2010 WAFF Championship

2010 WAFF Championship
	File:WAFFC 2010.gif
Tournament details
Host country	Jordan
Dates	24 September – 3 October
Teams	9 (from 1 confederation)
Venue	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait (1st title)
Runners-up	File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran
Tournament statistics
Matches played	12
Goals scored	36 (3 per match)
Attendance	92,000 (7,667 per match)
Top scorer	Yemen Ali Al-Nono (4 goals)
	← 2008 2012 →

The 2010 WAFF Championship was the 6th edition of the West Asian Football Federation Championship, an international tournament for selected West Asian countries and territories. It was hosted by Jordan, after Lebanon was deemed not capable of hosting.^[1] The competition was eventually won for the first time by Kuwait, after beating the three-time defending champions, Iran.

Participants

9 members from 13 members of WAFF participated in this tournament.

Country	Appearance	Previous best performance
File:Flag of Bahrain.svg Bahrain	1st	None
File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran	6th	Champions (2000, 2004, 2007, 2008)
File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq	5th	Champions (2002)
File:Flag of Jordan.svg Jordan (hosts)	6th	Runners-up (2002, 2008)
File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait	1st	None
File:Flag of Oman.svg Oman	2nd	Group Stage (2008)
File:Flag of Palestine.svg Palestine	6th	Group stage (2000, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008)
File:Flag of the United Arab Republic (1958–1971), Flag of Syria (1980–2024).svg Syria	6th	Runners-up (2000, 2004)
File:Flag of Yemen.svg Yemen	1st	None

Note:

File:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Saudi Arabia, File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon, File:Flag of Qatar.svg Qatar and File:Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg United Arab Emirates did not enter.

Draw

Nine teams entered the tournament and were drawn into three groups of three teams. The draw for the competition was made on Thursday 1 July 2010.^[2]

Group A	Group B	Group C
File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran (Holders) File:Flag of Bahrain.svg Bahrain File:Flag of Oman.svg Oman	File:Flag of Jordan.svg Jordan (Hosts) File:Flag of the United Arab Republic (1958–1971), Flag of Syria (1980–2024).svg Syria File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait	File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq File:Flag of Yemen.svg Yemen File:Flag of Palestine.svg Palestine

Venue

2010 WAFF Championship is located in Jordan Amman Amman 2010 WAFF Championship (Jordan)	Amman
	King Abdullah II Stadium
	Capacity: 20,000
	File:King Abdullah II Stadium, Amman, Jordan.jpg

Squads

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran	2	1	1	0	5	2	+3	4
2	File:Flag of Bahrain.svg Bahrain	2	1	0	1	2	3	−1	3
3	File:Flag of Oman.svg Oman	2	0	1	1	2	4	−2	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

24 September 2010

19:00 GMT

Iran File:Flag of Iran.svg	3–0	File:Flag of Bahrain.svg Bahrain
Aghili File:Soccerball shade.svg 36', 38' Oladi File:Soccerball shade.svg 47'	Report

King Abdullah II Stadium, Amman

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Nasser Al-Ghafari (Jordan)

26 September 2010

15:00 GMT

Bahrain File:Flag of Bahrain.svg	2–0	File:Flag of Oman.svg Oman
Abdullatif File:Soccerball shade.svg 63', 67'	Report

King Abdullah II Stadium, Amman

Attendance: 1,000

28 September 2010

15:00 GMT

Oman File:Flag of Oman.svg	2–2	File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran
Hadid File:Soccerball shade.svg 40' Abdul-Karim File:Soccerball shade.svg 45'	Report	Meydavoudi File:Soccerball shade.svg 17' Teymourian File:Soccerball shade.svg 53'

King Abdullah II Stadium, Amman

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Ko Hyung-Jin (South Korea)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait	2	1	1	0	4	3	+1	4
2	File:Flag of Jordan.svg Jordan (H)	2	0	2	0	3	3	0	2
3	File:Flag of the United Arab Republic (1958–1971), Flag of Syria (1980–2024).svg Syria	2	0	1	1	2	3	−1	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(H) Hosts

