Millennium Super Soccer Cup

The Millennium Super Soccer Cup, known as the Sahara Cup for sponsorship reasons, was an international football tournament held in India from 10 January to 25 January 2001.^[1] Yugoslavia were the eventual champions after defeating Bosnia and Herzegovina in the final.^[2][3]

Millennium Super Soccer Cup

Sahara Cup
Tournament details
Host country	India
Dates	10–25 January 2001
Teams	13 (from 3 confederations)
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	FR Yugoslavia
Runners-up	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tournament statistics
Matches played	22
Goals scored	58 (2.64 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Tryggvi Guðmundsson Keisuke Ota Saša Ilić (3 goals each)

Venues

Kolkata	Kochi	Goa
Salt Lake Stadium	Nehru Stadium	Fatorda Stadium
Capacity: 120,000	Capacity: 60,000	Capacity: 35,000

Teams

AFC  Bahrain  Bangladesh  Hong Kong  India  Indonesia (withdrew)  Iraq (withdrew)  Japan University XI  Jordan  Uzbekistan CAF  Cameroon (withdrew)

CONMEBOL  Chile  Uruguay B UEFA  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Iceland  Romania XI  FR Yugoslavia

Results

Group stage

Group I

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FR Yugoslavia	2	1	1	0	5	2	+3	4	Advance to knockout stage
2	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2	4
3	Bangladesh	2	0	0	2	1	6	–5	0
4	Iraq	Withdrew on 8 January without citing reasons[4]

Bosnia and Herzegovina	2–0	Bangladesh
Hota 55', 58'	Report

12 January 2001 (2001-01-12)

19:30

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi

Referee: Vasan Surem (Indonesia)

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FR Yugoslavia	1–1	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Petković 86'	Report	Bešlija 75'

14 January 2001 (2001-01-14)

17:30

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi

Referee: Halim Abdul Hamid (Malaysia)

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FR Yugoslavia	4–1	Bangladesh
Ilić 19', 38' Rašović 80' Trobok 89'	Report	Firoj Mahmud 6'

16 January 2001 (2001-01-16)

19:00

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi

Referee: Michael Andrews (India)

Group II

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uruguay B	2	2	0	0	5	1	+4	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Iceland	2	1	0	1	4	2	+2	3
3	India	2	0	0	2	0	6	–6	0
4	Indonesia	Withdrew on 10 January

Uruguay B	2–1	Iceland
Alexandro Umpiérrez 26' (pen.) Ricardo Varela 29'	Report	Þórhallur Hinriksson 31'

11 January 2001 (2001-01-11)

17:30

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi

Attendance: 2,340

Referee: Halim Abdul Hamid (Malaysia)

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India	0–3	Iceland
	Report	Guðmundsson 44', 52', 69'

13 January 2001 (2001-01-13)

17:00

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Arambekade G. C. Deshapriya (Sri Lanka)

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India	0–3	Uruguay B
	Report	Juan Selages 38' Ricardo Varela 58' Wilson Martirena 74'

15 January 2001 (2001-01-15)

17:30

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi

Referee: Arambekade G. C. Deshapriya (Sri Lanka)

Group III

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Jordan	2	2	0	0	3	0	+3	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Romania XI	2	1	0	1	4	3	+1	3
3	Hong Kong	2	0	0	2	2	6	–4	0
4	Cameroon	Withdrew on 10 January without citing reasons[4]

Romania XI	0–1	Jordan
	Report	Ibrahim 87'

11 January 2001 (2001-01-11)

15:45

Fatorda Stadium, Margao

Referee: Bala Sundaraj (India)

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Romania XI	4–2	Hong Kong
Liviu Zahariuc 4' Sasu 23' Sânmărtean 59' Ioan Luca 63'	Report	Kwok Yue Hung 22', 45'

14 January 2001 (2001-01-14)

15:30

Fatorda Stadium, Margao

Referee: A. M. Yapa (Sri Lanka)

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Jordan	2–0	Hong Kong
Al-Shaqran 49' Al-Shboul 84'	Report

16 January 2001 (2001-01-16)

17:00

Fatorda Stadium, Margao

Group IV

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Chile	3	3	0	0	5	0	+5	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Japan University XI	3	2	0	1	4	1	+3	6
3	Uzbekistan	3	1	0	2	5	4	+1	3
4	Bahrain	3	0	0	3	0	9	–9	0

Uzbekistan	0–2	Japan University XI
	Report	Ota 44' Horinouchi 87'

