1993 ECO Cup

1993 ECO Cup
Tournament details
Country	Iran
Venue(s)	Azadi Stadium, Tehran
Dates	6 June – 14 June
Teams	7
Defending champions	Turkey
Final positions
Champions	Iran (3rd title)
Runners-up	Turkmenistan
Third place	Tajikistan
Fourth place	Azerbaijan
Tournament statistics
Matches played	12
Goals scored	34 (2.83 per match)
Attendance	52,000 (4,333 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Samad Marfavi (3 goals)

The ECO Cup 1993 was the last edition of the ECO Cup tournament, held in Tehran, Iran in 1993.

Participants

The participants were:

Venues

Tehran	Tehran
	Azadi Stadium
	Capacity: 100,000

Group stage

Group 1

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
Iran	4	2	2	0	7	1	+6
Turkmenistan	2	2	1	1	5	2	+3
Pakistan A	0	2	0	2	0	9	−9

6 June 1993

Iran	5–0	Pakistan A
Javad Zarincheh 42' Hamid Derakhshan 49' Karim Bagheri 65' Samad Marfavi 70' Majid Namjoo-Motlagh 75'	Report

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Hossein Khoshkhan (Iran)

7 June 1993

Turkmenistan	4–0	Pakistan A
Nurmyradow 5', 10' Çaryýar Muhadow 60', 80'	Report

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

8 June 1993

Iran	2–1	Turkmenistan
Samad Marfavi ?' Mohsen Garousi ?'	Report	Nurmuradov 82'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Ahmad Abharan-Alvari (Iran)

Group 2

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Azerbaijan	5	3	2	1	0	8	5	+3
Tajikistan	3	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1
Kyrgyzstan	2	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1
Kazakhstan U21	2	3	0	2	1	3	6	−3

6 June 1993

Azerbaijan	2–0	Tajikistan
Vidadi Rzayev 55' (pen.) Samir Alakbarov 62'	Report

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 5,000

6 June 1993

Kyrgyzstan	0–0	Kazakhstan U21

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: ?

7 June 1993

Azerbaijan	3–2	Kyrgyzstan
Vidadi Rzayev 30' Ruslan Lukin 43', 63'	Report	Dmitry Kovalenko 40' Kanatbek Ishenbaev 76'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 5,000

7 June 1993

Tajikistan	3–0	Kazakhstan U21

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

8 June 1993

Tajikistan	1–1	Kyrgyzstan
Muminov 85'		Kanatbek Ishenbaev 78'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 3,000

8 June 1993

Azerbaijan	3–3	Kazakhstan U21
Gurban Gurbanov 10', 25' Müşfiq Hüseynov 37'	Report	Azamat Niyazymbetov 15' Serik Zheilitbayev 75' (pen.), 86' (pen.)

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 2,000

Semi finals

13 June 1993

Turkmenistan	w/o	Azerbaijan

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

13 June 1993

Iran	1–0	Tajikistan
Roosta ?'	Report

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 25,000

Final

14 June 1993

Iran	2–1	Turkmenistan
Roosta ?' Samad Marfavi ?'	report	Vitali Zolotukhin ?'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Top scorers

3 Goals

Samad Marfavi

2 Goals

Ali Asghar Modir Roosta
Vidadi Rzayev
Kanatbek Ishenbaev
Gurban Gurbanov
Serik Zheilitbayev

