Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy
Official logo for Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy
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| Founded | 2002 |
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| Region | AFF (Southeast Asia) |
| Number of teams | Max 11, number of AFF member |
| Current champions |
 Myanmar(1st title) |
| Most successful team(s) |
 Thailand(2 titles) |
| Website | www |
The Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy for ASEAN Youth Football Championship, is the football tournament for youth players in South East Asia. It was opened to football players from ASEAN member states under the age of 21 years to participate in this.
The tournament is organised by Football Association of Brunei Darussalam in collaboration with Asean Football Federation.Brunei Darussalam always host for the tournament. The tournament was first launched in 2002.
It was back in 1997 when Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei first mooted the idea of a football tournament among the ASEAN member states.
In 2002 when the tournament was officially launched on 16 August 2002, all ten ASEAN member states took part in the football tournament which held from. The ten teams were divided into two groups.
In Group A, Myanmar easily topped the group with a maximum of 12 points and scoring 14 goals in their four matches without conceding a goal. Malaysia and Laos finished equal with 6 points but Malaysia had a better goal difference of 13-8 beating Laos having a better goal difference of 10-7. Meanwhile in Group B, Indonesia easily topped the group by beating the other four teams and scoring 14 goals and conceding none. In their first match, they beat the Philippines by 10-0. Thailand came in second with three wins. Philippines propped up the table losing all their games and conceding 21 goals and scoring only one goal.
In the semi-finals, Indonesia beat Malaysia by a single goal and Thailand beat Myanmar on penalties 4-3, their game ended 2-2 after extra time. The first Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy was won by Indonesia when they beat Thailand 2-0 on 26 August 2002.
The next Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy tournament was not held in 2004 but it was held instead in 2005 from 13 to 25 March. Cambodia did not take part and the nine teams were divided into one group of five and a second group of four teams.
In the Group A Thailand topped the group by winning three games and drawing one, while Vietnam managed to come in second by beating Malaysia 2-1 in their final group match and thus getting second place. In the smaller Group B, the final table saw Myanmar, Laos and Brunei all garnering 6 points each but Myanmar with its superior scoring record topped the table and Laos came in second but Brunei's 6-0 defeat to Myanmar meant that it has an inferior goal difference.
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