2015 GCC Champions League

2015 GCC Club Cup
دوري أبطال الخليج للأندية
The Gulf Cooperation Council logo
Tournament details
Dates	3 February 2015 (2015-02-03) – 27 May 2015 (2015-05-27)
Teams	12 (from AFC/UAFA confederations)
Final positions
Champions	Al-Shabab (3rd title)
Runners-up	Al-Seeb

The GCC Champions League (Arabic: دوري أبطال الخليج للأندية‎), is an annually organized football league tournament for club of the Arabian peninsula.

The 2015 edition was the 30th edition and will start in February and finished with the final on 27 May.^[1]

Teams

Entrants
Team	Qualifying method	App	Last App
Group stage direct entrants (Groups A–D)
East Riffa^[2]^[3]	2014 Bahraini King's Cup winners
Manama	2013–14 Bahrain First Division League runners up
Al Jahra	2013–14 Kuwaiti Premier League 3rd place
Kazma	2013–14 Kuwaiti Premier League 4th place
Al Suwaiq	2013–14 Oman Professional League 3rd place
Al Seeb	2013–14 Oman Professional League 4th place

Entrants
Team	Qualifying method	App	Last App
Group stage direct entrants (Groups A–D)
Al Arabi	2013–14 Qatar Stars League 5th place
Al Rayyan	2013–14 Qatar Stars League 13th place
Al Taawon	2013–14 Saudi Professional League 5th place
Al Faisaly	2013–14 Saudi Professional League 7th place
Al Shabab	2013–14 Arabian Gulf League 4th place
Al Nasr	2013–14 Arabian Gulf League 5th place

Group Stage

Group stage is played as a double round-robin, thus each tem plays four matches. After that the top two teams advance to the quarter-finals.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al Rayyan	4	2	2	0	9	4	+5	8
Al Taawon	4	1	3	0	6	5	+1	6
Al Suwaiq	4	0	1	3	3	9	–6	1

3 February 2015	Al Suwaiq	2–2	Al Taawon	Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat
14:00				Referee: Yaqoub Al-Hammadi (UAE)

18 February 2015	Al Rayyan	2–1	Al Suwaiq	Ahmed bin Ali Stadium, Al Rayyan
15:00				Referee: Omar Al-Ali (UAE)

24 February 2015	Al Taawon	1–1	Al Rayyan	King Abdullah Sport City Stadium, Buraidah
17:15	Ismail 9' (og)	Report	Tabata 30'	Referee: Sultan Al-Marzooqi (UAE)

3 March 2015	Al Taawon	1–0	Al Suwaiq

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al Shabab	4	3	0	1	10	2	+8	9
Al Seeb	4	1	1	2	3	8	−5	4
Al Arabi	4	1	1	2	2	5	−3	4

3 February 2015	Al Arabi	0–0	Al Seeb	Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha
15:00				Referee: Jameel Juma Abdulhusain (Bahrain)

17 February 2015	Al Seeb	1–3	Al Shabab	Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat
15:00	Ibrahim 62'	Report	Ali 28' Villanueva 44' Edgar 79'	Referee: Yousef Al-Marzouq (Kuwait)

25 February 2015	Al Shabab	3–0	Al Arabi	Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Stadium, Dubai
13:35	Luvannor 7' Edgar 66', 82'	Report		Referee: Ammar Mahfoodh (BHR)

3 March 2015	Al Seeb	2–1	Al Arabi

Group C

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al Nasr	4	3	1	8	6	+2	9
Kazma	4	2	2	6	6	0	6
Manama	3	1	2	4	5	-1	3

Kazma v Manama

4 February 2015
14:45

Kazma	2–1	Manama

Al-Sadaqua Walsalam Stadium, Adiliya
Referee: Al-Hethlol (Saudi Arabia)

Manama v Al Nasr

16 February 2015
15:15

Manama	2–1	Al Nasr
Fernandes 5', 44'	Report	Touré 58'

Bahrain National Stadium, Riffa
Referee: Yaqoob Abdul Baki (Oman)

Al Nasr v Kazma

24 February 2015
15:00

Al Nasr	2–1	Kazma
Hernández 57' Touré 64'	Report	Nasser 90'

Al-Maktoum Stadium, Dubai
Referee: Al-Khudhayr (Saudi Arabia)

Manama v Kazma

10 March 2015

Manama	1–2	Kazma

Al Nasr v Manama

18 March 2015

Al Nasr	–	Manama

Kazma v Al Nasr

7 April 2015

Kazma	–	Al Nasr

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al-Jahra SC	4	2	1	1	7	5	+2	7
East Riffa Club	4	2	1	1	6	6	0	7
Al-Faisaly FC	4	1	0	3	3	5	-2	3

Knockout-stage

Quarter-finals

Al Rayyan v Kazma

21 April 2015

Al Rayyan	2-1	Kazma
Dević 85' (90)	Report	Otávio 49' (og)

Suheim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha
Referee: Yaqoob Abdulbaki (Oman)

Al-Nasr v Al-Taawon

21 April 2015

Al-Nasr	1-1 (4-2 pen)	Al-Taawon
Holman 16'	Report	Alo'o 79'

Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Stadium, Dubai
Referee: Fahad Jaber Al Marri (Qatar)

Al Shabab v East Riffa

22 April 2015

Al Shabab	3-1	East Riffa
Villanueva 21' Ali 64' Luvannor 70'	Report	Abbas 58'

Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Stadium, Dubai
Referee: Marai Al-Awaji (Saudi Arabia)

Al-Jahra v Al-Seeb

22 April 2015

Al-Jahra	0-2	Al-Seeb

Kuwait
Referee: Sultan Al-Marzouqi (UAE)

Semi-finals

Al Nasr v Al-Shabab

5 May 2015

Al Nasr	1-1 and 0-2 (AGG 1-3)	Al-Shabab

UAE
Referee: Muhammad Al-Huwaish (Saudi Arabia)

Al-Seeb v Al-Rayyan

6 May 2015

Al-Seeb	0-0 and 1-1 (AGG 1-1)	Al-Rayyan

Oman
Referee: Jameel Juma Abdulhusain (Bahrain)

Final

Al-Shabab v Al-Seeb

27 May 2015

Al-Shabab	1-1 ( 4-3 Pen)	Al-Seeb

Seeb Stadium, Seeb Oman
Referee: Marai Al-Awaji (Saudi Arabia)

References

↑ BFA.bh (5 June 2014). "GCC U-23 Tournament date moved to August 30". QFA. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
↑ "الحد يتهم الاتحاد البحريني بالتقصير". Kooora. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
↑ "BFA affirms adressing [sic] AFC regarding Al Hidd's participation". BFA. Retrieved 11 December 2014.

External links

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