2002–03 AFC Champions League

2002–03 AFC Champions League
Tournament details
Dates	13 August–27 November 2002 (qualifying) 10 March–11 October 2003 (competition proper)
Teams	16
Final positions
Champions	Al Ain (1st title)
Runners-up	BEC Tero Sasana
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)	Hao Haidong (9 goals)
Best player	Therdsak Chaiman (BEC Tero Sasana)

The 2002–03 AFC Champions League was the 22nd edition of the top-level Asian club football tournament and the 1st edition under the current AFC Champions League title. Al Ain of the United Arab Emirates beat BEC Tero Sasana of Thailand 2-1 on aggregate.

Qualification

Main article: 2002–03 AFC Champions League qualification

West Asia

Central and Southern Asia

East Asia

ASEAN

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1. BEC Tero Sasana	7	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3
2. Daejeon Citizen	6	3	2	0	1	3	3	0
3. Shanghai Shenhua	3	3	1	0	2	6	7	-1
4. Kashima Antlers	1	3	0	1	2	5	7	-2

Shanghai Shenhua v Daejeon Citizen

March 10, 2003

Shanghai Shenhua	1–2	Daejeon Citizen
Luo Xiao 85'	(Report)	Han Jung-Kook 8' Kim Eun-Jung 44'

Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand
Attendance: 8,000
Referee:

Masoud Moradi

Kashima Antlers v BEC Tero Sasana

March 10, 2003

Kashima Antlers	2–2	BEC Tero Sasana
Tomoyuki Hirase 21' Fernando 77'	(Report)	Wuttiya Yongant 76', 90'

Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand
Attendance: 10,000
Referee:

Al Hamdan Naser

Kashima Antlers v Shanghai Shenhua

March 12, 2003

Kashima Antlers	3–4	Shanghai Shenhua
Takeshi Aoki 24' Fernando 56' Takuya Nozawa 90'	(Report)	Yang Guang (footballer) 1' Zhang Yuning 11' Saul Martínez 31', 87'

Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand
Attendance: 6,000
Referee:

Balu Sundarraj

Daejeon Citizen v BEC Tero Sasana

March 12, 2003

Daejeon Citizen	0–2	BEC Tero Sasana
	(Report)	Panai Kongpraphan 14' Therdsak Chaiman 73'

Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand
Attendance: 16,000
Referee:

Anura De Silva

BEC Tero Sasana v Shanghai Shenhua

March 14, 2003

BEC Tero Sasana	2–1	Shanghai Shenhua
Jatupong Thongsukh 27' Therdsak Chaiman 85'	(Report)	Saul Martínez 58'

Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand
Attendance: 20,000
Referee:

Al Hamdan Naser

Daejeon Citizen v Kashima Antlers

March 14, 2003

Daejeon Citizen	1–0	Kashima Antlers
Coly Papa Oumar 87'	(Report)

Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand
Attendance: 10,000
Referee:

Masoud Moradi

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Dalian Shide	7	3	2	1	0	10	2	+8
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	6	3	2	0	1	9	4	+5
Shimizu S-Pulse	4	3	1	1	1	8	2	+6
Osotsapa FC	0	3	0	0	3	1	20	−19

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma v Osotsapa FC

March 9, 2003

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	6–0	Osotsapa FC
Park Nam-Yeol 22' Kim Dae-Eui 31' Kim Do-Hoon 37', 61', 83' Sasa Drakulic 53'	(Report)

People's Stadium, Dalian, China
Attendance: 20,000
Referee:

Ravshan Irmatov

Shimizu S-Pulse v Dalian Shide

March 9, 2003

Shimizu S-Pulse	0–0	Dalian Shide
	(Report)

People's Stadium, Dalian, China
Attendance: 30,000
Referee:

Kim Jong-Sik

March 12, 2003

Shimizu S-Pulse	1–2	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Ahn Jung-Hwan 53'	(Report)	Sasa Drakulic 74' Kim Dae-Eui 87'

