2007 AFC President's Cup

The 2007 AFC President's Cup was the third edition of the AFC President's Cup, a competition for football clubs in countries categorized as "emerging nations" by the Asian Football Confederation. The eight teams that competed were split up into two groups and play each other team in their group once. The winner of each group then played the runner up in the other group in the semi-finals, and the winners of the semi-final matches played in the final match to determine the winner. There was no third place match. Games were played in Lahore, Pakistan, between 20 and 30 September 2007.

2007 AFC President's Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Pakistan
Dates	20–30 September 2007
Teams	8 (from 8 associations)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Dordoi-Dynamo (2nd title)
Runners-up	Mahendra Police Club
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	66 (4.4 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Channa Ediri Bandanage (6 goals)
Best player(s)	Valery Kashuba[1]
← 2006 2008 →

Venues

Lahore
Punjab Stadium	Railway Stadium
Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 5,000

Qualifying teams

Association	Team	Qualifying method	App	Last app.
Bhutan	Transport United	2006 A-Division champions	3rd	2006
Cambodia	Khemara Kelia	2006 Cambodian League champions	2nd	2006
Chinese Taipei	Tatung	2006 Intercity Football League champions	2nd	2006
Kyrgyzstan	Dordoi-Dynamoth	2006 Kyrgyzstan League champions	3rd	2006
Nepal	Mehandra Police Club	2006–07 Martyr's Memorial A-Division League champions	1st	none
Pakistan	Pakistan Army	2006–07 Pakistan Premier League champions	2nd	2006
Sri Lanka	Ratnam	2006–07 Kit Premier League champions	2nd	2006
Tajikistan	Regar-TadAZ	2006 Tajik League champions	2nd	2005

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Regar TadAZ	3	3	0	0	16	1	+15	9
Ratnam Sports Club	3	1	1	1	9	5	+4	4
Transport United	3	1	0	2	4	21	−17	3
Pakistan Army	3	0	1	2	6	8	−2	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

20 September 2007

20:15

Pakistan Army	3–3	Ratnam Sports Club
Draz 18' Riaz 45+2' Shabbir 58'	Report[permanent dead link]	E.B. Channa 10' Mohideen 13' Jayasuriya 43'

Punjab Stadium, Lahore

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Abdulrahman Recho (Syria)

20 September 2007

23:00

Transport United	0–13	Regar-TadAZ
	Report[permanent dead link]	Makhmudov 18', 28', 45+2', 61', 76' Abdullayev 35', 63' Rustamov 37', 54' Umarbaev 66' Barotov 74' Kholbekov 80' Rabimov 87'

Punjab Stadium, Lahore

Attendance: 300

Referee: Sgt Win Cho (Myanmar)

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22 September 2007

19:30

Regar-TadAZ	2–1	Pakistan Army
Abdullayev 65' Hakimov 68'	Report	Draz 73'

Punjab Stadium, Lahore

Attendance: 800

Referee: Kadhum Auda (Iraq)

22 September 2007

22:15

Ratnam Sports Club	6–1	Transport United
Mohideen 13' E.B. Channa 17', 69', 73', 82', 90'	Report[permanent dead link]	Gyeltshen 42'

Punjab Stadium, Lahore

Attendance: 300

Referee: Mukhtar Al Yarimi (Yemen)

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25 September 2007

12:00

Transport United	3–2	Pakistan Army
Dorji 5', 74' Jamtsho 27'	Report[permanent dead link]	Shabbir 45' Riaz 90+2'

Punjab Stadium, Lahore

Attendance: 200

Referee: Kadhum Auda (Iraq)

25 September 2007

12:00

Regar-TadAZ	1–0	Ratnam Sports Club
Abdullayev 66'	Report[permanent dead link]

Railway Stadium, Lahore

Attendance: 100

Referee: Naser Al-Ghafary (Jordan)

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Dordoi-Dynamo	3	3	0	0	12	0	+12	9
Mahendra Police Club	3	1	1	1	6	7	−1	4
Khemara	3	1	0	2	5	10	−5	3
Tatung	3	0	1	2	0	6	−6	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

