2001 Arab Club Champions Cup
بطولة الأندية العربية لأبطال الدوري 2001
Tournament details
Host countryQatar
CityDoha
Teams10 (from 1 association)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
ChampionsQatar Al Sadd SC (1st title)
Runners-upAlgeria MC Oran
Tournament statistics
Matches played15
Goals scored53 (3.53 per match)
Top scorer(s)Morocco Bouchaib El Moubarki (6 goals)
Best player(s)Iran Karim Bagheri[1]
Best goalkeeperQatar Ahmed Khalil
Fair play awardYemen Al-Ahli Sana'a

The 2001 Arab Club Champions Cup edition, called Prince Faisal bin Fahd Cup, was won by Qatari side Al Sadd SC, the hosts. It was the 17th tournament and was held from 28 November to 12 December 2001.

Participants

Participants
Zone Team Qualifying method
Qatar Al-Sadd Hosts
Tunisia CS Sfaxien Holders
Zone 1 Qatar Al-Rayyan SC Replaced Al-Ain FC
Zone 2 Saudi Arabia Al-Ahli Jeddah 1999–2000 Saudi Premier League runners-up
Yemen Al-Ahli Sana'a 1999–2000 Yemeni League winners
Zone 3 Algeria MC Oran 1999–2000 Algerian Championship runners-up
Zone 4 Jordan Al-Faisaly 2000 Jordan League winners
Syria Hutteen 1999–2000 Syrian League runners-up

Preliminary stage

Zone 1 (Gulf Area)

Qualification from GCC Champions League held in Al Ain on 2001.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
United Arab Emirates Al-Ain 5 4 0 1 6 4 +2 12
Saudi Arabia Al-Ittihad Jeddah 5 3 1 1 10 1 +9 10
Oman Dhofar 5 3 1 1 6 3 +3 10
Kuwait Al-Salmiya 5 1 2 2 5 6 1 5
Qatar Al-Ittihad Doha 5 1 1 3 6 7 1 4
Bahrain West Riffa 5 0 1 4 5 17 12 1
Source:
Al-Ain United Arab Emirates2–1Bahrain West Riffa
  • Khater 53'
  • Johar 86'
  • Darwish 82'
Al-Ittihad Jeddah Saudi Arabia0–1Kuwait Al-Salmiya
Dhofar Oman2–0Qatar Al-Ittihad Doha

Al-Ain United Arab Emirates2–1Kuwait Al-Salmiya
West Riffa Bahrain1–4Qatar Al-Ittihad Doha
  • Humaida 71'
  • Al-Kaabi 11'
  • Al-Mazroa 53', 90+2'
  • Massoud 57' (o.g.)
Al-Ittihad Jeddah Saudi Arabia0–0Oman Dhofar

Al-Ain United Arab Emirates1–0Qatar Al-Ittihad Doha
  • Al-Kuwaiti 70'
Al-Salmiya Kuwait1–0Oman Dhofar
  • Baalawi 34'
West Riffa Bahrain0–7Saudi Arabia Al-Ittihad Jeddah

Al-Salmiya Kuwait1–1Bahrain West Riffa
Al-Ittihad Doha Qatar0–1Saudi Arabia Al-Ittihad Jeddah
  • Omar 90+3'
Al-Ain United Arab Emirates1–0Oman Dhofar
  • Ali 9'

Al-Ittihad Doha Qatar2–2Kuwait Al-Ittihad Jeddah
Dhofar Oman3–2Bahrain West Riffa
  • Al-Hedhari ?'
  • ? ?'
  • Al-Kathiri 84'
  • Humaida 79'
  • Taleb 90+3'
Al-Ain United Arab Emirates0–2Saudi Arabia Al-Ittihad Jeddah

Al-Ain qualified but withdrew the tournament, Al-Rayyan replaced it

Zone 2 (Red Sea)

The qualifying tournament took place in Jeddah.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Saudi Arabia Al-Ahli Jeddah 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yemen Al-Ahli Sana'a' 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sudan Al-Merrikh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source:

Al-Merrikh Sudan2–2Yemen Al-Ahli Sana'a'
  • Al-Hemy 75'
  • Abdullah 77'

Al-Ahli Jeddah Saudi Arabia2–1Yemen Al-Ahli Sana'a'
Valle 28', 84'
  • Al-Salemy 24' (pen.)

Al-Ahli Jeddah and Al-Ahli Sana'a' advanced to the final tournament.

Zone 3 (North Africa)

First Round
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
MAS Fez Morocco 4–4 Libya Al-Ahli Tripoli 4–2 0–2
ASC Mauritel Mauritania Algeria MC Oran
MAS Fez Morocco4-2Libya Al-Ahli Tripoli
Stade Hassan II, Fes
Al-Ahli Tripoli Libya2–0Morocco MAS Fez
  • Moammar
  • Al-Idrissi
Tripoli Stadium, Tripoli
Second Round
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Al-Ahli Tripoli Libya w/o Algeria MC Oran

MC Oran advanced to the final tournament.

