2023 AFF Championship

9th edition of the AFF Championship, the football championship of Southeast Asia. Singapore became the first side to win the AFF Championship four times, beating Thailand 3-2 on aggregate in the finals. On 17 December 2010, the Philippine Football Federation declared their interest to host the 2012 AFF Championship. There were two main venues; the Bukit Jalil National Stadium in Kuala Lumpur and the Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok. Malaysia were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Thailand in the semi-finals. The secondary venues; the Shah Alam Stadium in Shah Alam, Selangor State and the Supachalasai Stadium in Bangkok (browse around this site) for the final round of group games on 30 November and 1 December. However, with no other reported interest and following the meeting of the AFF Council on 19 February 2011, Malaysia and Thailand were announced as hosts of the group stage.

However, these criteria would not apply if two teams tied on points, goals scored, and conceded played against each other in their final group match, are still level at the end of that match, and no other team in group finishes with same points; in that case, the tie would be broken by a penalty shootout. All matches were played in Thailand. In the final tournament, a player was suspended for the subsequent match in the competition for either getting red card or accumulating two yellow cards in two different matches. Thailand won 3-1 on aggregate. Singapore won 3-2 on aggregate. Singapore won 1-0 on aggregate. All matches were played in Malaysia.

All teams played in a round-robin tournament format with the top two teams qualifying for the tournament proper. Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches. Six teams have qualified directly to the finals. The draw for the tournament as well as the qualification tournament took place on the afternoon of 11 July 2012 at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Bangkok. The teams that qualified via the qualifying stages were not yet determined at the time of the draw. The eight finalists were divided into four pots of two teams each based on team rankings. Drawing lots by the Organising Committee.

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