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2002 WAFF Championship

2nd WAFF Championship, held in Syria in 2002

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The 2002 West Asian Football Federation Championship took part in Syrian Capital of Damascus. Iraq won the final against Jordan 3-2 after extra time coming back from 0-2 at half time. The 6 entrants were Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon and host nation Syria. The draw was held on 13 August in Kuala Lumpur.

01Participants

All 6 members of WAFF participated in this tournament.

Country Appearance Previous best performance
 Iran 2nd Champions (2000)
 Iraq 2nd Third place (2000)
 Jordan 2nd Fourth place (2000)
 Lebanon 2nd Group stage (2000)
 Palestine 2nd Group stage (2000)
 Syria (hosts) 2nd Runners-up (2000)

02Venue

Damascus
Abbasiyyin Stadium
Capacity: 30,000

03Group stage

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Jordan 2 2 0 0 2 0 +2 6
 Iran 2 1 0 1 2 1 +1 3
 Lebanon 2 0 0 2 0 3 −3 0
Source: RSSSF.com 30 August 2002
Jordan 1-0 Iran
Salim 11'  
Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus 1 September 2002
Lebanon 0-1 Jordan
  Shelbaieh 4'
Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus 3 September 2002
Iran 2-0 Lebanon
Nikbakht 24'
Karimi 90+2''		  
Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Iraq 2 2 0 0 3 0 +3 6
 Syria (H) 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3
 Palestine 2 0 0 2 1 4 −3 0
Source: RSSSF.com
(H) Hosts 30 August 2002
Syria 2-1 Palestine
Ibrahim 21'
Haj Moustafa 37'		 Lafi 39'
Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus 1 September 2002
Palestine 0-2 Iraq
  Wahaib 47'
Farhan 69'
Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus 3 September 2002
Iraq 1-0 Syria
Kadhim 43'  
Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus

04Knockout phase

Semi-finals

5 September 2002
Jordan 2-1 (a.e.t.) Syria
Salim 38'
Al-Zboun 118'		 Shehadeh 54'
Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus 5 September 2002
Iraq 0-0 (a.e.t.) Iran
Penalties
Abdul-Jabar
Abu Al-Hail
Abdul-Jabar
Mohammed
Kadhim
Akram
Abbas 		6-5 Nekounam
Bakhtiarizadeh
Navidkia
Nosrati
Nikbakht
Bayatinia
Azizzadeh
Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus

Third place match

7 September 2002
Iran 2-2 Syria
Kameli Mofrad 59'
Nikbakht 88'		 Sari 15', 89'
Penalties
Nekounam
Bakhtiarizadeh
Navidkia
Kazemian 		4-2 Haj Moustafa
Ibrahim
Jabban
Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus

Final

7 September 2002
Iraq 3-2 (a.e.t.) Jordan
Farhan 32'
Y.Mahmoud 89'
H.Mahmoud 103'		 Shehdeh 2'
Amer Deeb 30'
Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus

05Champion

 2002 WAFF Championship winners 

Iraq
First title

06Statistics

Goalscorers

There have been 22 goals scored in 10 matches, for an average of 2.2 goals per match.

2 goals

1 goal

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