2004 AFC Champions League

2004 AFC Champions League
Tournament details
Dates	March 2004 - November 2004
Teams	29
Final positions
Champions	Al-Ittihad Jeddah (1st title)
Runners-up	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Tournament statistics
Matches played	80
Goals scored	286 (3.58 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Mohammed Kallon (6 Goals)

The 2004 AFC Champions League was the 23rd edition of the top-level Asian club football tournament and the 2nd edition under the current AFC Champions League title. The title was won by Al-Ittihad (Jeddah) over Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma.

Format

Group Stage

A total of 28 clubs are divided into 7 groups of four, based on region i.e. East Asian and Southeast Asian clubs are drawn in Group E to F, while rest are grouped in Group A to D. Each club plays double round-robin (home and away) against fellow three group members, a total of 6 matches each. Clubs receive 3pts for a win, 1pt for a tie, 0pts for a loss. The clubs are ranked according to points and tie breakers are in following order:

Points earned between the clubs in question
Goal Differential between the clubs in question
Goal For between the clubs in question
Points earned within the group
Goal Differential within the group
Goal For within the group

The seven group winners along with the defending champions qualifies to the quarter-finals.

Knockout Round

All 8 clubs are randomly matched; however, the only restriction is that the clubs from same country cannot face each other in the quarterfinals. The games are conducted in 2 legs, home and away, and the aggregates goals decides the match winner. If the aggregate goals cannot produce a winner, away goal rules in used. If still tied, clubs play extra time, where away goal rule still applies. If still tied, the game goes to penalties.

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Pakhtakor	7	4	2	1	1	3	1	2
Zob Ahan	5	4	1	2	1	4	5	-1
Qatar SC	3	4	0	3	1	3	4	-1
Riffa ¹	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

¹ Riffa withdrew, citing security concerns; they were suspended from AFC competitions for two years.


Feb 11, 2004	Zob Ahan	1–0	Pakhtakor
Feb 25, 2004	Pakhtakor	1–0	Qatar SC
Apr 6, 2004	Zob Ahan	3–3	Qatar SC
Apr 21, 2004	Qatar SC	0–0	Zob Ahan
May 5, 2004	Pakhtakor	2–0	Zob Ahan
May 19, 2004	Qatar SC	0–0	Pakhtakor

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Al Wahda	6	4	1	3	0	3	0	3
Al Sadd	5	4	1	2	1	1	1	0
Al Quwa Al Jawiya	4	4	1	1	2	1	4	-3
Al Qadisiya ¹	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

¹ On April 20, following the match between Al-Qadisiya and Al-Sadd, Kuwaiti security personnel assaulted the visiting players; Al-Qadisiya were ejected from the competition and banned from AFC competitions for three years. Their record was expunged.


Feb 11, 2004	Al Wahda	0–0	Al Sadd
Feb 25, 2004	Al Sadd	1–0	Al Quwa Al Jawiya
Apr 6, 2004	Al Wahda	3–0	Al Quwa Al Jawiya
Apr 6, 2004	Al Quwa Al Jawiya	0–0	Al Wahda
May 5, 2004	Al Sadd	0–0	Al Wahda
May 18, 2004	Al Quwa Al Jawiya	1–0	Al Sadd

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Sharjah	10	4	3	1	0	10	4	6
Al Hilal	7	4	2	1	1	6	6	0
Al Shurta	0	4	0	0	4	3	9	-6
Al Ahly ¹	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

¹ Al Ahly withdrew following the decision by the Bahraini FA to retain 7 of their players for the national team and Olympic squads for their World Cup and Olympic Games qualifying matches; no penalties were imposed.


