2009 Turkmenistan President's Cup

The 15th edition of the Turkmenistan President's Cup was played from February 20 to 28 with the participation of eight clubs.

2009 Turkmenistan President’s Cup
Prezident Kubogy 2009
Tournament details
Host countryTurkmenistan
Dates20 February - 28 February
Teams8 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored33 (2.06 per match)
Top scorer(s)Turkmenistan Azat Garajaýew
(10 Different Players)
(2 goals)
Best player(s)Turkmenistan Krendelev

Three of the eight teams participating in the 15th edition of the tournament competed for the Cup for the first time – the runners-up of Kyrgyzstan League, a participant of ‘the golden match’ in the national championships FC Abdysh-Ata, FC Hemmat from Iran and the youth team from Bahrain.

The bronze-medal winner of Virsliga, the 1996 Turkmenistan President's Cup finalist Skonto Rīga and the bronze-medal winner of the championships of Armenia FC Gandzasar Kapan competed in the tournament for the second time. The defending Turkmenistan President's Cup winner HTTU Aşgabat– for the fourth time, a finalist of the 2007 and 2008 international tournaments FC Aşgabat made the third attempt to win the prize.

The teams were split in two groups: Group A – Defending champions Turkmenistan's HTTU Aşgabat was pooled with Kyrgyzstan runners-up Abdysh-Ata, Latvian giants Skonto and Iranian outfit Hemmat Golestan; Group B – Tajikistan runners-up Parvoz, Gandzasar from Armenia, Bahrain youth team and Turkmenistan champions Aşgabat were in Group B.

Two best teams in each group qualified to the final stage and competed for the main prize, the runners-up competed for the third place.

The winning team was awarded with US$20,000 while the runners-up team was given US$10,000.

HTTU beat Aşgabat 2–1 in the final of previous year.

Participating teams
Team Qualifying method
Turkmenistan FC Aşgabat Ýokary Liga 2008 winners
Turkmenistan HTTU Aşgabat Ýokary Liga 2008 runners-up
Kyrgyzstan FC Abdysh-Ata Kyrgyzstan League 2008 runners-up
Latvia Skonto Rīga Virsliga 2008 3rd place
Tajikistan FC Parvoz Tajik League 2008 runners-up
Armenia FC Gandzasar Armenian Premier League 2008 3rd place
Iran Hemmat Golestan Iranian regional league team
Bahrain Bahrain Youth Team

Group stage

All times are local (UTC+5)

Group A
Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
1. Latvia Skonto Rīga 7321080+8
2. Turkmenistan HTTU Aşgabat 6320163+3
3. Kyrgyzstan FC Abdysh-Ata 2302112-1
4. Iran FC Hemmat 13012010-10

Results
HTTU Aşgabat Turkmenistan4 - 0Iran FC Hemmat
Daýançgylyç Urazow 6'
Begli Nurmyradow 27'
Azat Garajaýew 74'
Pirmyrat Gazakow 76'
FC Abdysh-Ata Kyrgyzstan0 - 0Latvia Skonto Rīga
FC Hemmat Iran0 - 6Latvia Skonto Rīga
8', 42' Igors Kozlovs
10' Andrejs Perepļotkins
68' Vladimir Dvalishvili
85' (pen.) Kristaps Blanks
90+3' Nikolos Kozasuks
HTTU Aşgabat Turkmenistan2 - 1KyrgyzstanFC Abdysh-Ata
Pirmyrat Gazakow 5'
Berdi Şamyradow 33' (pen.)		 36' Pavel Sidorenko
FC Abdysh-Ata Kyrgyzstan0 - 0Iran FC Hemmat
Skonto RīgaLatvia2 - 0Turkmenistan HTTU Aşgabat
Andrejs Perepļotkins 45'
Aleksandrs Fertovs 83'

