Subject: »South East Asia-Australia and Oceania Cup

I'm planning on organizing a tournament next season for the NT, and hopefully for the U21 the next season. If you guys think that it is a good idea, I will start to invite the other participating nations. The invited countries are:

1. Malaysia
2. Viet Nam / Vietnam
3. Zhongguo / China
4. Indonesia
5. Singapore
6. Nippon / Japan
7. Hong Kong
8. Pilipinas / Philippines
9. Prathet Thai / Thailand
10. Daehan Minguk / South Korea

The tournament will consist of two parts:

I. The group stage
- 2 groups of 5 teams, the ten teams will be paired according to rank which would then be distributed randomly to the 2 groups
- Lasts for 5 weeks where for each week there will be a total of 4 official matches and 1 friendly (the team of each group with no assigned opponent may face each other in a friendly)
- Top 2 teams will advanced to the knock out stage

II. The knock out stage
Semi finals (6th week of tournament) - One legged, winner of group A vs 2nd place of group B and winner of group B vs 2nd place of group A
Finals and battle for 3rd (7th week) - One legged

Any suggestions or comments? :D

that is a good idea.
i also planned about that. but i prefer more bigger for Asia continent + australia and new zealand.

about the name, must be little change. the 10 country not only on east asia but also on south east asia.
:)

and is there any age restriction for the tournament or not.

Wow! Great one :D

Thanks! Before this I was actually thinking of making a tournament for Asia and base it on the AFC Challenge Cup but since it's my first time, I don't know if I could do something that big. I really wanted to have a competition only on southeast asia, unfortunately there are only few teams available here on sokker. As for the age restriction, I haven't thought about that yet :D

great idea! :)

i can help.
if you want for south east asia, we can start form the small one first. such as AFF CUP ?

the countries are:
1. Philipinne
2. Prathet Thai (Thailand)
3. Malaysia
4. Indonesia
5. Singapore
6. Vietnam

Hmm, to make it 8 teams, what if we combine south east asia + australia? So...
1. Australia
2. Malaysia
3. Vietnam
4. New Zealand
5. Singapore
6. Indonesia
7. Pilipinas
8. Thailand

As for the age, what do you suggest? (I was thinking that this will be alternating NT then U21 per season, by the way)

I support you acelio, good idea :)

Very good idea!!!! :D

i suggest we play u20 for junior NT
and u27 for senior NT.

we can play at the end of the seasson.
week 11, 12, and 13 for group stage.
week 14 for semifinal
week 15 for final.
and all contestant play until the end.

winner and runner up of each group play in semifinal.
third and last place play to get rank 5 to 8 in semifinal too.
the format can be rank 3 group A vs rank 4 group B and rank 4 group A vs rank 3 group B.
and the final is win vs win and lose vs lose.

what do you think?

U27?

Some teams would be too weak :(

Hmmm... I think we should ask the participant's opinions on the age restriction. I personally would want to play U21 for the junior NT.

I think week 11 is too late as the age change will affect the finals (for the U21, if there wouldn't be age restrictions). My original plan was to have 2 legged matches for the group stages (6 weeks) but it's okay just to have one legged matches.

For the knock out stages, I plan only to rank up to 3rd / 4th but the other participants will still play until the 5th week of the tournament. During semi finals weeks it would be 3rd vs 4th place, while on the finals week it would be the match of the same ranked teams. This would only serve as friendly matches and does not have an effect on the competition.

Should we start inviting the countries?

i agree about asking participant about age restriction.
hmm.. we can play home and away too for group stage. so we will have 6 weeks to spent on group stage and semifinal and final.
so, how about start from week 7, and end at week 14.
or start from week 3 and end at week 10.
which one is the best?

I think week 7 to 14 is better. Should we also ask the participants about it?

of course we should ask them. and hear what they said. and because it will start next seasson, we must make sure if the new coach will agree too.

i think all pilipinas candidate NT coach should know about this.
here the link.