Squads

Iran

Head coach: Ali Parvin

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh	(1966-05-25)25 May 1966 (aged 26)	33	0	Persepolis F.C.
2	2DF	Javad Zarincheh	(1966-07-23)23 July 1966 (aged 26)	38	0	Esteghlal F.C.
	2DF	Sadegh Varmazyar		2	0	Esteghlal F.C.
	2DF	Yahya Golmohammadi	(1971-03-19)19 March 1971 (aged 21)	0	0	Persepolis F.C.
	2DF	Nader Mohammadkhani	(1963-08-23)23 August 1963 (aged 29)			Persepolis F.C.
6	3MF	Mehdi Fonounizadeh	(1955-05-19)19 May 1955 (aged 37)	31	0	Esteghlal F.C.
8	3MF	Hamid Derakhshan (c)	(1957-12-31)31 December 1957 (aged 35)	28	5	Persepolis F.C.
9	4FW	Javad Manafi	(1970-09-23)23 September 1970 (aged 22)	0	0	Persepolis F.C.
	4FW	Hasan Shirmohammadi				Persepolis F.C.
10	4FW	Ali Daei	(1969-03-21)21 March 1969 (aged 23)	0	0	Persepolis F.C.
	4FW	Mohsen Garousi	(1968-11-28)28 November 1968 (aged 24)	10	3	PAS Tehran F.C.
?	4FW	Samad Marfavi	(1965-05-18)18 May 1965 (aged 27)	20	7	Esteghlal F.C.
?	2DF	Afshin Peyrovani	(1970-02-06)6 February 1970 (aged 22)			Persepolis F.C.
?	2DF	Karim Bagheri	(1974-02-20)20 February 1974 (aged 18)	0	0	Persepolis F.C.
?	4FW	Ali Asghar Modir Roosta	(1966-12-31)31 December 1966 (aged 26)	4	0	PAS Tehran F.C.
?	3MF	Hamid Estili	(1967-01-04)4 January 1967 (aged 25)	1	0	Persepolis F.C.
?	2DF	Mohammad Khakpour	(1969-02-20)20 February 1969 (aged 23)	2	0	Persepolis F.C.
?	2DF	Farshad Falahatzadeh	(1967-03-21)21 March 1967 (aged 25)	1	0	Esteghlal F.C.
?	3MF	Arash Noamooz	(1967-06-06)6 June 1967 (aged 25)			PAS Tehran F.C.
?	3MF	Sirous Dinmohammadi	(1970-07-02)2 July 1970 (aged 22)	0	0	Teraktor Sazi F.C.
?	3MF	Reza Rezaeimanesh	(1969-07-22)22 July 1969 (aged 23)	1	0	PAS Tehran F.C.
?	3MF	Ali Akbar Yousefi				PAS Tehran F.C.
?	1GK	Behzad Gholampour	(1966-12-23)23 December 1966 (aged 26)	4	0	PAS Tehran F.C.
?	3MF	Majid Namjoo-Motlagh	(1967-05-13)13 May 1967 (aged 25)	36	2	Persepolis F.C.

Turkmenistan

Head coach: Bayram Durdiyev

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Aleksandr Korobko		Kopetdag Asgabat
	2DF	Sergei Kazakov		Kopetdag Asgabat
	2DF	Dmitri Korzh	(1971-10-29)29 October 1971 (aged 21)	Kopetdag Asgabat
	2DF	Andrei Martynov (c)	(1965-09-17)17 September 1965 (aged 27)	Kopetdag Asgabat
	2DF	Yevgeni Sysoev
	3MF	Dzhumadurdi Meredov		Kopetdag Asgabat
	3MF	Amanmurad Meredov
	3MF	Yuri Bordalimov
	3MF	Aman Meredov		Kopetdag Asgabat
	4FW	Charyar Mukhadov	(1969-11-12)12 November 1969 (aged 23)	MKE Ankaragücü
	4FW	Kurbanmamed Meredov
	3MF	Kurbangeldi Durdiyev	(1973-01-12)12 January 1973 (aged 19)	Kopetdag Asgabat
	2DF	Kamil Mingazow	(1968-06-21)21 June 1968 (aged 24)	Kolkhozchi Turkmen-Kala
	2DF	Chariyarkuli Seydiev		Kopetdag Asgabat
	4FW	Berdymurad Nurmuradov	(1968-08-28)28 August 1968 (aged 24)	Kopetdag Asgabat
	2DF	Rahim Kurbanmamedov	(1963-10-03)3 October 1963 (aged 29)	Kopetdag Asgabat

Pakistan A

Head coach: Muhammad Latif^[3]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Mohammad Aslam Khan
		Mohammad Ghaffar
		Mohammad Ilyas
		Zafar Ali
		Mohammad Yousaf
		Mohammad Siddiq
		Amjad Zakariya
		Abdul Malik
		Lal Mohammad (c)
		Mohammad Azhar
		Mohammad Munir
		Mohammad Ayub
		Mohammad Khaled Khan
		Iftikhar Ali
		Naeem Khalid
		Adeel Sarfraz Butt
		Fawad Ahmed
		Pervez Samuel

