2010 WAFF Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Jordan
Dates	24 September ? 3 October
Teams	9 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Kuwait (1st title)
Runners-up	Iran
Tournament statistics
Matches played	12
Goals scored	36 (3 per match)
Attendance	92,000 (7,667 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ali Al-Nono (4 goals)
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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 defending champions, Iran.

Participants [ edit ]

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

Country	Appearance	Previous best performance
Bahrain	1st	None
Iran	6th	Champions ( 2000 , 2004 , 2007 , 2008 )
Iraq	5th	Champions ( 2002 )
Jordan (hosts)	6th	Runners-up ( 2002 , 2008 )
Kuwait	1st	None
Oman	2nd	Group Stage ( 2008 )
Palestine	6th	Group stage ( 2000 , 2002 , 2004 , 2007 , 2008 )
Syria	6th	Runners-up ( 2000 , 2004 )
Yemen	1st	None

Note:

•   Saudi Arabia ,   Lebanon ,   Qatar and   United Arab Emirates did not enter.

Draw [ edit ]

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
Iran (Holders)   Bahrain   Oman	Jordan (Hosts)   Syria   Kuwait	Iraq   Yemen   Palestine

Venue [ edit ]

Amman 2010 WAFF Championship (Jordan)	Amman
	King Abdullah II Stadium
	Capacity: 20,000

Squads [ edit ]

Group stage [ edit ]

Group A [ edit ]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Iran	2	1	1	0	5	2	+3	4
2	Bahrain	2	1	0	1	2	3	−1	3
3	Oman	2	0	1	1	2	4	−2	1

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Group B [ edit ]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Kuwait	2	1	1	0	4	3	+1	4
2	Jordan (H)	2	0	2	0	3	3	0	2
3	Syria	2	0	1	1	2	3	−1	1

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Group C [ edit ]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Iraq	2	2	0	0	5	1	+4	6
2	Yemen	2	1	0	1	4	3	+1	3
3	Palestine	2	0	0	2	1	6	−5	0

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Ranking of second-placed teams [ edit ]

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

Knockout phase [ edit ]

Semi-finals [ edit ]

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Final [ edit ]

Champion [ edit ]

2010 WAFF Championship champion
Kuwait First title

Goalscorers [ edit ]

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Sponsors [ edit ]

• Fly Emirates
• Nike
• Toshiba
• Nikon
• Epson
• Arabic and Iranian Sponsors

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Official Website
• Schedule & results
• RSSSF Page on the tournament