2007 Men's Hockey Asia Cup

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2007 Asia Cup
Asia Cup 2007
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

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]

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

Pools

All times are Indian Standard Time (UTC +5.30)

Pool A

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 field hockey ball 3'46'
Megat Azrafiq field hockey ball 22'
Abu field hockey ball 33'
Azlan Misron field hockey ball 48'68'
Chua Boon Huat field hockey ball 67'69'
31 August 2007
17:00
Pakistan  6–1  Hong Kong
Imran field hockey ball 11'29'
Abbasi field hockey ball 13'59'
Ihsan Ullah field hockey ball 38'
Imran Khan field hockey ball 56'
Arif Ali field hockey ball 46'

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

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

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

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

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

Pool B

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 field hockey ball 4'
Mahmud field hockey ball 10'19'67'69'
Khondokar Hasan field hockey ball 24'
Md Iqbal Nadir field hockey ball 39'45'
Md Zahidul Islam field hockey ball 40'59'
Md Kamun field hockey ball 52'55'
Md Mamun field hockey ball 62'
31 August 2007
15:00
South Korea  12–2  Sri Lanka
Oh Dae-keun field hockey ball 3'
Lee Jae-won field hockey ball 6'
Kim Byung-hoon field hockey ball 12'22'28'62'
Jang Jong-hyun field hockey ball 16'24'41'46'
You Hyo-sik field hockey ball 61'
(one unknown) field hockey ball ?'
MM Gazalli field hockey ball 52'
(one unknown) field hockey ball ?'
31 August 2007
19:00
India  1–0  China
D. Tirkey field hockey ball 48' Report

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

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

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

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

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

Ninth to eleventh place classification

Crossover

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

Ninth and tenth place

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

Fifth to eighth place classification

Crossover

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

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

Seventh and eighth place

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

Fifth and sixth place

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

First to fourth place classification

Semi-finals

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

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

Third and fourth place

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

Final

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

Winners

 2007 Men's Hockey Asia Cup winners 

India
Second title

Final standings

  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

  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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