21 September 2007

19:30

Khemara	0–4	Dordoi-Dynamo
	Report[permanent dead link]	Ishenbaev 14', 36' Krasnov 34' (pen.), 39'

Punjab Stadium, Lahore

Attendance: 500

Referee: Naser Al-Ghafary (Jordan)

21 September 2007

22:15

Mahendra Police Club	0–0	Tatung
	Report[permanent dead link]

Punjab Stadium, Lahore

Attendance: 500

Referee: Vo Minh Tri (Vietnam)

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23 September 2007

19:30

Tatung	0–1	Khemara
	Report	Sokumpheak 1'

Punjab Stadium, Lahore

Attendance: 500

Referee: Sgt Win Cho (Myanmar)

23 September 2007

22:15

Dordoi-Dynamo	3–0	Mahendra Police Club
Kudrenko 23' Krasnov 33', 59'	Report[permanent dead link]

Punjab Stadium, Lahore

Attendance: 500

Referee: Vo Minh Tri (Vietnam)

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25 September 2007

15:30

Mahendra Police Club	6–4	Khemara
Thapa 12', 79' Budhathoki 16' Pandey 25' Rai 30' Rijal 85'	Report[permanent dead link]	Loch 23' Chet 68' (pen.) Sokumpheak 70', 78'

Punjab Stadium, Lahore

Attendance: 200

Referee: Abdulrahman Recho (Syria)

25 September 2007

15:30

Tatung	0–5	Dordoi-Dynamo
	Report[permanent dead link]	Muladjanov 11' Kornilov 18', 63', 84', 89'

Railway Stadium, Lahore

Attendance: 300

Referee: Mukhtar Al Yarimi (Yemen)

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

27 September 2007

19:30

Regar-TadAZ	1–2	Mahendra Police Club
Rustamov 26'	Report[permanent dead link]	Rai 32' Budhathoki 90+1'

Punjab Stadium, Lahore

Attendance: 500

Referee: Vo Minh Tri (Vietnam)

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28 September 2007

19:30

Dordoi-Dynamo	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Ratnam Sports Club
Tetteh 21'	Report[permanent dead link]	Jayasuriya 44'
Penalties
	4–3

Punjab Stadium, Lahore

Attendance: 1,000

Referee: Abdulrahman Recho (Syria)

Final

30 September 2007

19:30

Mahendra Police Club	1–2	Dordoi-Dynamo
Rai 90+2' (pen.)	Report[permanent dead link]	Ishenbaev 8' (pen.) Kornilov 74'

Punjab Stadium, Lahore

Attendance: 2000

Referee: Kadhum Auda (Iraq)

Mahendra Police Club

Dordoi-Dynamo

MAHENDRA POLICE CLUB: GK 1 Ritesh Thapa DF 3 Rakesh Shrestha DF 5 Dipendra Paudel DF 16 Dipak Paudel  7' DF 26 Rabin Shrestha  68' MF 7 Parbat Pandey MF 9 Kunjan Shrestha MF 12 Arjun Rijal  67' MF 15 Anant Thapa FW 10 Ramesh Budhathoki (c)  45' FW 18 Ju Manu Rai  90+3' Substitutes: DF 6 Ganesh Budhathoki  68' MF 25 Roshan Karki  46' Manager: Birat Krishna Shrestha

DORDOI-DYNAMO: GK 16 Valery Kashuba DF 3 Talant Samsaliev  64' DF 4 Ruslan Sydykov (c) DF 20 Igor Kudrenko MF 5 Sergey Knyazev  90+3' MF 7 Aibek Bokoev  68' MF 8 Valery Berezovsky MF 11 Azamat Ishenbaev  81' MF 18 Vadim Kharchenko FW 15 Andrey Krasnov  54' FW 22 David Tetteh Substitutes: FW 9 Roman Kornilov  54' MF 13 Davron Askarov  68' MF 17 Marlen Kasymov  81' Manager: Boris Podkorytov

OFFICIALS

• Linesman: Md. Abdul Sarker (Bangladesh)
• Linesman: Jeffrey Goh (Singapore)

AFC President's Cup 2007
Dordoi-Dynamo Second title

See also

• 2007 AFC Cup
• 2007 AFC Champions League