People's Stadium, Dalian, China
Attendance: 2,000
Referee:

Ahmad Khalidi Supain

Osotsapa FC v Dalian Shide

March 12, 2003

Osotsapa FC	1–7	Dalian Shide
Vimol Jankam 13'	(Report)	Hao Haidong 27', 32', 49', 61' Yan Song 60' Zou Jie 80' Dong Fangzhuo 82'

People's Stadium, Dalian, China
Attendance: 18,000
Referee:

Setiyono Midi Nitrerejo

Dalian Shide v Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma

March 15, 2003

Dalian Shide	3–1	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Hao Haidong 57' , 64' Yan Song 90'	(Report)	Kim Dae-Eui 51'

People's Stadium, Dalian, China
Attendance: 30,000
Referee:

Ravshan Irmatov

Osotsapa FC v Shimizu S-Pulse

March 15, 2003

Osotsapa FC	0–7	Shimizu S-Pulse
	(Report)	Kazumichi Takagi 23' , 40' Masaaki Sawanobori 27' Alessandro Santos 50' Ahn Jung-Hwan 60' , 71' Hideaki Kitajima 75'

People's Stadium, Dalian, China
Attendance: 5,000
Referee:

Setiyono Midi Nitrerejo

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
1. Al Ain	9	3	3	0	6	1	+5
2. Al Sadd	3	3	1	2	4	5	−1
3. Esteghlal	3	3	1	2	5	7	−2
4. Al Hilal	3	3	1	2	4	6	−2

Al Sadd v Esteghlal

March 9, 2003

Al Sadd	1–2	Esteghlal
Sergio Ricardo 72'	(Report)	Ali Samereh 6' Rasoul Khatibi 64'

Tahnoun Bin Mohamed Stadium, Al Ain, UAE
Attendance: 4,500
Referee:

Toru Kamikawa

Al Ain v Al Hilal

March 9, 2003

Al Ain	1–0	Al Hilal
Gharib Harib 12' (p)	(Report)

Tahnoun Bin Mohamed Stadium, Al Ain, UAE
Attendance: 6,500
Referee:

Shaban Qassem

Al Ain v Al Sadd

March 12, 2003

Al Ain	2–0	Al Sadd
Kandia Traoré 24' Boubacar Sanogo 89'	(Report)

Tahnoun Bin Mohamed Stadium, Al Ain, UAE
Attendance: 9,000
Referee:

Lu Jun

Esteghlal v Al Hilal

March 12, 2003

Esteghlal	2–3	Al Hilal
Rasoul Khatibi 18' Ali Samereh 42'	(Report)	Patrick Suffo 34', 74', 85'

Tahnoun Bin Mohamed Stadium, Al Ain, UAE
Attendance: 2,500
Referee:

Subkhdiin Mohd Salleh

Al Hilal v Al Sadd

March 15, 2003

Al Hilal	1–3	Al Sadd
Abdulla Jumaan 57'	(Report)	Abdulkader Keita 45' Sergio Ricardo 80' Nasser Kamil 90'

Tahnoun Bin Mohamed Stadium, Al Ain, UAE
Attendance: 1,200
Referee:

Shaban Qassem

Esteghlal v Al Ain

March 15, 2003

Esteghlal	1–3	Al Ain
Ali Samereh 67'	(Report)	Faisal Ali 65' Boubacar Sanogo 76' Gharib Harib 78'

Tahnoun Bin Mohamed Stadium, Al Ain, UAE
Attendance: 15,000
Referee:

Lu Jun

Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
1. Pakhtakor	9	3	3	0	7	0	+7
2. Persepolis	6	3	2	1	5	2	+3
3. Al Talaba	3	3	1	2	3	4	−1
4. Nisa Asgabat	0	3	0	3	1	10	−9