24 September 2010

15:00 GMT

Jordan File:Flag of Jordan.svg	1–1	File:Flag of the United Arab Republic (1958–1971), Flag of Syria (1980–2024).svg Syria
Abdullah Deeb File:Soccerball shade.svg 13'	Report	Al-Zino File:Soccerball shade.svg 82'

King Abdullah II Stadium, Amman

Attendance: 18,000

26 September 2010

19:00 GMT

Syria File:Flag of the United Arab Republic (1958–1971), Flag of Syria (1980–2024).svg	1–2	File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait
Al-Omaier File:Soccerball shade.svg 83'	Report	Rashed File:Soccerball shade.svg 53' Al-Moussawi File:Soccerball shade.svg 71'

King Abdullah II Stadium, Amman

Attendance: 5,000

28 September 2010

19:00 GMT

Kuwait File:Flag of Kuwait.svg	2–2	File:Flag of Jordan.svg Jordan
Nasser File:Soccerball shade.svg 60' Al Mejmed File:Soccerball shade.svg 78'	Report	Abdel-Fattah File:Soccerball shade.svg 38', 51'

King Abdullah II Stadium, Amman

Attendance: 18,000

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq	2	2	0	5	1	+4	6
2	File:Flag of Yemen.svg Yemen	2	1	1	4	3	+1	3
3	File:Flag of Palestine.svg Palestine	2	0	2	1	6	−5	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

25 September 2010

17:00 GMT

Iraq File:Flag of Iraq.svg	2–1	File:Flag of Yemen.svg Yemen
Samal File:Soccerball shade.svg 49' Hawar File:Soccerball shade.svg 72'	Report	Al-Nono File:Soccerball shade.svg 10'

King Abdullah II Stadium, Amman

Attendance: 8,000

27 September 2010

17:00 GMT

Yemen File:Flag of Yemen.svg	3–1	File:Flag of Palestine.svg Palestine
Al-Nono File:Soccerball shade.svg 43' (pen.), 83' Thabit File:Soccerball shade.svg 63'	Report	Obeid File:Soccerball shade.svg 79'

King Abdullah II Stadium, Amman

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Nasser Al-Ghafari (Jordan)

29 September 2010

17:00 GMT

Palestine File:Flag of Palestine.svg	0–3	File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq
		Karim File:Soccerball shade.svg 15', 76' Akram File:Soccerball shade.svg 86' (pen.)

King Abdullah II Stadium, Amman

Attendance: 14,000

Ranking of second-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	C	File:Flag of Yemen.svg Yemen	2	1	0	1	4	3	+1	3
2	A	File:Flag of Bahrain.svg Bahrain	2	1	0	1	2	3	−1	3
3	B	File:Flag of Jordan.svg Jordan	2	0	2	0	3	3	0	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Knockout phase

Semi-finals

1 October 2010

13:00 GMT

Iran File:Flag of Iran.svg	2–1	File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq
Hosseini File:Soccerball shade.svg 58' Gholami File:Soccerball shade.svg 84'		Karim File:Soccerball shade.svg 71'

King Abdullah II Stadium, Amman

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Hajime Matsuo (Japan)

1 October 2010

18:00 GMT

Kuwait File:Flag of Kuwait.svg	1–1	File:Flag of Yemen.svg Yemen
Al-Rashidi File:Soccerball shade.svg 73'		Al-Nono File:Soccerball shade.svg 55'
Penalties
	4–3

King Abdullah II Stadium, Amman

Attendance: 3,000

Final

3 October 2010

18:00 GMT

Iran File:Flag of Iran.svg	1–2	File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait
Meydavoudi File:Soccerball shade.svg 90+5'		Mashaan File:Soccerball shade.svg 10' Nasser File:Soccerball shade.svg 40'

King Abdullah II Stadium, Amman

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Nasser Al-Ghafari (Jordan)

Champion

2010 WAFF Championship champion
File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait First title

Goalscorers

4 goals

Yemen Ali Al-Nono

3 goals

Iraq Mustafa Karim

2 goals

1 goal

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2010 WAFF Championship

Contents

Participants

Draw

Venue

Squads

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Ranking of second-placed teams

Knockout phase

Semi-finals

Final

Champion

Goalscorers

Sponsors

References

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