West Asian Championship [Malek Hussein Cup] (Jordan) 2000

All matches at the Malek Abdullah (King Abdullah) stadium in Amman.

Tournament to be held biannually as West Asian championship.

Group A
[May 24]
Iran         3-0 Kazakhstan
  [Ali Karimi 6, 73, Vahid Hashemian 45]
Palestine    0-1 Syria
  [Mohannad Al Beetar 80]
[May 26]
Kazakhstan   0-4 Syria 
  [Ahmad Azzam, Mohannad Al Boushy, Nihad Al Haj Mustafa, Raghadan Shuhada; HT 0-1] 
Iran         1-1 Palestine
  [Ali Samereh 54 - Fadi Ali Diab 92]
[May 28]
Palestine    2-3 Kazakhstan 
  [Fadi Ali Diab 55, Adel al Faran 83 - Ashkat Kadyrkoluv 29, 88, Bogatyrev Vencheslav 43]
Iran         1-0 Syria 
  [Ali Karimi 60pen]

 1.IRAN          3  2  1  0  5- 1  7
 2.SYRIA         3  2  0  1  5- 1  6
 3.Kazakhstan    3  1  0  2  3- 9  3
 4.Palestine     3  0  1  2  3- 5  1

Group B
[May 23]
Jordan       2-0 Kyrgyzstan 
  [Abdullah Abou Zamaa 28 pen, Badran Shaqran 68]
Iraq         2-1 Lebanon
  [Abbas Abid 63 pen, Hussam Faouzi 66 - Haitham Zine 15] 
[May 25]
Lebanon      2-0 Kyrgyzstan
  [Haithem Zein 41, Roda Antar 76]
Jordan       0-0 Iraq 
[May 27]
Iraq         4-0 Kyrgyzstan
  [Razaq Farhan Musa 28, 35, 75, Husham Fiead 67] 
Jordan       0-0 Lebanon 

 1.IRAQ          3  2  1  0  6- 1  7
 2.JORDAN        3  1  2  0  2- 0  5
 3.Lebanon       3  1  1  1  3- 2  4
 4.Kyrgyzstan    3  0  0  3  0- 8  0

Semifinals [May 31]
Syria        0-0 Iraq           [5-3 pen]
Iran         1-0 Jordan
  [Ali Karimi 17]

Third Place Match [Jun 3]
Iraq         4-1 Jordan      
  [Razaq Farhan 16, 74, Ahmad Kadhim 30, Hamza Hadi Muhsin 37; Jerius Tadrus 48]

Final [Jun 3] 
Iran         1-0 Syria
  [Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh 36]

Topscorer: Razaq Farhan (Iraq) 5 goals

Iran Squad: 

GK: 
 Parviz Boroumand                Esteghlal 
 Mehdi Vaezi                     Bahman 
DF: 
 Yunes Bahonar                   Teraktor Sazi 
 Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh           Esteghlal 
 Sattar Hamedani                 Esteghlal 
 Behrouz Rahbarifar              Pirouzi 
 Mehrdad Minavand                Sturm Graz (Austria) 
 Javad Nekounam                  Paas 
MF: 
 Yadollah Akbari                 Saipa 
 Mehdi Amirabadi                 Saipa 
 Ali Karimi                      Pirouzi 
 Hamed Kavianpour                Pirouzi 
 Davood Seyd-Abbasi              Fajr Sepasi 
 Reza Jabbari                    Bahman 
FW: 
 Vahid Hashemian                 HSV (Germany) 
 Rasoul Khatibi                  HSV (Germany) 
 Leys Naseri-Nobari              Paas 
 Ali Samereh                     Fajr Sepasi 
 Hamidreza Ebrahimi              AbooMoslem 
 Omid Sharifinasab               Sanat Naft 

NB: Iran fielded mostly (but not exclusively) players from the Olympic side.

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2002

About this document

Prepared and maintained by Milad Niqui and Neil Morrison the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Authors: Milad Niqui (mniqui@cs.kun.nl) and Neil Morrison (nfm24@cam.ac.uk)
Last updated: 28 Jul 2006