Zone 4 (East Region)

The qualifying tournament took place in Amman. Nejmeh was disqualified from the qualifying tournament because the fifa has frozen the activity of the Lebanese Football Association.[2]

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Jordan Al-Faisaly 2 2 0 0 6 0 +6 6
Syria Hutteen 2 1 0 1 6 2 +4 3
State of Palestine Hilal Al-Quds 2 0 0 2 2 11 9 0
Lebanon Nejmeh (D) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source:
(D) Disqualified


Al-Faisaly Jordan1–0Syria Hutteen
  • Al-Hasnat 31'
Referee: Mohamed Risha (Egypt)

Al-Faisaly and Hutteen advanced to the final tournament.

Final tournament

Venues

Doha
Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium
Capacity: 18,000

Group stage

The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four. Each group was played on one leg basis. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the semi-finals.

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Qatar Al Sadd SC 3 2 0 1 14 3 +11 6
Algeria MC Oran 3 2 0 1 5 7 2 6
Yemen Al-Ahli Sana'a 3 1 1 1 3 5 2 4
Syria Hutteen SC 3 0 1 2 2 9 7 1
Source:
Al-Ahli Sana'a Yemen2–1Qatar Al Sadd SC
Ahmed 67', 76' Bagheri 90'
Hutteen SC Syria0–2Algeria MC Oran
Zerrouki 7'
El-Aouni 52'

Al-Ahli Sana'a Yemen0–3Algeria MC Oran
Benzerga 28'
El-Aouni 42', 58'
Hutteen SC Syria1–6Qatar Al Sadd SC
Jablawi 35' Bagheri 10', 45'
Mahmood 25'
El Moubarki 28'
Utaka 39'
J. Al-Kuwari 79'

Al-Ahli Sana'a Yemen1–1Syria Hutteen SC
Al-Barek 85' Shuman 90+2'
MC Oran Algeria0–7Qatar Al Sadd SC
Khalifa 12'
El Moubarki 28', 32', 73'
Utaka 44'
F. Al-Kuwari 89'
Bagheri 90+3'

Group B

Al-Faisaly SC withdrew from the tournament after the first match after contesting the referee falsely, the result was annulled.[3]
Al Rayyan SC replaced Al Ain SC who withdrew from the tournament.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Saudi Arabia Al-Ahli SC 2 1 1 0 7 2 +5 4
Qatar Al Rayyan SC 2 1 0 1 5 6 1 3
Tunisia CS Sfaxien 2 0 1 1 3 7 4 1
Jordan Al-Faisaly SC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source:
Al Rayyan SC Qatar0–5Saudi Arabia Al-Ahli SC
Gahwji 8', 87'
Al-Dosari 10'
Al-Shahri 56'
Suwayed 89' (pen.)
CS Sfaxien Tunisia2–2Jordan Al-Faisaly SC
Ben Younes 43'
Ben Khaled 81'
Salim 7'
Al-Sheikh 74'
Referee: Abdullah Salem (Libya)

CS Sfaxien Tunisia2–2Saudi Arabia Al-Ahli SC
N'Diaye 53'
Ben Younes 80' (pen.)
Fallatah 3'
Al-Gizani 13'

Al Rayyan SC Qatar5–1Tunisia CS Sfaxien
B. Abdullah 6', 81', 90'
Al-Huwaidi 9', 46'
Trabelsi 67'

Knock-out stage

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
7 December 2001 – Doha
 
 
Qatar Al Sadd SC 5
 
10 December 2001 – Doha
 
Qatar Al Rayyan SC 1
 
Qatar Al Sadd SC 3
 
7 December 2001 – Doha
 
Algeria MC Oran 1
 
Saudi Arabia Al-Ahli SC 2 (3)
 
 
Algeria MC Oran (p) 2 (5)
 

Semifinals

Al Sadd SC Qatar5–1Qatar Al Rayyan SC
El Moubarki 14', 18'
Bagheri 43' (pen.)
Khalifa 52'
F. Al-Kuwari 52'
B. Abdullah 59'

Al-Ahli SC Saudi Arabia2–2 (a.e.t.)Algeria MC Oran
Gahwji 29'
Al-Khazami 77'
B. Daoud 5'
Haddou 58'
Penalties
Al-Dosari soccer ball with check mark
Al-Khazami soccer ball with check mark
Al-Shehri soccer ball with check mark
Al-Zahrani soccer ball with red X
3–5 soccer ball with check mark Haddou
soccer ball with check mark Gaïd
soccer ball with check mark Laouni
soccer ball with check mark Zerrouki
soccer ball with check mark Acimi

Final

Al Sadd SC Qatar3–1Algeria MC Oran
Khalifa 25', 53'
Utaka 82'
Haddou 61' (pen.)
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Mahmoud Abbas (Syria)

Winners

2001 Arab Club Champions Cup
Qatar
Al Sadd SC
First title

References

  1. "Jazirah newspaper 2001-12-11".
  2. "الفيصلي يفوز على حطين ويصالح جماهيره في ختام بطولة الأندية العربية". Asharq Al-Awsat. 28 July 2001.
  3. "انسحاب الفيصلي بعد تعادله مع الصفاقسي". Al Jazeera. 2001.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.