2007 Men's Hockey Asia Cup

The 2007 Men's Hockey Asia Cup was the seventh tournament of the Hockey Asia Cup for men. It was held from 31 August – 9 September 2007 in Chennai, India. India won, defeating Korea in the finals, seven goals to two. Korea came in second and Malaysia came third.[1]

2007 Men's Hockey Asia Cup
Tournament details
Host countryIndia
CityChennai
Teams11 (from 1 Confederation)
Venue(s)Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium
YMCA Ground
Final positions
Champions India (2nd title)
Runner-up South Korea
Third place Malaysia
Tournament statistics
Matches played35
Goals scored282 (8.06 per match)
2003 (previous) (next) 2009

India led 3–1 at halftime. In the early stages of the second half, Korea staged a walkout led by their coach, because of a decision by the umpire to disallow a goal scored by Korea. In response, India scored a goal through a counterattack in the next minute. Two Korean forwards had continued to argue with the umpire on the disallowed goal. Korea never recovered, while India's forward line scored 3 more goals to make it 7–1 before Korea reduced the margin to 7–2 in the penultimate minute.[2]

Baljit Singh, the Indian goalkeeper, was declared the man of the match for his excellent saves. The striking feature of India's win was that all 7 goals were 'field' goals, and none of them came through 'penalty corners' or 'strokes'. India thus ended the tournament with 57 goals for and just 5 goals against them.[3]

Malaysia got a medal in the Hockey Asia Cup for the first time. It was also the first time since 1982 that Pakistan did not qualify for the Semi-finals in the Hockey Asia Cup. Pakistan lost to Japan 3–1 and drew their league match against Malaysia 3–3. Pakistan lost to China in the 5th/6th place playoff, and ended 6th in the tournament.

Participants

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Pools

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All times are Indian Standard Time (UTC +5.30)

Pool A

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Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
  Malaysia 10 4 3 1 0 26 4 +22
  Japan 9 4 3 0 1 18 4 +14
  Pakistan 7 4 2 1 1 18 7 +11
  Hong Kong 3 4 1 0 3 6 28 −22
  Singapore 0 4 0 0 4 2 27 −25
31 August 2007
07:30
Malaysia   8–0   Singapore
Zulkifli Mohd Rejab   3'46'
Megat Azrafiq   22'
Abu   33'
Azlan Misron   48'68'
Chua Boon Huat   67'69'
31 August 2007
17:00
Pakistan   6–1   Hong Kong
Imran   11'29'
Abbasi   13'59'
Ihsan Ullah   38'
Imran Khan   56'
Arif Ali   46'

1 September 2007
15:00
Japan   3–1   Pakistan
Ono Tomonori   29'50'
Yamabori Takahiko   42'
Abbasi   47'
1 September 2007
16:00
Malaysia   13–1   Hong Kong
Kelvinder Singh   13'27'58'
B. Singh   22'41'52'
Zulkifli Mohd Rejab   25'56'
Jiwa Mohan   30'
Chua Boon Huat   33'
Ahmad Tajuddin   45'
Mohd Shahrun   68'
Sandrakasi   70'
Mohammed Swalik   12'

3 September 2007
15:00
Japan   7–1   Hong Kong
Takahiko Yamabori   2'28'46'65'67'70'
Kazuo Yoshida   23'
Arif Ali   53'
3 September 2007
17:00
Pakistan   8–0   Singapore
Imran   4'
Abbas Haider   23'27'
Aziz   25'
Ihsan Ullah   40'
Imran Khan   63'
Butt   67'70'

4 September 2007
15:00
Hong Kong   3–2   Singapore
Gurvinder Dillon   24'
Ali   60'
Harinder Singh Bal   68'
Saiful Nizam   7'
Hazmi Bin Mohd   54'
4 September 2007
19:00
Japan   0–2   Malaysia
Abu   1'
Azlan Misron   41'

5 September 2007
19:00
Pakistan   3–3   Malaysia
Shakeel Abassi   17'26'
Akhtar Ali   33'
Ahmad Tajuddin   43'57'
Megat Azrafiq   69'

6 September 2007
15:00
Japan   8–0   Singapore
Takahiko Yamabori   6'8'12'
Kazuo Yoshida   26'
Kazuhiro Tsubouchi   33'
Mitsuru Ito   42'
A. Ito   54'
Sho Ota   58'

Pool B

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Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
  India 15 5 5 0 0 46 2 +44
  South Korea 10 5 3 1 1 41 8 +33
  China 10 5 3 1 1 32 6 +26
  Bangladesh 6 5 2 0 3 16 22 −6
  Sri Lanka 3 5 1 0 4 15 46 −31
  Thailand 0 5 0 0 5 1 67 −66
31 August 2007
09:30
Bangladesh   13–0   Thailand
Md Jahid Bin Talib   4'
Mahmud   10'19'67'69'
Khondokar Hasan   24'
Md Iqbal Nadir   39'45'
Md Zahidul Islam   40'59'
Md Kamun   52'55'
Md Mamun   62'
31 August 2007
15:00
South Korea   12–2   Sri Lanka
Oh Dae-keun   3'
Lee Jae-won   6'
Kim Byung-hoon   12'22'28'62'
Jang Jong-hyun   16'24'41'46'
You Hyo-sik   61'
(one unknown)   ?'
MM Gazalli   52'
(one unknown)   ?'
31 August 2007
19:00
India   1–0   China
D. Tirkey   48' Report

