ASEAN Club Championship

The ASEAN Club Championship or LG Cup was a biennial international association football competition between domestic champion clubs sides run by the ASEAN Football Federation and sponsored by LG Electronics. LG describe the competition as a "social marketing experiment." Qualification to the competition was to champions clubs from AFF-affiliated countries, plus an invitee country's champion club from India in 2003.

Participating national football associations

Clubs from the following 12 football associations participated in the competition:

Competition format

The format of the ASEAN Club Championship was the same as that for the AFC Cup, each national football associations in Southeast Asia sending their champion club representing the domestic league winners. The participating teams were split into groups of several teams (depending on the actual number of participating teams in each group), with each team playing the others in the group in a round-robin format. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to quarter-finals or semi-finals, depending on the number of groups. These finals were played as a knockout competition in the host country.

Results

Seasons Hosts Finals 3rd place match
Champions Score Runner-up Third Place Score Fourth Place
2003  Indonesia India
Kingfisher East Bengal		 3 - 1 Thailand
BEC Tero Sasana		 Indonesia
Petrokimia Putra		 3 - 0 Malaysia
Perak FA
2005  Brunei Darussalam Singapore
Tampines Rovers		 4 - 2 Malaysia
Pahang FA		 Vietnam
Hoang Anh Gia Lai		 Not Played Brunei
DPMM FC

Performances by clubs

# Nation Winners Runners-up 3rd Place 4th Place
1India Kingfisher East Bengal1000
2Singapore Tampines Rovers1000
3Thailand BEC Tero Sasana0100
4Malaysia Pahang FA0100
5Brunei DPMM FC0010
6Vietnam Hoang Anh Gia Lai0010
7Indonesia Petrokimia Putra0010
8Malaysia Perak FA0001

Performances by nations

# Nation Winners Runners-up 3rd Place 4th Place
1India India1000
2Singapore Singapore1000
3Malaysia Malaysia0101
4Thailand Thailand0100
5Brunei Brunei0010
6Vietnam Vietnam0010
7Indonesia Indonesia0010

All-Time Top scorers

Player Club Year of Championship Goals
India Baichung Bhutia India Kingfisher East Bengal 2003 8
Cameroon Bernard Tchoutang Malaysia Pahang FA 2005 7
Vietnam Nguyen Dinh Viet Vietnam Hoang Anh Gia Lai 2005 7
Liberia Frank Seator Malaysia Perak FA 2003 5
Malaysia Indra Putra Mahayuddin Malaysia Perak FA
Malaysia Pahang FA		 2003
2005		 4
Thailand Kiatisuk Senamuang Vietnam Hoang Anh Gia Lai 2003
2005		 4
Indonesia Zaenal Arif Indonesia Persita Tangerang 2003 4
Thailand Therdsak Chaiman Thailand BEC Tero Sasana 2003 4
Singapore Mirko Grabovac Singapore Tampines Rovers 2005 4
Myanmar Kyaw Thu Ra Myanmar Finance and Revenue 2005 4
Brazil Rivaldo Costa Indonesia Petrokimia Putra 2003 3
Indonesia M Jaenal Ichwan Indonesia Petrokimia Putra 2003 3
Vietnam Nguyen Van Dan Vietnam Hoang Anh Gia Lai 2005 3
Brazil Anderson Thailand Thailand Tobacco Monopoly 2005 3

See also


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