2011 SAFF Championship

2011 SAFF Championship

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Tournament details
Host country India
Dates 2 December – 11 December
Teams 8
Venue(s) 1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions  India (6th title)
Runners-up  Afghanistan
Tournament statistics
Matches played 15
Goals scored 44 (2.93 per match)
Top scorer(s) India Sunil Chhetri (7 goals)
Best player India Sunil Chhetri

The 2011 South Asian Football Federation Championship, sponsored by Karbonn Mobiles and officially named Karbonn SAFF Championship 2011,[1] was the ninth tournament of the SAFF Championship, which held in New Delhi, India.

Venue

It was originally scheduled to take place in Orissa, India,[2] but was switched to New Delhi by the Executive Committee of the All India Football Federation on September 22.[3]

The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi was the main venue for the tournament. It is also the home stadium for Indian national football team and hosted the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

New Delhi
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Capacity: 60,000

Squads

Draw

The draw ceremony took place on 2 November 2011 at New Delhi's Le Meridien Hotel was attended by a host of dignitaries including AIFF General Secretary Kushal Das, SAFF General Secretary Alberto Colaco and Maldives Football Association General Secretary Shah Ismail.[4]

Group A Group B

 India (162) (1st Seed)
 Sri Lanka (176)
 Afghanistan (178)
 Bhutan (198)

 Maldives (166) (2nd Seed)
 Bangladesh (142)
   Nepal (143)
 Pakistan (174)

(The FIFA rankings of the teams at the start of the tournament are given in brackets in the table)

Group stage

All times are Indian Standard Time (IST) – UTC+5:30

Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Afghanistan 3210123+97
 India 321091+87
 Sri Lanka 310246−23
 Bhutan 3003116−150

3 December 2011
18:00
Sri Lanka  3 – 0  Bhutan
Zain  29'
Nipuna  35', 65' 		Report
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi
Referee: Masoud Tufaylieh (Syria)

5 December 2011
15:00
Afghanistan  3 – 1  Sri Lanka
Ahmadi  22', 36'
Yamrali  79' 		Report Zain  17'
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi
Referee: Timur Faizullin (Kyrgyzstan)

5 December 2011
18:00
Bhutan  0 – 5  India
Report Nabi  29'
Clifford  44', 58'
Chhetri  69', 84'

7 December 2011
15:00
Bhutan  1 – 8  Afghanistan
Chencho  22' Report Yamrali  4'
Amiri  10'
Arezou  15', 18', 45+2', 83'
Sharityar  48' (pen.)
Mashriqi  60'
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi
Referee: Nivon Robesh Gamini (Sri Lanka)

7 December 2011
18:00
India  3 – 0  Sri Lanka
Jeje  50'
Chhetri  70'
Bandara  90+3' (o.g.) 		Report
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi
Referee: Timur Faizullin (Kyrgyzstan)

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Maldives 312042+25
   Nepal 312032+15
 Pakistan 30301103
 Bangladesh 301214−31

2 December 2011
15:00
Bangladesh  0 – 0  Pakistan
Report
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi
Referee: Timur Faizullin (Kyrgyzstan)

2 December 2011
18:00
Maldives  1 – 1    Nepal
Ashfaq  45+2' Report Sandip  51'

4 December 2011
15:00
Nepal    1 – 0  Bangladesh
S. Thapa  90+5' Report

4 December 2011
18:00
Pakistan  0 – 0  Maldives
Report
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi
Referee: Nivon Robesh Gamini (Sri Lanka)

6 December 2011
15:00
Pakistan  1 – 1    Nepal
Ishaq  49' (pen.) Report Khawas  37'

6 December 2011
18:00
Maldives  3 – 1  Bangladesh
Thariq  6', 17'
Ashfaq  70' 		Report Shahed  29'
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi
Referee: Masoud Tufaylieh (Syria)

Knockout stage

Semi-finals Final
9 December — New Delhi
  Maldives 1  
  India 3  
 
11 December — New Delhi
      India 4
    Afghanistan 0
9 December — New Delhi
  Afghanistan (a.e.t.) 1
    Nepal 0  

Semi-finals

9 December 2011
15:00
Maldives  1 – 3  India
Shamweel  60' Report Nabi  24'
Chhetri  70' (pen.), 90+1'
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi
Referee: Timur Faizullin (Kyrgyzstan)

9 December 2011
18:00
Afghanistan  1 – 0 (a.e.t.)    Nepal
Arezou  101' Report
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi
Referee: Masoud Tufaylieh (Syria)

Final

11 December 2011
18:00
India  4 – 0  Afghanistan
Chhetri  71' (pen.)
Clifford  79'
Jeje  80'
Sushil  90+5' 		Report
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Sukhbir Singh (Singapore)

Awards

 2011 SAFF Championship Winners 

India
Sixth title
Fair Play Award Top Scorer Player of the Tournament
 India India Sunil Chhetri India Sunil Chhetri

Statistics

Goalscorers

7 goals
6 goals
3 goals
2 goals

1 goal

Own goal

Other Statistics

2. Pakistan Pakistan vs Maldives Maldives 0-0

Broadcasting

YouTube Live

In a deal with World Sport Group and SAFF’s exclusive marketing and media partner, all matches were shown live on YouTube. The live matches are accessible globally through SAFF Youtube Channel except in India, where they were available on a delayed basis the following day.

Television

Countries Broadcaster
TEN Action+
NEO Sports
Ariana TV1
MNBC One

1 Only Afghan matches

References

  1. ↑ "Karbonn mobile becomes title sponsor of SAFF Championship". Indian Football Network. 2 December 2011. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
  2. ↑ "AIFF Executive committee meeting". The-AIFF.com. All India Football Federation. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
  3. ↑ "Exe. Committee enthusiastic about AIFF-FIFA Dev. Prog". The-AIFF. All India Football Federation. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
  4. ↑ "Maldives in group of death". Maldives Soccer. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
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