2002–03 AFC Champions League
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 | 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 |
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
BEC Tero Sasana
of Thailand 2–1 on aggregate.
Qualification
West AsiaCentral and Southern Asia
|
ASEAN
East Asia
|
Group stage
Group A
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
Daejeon Citizen | ||
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Luo Xiao 85' | (Report)[permanent dead link] | Han Jung-kook 8' Kim Eun-jung 44' |
BEC Tero Sasana | ||
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Fernando 77' |
(Report)[permanent dead link] | Yongant 76', 90' |
Shanghai Shenhua | ||
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90' | (Report)[permanent dead link] | Martínez 31', 87' |
BEC Tero Sasana | ||
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(Report)[permanent dead link] | Kongpraphan 14' Chaiman 73' |
Shanghai Shenhua | ||
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Thongsukh 27' Chaiman 85' |
(Report)[permanent dead link] | Martínez 58' |
1–0 | Kashima Antlers | |
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Papa Oumar 87' | (Report) |
Group B
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
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] |
Dalian Shide | ||
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(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' |
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' |
3–1 | Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma | |
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Hao Haidong 57', 64' Yan Song 90' |
(Report)[permanent dead link] | Kim Dae-eui 51' |
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
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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' |
Tahnoun Bin Mohamed Stadium, Al Ain
Attendance: 4,500
Referee: Toru Kamikawa
Al-Hilal | ||
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Harib 12' (pen.) | (Report) |
Tahnoun Bin Mohamed Stadium, Al Ain
Attendance: 6,500
Referee: Shaban Qassem
Al-Hilal | ||
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Khatibi 18' Samereh 42' |
(Report)[permanent dead link] | Suffo 34', 74', 85' |
Tahnoun Bin Mohamed Stadium, Al Ain
Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Subkhdiin Mohd Salleh
1–3 | Al Sadd | |
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Jumaan 57' | (Report)[permanent dead link] | Keita 45' Sergio Ricardo 80' Kamil 90' |
Tahnoun Bin Mohamed Stadium, Al Ain
Attendance: 1,200
Referee: Shaban Qassem
Esteghlal | 1–3 | Al-Ain |
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Samereh 67' | (Report)[permanent dead link] | Faisal Ali 65' Sanogo 76' Harib 78' |
Group D
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
Pakhtakor | ||
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(Report)[permanent dead link] | Hamidullaev 44' Soliev 57' Koshelev 72' |
Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Rungklay Mongkol
Al-Talaba | 0–1 | Persepolis |
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(Report) | Golmohammadi 62' |
Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Masayoshi Okada
Nisa Asgabat | ||
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Abdulsada 10' Mahmoud 24', 90' |
(Report) |
Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Bae Jae-yong
1–0 | Persepolis | |
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Soliev 22' | (Report)[permanent dead link] |
Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Masayoshi Okada
Nisa Asgabat | ||
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Aslanian 90' |
(Report)[permanent dead link] | Meredov 89' (pen.) |
Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Fareed Al Marzouqi
3–0 | Al-Talaba | |
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Krokhmal 25', 57' Goçgulyýew 37' |
(Report)[permanent dead link] |
Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Rungklay Mongkol
Knock-out stage
Bracket
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
Team 1 | Agg.
|
Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
---|---|---|---|---|
3–2 | Pakhtakor
|
3–1 | 0–1 | |
Al-Ain | 7–6 | Dalian Shide | 4–2 | 3–4 |
First leg
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' |
Abdul Rahman
Second leg
BEC Tero Sasana | ||
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Djeperov 86' |
(Report)[permanent dead link] |
Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Toru Kamikawa
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
Team 1 | Agg.
|
Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
---|---|---|---|---|
Al-Ain | 2–1 | BEC Tero Sasana
|
2–0 | 0–1 |
First leg
Second leg
Al-Ain won 2–1 on aggregate.
Top scorers
- 9
- 4
- Boubacar Sanogo (Al Ain)
- BEC Tero Sasana)
- 3
- Al-Hilal)
- Farhad Majidi (Al Ain)
- Ali Samereh (Esteghlal)
- Pakhtakor)
- Kim Dae-eui (Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma)
- Kim Do-hoon (Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma)
- Shanghai Shenhua)
- Ahn Jung-hwan (Shimizu S-Pulse)
Notes
- ^ Matches was postponed from 22 April 2003 to 30 August 2003 due to SARS outbreak in China.