Nisa Asgabat v Pakhtakor

March 9, 2003

Nisa Asgabat	0–3	Pakhtakor
	(Report)	Bakhtiyor Hamidullaev 44' Anvarjon Soliev 57' Leonid Koshelev 72'

Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Attendance: 30,000
Referee:

Rungklay Mongkol

Al Talaba v Persepolis

March 9, 2003

Al Talaba	0–1	Persepolis
	(Report)	Yahya Golmohammadi 62'

Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Attendance: 5,000
Referee:

Masayoshi Okada

Al Talaba v Nisa Asgabat

March 11, 2003

Al Talaba	3–0	Nisa Asgabat
Fawzi Abdulsada 10' Younis Mahmoud 24' , 90'	(Report)

Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Attendance: 3,000
Referee:

Bae Jae-Yong

Pakhtakor v Persepolis

March 11, 2003

Pakhtakor	1–0	Persepolis
Anvarjon Soliev 22'	(Report)

Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Attendance: 45,000
Referee:

Masayoshi Okada

Persepolis v Nisa Asgabat

March 13, 2003

Persepolis	4–1	Nisa Asgabat
Khanmohammadi 14', 76' Yahya Golmohammadi 47' Amirhossein Aslanian 90'	(Report)	Amanmyrat Meredov 89' (p)

Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Attendance: 2,000
Referee:

Fareed Al Marzouqi

Pakhtakor v Al Talaba

March 13, 2003

Pakhtakor	3–0	Al Talaba
Aleksandr Krokhmal 25', 57' Goçguly Goçgulyýew 37'	(Report)

Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Attendance: 55,000
Referee:

Rungklay Mongkol

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
BEC Tero Sasana	3-2	Pakhtakor	3-1	0-1
Al Ain	7-6	Dalian Shide	4-2	3-4

BEC Tero Sasana v Pakhtakor

April 9, 2003

BEC Tero Sasana	3–1	Pakhtakor
Worrawoot Srimaka 41' Kwanchai Fuangprakob 69' Therdsak Chaiman 84'	(Report)	Anvarjon Soliev 80'

Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand
Attendance: 15,000
Referee:

Kwon Jong-Chul

Pakhtakor v BEC Tero Sasana

April 22, 2003

Pakhtakor	1–0	BEC Tero Sasana
Server Djeperov 86'	(Report)

Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Attendance: 50,000
Referee:

Toru Kamikawa

Al Ain v Dalian Shide

April 9, 2003

Al Ain	4–2	Dalian Shide
Boubacar Sanogo 62' (p), 83' Mohammad Omar 64' Rami Yaslam 75'	(Report)	Hao Haidong 17' Li Yao 88'

Tahnoun Bin Mohamed Stadium, Al Ain, UAE
Attendance: 20,000
Referee:

Ahdul Rahman

Dalian Shide v Al Ain

August 30, 2003

Dalian Shide	4–3	Al Ain
Wang Peng 27' Zoran Jankovic 77' Hao Haidong 81', 84'	(Report)	Rodrigo Fabiano 46' Mohammad Omar 65' Farhad Majidi 87'

People's Stadium, Dalian, China
Attendance: 46,000
Referee:

Masayoshi Okada

Final

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al Ain	2-1	BEC Tero Sasana	2-0	0-1

First Game

Al-Ain v BEC Tero Sasana

October 3, 2003

Al-Ain	2–0	BEC Tero Sasana
Salem Johar 38' Mohammad Omar 74'

Tahnoun Bin Mohamed Stadium, Al Ain, UAE

Second Game

BEC Tero Sasana v Al-Ain

October 11, 2003

BEC Tero Sasana	1–0	Al-Ain
Therdsak Chaiman 60' (p)

Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand

Top scorers

9

Hao Haidong (Dalian Shide)

4

Boubacar Sanogo (Al Ain)
Therdsak Chaiman (BEC Tero Sasana)

3

Patrick Suffo (Al Hilal)
Mohammad Omar (Al Ain)
Ali Samereh (Esteghlal F.C.)
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)

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