Feb 10, 2004	Sharjah	2–0	Al Shurta
Feb 25, 2004	Al Hilal	0–0	Sharjah
Apr 6, 2004	Al Shurta	1–2	Al Hilal
Apr 21, 2004	Al Hilal	2–0	Al Shurta
May 4, 2004	Al Shurta	2–3	Sharjah
May 18, 2004	Sharjah	5–2	Al Hilal

Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Al Ittihad Jeddah	13	6	4	1	1	14	4	10
Sepahan	13	6	4	1	1	15	10	5
Al Arabi	8	6	2	2	2	8	10	-2
Neftchi	0	6	0	0	6	5	18	-13


Feb 10, 2004	Sepahan	4–0	Neftchi
Feb 11, 2004	Al Ittihad	2–0	Al Arabi
Feb 24, 2004	Neftchi	1–3	Al Ittihad
Feb 24, 2004	Al Arabi	2–2	Sepahan
Apr 7, 2004	Sepahan	3–2	Al Ittihad
Apr 20, 2004	Al Ittihad	4–0	Sepahan
Apr 21, 2004	Al Arabi	3–2	Neftchi
May 4, 2004	Neftchi	1–3	Sepahan
May 4, 2004	Al Arabi	0–0	Al Ittihad
May 18, 2004	Sepahan	3–1	Al Arabi
May 18, 2004	Al Ittihad	3–0	Neftchi
May 26, 2004	Neftchi	1–2	Al Arabi

Group E

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	12	6	4	2	14	5	9
Jubilo Iwata	12	6	4	2	14	11	3
Shanghai Shenhua	9	6	3	3	7	9	-2
BEC Tero	3	6	1	5	6	16	-10


Feb 11, 2004	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	1–2	Jubilo Iwata
Feb 11, 2004	BEC Tero	4–1	Shanghai Shenhua
Feb 25, 2004	Jubilo Iwata	3–0	BEC Tero
Feb 25, 2004	Shanghai Shenhua	0–1	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Apr 6, 2004	Jubilo Iwata	2–1	Shanghai Shenhua
Apr 7, 2004	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	4–0	BEC Tero
Apr 20, 2004	BEC Tero	0–4	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Apr 22, 2004	Shanghai Shenhua	3–2	Jubilo Iwata
May 5, 2004	Shanghai Shenhua	1–0	BEC Tero
May 12, 2004	Jubilo Iwata	2–4	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
May 19, 2004	BEC Tero	2–3	Jubilo Iwata
May 19, 2004	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	0–1	Shanghai Shenhua

Group F

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Dalian Shide	15	6	5	0	1	11	5	6
Hoang Anh	7	6	2	1	3	10	10	0
Krung Thai	7	6	2	1	3	8	11	-3
PSM Makassar	6	6	2	0	4	9	12	-3


Feb 10, 2004	Krung Thai	0–2	Dalian Shide
Feb 11, 2004	Hoang Anh	5–1	PSM Makassar
Feb 24, 2004	Dalian Shide	2–0	Hoang Anh
Feb 25, 2004	PSM Makassar	2–3	Krung Thai
Apr 6, 2004	Hoang Anh	0–1	Krung Thai
Apr 7, 2004	PSM Makassar	0–1	Dalian Shide
Apr 21, 2004	Krung Thai	2–2	Hoang Anh
Apr 21, 2004	Dalian Shide	2–1	PSM Makassar
May 4, 2004	Dalian Shide	3–1	Krung Thai
May 5, 2004	PSM Makassar	3–0	Hoang Anh
May 18, 2004	Hoang Anh	3–1	Dalian Shide
May 18, 2004	Krung Thai	1–2	PSM Makassar

Group G

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	15	6	5	0	1	24	4	20
Yokohama F. Marinos	15	6	5	0	1	19	3	16
Persik Kediri	4	6	1	1	4	5	27	-22
Binh Dinh	1	6	0	1	5	3	17	-14


Feb 10, 2004	Binh Dinh	0–3	Yokohama F. Marinos
Feb 11, 2004	Persik Kediri	1–2	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Feb 24, 2004	Yokohama F. Marinos	4–0	Persik Kediri
Feb 25, 2004	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	2–0	Binh Dinh
Apr 7, 2004	Binh Dinh	2–2	Persik Kediri
Apr 7, 2004	Yokohama F. Marinos	1–2	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Apr 21, 2004	Persik Kediri	1–0	Binh Dinh
Apr 21, 2004	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	0–1	Yokohama F. Marinos
May 5, 2004	Yokohama F. Marinos	6–0	Binh Dinh
May 11, 2004	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	15–0	Persik Kediri
May 19, 2004	Persik Kediri	1–4	Yokohama F. Marinos
May 19, 2004	Binh Dinh	1–3	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma

