2019 AFF–EAFF Champions Trophy
2019 AFF–EAFF Champions Trophy is the first edition of the AFF–EAFF Champions Trophy, a biennial football tournament that was founded in 2018. The tournament match are between Vietnam, the defending champion of 2018 AFF Championship and South Korea, the defending champion of 2017 EAFF E-1 Football Championship. The representative of ASEAN Football Federation, Vietnam, will host the event.Background
The trophy will be contested biennially starting 2019, with AFF and East Asian Football Federation rotating the host venue duties and the former staging the first-ever Champions Trophy. Vietnam automatically won hosting right to the inaugural trophy match on 15 December 2018 after beating Malaysia 3–2 on aggregate score in the 2018 AFF Championship Final. A memorandum of understanding for the organisation of the AFF–EAFF Champions Trophy was signed in Hanoi, Vietnam on 15 December 2018 by AFF Deputy President, Maj General Khiev Sameth, and EAFF President, Chung Mong-gyu.Timing issue
The first AFF–EAFF Champions Trophy match, to be played on a single-match format, was scheduled to be held on 26 March 2019 at the Mỹ Đình National Stadium in Hanoi, Vietnam between the national football teams of Vietnam and South Korea. However, the plan for this match is hindered by coinciding with the 2020 AFC U-23 Championship qualification schedule as the 2020 AFC U-23 Championship in Thailand will decide on the eligibility to enter the 2020 Summer Olympics in Japan. The Korea Football Association also asked to move the 2019 AFF–EAFF Champions Trophy to another date in 2019. The VFF finally decided to postponed the match until 2020.Qualified teams
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