General Aung San Shield Explained

Country: Myanmar
Confed:AFC
Founded:4 March 2010
Teams:22
Qualifier For:AFC Challenge League
ASEAN Club Championship
Champions:Shan United
Most Successful Club:Yangon United, Ayeyawady United (3 titles)
Tv:MWD
Current:Myanmar National League Cup

General Aung San Shield (formerly MFF Cup) is the top football knockout tournament in Myanmar.

On 26 March 2014, MFF League Committee Meeting decides the knock-out cup (General Aung San Shield) winner would compete in Toyota Mekong Championship as well as earning the ticket for the AFC Cup.[1] The tournament is currently sponsored by Military of Defence. Ayeyawady United are the most successful team after winning the tournament for the two consecutive times in 2012 and 2014. General Aung San Shield is a domestic cup of Myanmar Football Federation. Clubs from Myanmar National League 1 and all teams from Myanmar National League 2 take part in the competition. 2015 was the first season of the competition. Ten clubs from Myanmar National League 2 and two clubs from Myanmar National League plays from the first round of the competition and the 16 teams will play the second round. The winner played for the Quarter final. In the semi-final the teams are played home and away. The final will always be played at the Bogyoke Aung San Stadium. The winner is qualified for the AFC Cup. Except the Semi-Final the cup matches are played in Thuwanna Indoor Stadium and Aung San Stadium. The Champion will be awarded 300 000 000 Myanmar Kyats and the runner up will be awarded 150 million Myanmar kyats.

List of finals

YearWinnerResultRunner-up
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20103-1Southern Myanmar
20115–0[2]
20121–0[3] Kanbawza
2013align=center colspan=3 Cancelled due to tight schedule ahead of SEA Games[4]
20142–0[5] Nay Pyi Taw
20152–1[6] Yadanarbon F.C.
Magwe2–1[7]
Shan United2 - 1
2 - 1[8]
4 - 3Shan United
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Champion

ClubChampions
Yangon United 3 (2011, 2018, 2019)
Ayeyawady United 3 (2012, 2014, 2015)
Hanthawady United 1 (2010)
1 (2016)
Shan United 1 (2017)

See also

Myanmar National League Cup

Notes and References

  1. News: League Committee meeting decides knock-out cup winners to compete in Toyota Mekong Championship . Myanmar Football Federation . 26 March 2014. (in Burmese)
  2. http://www.aseanfootball.org/?p=6198 2011 MFF Cup final
  3. http://www.myanmarnationalleague.com/news/mff-digicel-cup-2012-%E1%80%81%E1%80%BA%E1%80%94%E1%80%B9%E1%80%95%E1%80%AE%E1%80%9A%E1%80%B6%E1%80%86%E1%80%AF-%E1%80%A7%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AC%E1%81%80%E1%80%90%E1%80%AE%E1%80%86%E1%80%BC%E1%80%90%E1%80%B9%E1%80%81%E1%80%B0%E1%80%B8 2012 MFF Cup
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUsjboJ4gdM Eleven TV
  5. http://www.themff.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=940:ayeyawady-utd-win-mff-ooredoo-trophy&catid=46:mff-cup&Itemid=311 Ayeyawady United overcome Nay Pyi Taw to win the 2014 MFF Ooredoo Cup
  6. https://www.facebook.com/IrrawaddyBurmese/photos/pcb.1088645017846316/1088644544513030/?type=3&theater ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းဒိုင္း ဧရာဝတီယူႏိုက္တက္ ဗိုလ္စြဲ
  7. http://www.themnl.com/?p=2130 ခ်န္ပီယံအသစ္ ေပၚထြက္ခဲ့သည့္ ရႈံးထြက္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲ
  8. http://13.229.65.228/sport/85041 ႏွစ္ၿကိမ္ေၿမာက္ ခ်န္ပီယံ ၿဖစ္ခဲ႕တဲ႕ ရန္ကုန္ယူႏိုက္တက္