Quarter finals

First-leg home team shown first. First-leg home team score shown first for both legs.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al Ain	1-5	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	0-1	1-4
Dalian Shide	1-2	Al Ittihad Jeddah	1-1	0-1
Al Wahda	1-5	Pakhtakor	1-1	0-4
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	11-2	Sharjah	6-0	5-2

Al Ain v Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors

September 14, 2004

Al Ain	0–1	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
		Luís André Gomes 93'

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors v Al Ain

September 21, 2004

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	4–1	Al Ain
Nam Kung-Do 53' Paulo Rink 69' Luís André Gomes 91' Park Dong-Hyuk 93'		Rami Yaslam 88'

Dalian Shide v Al Ittihad Jeddah

September 14, 2004

Dalian Shide	1–1	Al Ittihad Jeddah
Zou Jie 66'		Mario Carević 25'

Al Ittihad Jeddah v Dalian Shide

September 21, 2004

Al Ittihad Jeddah	1–0	Dalian Shide
Redha Tukar 68'

Al Wahda v Pakhtakor

September 15, 2004

Al Wahda	1–1	Pakhtakor
Antonin Koutouan 10'		Ildar Magdeev 85'

Pakhtakor v Al Wahda

September 22, 2004

Pakhtakor	4–0	Al Wahda
Anvarjon Soliev 21' Vladimir Shishelov 44', 90' Abdullah Salem 86' (o.g.)

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma v Sharjah

September 15, 2004

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	6–0	Sharjah
Kim Do-Hoon 20' Lee Ki-Hyung 49' Dudu 52' (pen.), 65' Do Jae-Joon 81' Denis Laktionov 74'

Sharjah v Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma

September 22, 2004

Sharjah	2–5	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Simba Ndaye 44' Anderson 66'		Dudu 11', 25' Marcelo 20' Kim Do-Hoon 32' Denis Laktionov 74'

Semi-finals

First-leg home team shown first. First-leg home team score shown first for both legs.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al Ittihad Jeddah	4-3	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	2-1	2-2
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	2-0	Pakhtakor	0-0	2-0

October 19, 2004

Al Ittihad Jeddah	2–1	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Mohammed Noor 27' Hamad Al-Montashari 87'		Botti 85'

October 26, 2004

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	2–2	Al Ittihad Jeddah
Paulo Rink 32' Botti 43'		Tcheco 68' (pen.) Osama Al-Muwallad 89'

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma v Pakhtakor

October 19, 2004

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	0–0	Pakhtakor

Pakhtakor v Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma

October 26, 2004

Pakhtakor	0–2	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
		Kim Do-Hoon 37' Dudu 56'

Final

First-leg home team shown first. First-leg home team score shown first for both legs.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al Ittihad Jeddah	6-3	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	1-3	5-0

Al Ittihad v Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma

November 24, 2004

Al Ittihad	1–3	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Redha Tukar 28'		Denis Laktionov 27' Kim Do-Hoon 81' Jang Hak-Young 90'

December 1, 2004

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	0–5	Al Ittihad Jeddah
		Redha Tukar 27' Hamzah Idris 45+2' Mohammed Noor 55', 78' Manaf Abushgeer 90+5'

External links

AFC Champions League 2004 Official Page (English)
AFC Champions League 2004 at RSSSF.com

Asian Club Championship and AFC Champions League

Asian Champion Club Tournament era, 1967–1971

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Finals	1967 1969 1970 1971

Asian Club Championship era, 1985–86–2002

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Champions League era, 2002–present

Seasons

Finals

Other merges with the Champions League

Asian Cup Winners' Cup, 1990–2002

Seasons	1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02

Asian Super Cup, 1995–2002

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International club football

FIFA FIFA Club World Cup List of association football clubs

Africa	CAF – Champions League Confederation Cup Super Cup Top-division clubs

Asia	AFC – Champions League AFC Cup Top-division clubs

Europe	UEFA – Champions League Europa League Super Cup Top-division clubs

North America, Central America and the Caribbean	CONCACAF – Champions League Top-division clubs

Oceania	OFC – Champions League President's Cup Top-division clubs

South America	CONMEBOL – Copa Libertadores Copa Sudamericana Recopa Sudamericana Top-division clubs

See also: International women's club football