Azerbaijan

Head coach: Alakbar Mammadov

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Elkhan Hasanov	(1967-03-04)4 March 1967 (aged 25)	2	0	Neftchi Baku
	1GK	Jamaladdin Aliyev	(1960-01-29)29 January 1960 (aged 32)	0	0	Qarabağ
	2DF	Faig Jabbarov	(1972-06-26)26 June 1972 (aged 20)	1	0	Kapaz
	2DF	Elshad Ahmadov	(1970-09-11)11 September 1970 (aged 22)	1	0	Qarabağ
	2DF	Tarlan Ahmadov	(1971-11-17)17 November 1971 (aged 21)	2	0	Terek Grozny
	2DF	Arif Asadov	(1970-08-18)18 August 1970 (aged 22)	1	0	Neftchi Baku
	2DF	Emin Ağayev	(1973-08-10)10 August 1973 (aged 19)	2	0	Anzhi Makhachkala
	3MF	Zaur Qarayev	(1968-06-25)25 June 1968 (aged 24)	2	0	Qarabağ
	3MF	Yashar Vahabzade	(1960-04-08)8 April 1960 (aged 32)	0	0	Neftchi Baku
	3MF	Ceyhun Tanrıverdiyev	(1973-06-21)21 June 1973 (aged 19)	1	0	Kapaz
	3MF	Vidadi Rzayev	(1967-09-04)4 September 1967 (aged 25)	2	1	Terek Grozny
	3MF	Mahmud Qurbanov	(1973-05-10)10 May 1973 (aged 19)	2	0	Kapaz
	3MF	Shahin Diniyev (c)	(1966-07-12)12 July 1966 (aged 26)	2	0	Terek Grozny
	3MF	Məqsəd Yaqubəliyev	(1965-07-05)5 July 1965 (aged 27)	0	0	Turan Tovuz
	4FW	Ruslan Lukin	(1971-11-20)20 November 1971 (aged 21)	0	0	Dinamo Minsk
	4FW	Gurban Gurbanov	(1972-04-13)13 April 1972 (aged 20)	2	0	Daşqın Zaqatala
	4FW	Samir Alakbarov	(1968-10-08)8 October 1968 (aged 24)	2	0	Neftchi Baku
	4FW	Mushfig Huseynov	(1970-02-14)14 February 1970 (aged 22)	0	0	Qarabağ
		Əyani Beydiyev	(1968-05-21)21 May 1968 (aged 24)	0	0	Neftchi Baku

Tajikistan

Head coach: Sharif Nazarov

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Vladimir Ivanchikhin	(1968-11-01)1 November 1968 (aged 24)	Regar-TadAZ Tursunzoda
	2DF	Igor Yezhurov		Pakhtakor Proletarsk
	2DF	Shuhrat Mamajonov (c)	(1970-03-16)16 March 1970 (aged 22)	Pamir Dushanbe
	2DF	Igor Cherevchenko	(1974-08-21)21 August 1974 (aged 18)	Pamir Dushanbe
	2DF	Vyacheslav Knyazev	(1974-05-22)22 May 1974 (aged 18)	Pamir Dushanbe
	3MF	Rustam Kurbanov	(1966-12-12)12 December 1966 (aged 26)	Sitora Dushanbe
	3MF	Anvar Gulmamadov		Pamir Dushanbe
	3MF	Tokhirjon Muminov	(1970-08-20)20 August 1970 (aged 22)	Pamir Dushanbe
	3MF	Sergei Artymov		Pamir Dushanbe
	4FW	Kholmurod Zardov	(1972-08-21)21 August 1972 (aged 20)	Pamir Dushanbe
	4FW	Suleiman Bobokalonov		Shodmon Gissar
	3MF	Nadzhimidin Tolibov	1964	Regar-TadAZ Tursunzoda
		Rustam Ubaidullayev		Pamir Dushanbe
		Barot Azimov		Pamir Dushanbe
	4FW	Orif Bobokhanov		Sitora Dushanbe
		Rustam Alifbekov		Pamir Dushanbe
		Zulfikar Azizov		Pamir Dushanbe
	1GK	Dmitry Suleymanov		Pamir Dushanbe

