   the aff championship (asean football championship), is a biennial international association football competition organised by the asean football federation (aff), contested by the national teams of southeast asia. it was founded as the tiger cup after singapore-based asia pacific breweries, makers of tiger beer, sponsored the competition from its inauguration in 1996 until the 2004 edition. after asia pacific breweries withdrew as title sponsors, the competition was known as the aff championship for the 2007 edition. from 2008, japanese auto-company suzuki bought the naming rights for the competition, and the competition has therefore been named the aff suzuki cup for sponsorship reasons. ==results== ===summaries=== from 2004, the knockout stage is played over two legs on a home-and-away format without the away goals rule. however, the away goals rule was put into effect from the 2010 edition. {| border=1 style="border-collapse:collapse; font-size:90%; text-align:center;" cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0 width=100% |- bgcolor=#c1d8ff !rowspan=2 width=5%|year !rowspan=2 width=10%|host !width=1% rowspan=8 bgcolor=ffffff| !colspan=3|final !width=1% rowspan=8 bgcolor=ffffff| !colspan=3|third place match |- bgcolor=#efefef !width=15%|champion !width=10%|score !width=15%|second place !width=15%|third place !width=10%|score !width=15%|fourth place |- |1996 details | | |1â0 | | |3â2 | |- bgcolor=#eeeeee |1998 details | | |1â0 | | |3â3 after extra time (5-4) on penalties | |- |2000 details | | |4â1 | | |3â0 | |- bgcolor=#eeeeee |2002 details |  | |2â2 after extra time (4â2) on penalties | | |2â1 | |- |rowspan=2|2004 details |rowspan=2|  | |3â1 2â1 | |rowspan=2|{{fb-big|
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