2002–03 AFC Champions League
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.
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 13 August – 27 November 2002 (Qualifying rounds) 9 March – 11 October 2003 (Group & Final stages) |
| Teams | 16 (Group stage) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  |
| Runners-up |  |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 30 |
| Goals scored | 104 (3.47 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |  (9 goals) |
| Best player(s) | |
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
West AsiaCentral and Southern Asia
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East Asia
ASEAN
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Group stage
Group A
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 7 |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | −2 | 1 |
Source:
| Shanghai Shenhua | 1–2 | |
|---|---|---|
Luo Xiao  |
(Report) | Han Jung-kook Kim Eun-jung |
| Kashima Antlers | 2–2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Hirase Fernando |
(Report) | Yongant |
| Kashima Antlers | 3–4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Aoki Fernando Nozawa |
(Report) | Yang Guang Zhang Yuning Martínez |
| Daejeon Citizen | 0–2 | |
|---|---|---|
| (Report) | Kongpraphan Chaiman |
| Daejeon Citizen | 1–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Papa Oumar |
(Report) |
Group B
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 7 |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 6 |
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 4 |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 20 | −19 | 0 |
Source:
| Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma | 6–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Park Nam-yeol Kim Dae-eui Kim Do-hoon Drakulić |
(Report) |
| Shimizu S-Pulse | 0–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| (Report) |
| Shimizu S-Pulse | 1–2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Ahn Jung-hwan |
(Report) | Drakulić Kim Dae-eui |
| Osotsapa FC | 1–7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Jankam |
(Report) | Hao Haidong Yan Song Zou Jie Dong Fangzhu |
| Dalian Shide | 3–1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Hao Haidong Yan Song |
(Report) | Kim Dae-eui |
| Osotsapa FC | 0–7 | |
|---|---|---|
| (Report) | Takagi Sawanobori Alessandro Santos Ahn Jung-hwan Kitajima |
Group C
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +5 | 9 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | −2 | 3 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3 |
Source:
Group D
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 9 |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 6 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 3 |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 10 | −9 | 0 |
Source:
| Nisa Asgabat | 0–3 | |
|---|---|---|
| (Report) | Hamidullaev Soliev Koshelev |
| Al-Talaba | 0–1 | |
|---|---|---|
| (Report) | Golmohammadi |
| Pakhtakor | 1–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Soliev |
(Report) |
| Persepolis | 4–1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Khanmohammadi Golmohammadi Aslanian |
(Report) | Meredov |
Knock-out stage
Bracket
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||
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4 | 3 | 7 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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2 | 4 | 6 | |||||||||
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2 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
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0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
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3 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
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1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
Semi-finals
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEC Tero Sasana |
3–2 | |
3–1 | 0–1 |
| Al-Ain |
7–6 | |
4–2 | 3–4 |
First leg
| Al-Ain | 4–2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Sanogo Omar Yaslam |
(Report) | Hao Haidong Li Yao |
Second leg
BEC Tero Sasana won 3–2 on aggregate.
| Dalian Shide | 4–3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Wang Peng Janković Hao Haidong |
(Report) | Rodrigo Fabiano Omar Majidi |
Al-Ain won 7–6 on aggregate.
Top scorers
- 9
- 4
- 3
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Notes
- Matches was postponed from 22 April 2003 to 30 August 2003 due to SARS outbreak in China.
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