1 September 2007
14:00
South Korea   16–0   Thailand
Kim Byung-hoon   7'11'33'66'
Seo Jong-ho   16'18'40'69'
Kang Seong-jung   28'
Lee Nam-yong   35'
Kang Moon-kweon   36'43'
Kim Chul   42'58'
Jang Jong-hyun   47'55'
1 September 2007
17:00
China   6–0   Bangladesh
Hu Huiren   6'
Na Yubo   11'14'66'
Lu Fenghui   39'
Yu Yang   49'
1 September 2007
19:00
India   20–0   Sri Lanka
D. Tirkey   2'
S. Singh   3'63'
Khandekar   6'23'37'
P. Singh   10'14'38'47'49'
Raghunath   28'61'62'
Sunil   30'34'35'
I. Tirkey   57'64'
R. Singh   69'
Report

3 September 2007
07:30
Bangladesh   3–2   Sri Lanka
Mahmud   4'
Md. Mamun   46'
Md. Zahidul Islam   49'
Hettiarachchi   31'
Karunarathne   58'
3 September 2007
09:30
China   13–0   Thailand
Hu Huiren   14'25'27'54'66'67'
Meng Jun   20'68'
Yu Yang   31'32'
Lu Fenghui   35'38'
Meng Lizhi   64'
3 September 2007
19:00
India   3–2   South Korea
S. Singh   20'
I. Tirkey   31'
P. Singh   34'
Report Jang Jong-hyun   9'
Oh Dae-keun   28'

4 September 2007
17:00
India   6–0   Bangladesh
Raghunath   31'66'
Khandekar   37'
S. Singh   38'
P. Singh   49'57'
Report

5 September 2007
15:00
Thailand   1–9   Sri Lanka
Sadkorn Wimuttan   60' Gazally   10'67'
Anju Hewage   15'38'
Hettiarachchi   17'63'
Karunarathne   27'
Pradeep Priyashantha   51'
Abeyrathne   70'
5 September 2007
17:00
South Korea   3–3   China
Oh Dae-keun   21'
Jang Jong-hyun   52'
Kang Seong-jung   53'
Meng Lizhi   11'
Li Wei   59'
Luo Fangming   70'

6 September 2007
16:00
China   10–2   Sri Lanka
Hu Huiren   11'51'61'
Hu Liang   13'
De Yunze   33'38'42'
Jiang Xishang   49'56'
Meng Lizhi   65'
Camer   64'
Panditharathne   70'
6 September 2007
17:00
South Korea   8–0   Bangladesh
Jang Jong-hyun   2'13'28'47'
Yoon Sung-hoon   26'
Kang Moon-kweon   32'53'
Kim Jong-hoon   49'
6 September 2007
19:00
India   16–0   Thailand
Raghunath   2'7'13'18'26'56'
P. Singh   27'29'62'
Khandekar   28'34'
Sunil   35'
G. Singh   38'
R. Singh   54'57'59'
Report

Ninth to eleventh place classification

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Crossover

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8 September 2007
08:00
Singapore   4–0   Thailand
Nee Yong   18'
Johnson Sivalingam   35'
Hazmi Bin Mohd   53'57'

Ninth and tenth place

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8 September 2007
08:00
Sri Lanka   6–0   Singapore
Summandarathne   14'
Hettiarachchi   27'
Abeyrathne   47'
Nimanka Srimal   55'
Jayasundara   65'
Anju Hewage   69'

Fifth to eighth place classification

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Crossover

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8 September 2007
07:00
Pakistan   10–0   Bangladesh
Waqas Shariff   8'
Yasir Islam   11'
Aziz   17'68'
Imran   24'45'
Abbas Haider   50'56'
Arshad   63'65'

8 September 2007
09:30
China   6–1   Hong Kong
Liu Xiang   12'24'
Huang Wei   29'41'
Liu Xian   35'
Hu Huiren   61'
Ali   5'

Seventh and eighth place

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9 September 2007
07:00
Bangladesh   3–1   Hong Kong
Mahmud   35'59'
Md Jahid Bin Talib   46'
Ali   23'

Fifth and sixth place

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9 September 2007
09:30
Pakistan   2–3   China
Arshad   30'
Butt   44'
De Yunze   12'54'
Hu Liang   68'

First to fourth place classification

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Semi-finals

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8 September 2007
17:00
Malaysia   1–2   South Korea
Azlon Misron   37' Oh Dae-keun   9'
Yoon Sung-hoon   63'

8 September 2007
19:30
India   4–1   Japan
S. Singh   22'
P. Singh   23'69'
Minz   54'
Report Takahiko Yamabori   68'

Third and fourth place

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9 September 2007
16:00
Malaysia   5–3   Japan
Kevinder Singh   4'
Sandrakasi   13'
Chua Boon Huat   18'22'
Abu   64'
Takahiko Yamabori   2'
Katsuyoshi Nagasawa   67'
Kei Kawakami   70'

Final

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9 September 2007
18:30
India   7–2   South Korea
S. Singh   4'
Sunil   13'
P. Singh   31'64'
R. Singh   42'55'
I. Tirkey   53'
Report Jang Jong-hyun   8'
Oh Dae-keun   68'

Winners

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 2007 Men's Hockey Asia Cup winners 
 
India
Second title

Final standings

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  1.   India
  2.   South Korea
  3.   Malaysia
  4.   Japan
  5.   China
  6.   Pakistan
  7.   Bangladesh
  8.   Hong Kong
  9.   Sri Lanka
  10.   Singapore
  11.   Thailand

References

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  1. ^ "2007 Asia Cup;FIH.com". Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  2. ^ "India wins the 2007 Asia Cup". Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Indian team to take inspiration from the 2007 Asia Cup;Sportskeeda.com". Retrieved 29 April 2021.
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