Group B
Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
1. Turkmenistan FC Aşgabat 7321041+3
2. ArmeniaFC Gandzasar 33030220
3. TajikistanFC Parvoz 2302123-1
4. Bahrain Bahrain Youth Team 2302113-2

Results
FC Parvoz Tajikistan0 - 0Armenia FC Gandzasar
FC Aşgabat Turkmenistan2 - 0Bahrain Bahrain Youth Team
Arif Mirzoyew 64'
Ruslan Mingazow 72'		 Yellow card 42' Red card Hussein Jalil
Bahrain Youth Team Bahrain1 - 1ArmeniaFC Gandzasar
Abdullah Naser Mohamed 83' 60'Dragan Galić
FC Aşgabat Turkmenistan1 - 0Tajikistan FC Parvoz
Ruslan Mingazow 56' Yellow card 53' Red card Masud Rahimov
FC Parvoz Tajikistan2 - 2Bahrain Bahrain Youth Team
Mansurjon Hakimov 57', 90+1' 70' Abdullah Naser Mohamed
85' Hamad Al Dahil
FC GandzasarArmenia1 - 1Turkmenistan FC Aşgabat
Virgil Marşavela 90+3' 65' Döwlet Durdyýew

Knockout stage
 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
27 February - Olympic Stadium
 
 
Latvia Skonto Rīga (p) 1
 
28 February - Olympic Stadium
 
ArmeniaFC Gandzasar1
 
Latvia Skonto Rīga0
 
27 February - Olympic Stadium
 
Turkmenistan HTTU Aşgabat1
 
Turkmenistan FC Aşgabat0
 
 
Turkmenistan HTTU Aşgabat1
 
Third place
 
 
28 February - Olympic Stadium
 
 
ArmeniaFC Gandzasar1
 
 
Turkmenistan FC Aşgabat2

Semi finals
Skonto RīgaLatvia1 – 1ArmeniaFC Gandzasar
Aleksandrs Fertovs 19' 58' David Khanishvili
Penalties
Andrejs Perepļotkins soccer ball with check mark
Aleksandrs Fertovs soccer ball with check mark
Raivis Hščanovičs soccer ball with check mark
Igors Tarasovs soccer ball with red X
Vladimir Dvalishvili soccer ball with red X		 3 – 2 soccer ball with check mark Virgil Marşavela
soccer ball with check mark Ara E. Khachatryan
soccer ball with red X David Khanishvili
soccer ball with red X Teofilo Leandro
soccer ball with red X Arsen Avetisyan
FC Aşgabat Turkmenistan0 - 1TurkmenistanHTTU Aşgabat
89' Berdi Şamyradow

Third-place play-off
FC Gandzasar Armenia1 - 2Turkmenistan FC Aşgabat
Da Silva 56' 34' Gahrymanberdi Çoňkaýew
80' Vyacheslav Krendelev

Final
Skonto RīgaLatvia0 - 1TurkmenistanHTTU Aşgabat
66' Azat Garajaýew
Attendance: 25.000
Referee: TurkmenistanÇarymyrat Gurbanow

Top scorers

Notes

  • FC Hemmat is the only team at this tournament players of which were unable to score a single goal.
# Scorer Goals (Pen.) Team
1 Turkmenistan Pirmyrat Gazakow 2 HTTU Aşgabat
= Latvia Igors Kozlovs 2 Skonto Rīga
= Latvia Andrejs Perepļotkins 2 Skonto Rīga
= Turkmenistan Ruslan Mingazow 2 FC Aşgabat
= Tajikistan Mansurjon Hakimov 2 FC Parvoz
= Bahrain Abdullah Naser Mohamed 2 Bahrain Youth Team
= Turkmenistan Berdi Şamyradow 2 HTTU Aşgabat
= Latvia Aleksandrs Fertovs 2 Skonto Rīga
= Turkmenistan Azat Garajaýew 2 HTTU Aşgabat
= Turkmenistan Gahrymanberdi Çoňkaýew 2 FC Aşgabat
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