The AFC Challenge Cup is a national Football competition for emerging countries (those in the lowest (of three) categories as designed by the AFC president) that are members of the AFC. The first tournament was held in 2006 in Bangladesh. The 2008 and 2010 editions of the AFC Challenge Cup will form part of the qualifiers for the 2011 AFC Asian Cup.

[edit] Results

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
		Winner	Score	Runner-up	3rd Place	Score	4th Place
2006	Bangladesh	Tajikistan	4–0	Sri Lanka	Kyrgyzstan		Nepal
2008	India	India	4–1	Tajikistan	Korea DPR	4–0	Myanmar
2010	Sri Lanka
2012	TBD

Note: Semi-finalists are listed in alphabetical order in 2006.

[edit] Successful national teams

Team	Champions	Runners-up
Tajikistan	1 (2006)	1 (2008)
India	1 (2008)
Sri Lanka		1 (2006)

[edit] External links

• AFC Challenge Cup 2009
• AFC Challenge Cup 2006 at RSSSF
• Press release from AFC about the Challenge Cup

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