Thailand won all the awards at AFF Cup 2016

Besides the championship, the Thai team also won three awards including Top Scorer, Best Player and Fair Play.

The Golden Boot went to striker Teerasil Dangda. Despite not scoring in the second leg of the final, he still finished the tournament with six goals. This was twice as many as the second-placed players, including Boas Solossa (Indonesia), Sarawut Masuk and Siroch Chatthong (both from Thailand).

This is the third time Dangda has won the AFF Cup Golden Boot. The previous two times were in 2008 and 2012, with four and five goals respectively. In both tournaments, Thailand only finished second.

Dangda has been crowned AFF Cup Top Scorer three times. Photo: FFT

The Best Player award was given to Chanathip Songkrasin. The organizers assessed that this midfielder nicknamed "Thai Messi" was an indispensable conductor in the successful performance of the Golden Temple team. This is also the second consecutive time.Songkrasin won the AFF Cup Best Player award.

With effective and attractive playing style and not receiving many cards, Thailand won the Fair Play award. This year's tournament had three teams with players receiving red cards or being banned from playing due to receiving two yellow cards, including Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam. Of these, Vietnam was the only team with two straight red cards. In the 2014 tournament, Vietnam won the Fair Play award.

Chanathip (blue shirt) is an indispensable player for Thailand.

According to VNE