2002–03 AFC Champions League
Appearance
Tournament details | |
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Dates | 13 August – 27 November 2002 (qualifying rounds) 9 March – 11 October 2003 (group & final stages) |
Teams | 16 (group stage) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Al-Ain (1st title) |
Runners-up | BEC Tero Sasana |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 30 |
Goals scored | 104 (3.47 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Hao Haidong (9 goals) |
Best player(s) | Therdsak Chaiman |
← 2001–02 (Asian Club Championship) 2004 → |
The 2002–03 AFC Champions League was the twenty-second edition of Asia's premier football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation, and the first edition under the AFC Champions League title.
Sixteen teams competed in this edition as they went through qualifying before going into four groups of four with only the winner of the group qualifying to the knockout-stage which went to two-legs instead of the single leg that the previous year competition had. In the final it was Al-Ain of the United Arab Emirates beating BEC Tero Sasana of Thailand 2–1 on aggregate.
Qualification
[edit]Group stage
[edit]Group A
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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BEC Tero Sasana (H) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 7 |
Daejeon Citizen | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
Shanghai Shenhua | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 3 |
Kashima Antlers | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | −2 | 1 |
Shanghai Shenhua | 1–2 | Daejeon Citizen |
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Luo Xiao 85' | (Report)[permanent dead link ] | Han Jung-kook 8' Kim Eun-jung 44' |
Kashima Antlers | 2–2 | BEC Tero Sasana |
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Hirase 21' Fernando 77' |
(Report)[permanent dead link ] | Yongant 76', 90' |
Kashima Antlers | 3–4 | Shanghai Shenhua |
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Aoki 24' Fernando 56' Nozawa 90' |
(Report)[permanent dead link ] | Yang Guang 1' Zhang Yuning 11' Martínez 31', 87' |
Daejeon Citizen | 0–2 | BEC Tero Sasana |
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(Report)[permanent dead link ] | Kongpraphan 14' Chaiman 73' |
BEC Tero Sasana | 2–1 | Shanghai Shenhua |
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Thongsukh 27' Chaiman 85' |
(Report)[permanent dead link ] | Martínez 58' |
Group B
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Dalian Shide (H) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 7 |
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 6 |
Shimizu S-Pulse | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 4 |
Osotsapa FC | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 20 | −19 | 0 |
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma | 6–0 | Osotsapa FC |
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Park Nam-yeol 22' Kim Dae-eui 31' Kim Do-hoon 37', 61', 83' Drakulić 53' |
(Report)[permanent dead link ] |
Shimizu S-Pulse | 1–2 | Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma |
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Ahn Jung-hwan 53' | (Report)[permanent dead link ] | Drakulić 74' Kim Dae-eui 87' |
Osotsapa FC | 1–7 | Dalian Shide |
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Jankam 13' | (Report)[permanent dead link ] | Hao Haidong 27', 32', 49', 61' Yan Song 60' Zou Jie 80' Dong Fangzhuo 82' |
Dalian Shide | 3–1 | Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma |
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Hao Haidong 57', 64' Yan Song 90' |
(Report)[permanent dead link ] | Kim Dae-eui 51' |
Osotsapa FC | 0–7 | Shimizu S-Pulse |
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(Report)[permanent dead link ] | Takagi 23', 40' Sawanobori 27' Alex 50' Ahn Jung-hwan 60', 71' Kitajima 75' |
Group C
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Al-Ain (H) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +5 | 9 |
Al Sadd | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 |
Esteghlal | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | −2 | 3 |
Al-Hilal | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3 |
Al Sadd | 1–2 | Esteghlal |
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Sergio Ricardo 72' | (Report)[permanent dead link ] | Samereh 6' Khatibi 64' |
Al-Hilal | 1–3 | Al Sadd |
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Jumaan 57' | (Report)[permanent dead link ] | Keita 45' Sergio Ricardo 80' Kamil 90' |
Esteghlal | 1–3 | Al-Ain |
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Samereh 67' | (Report)[permanent dead link ] | Faisal Ali 65' Sanogo 76' Harib 78' |
Group D
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Pakhtakor (H) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 9 |
Persepolis | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 6 |
Al-Talaba | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 3 |
Nisa Asgabat | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 10 | −9 | 0 |
Nisa Asgabat | 0–3 | Pakhtakor |
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(Report)[permanent dead link ] | Hamidullaev 44' Soliev 57' Koshelev 72' |
Al-Talaba | 0–1 | Persepolis |
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(Report) | Golmohammadi 62' |
Al-Talaba | 3–0 | Nisa Asgabat |
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Abdulsada 10' Mahmoud 24', 90' |
(Report) |
Pakhtakor | 1–0 | Persepolis |
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Soliev 22' | (Report)[permanent dead link ] |
Persepolis | 4–1 | Nisa Asgabat |
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Khanmohammadi 14', 76' Golmohammadi 47' Aslanian 90' |
(Report)[permanent dead link ] | Meredov 89' (pen.) |
Pakhtakor | 3–0 | Al-Talaba |
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Krokhmal 25', 57' Goçgulyýew 37' |
(Report)[permanent dead link ] |
Knock-out stage
[edit]Bracket
[edit]Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||
1 | Al-Ain | 4 | 3 | 7 | |||||||||
4 | Dalian Shide | 2 | 4 | 6 | |||||||||
Al-Ain | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
BEC Tero Sasana | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
3 | BEC Tero Sasana | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
2 | Pakhtakor | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Semi-finals
[edit]Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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BEC Tero Sasana | 3–2 | Pakhtakor | 3–1 | 0–1 |
Al-Ain | 7–6 | Dalian Shide | 4–2 | 3–4 |
First leg
[edit]BEC Tero Sasana | 3–1 | Pakhtakor |
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Srimaka 41' Fuangprakob 69' Chaiman 84' |
(Report)[permanent dead link ] | Soliev 80' |
Al-Ain | 4–2 | Dalian Shide |
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Sanogo 62' (pen.) 83' Omar 64' Yaslam 75' |
(Report)[permanent dead link ] | Hao Haidong 17' Li Yao 88' |
Second leg
[edit]BEC Tero Sasana won 3–2 on aggregate.
Dalian Shide | 4–3 | Al-Ain |
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Wang Peng 27' Janković 77' Hao Haidong 81', 84' |
(Report) | Rodrigo Fabiano 46' Omar 65' Majidi 87' |
Al-Ain won 7–6 on aggregate.
Final
[edit]Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Al-Ain | 2–1 | BEC Tero Sasana | 2–0 | 0–1 |
First leg
[edit]Al-Ain | 2–0 | BEC Tero Sasana |
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Jowhar 38' Omar 74' |
Second leg
[edit]BEC Tero Sasana | 1–0 | Al-Ain |
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Chaiman 60' (pen.) |
Al-Ain won 2–1 on aggregate.
Top scorers
[edit]- 9
- 4
- 3
- Patrick Suffo (Al-Hilal)
- Farhad Majidi (Al Ain)
- Ali Samereh (Esteghlal)
- Anvarjon Soliev (Pakhtakor)
- Kim Dae-eui (Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma)
- Kim Do-hoon (Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma)
- Saul Martínez (Shanghai Shenhua)
- Ahn Jung-hwan (Shimizu S-Pulse)
Notes
[edit]- ^ Matches was postponed from 22 April 2003 to 30 August 2003 due to SARS outbreak in China.