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2007 AFF Championship

The 2007 AFF Championship was the 6th edition of the AFF Championship, the football championship of Southeast Asia. The group stage was co-hosted by Singapore and Thailand from 12 to 17 January. Knockout stage with two-leg Home-and-away format was hosted from 23 January to 4 February 2007.

Hosts
Group stage was co-hosted Thailand and Singapore from 12 to 17 January 2007. The two hosts are the only two teams that have won the championship since its inception in 1996. Both nations with Malaysia and Vietnam were qualified from group stage and would host the knockout stage with Home-and-away format from 23 to 28 January 2007. ==Qualification==
Qualification
The qualifying round for the lower ranked teams in Southeast Asia was held in Bacolod, Philippines from 12 to 20 November 2006. It was played in a single round-robin format with the top two teams advancing to the finals. This was the first time since 1998 where a qualification tournament was held. Six teams as qualified directly to the finals. • • • • • • Two teams qualified via the qualification tournament. • (Qualification winners) • (Qualification runner-up) Qualified teams The following eight teams qualified for the tournament. ==Squads==
Final tournament
Group stage Group A • All matches played in Thailand. • Times listed are UTC+7 ---- ---- Group B • All matches played in Singapore. • Times listed are UTC+8 ---- ---- Knockout stage Note: Although the knockout stages were two-legged, away goals rule was not applied. If the total aggregate score of both teams after both matches remained the same, extra time would have been played, followed by a penalty shootout if necessary. Semi-finals ;First Leg ;Second Leg 2–2 on aggregate. Singapore won via a penalty shootout. Thailand won 2–0 on aggregate. Final After a group stage with two pools of four, the two host nations met in a two-game final. In the first leg of the final, a controversial penalty was awarded to Singapore at the 83rd minute of the match, and the Thailand team walked off the pitch as a protest to the referee's decision. The Thailand team returned to the pitch at the 98th minute, and Singapore later won 2-1. In the second leg of the final, Singapore had a goal controversially chalked off for being offside, but finally drew 1-1 to fellow Thailand, with Khairul Amri scoring the decisive goal in the closing stages of the match, giving Singapore their 2nd title in succession, winning with an aggregate score of 3-2 and successfully defending the title. While Thailand can point to the controversial penalty for their defeat in the first leg, they failed to defeat Singapore in the second leg in Bangkok. It could have been worse for Thailand had the match officials seen Thai midfielder Datsakorn Thonglao headbutt Singapore's Khairul Amri to vent his anger after the equaliser. First leg Second leg Singapore won 3–2 on aggregate. ==Awards==
Goalscorers
Team statistics
This table shows all team performance. ==References==
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