2014
MANILA (4 Sept 2014) –The Philippines walloped Chinese Taipei 5-1 to make the final of the Peace Cup where they will face Myanmar on Saturday. In the match that was played at the Rizal Memorial Stadium, the home team grabbed a two-goal lead at the break off Rob Gier and James Younghusband. Sustained pressure well…
KUALA LUMPUR (4 Sept 2014) – In an effort to further promote the development of football in Asia, a FIFA-AFC Member Associations and Development Seminar for Presidents, General Secretaries and Technical Directors is being held from today till 6 September in Kuala Lumpur. The high-level seminar aims to highlight various governance reforms and development programmes…
SINGAPORE (3 Sept 2014) – Singapore have lined up matches against Papua New Guinea and Hong Kong this month as part of their preparation for the AFF Suzuki Cup which they will be co-hosting in November. The defending champions will take on Papua on 6 September before taking on Hong Kong three days later. Both…
PHNOM PENH (3 Sept 2014) – The inaugural Toyota Mekong Club Championship will be held at the end of October with clubs from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam taking part. Sponsored by Japanese automaker Toyota, the tournament will see the champions from each of the four countries clashing in a luck of the draw tie…
DILI (2 Sept 2014) – FIFA have sent out a circular to all Member Associations to restrict national teams to play just two international matches at any one international match calendar. Excerpts from the letter as per below: At its meeting on 20 March 2013, the FIFA Executive Committee ratified the international match calendar for…
MANILA (2 Sept 2014) – From a round robin tournament, the Peace Cup this year has been re-formatted to accommodate the directive from FIFA that national teams should only play two matches during international match calendar. As such, the Philippines Football Federation (PFF) had little choice but to re-draw the championship at the Rizal Memorial…