Kyrgyzstan

Head coach: Meklis Koshaliev

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Zakir Dzhalilov	(1972-07-30)30 July 1972 (aged 20)	Alga Bishkek
	1GK	Aleksey Roschin	(1967-12-14)14 December 1967 (aged 25)	Alga Bishkek
	2DF	Vasily Kononov	(1971-08-14)14 August 1971 (aged 21)	Alga Bishkek
	2DF	Rinat Urmeev	(1970-07-07)7 July 1970 (aged 22)	Alga RIIF Bishkek
	2DF	Vitaly Rogovanov	(1965-01-01)1 January 1965 (aged 28)	Dynamo Alai-Osh
	2DF	Alik Asanbaev	(1969-08-29)29 August 1969 (aged 23)	Alga Bishkek
	3MF	Murat Dzhumakeev		Alga Bishkek
	2DF	Arkady Makhmutov	(1961-08-02)2 August 1961 (aged 31)	Alga Bishkek
	3MF	Tashtanbek Kaynazarov		Alga Bishkek
	3MF	Dmitry Kovalenko	(1972-01-01)1 January 1972 (aged 21)	Dynamo Alai-Osh
	4FW	Kanatbek Ishenbaev	(1974-08-11)11 August 1974 (aged 18)	Alga Bishkek
	3MF	Asylbek Momunov (c)	(1966-03-08)8 March 1966 (aged 26)	Alga RIIF Bishkek
	4FW	Vitaly Kobzar	(1972-05-09)9 May 1972 (aged 20)	Alga Bishkek
	4FW	Davran Babaev	(1972-08-23)23 August 1972 (aged 20)	Dynamo Alai-Osh
	4FW	Zamirbek Zhumagulov	(1972-01-17)17 January 1972 (aged 20)	Alga Bishkek
	4FW	Vasily Ermoshkin	(1973-01-01)1 January 1973 (aged 20)	Alga Bishkek

Kazakhstan U21

Head coach: Bauyrzhan Baimukhammedov

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
2DF	Ruslan Gumar	(1973-11-18)18 November 1973 (aged 19)	FC Ekibastuzets
3MF	Azamat Niyazymbetov	(1974-03-25)25 March 1974 (aged 18)	Dinamo Alma-Ata
3MF	Alexei Klishin	(1973-10-01)1 October 1973 (aged 19)	Dinamo Alma-Ata
4FW	Oleg Litvinenko	(1973-11-22)22 November 1973 (aged 19)	Dinamo Alma-Ata

Notes

^ The Pakistan Football Federation sent an alternate team, designated as "Pakistan A", to the 1993 ECO Cup, while the main national team was participating in the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. The ECO Cup took place from 6 to 14 June 1993, between two rounds of the group A qualifiers including Pakistan, held from 22–30 May (in Jordan) and 12–20 June (in China). The ECO Cup squad was managed by a completely different coaching staff, and only a few players from that team were later selected for the second phase of the qualifiers in China. Although some sources, such as the RSSSF, consider the ECO Cup matches unofficial,^[1]^[2] the match between Pakistan and Iran is recognized as an official international in some sources.

References

^ "1993 INTERNATIONAL MATCHES". www.rsssf.org. Retrieved 2025-04-14.
^ "International Matches 1993 - Asia". www.rsssf.org. Retrieved 2025-04-14.
^ Bhatti, Mukhtar (1999). Pakistan Sports: An Almanac of Pakistan Sports with Complete Records 1947-1999. Bhatti Publications. pp. 237–250.

[pakistan-3] The Pakistan Football Federation sent an alternate team, designated as "Pakistan A", to the 1993 ECO Cup, while the main national team was participating in the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. The ECO Cup took place from 6 to 14 June 1993, between two rounds of the group A qualifiers including Pakistan, held from 22–30 May (in Jordan) and 12–20 June (in China). The ECO Cup squad was managed by a completely different coaching staff, and only a few players from that team were later selected for the second phase of the qualifiers in China. Although some sources, such as the RSSSF, consider the ECO Cup matches unofficial,^[1]^[2] the match between Pakistan and Iran is recognized as an official international in some sources.

[1] "1993 INTERNATIONAL MATCHES". www.rsssf.org. Retrieved 2025-04-14.

[2] "International Matches 1993 - Asia". www.rsssf.org. Retrieved 2025-04-14.

[:PAK-4] Bhatti, Mukhtar (1999). Pakistan Sports: An Almanac of Pakistan Sports with Complete Records 1947-1999. Bhatti Publications. pp. 237–250.

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