2002 WAFF Championship

The 2002 West Asian Football Federation Championship took part in Syrian Capital of Damascus. Iraq won the final against Jordan 3–2 after extra time coming back from 0–2 at half time. The 6 entrants were Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon and host nation Syria. The draw was held on 13 August in Kuala Lumpur.

2002 WAFF Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Syria
Dates	30 August – 7 September
Teams	6 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Iraq (1st title)
Runners-up	Jordan
Third place	Iran
Fourth place	Syria
Tournament statistics
Matches played	10
Goals scored	22 (2.2 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Alireza Nikbakht Razzaq Farhan Muayad Salim Anas Sari (2 goals each)
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Participants

All 6 members of WAFF participated in this tournament.

Country	Appearance	Previous best performance
Iran	2nd	Champions (2000)
Iraq	2nd	Third place (2000)
Jordan	2nd	Fourth place (2000)
Lebanon	2nd	Group stage (2000)
Palestine	2nd	Group stage (2000)
Syria (hosts)	2nd	Runners-up (2000)

Venue

Damascus	Damascus
	Abbasiyyin Stadium
	Capacity: 30,000

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Jordan	2	2	0	0	2	0	+2	6
Iran	2	1	0	1	2	1	+1	3
Lebanon	2	0	0	2	0	3	−3	0

Source: RSSSF.com

30 August 2002

Jordan	1–0	Iran
Salim 11'

Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus

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1 September 2002

Lebanon	0–1	Jordan
		Shelbaieh 4'

Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus

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3 September 2002

Iran	2–0	Lebanon
Nikbakht 24' Karimi 90+2''

Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Iraq	2	2	0	0	3	0	+3	6
Syria (H)	2	1	0	1	2	2	0	3
Palestine	2	0	0	2	1	4	−3	0

Source: RSSSF.com
(H) Hosts

30 August 2002

Syria	2–1	Palestine
Ibrahim 21' Haj Moustafa 37'		Lafi 39'

Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus

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1 September 2002

Palestine	0–2	Iraq
		Wahaib 47' Farhan 69'

Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus

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3 September 2002

Iraq	1–0	Syria
Kadhim 43'

Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus

Knockout phase

Semi-finals

5 September 2002

Jordan	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Syria
Salim 38' Al-Zboun 118'		Shehadeh 54'

Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus

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5 September 2002

Iraq	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Iran
Penalties
Abdul-Jabar Abu Al-Hail Abdul-Jabar Mohammed Kadhim Akram Abbas	6–5	Nekounam Bakhtiarizadeh Navidkia Nosrati Nikbakht Bayatinia Azizzadeh

Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus

Third place match

7 September 2002

Iran	2–2	Syria
Kameli Mofrad 59' Nikbakht 88'		Sari 15', 89'
Penalties
Nekounam Bakhtiarizadeh Navidkia Kazemian	4–2	Haj Moustafa Ibrahim Jabban

Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus

Final

7 September 2002

Iraq	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Jordan
Farhan 32' Y.Mahmoud 89' H.Mahmoud 103'		Shehdeh 2' Amer Deeb 30'

Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus

Champion

2002 WAFF Championship winners
Iraq First title

Statistics

Goalscorers

There have been 22 goals scored in 10 matches, for an average of 2.2 goals per match.

2 goals

• Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht
• Razzaq Farhan
• Moayad Salim
• Anas Sari

1 goal

• Ali Karimi
• Jalal Kameli Mofrad
• Haidar Mahmoud
• Ahmad Kadhim
• Ali Wahaib
• Younis Mahmoud
• Abbas Obeid
• Anas Al-Zboun
• Amer Deeb
• Mustafa Shehdeh
• Mahmoud Shelbaieh
• Fadi Lafi
• Nihad Haj Moustafa
• Hassan Ibrahim
• Raghdan Shehadeh

External links

• RSSSF Page on the tournament