
Television broadcasters | Radio Televisyen Brunei (RTB) |
Website | www |
2018 Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy |
The Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy for ASEAN Youth Football Championship, is the football tournament for youth players in Southeast Asia. [1] It was opened to football players from ASEAN member states under the age of 21 years to participate in this.
The tournament is organised by National Football Association of Brunei Darussalam in collaboration with ASEAN Football Federation. [2] Brunei Darussalam always host for the tournament. The tournament was first launched in 2002.
The next tournament is scheduled to run in 2025, as plans for an edition in 2020 and 2022 were scrapped. [3]
Back in 1997, Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei first mooted the idea of a football tournament among the ASEAN member states. [1]
In 2002 when the tournament was officially launched on 16 August 2002, all ten ASEAN member states took part in the football tournament which held from. The ten teams were divided into two groups.
In Group A, Myanmar easily topped the group with a maximum of 12 points and scoring 14 goals in their four matches without conceding a goal. Malaysia and Laos finished equal with 6 points but Malaysia had a better goal difference of 13-8 beating Laos having a better goal difference of 10-7. Meanwhile in Group B, Indonesia easily topped the group by beating the other four teams and scoring 14 goals and conceding none. In their first match, they beat the Philippines by 10-0. Thailand came in second with three wins. Philippines propped up the table losing all their games and conceding 21 goals and scoring only one goal.
In the semi-finals, Indonesia beat Malaysia by a single goal and Thailand beat Myanmar on penalties 4-3, their game ended 2-2 after extra time. The first Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy was won by Indonesia when they beat Thailand 2-0 on 26 August 2002. [1]
The next Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy tournament was not held in 2004 but it was held instead in 2005 from 13 to 25 March. Cambodia did not take part and the nine teams were divided into one group of five and a second group of four teams.
In the Group A Thailand topped the group by winning three games and drawing one, while Vietnam managed to come in second by beating Malaysia 2-1 in their final group match and thus getting second place. In the smaller Group B, the final table saw Myanmar, Laos and Brunei all garnering 6 points each but Myanmar with its superior scoring record topped the table and Laos came in second but Brunei's 6-0 defeat to Myanmar meant that it has an inferior goal difference.
In the semi-finals, Myanmar beat Vietnam 2-0 and Thailand needed the extra time to beat Laos 3-2. In the final, Thailand overcame Myanmar by beating them 3-0. [1]
The third Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy tournament was held two years later in 2007 from 3 to 12 March. This time round only eight ASEAN member states took part with Indonesia and Laos not being able to come. The group stage saw two groups of four teams each.
In Group A, Myanmar easily topped the group by beating the other three teams and scoring 22 goals and conceding one goal and Cambodia came second with same point with Brunei but better goal difference. In Group B, with defending champions Thailand easily beating the other three teams, the other three teams were forced to scramble for second place. It was Malaysia who took the second spot after beating Singapore 2-0 in the final group game. Singapore and Vietnam did not win a single game.
In the semi-finals both group winners easily won their matches. Thailand beating Cambodia by a 10-1 score line and Myanmar beating Malaysia 2-0. In the final Thailand and Myanmar could not beat each other as the game went into extra time. It was settled by a nail-biting penalty shootout with Thailand overcoming Myanmar by 5-4. [1]
Year | Final | Semi-finals | Number of teams | |||
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Champions | Score | Runners-up | Semi-finalist | Semi-finalist | ||
2002 Details | Indonesia | 2 – 0 [4] | Thailand | Myanmar | Malaysia | 10 |
2005 Details | Thailand | 3 – 0 [5] | Myanmar | Vietnam | Laos | 9 |
2007 Details | Thailand | 0 – 0 (5 – 4p) [1] | Myanmar | Cambodia | Malaysia | 8 |
2012 Details | Brunei | 2 – 0 [6] | Indonesia | Myanmar | Vietnam | 10 |
2014 Details | Myanmar | 4 – 3 | Vietnam | Malaysia | Thailand | 11 |
2018 Details | East Timor | 1 – 0 | Cambodia | Myanmar | Singapore | 7 |
Teams | 2002 | 2005 | 2007 | 2012 | 2014 | 2018 |
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Brunei | GS | GS | GS | 1 | GS | GS |
Cambodia | GS | DNP | SF | GS | GS | 2 |
Indonesia (U-21) 1 Indonesia (U-19) 2 | 1 1 | GS 1 | DNP | 2 1 | GS 2 | DNP |
Laos | GS | SF | DNP | GS | GS | GS |
Malaysia (U-22) 3 Malaysia (U-21) 4 | SF 3 | GS 3 | SF 3 | GS 4 | SF 4 | DNP |
Myanmar Myanmar | SF | 2 | 2 | SF | 1 | SF |
Philippines | GS | GS | GS | GS | GS | DNP |
Singapore | GS | GS | GS | GS | GS | SF |
Thailand | 2 | 1 | 1 | WD | SF | GS |
East Timor (U-21) 5 East Timor (U-20) 6 | DNE | DNP | DNP | GS 6 | GS 6 | 1 5 |
Vietnam (U-21) 7 Vietnam (U-19) 8 | GS | SF | GS 7 | SF | 2 8 | DNP |
Total participating teams | 10 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 7 |
Keynotes:
Teams | Champions | Runners-up |
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Thailand | 2 (2005, 2007) | 1 (2002) |
Myanmar | 1 (2014) | 2 (2005, 2007) |
Indonesia | 1 (2002) | 1 (2012) |
Brunei | 1 (2012) | |
East Timor | 1 (2018) | |
Vietnam | 1 (2014) | |
Cambodia | 1 (2018) |
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