2009 Turkmenistan President's Cup

The 15th edition of the Turkmenistan President's Cup was played from February 20 to 28 with the participation of eight clubs.

2009 Turkmenistan President’s Cup
Prezident Kubogy 2009
Tournament details
Host countryTurkmenistan
Dates20 February - 28 February
Teams8 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored33 (2.06 per match)
Top scorer(s)Turkmenistan Azat Garajaýew
(10 Different Players)
(2 goals)
Best player(s)Turkmenistan Krendelev

Three of the eight teams participating in the 15th edition of the tournament competed for the Cup for the first time – the runners-up of Kyrgyzstan League, a participant of ‘the golden match’ in the national championships FC Abdysh-Ata, FC Hemmat from Iran and the youth team from Bahrain.

The bronze-medal winner of Virsliga, the 1996 Turkmenistan President's Cup finalist Skonto Rīga and the bronze-medal winner of the championships of Armenia FC Gandzasar Kapan competed in the tournament for the second time. The defending Turkmenistan President's Cup winner HTTU Aşgabat– for the fourth time, a finalist of the 2007 and 2008 international tournaments FC Aşgabat made the third attempt to win the prize.

The teams were split in two groups: Group A – Defending champions Turkmenistan's HTTU Aşgabat was pooled with Kyrgyzstan runners-up Abdysh-Ata, Latvian giants Skonto and Iranian outfit Hemmat Golestan; Group B – Tajikistan runners-up Parvoz, Gandzasar from Armenia, Bahrain youth team and Turkmenistan champions Aşgabat were in Group B.

Two best teams in each group qualified to the final stage and competed for the main prize, the runners-up competed for the third place.

The winning team was awarded with US$20,000 while the runners-up team was given US$10,000.

HTTU beat Aşgabat 2–1 in the final of previous year.

Participating teams

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Team Qualifying method
  FC Aşgabat Ýokary Liga 2008 winners
  HTTU Aşgabat Ýokary Liga 2008 runners-up
  FC Abdysh-Ata Kyrgyzstan League 2008 runners-up
  Skonto Rīga Virsliga 2008 3rd place
  FC Parvoz Tajik League 2008 runners-up
  FC Gandzasar Armenian Premier League 2008 3rd place
  Hemmat Golestan Iranian regional league team
  Bahrain Youth Team

Group stage

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All times are local (UTC+5)

Group A

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Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
1.   Skonto Rīga 7 3 2 1 0 8 0 +8
2.   HTTU Aşgabat 6 3 2 0 1 6 3 +3
3.   FC Abdysh-Ata 2 3 0 2 1 1 2 -1
4.   FC Hemmat 1 3 0 1 2 0 10 -10

Results

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HTTU Aşgabat  4 - 0  FC Hemmat
Daýançgylyç Urazow   6'
Begli Nurmyradow   27'
Azat Garajaýew   74'
Pirmyrat Gazakow   76'

FC Hemmat  0 - 6  Skonto Rīga
  8',   42' Igors Kozlovs
  10' Andrejs Perepļotkins
  68' Vladimir Dvalishvili
  85' (pen.) Kristaps Blanks
  90+3' Nikolos Kozasuks

FC Abdysh-Ata  0 - 0  FC Hemmat

Group B

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Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
1.   FC Aşgabat 7 3 2 1 0 4 1 +3
2.  FC Gandzasar 3 3 0 3 0 2 2 0
3.  FC Parvoz 2 3 0 2 1 2 3 -1
4.   Bahrain Youth Team 2 3 0 2 1 1 3 -2

Results

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FC Aşgabat  2 - 0  Bahrain Youth Team
Arif Mirzoyew   64'
Ruslan Mingazow   72'
  42'   Hussein Jalil

Bahrain Youth Team  1 - 1 FC Gandzasar
Abdullah Naser Mohamed   83'   60'Dragan Galić

FC Parvoz  2 - 2  Bahrain Youth Team
Mansurjon Hakimov   57',   90+1'   70' Abdullah Naser Mohamed
  85' Hamad Al Dahil

Knockout stage

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Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
27 February - Olympic Stadium
 
 
  Skonto Rīga (p) 1
 
28 February - Olympic Stadium
 
 FC Gandzasar1
 
  Skonto Rīga0
 
27 February - Olympic Stadium
 
  HTTU Aşgabat1
 
  FC Aşgabat0
 
 
  HTTU Aşgabat1
 
Third place
 
 
28 February - Olympic Stadium
 
 
 FC Gandzasar1
 
 
  FC Aşgabat2

Semi finals

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Third-place play-off

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Final

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Skonto Rīga 0 - 1 HTTU Aşgabat
  66' Azat Garajaýew
Attendance: 25.000
Referee:  Çarymyrat Gurbanow

Top scorers

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Notes

  • FC Hemmat is the only team at this tournament players of which were unable to score a single goal.
# Scorer Goals (Pen.) Team
1   Pirmyrat Gazakow 2 HTTU Aşgabat
=   Igors Kozlovs 2 Skonto Rīga
=   Andrejs Perepļotkins 2 Skonto Rīga
=   Ruslan Mingazow 2 FC Aşgabat
=   Mansurjon Hakimov 2 FC Parvoz
=   Abdullah Naser Mohamed 2 Bahrain Youth Team
=   Berdi Şamyradow 2 HTTU Aşgabat
=   Aleksandrs Fertovs 2 Skonto Rīga
=   Azat Garajaýew 2 HTTU Aşgabat
=   Gahrymanberdi Çoňkaýew 2 FC Aşgabat