Turkmenistan President's Cup

Template:Short description Turkmenistan President’s Cup was an international football tournament in Turkmenistan which was created in 1995 and dissolved in 2013. The tournament was dedicated to Day of State Flag of Turkmenistan. The tournament prize money was US 35,000. The winner would receive US$20,000 together with President’s Cup, the silver-medal winner – US$10,000 and the bronze-medal winner – US$5,000.

The international football tournament traditionally held in Ashgabat is very popular in the region. Over its history, teams from Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Estonia, Iran, Turkey, Republic of Korea, China, Thailand competed for Turkmenistan President’s Cup. In 2009, a team from Bahrain made a debut in the tournament in Ashgabat thus extending it geographically to 20 countries.

During 19 years President's Cup left the country three times – Iranian Esteghlal won the honorary trophy in 1998, Georgian Torpedo Kutaisi in 2002 and Moldavian Dacia Chişinău in 2006. Nisa Aşgabat won the tournament four times (1999, 2003, 2004 and 2005). Köpetdag Aşgabat and HTTU Aşgabat each won this cup three times, respectively (1995, 1996 and 2001) and (2007, 2008 and 2009). The combined team of the football clubs of Turkmenistan (1997) and the combined team from Ashgabat (2000) won the President’s Cup once each.

Winners

Year	Final			Third Place			Venue
	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1995 Details	Köpetdag Template:Flagicon	2 – 0	Template:Flagicon Turkmenistan	Metalurh Nikopol Template:Flagicon	2 – 0	Template:Flagicon Spartak-2 Moscow	Köpetdag Stadium, Ashgabat
1996 Details	Köpetdag Template:Flagicon	1 – 0	Template:Flagicon Skonto Rīga	Zorya MALS Luhansk Template:Flagicon	4 – 0	Template:Flagicon JK Narva Trans	Köpetdag Stadium, Ashgabat
1997 Details	Turkmenistan Template:Flagicon	2 – 1	Template:Flagicon Vorskla Poltava	FC Yelimai Semei Template:Flagicon	2 – 1	Template:Flagicon FK Yerevan	Nisa-Çandybil Stadium, Ashgabat
1998 Details	Esteghlal Template:Flagicon	0 – 0 (7 – 6 pens.)	Template:Flagicon Zenit Petersburg	Nisa Aşgabat Template:Flagicon	1 – 0	Template:Flagicon Ulsan Hyundai	Köpetdag Stadium, Ashgabat
1999 Details	Nisa Aşgabat Template:Flagicon	3 – 1	Template:Flagicon Turkmenistan Olympic	Köpetdag Template:Flagicon		Template:Flagicon Nebitçi Balkanabat	Köpetdag Stadium, Ashgabat
2000 Details	Ashgabat City Template:Flagicon	1 – 0	Template:Flagicon Ahal Velayat	Balkan Velayat Template:Flagicon	3 – 0	Template:Flagicon FK Guliston	Köpetdag Stadium, Ashgabat
2001 Details	Köpetdag Template:Flagicon	2 – 0	Template:Flagicon Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	CSKA-2 Moscow Template:Flagicon		Template:Flagicon Thailand U-23	Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
2002 Details	Torpedo Kutaisi Template:Flagicon	1 – 1 (4 – 2 pens.)	Template:Flagicon Turkmenistan	Flora Tallinn Template:Flagicon	1 – 0	Template:Flagicon Turkey U-21	Köpetdag Stadium, Ashgabat
2003 Details	Nisa Aşgabat Template:Flagicon	1 – 0	Template:Flagicon Turkmenistan Olympic	Atlantas Klaipeda Template:Flagicon	1 – 0	Template:Flagicon Neman Grodno	Köpetdag Stadium, Ashgabat
2004 Details	Nisa Aşgabat Template:Flagicon	3 – 2	Template:Flagicon Torpedo Kutaisi	Vorskla Poltava Template:Flagicon	1 – 0	Template:Flagicon Aviator Chkalovsk	Köpetdag Stadium, Ashgabat
2005 Details	Nisa Aşgabat Template:Flagicon	2 – 1	Template:Flagicon Nebitçi Balkanabat	FC Parvoz Template:Flagicon	3 – 2	Template:Flagicon Mika Ashtarak	Köpetdag Stadium, Ashgabat
2006 Details	Dacia Chişinău Template:Flagicon	4 – 3	Template:Flagicon HTTU Aşgabat	Vorskla Poltava Template:Flagicon	1 – 1 (4 – 3 pens.)	Template:Flagicon Traktor Tashkent	Köpetdag Stadium, Ashgabat
2007 Details	HTTU Aşgabat Template:Flagicon	3 – 2	Template:Flagicon FC Aşgabat	Vorskla Poltava Template:Flagicon	0 – 0 (10 – 9 pens.)	Template:Flagicon Ordabasy	Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
2008 Details	HTTU Aşgabat Template:Flagicon	2 – 1	Template:Flagicon FC Aşgabat	Iran U-23 Template:Flagicon	1 – 0	Template:Flagicon Mika Ashtarak	Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
2009 Details	HTTU Aşgabat Template:Flagicon	1 – 0	Template:Flagicon Skonto Rīga	FC Aşgabat Template:Flagicon	1 – 1	Template:Flagicon FC Gandzasar	Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat
2010 Details	Altyn Asyr Template:Flagicon	1 – 0	Template:Flagicon Nebitçi	Turkey U-21 Template:Flagicon	3 – 0	Template:Flagicon Okzhetpes	Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat

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