10 January 2001 (2001-01-10)

15:00

Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata

Attendance: 12,500

Referee: S. Saleerajan (Malaysia)

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Uzbekistan	5–0	Bahrain
Bahadir Annamotov 15', 66' Aleksei Zhdanov 26' (pen.) Oybek Usmankhodjaev 53', 90'	Report

12 January 2001 (2001-01-12)

15:30

Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata

Referee: Binod Kumar Singh (India)

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Chile	1–0	Japan University XI
Tapia 34'	Report

13 January 2001 (2001-01-13)

19:00

Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata

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Chile	2–0	Bahrain
Tapia 29' Martel 80'	Report

15 January 2001 (2001-01-15)

15:00

Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata

Referee: P. K. Bose (India)

The match was originally scheduled for 10 January, but was later postponed as the Chilean team had trouble with its equipment, which was kept at Johannesburg at the day of the match.^[5]

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Chile	2–0	Uzbekistan
Villaseca 41' Meléndez 86'	Report

17 January 2001 (2001-01-17)

17:00

Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata

Referee: S. Saleerajan (Malaysia)

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Bahrain	0–2	Japan University XI
	Report	Ota 39' Hideki Sekine 79'

17 January 2001 (2001-01-17)

19:00

Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata

Referee: Binod Kumar Singh (India)

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	18 January – Kochi
	Uruguay B	2
					22 January – Kolkata
	Bosnia and Herzegovina (golden goal)	3
					Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
	20 January – Kolkata
					Chile	0
	Chile	2
									25 January – Kolkata
	Iceland	0
									Bosnia and Herzegovina	0
	20 January – Goa
									FR Yugoslavia	2
	FR Yugoslavia	2
					23 January – Kolkata
	Romania XI	0
					FR Yugoslavia	1
	21 January – Kolkata
					Japan University XI	0
	Jordan	0
	Japan University XI	4

Quarter-finals

Uruguay B	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Pereira 12' Juan Segales 59'	Report	Kavazović 40' Muharemović 83' Bešlija 97'

18 January 2001 (2001-01-18)

19:00

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi

Referee: Halim Abdul Hamid (Malaysia)

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FR Yugoslavia	2–0	Romania
Ilić 30' Bogdanović 45'	Report

20 January 2001 (2001-01-20)

16:30

Fatorda Stadium, Margao

Referee: Balu Sundarraj (India)

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Chile	2–0	Iceland
González 37', 50'	Report

20 January 2001 (2001-01-20)

18:30

Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata

Referee: Hassan Marshoud (Jordan)

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Jordan	0–4	Japan University XI
	Report	Fujita 31' Ota 54' Yoshimura 58' Hideki Sekine 67'

21 January 2001 (2001-01-21)

17:00

Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata

Referee: Binod Kumar Singh (India)

Semi-finals

Bosnia and Herzegovina	1–0	Chile
Muharemović 75'	Report

22 January 2001 (2001-01-22)

17:00

Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata

Referee: Rungkly Mangkol (Thailand)

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FR Yugoslavia	1–0	Japan University XI
Duljaj 5'	Report

23 January 2001 (2001-01-23)

17:00

Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata

Referee: S. Salerajan (Malaysia)

Final

Bosnia and Herzegovina	0–2	FR Yugoslavia
	Report	Duljaj 6' Bogdanović 45'

25 January 2001 (2001-01-25)

17:00

Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Rungkly Mangkol (Thailand)

Statistics

Goalscorers

3 goals

• Tryggvi Guðmundsson
• Keisuke Ota
• Saša Ilić

2 goals

• Mirsad Bešlija
• Almedin Hota
• Dželaludin Muharemović
• Sebastián González
• Héctor Tapia
• Kwok Yue Hung
• Hideki Sekine
• Juan Selages
• Ricardo Varela
• Bahadir Annamotov
• Oybek Usmankhodjaev
• Igor Bogdanović
• Igor Duljaj

1 goal

• Firoj Mahmud Titu
• Zehrudin Kavazović
• Fernando Martel
• Rodrigo Meléndez
• Marco Villaseca
• Þórhallur Hinriksson
• Yoshimasa Fujita
• Satoshi Horinouchi
• Keiji Yoshimura
• Badran Al-Shaqran
• Haitham Al-Shboul
• Faisal Ibrahim
• Ioan Luca
• Lucian Sânmărtean
• Marius Sasu
• Liviu Zahariuc
• Wilson Martirena
• Daniel Pereira
• Alexandro Umpiérrez
• Aleksei Zhdanov
• Dušan Petković
• Vuk Rašović
• Goran Trobok