NB: competition restricted to 14 countries considered 'mature'.
Compared to 2007, Indonesia was kicked out, because their
league finished too late; because of this, both Thailand and
Vietnam were able to enter two clubs again.
The lucky countries are:
Central and West Asia (8): Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE, Uzbekistan
East Asia (5): China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam
Oceania (1): Australia
Group Stage
Group A
Mar 12: Sepahan-Al-Ittihad (Aleppo) 0-2
Mar 12: Al-Ittihad (Jeddah)-Quruvchi Toshkent 1-0
Mar 19: Quruvchi Toshkent-Sepahan 2-0
Mar 19: Al-Ittihad (A.)-Al-Ittihad (J.) 0-1
Apr 9: Al-Ittihad (Aleppo)-Quruvchi Toshkent 0-2
Apr 9: Sepahan-Al-Ittihad (Jeddah) 2-1
Apr 23: Quruvchi Toshkent-Al-Ittihad (Aleppo) 1-0
Apr 23: Al-Ittihad (Jeddah)-Sepahan 0-1
1.Al-Ittihad (Jeddah) 3 2 0 1 3- 2 6
2.Quruvchi Toshkent 3 2 0 1 4- 1 6
3.Al-Ittihad (Aleppo) 3 1 0 2 2- 3 3
4.Sepahan (Isfahan) 3 1 0 2 2- 5 3
Group B
Mar 12: Al-Wasl-Quwa Al-Jawiya 0-1
[Ali M. Alwan 32]
Mar 12: Al-Kuwait SC-Saipa 1-1
[Khaled Alazemi 45 - Milad Zanidpour 66]
Mar 19: Saipa-Al-Wasl 2-0
[Issa Traore 45+1, Karim Ansar Fard 57]
Mar 19: Quwa Al-Jawiya-Al-Kuwait SC 0-0x
Apr 9: Quwa Al-Jawiya-Saipa 0-1x
Apr 9: Al-Wasl-Al-Kuwait SC 1-0
Apr 23: Saipa-Quwa Al-Jawiya -
Apr 23: Al-Kuwait SC-Al-Wasl -
May 7: Quwa Al-Jawiya-Al-Wasl -
May 7: Saipa-Al-Kuwait SC -
May 21: A-Wasl-Saipa -
May 21: Al-Kuwait SC-Quwa Al-Jawiya -
x in Kuwait
1.Saipa (Karadj) 3 2 1 0 4- 1 7
2.Quwa Al-Jawiya (Baghdad) 3 1 1 1 1- 1 4
3.Al-Wasl (Dubai) 3 1 0 2 1- 3 3
4.Al-Kuwait SC (Kaifan) 3 0 2 1 1- 2 2
Group C
Mar 12: Al-Sadd-Al-Ahly (Jeddah) 2-1
[Marcio Passos De Albuquerque 3, Felipe Jorge Loureiro 26 - Osvaldo
Felix Souza 74]
Mar 12: Al-Karama-Al-Wahda 4-1
[Feras Ismail 4, Ziad Chabo 27, 49, Mohamad Alhamwi 79 - Mohamed
Saeed Rashed Saiwed Al Shehhi 84]
Mar 19: Al-Wahda-Al-Sadd 2-2
[Andre Luciano Da Silva 18, Mohamed Saeed Rashed Saiwed Al Shehhi 86
- Carlos Vicente Tenorio Medina 45, Marcio Passos De Albuquerque 71]
Mar 19: Al-Ahly (Jeddah)-Al-Karama 1-1
[Turki Mousa Althagafi 15 - Mohamad Alhamwi 44]
Apr 9: Al-Ahly (Jeddah)-Al-Wahda 0-0
Apr 9: Al-Sadd-Al-Karama 0-2
Apr 23: Al-Wahda-Al-Ahly (Jeddah) -
Apr 23: Al-Karama-Al-Sadd -
May 7: Al-Ahly (Jeddah)-Al-Sadd -
May 7: Al-Wahda-Al-Karama -
May 21: Al-Sadd-Al-Wahda -
May 21: Al-Karama-Al-Ahly (Jeddah) -
1.Al-Karama (Homs) 3 2 1 0 7- 2 7
2.Al-Sadd (Doha) 3 1 1 1 4- 5 4
3.Al-Ahly (Jeddah) 3 0 2 1 2- 3 2
4.Al-Wahda (Abu Dhabi) 3 0 2 1 3- 6 2
Group D
Mar 12: Pakhtakor Toshkent-Al-Qadissiyah 0-1
[Ahmad Alzemi 90+1]
Mar 12: Arbil-Al-Gharrafa 1-1x
[Mouslim Mobarak Almas 61 - Clemerson De Araujo Soares 13]
Mar 19: Al-Gharrafa-Pakhtakor Toshkent 2-2
[Younis Mahmood Khalaf 57, Clemerson De Araujo Soares 65 - Asror
Alikulov 68, Farhod Tadjiyev 78]
Mar 19: Al-Qadissiyah-Arbil 1-1
[Khalaf Almutairi 82 - Ahmad Salah Alwan Mntafjai 28pen]
Apr 9: Al-Qadissiyah-Al-Gharrafa 1-0
Apr 9: Pakhtakor Toshkent-Arbil 2-0
Apr 23: Al-Gharrafa-Al-Qadissiyah -
Apr 23: Arbil-Pakhtakor Toshkent -
May 7: Al-Qadissiyah-Pakhtakor Toshkent -
May 7: Al-Gharrafa-Arbil -
May 21: Pakhtakor Toshkent-Al-Gharrafa -
May 21: Arbil-Al Al-Qadissiyah -
x in Amman
1.Al-Qadissiyah (Kuwait City) 3 2 1 0 3- 1 7
2.Pakhtakor Toshkent 3 1 1 1 4- 3 4
3.Al-Gharrafa (Doha) 3 0 2 1 3- 4 2
4.Arbil (Arbil) 3 0 2 1 2- 4 2
Group E
Mar 12: Changchun Yatai-Binh Duong 2-1
[Du Zhenyu 4, Cui Wei 72 - Nguyen Anh Duc 53]
Mar 12: Pohang Steelers-Adelaide United 0-2
[Robert Cornthwaite 4, Bruce Djite 60]
Mar 19: Adelaide United-Changchun Yatai 0-0
Mar 19: Binh Duong-Pohang Steelers 1-4
[Robson Damasceno De Lima 10pen - Denilson Martins Nascimento 49pen,
57pen, Kim Jae-sung 55, Choi Hyo-jin 63]
Apr 9: Binh Duong-Adelaide United 1-2
Apr 9: Changchun Yatai-Pohang Steelers 1-0
Apr 23: Adelaide United-Binh Duong -
Apr 23: Pohang Steelers-Changchun Yatai -
May 7: Binh Duong-Changchun Yatai -
May 7: Adelaide United-Pohang Steelers -
May 21: Changchun Yatai-Adelaide United -
May 21: Pohang Steelers-Binh Duong -
1.Adelaide United 3 2 1 0 4- 1 7
2.Changchun Yatai 3 2 1 0 3- 1 7
3.Pohang Steelers 3 1 0 2 4- 4 3
4.B.Binh Duong 3 0 0 3 3- 8 0
Group F
Mar 12: Krung Thai Bank-Kashima Antlers 1-9
[Kassim Kone 64 - Yuzo Tashiro 15, 50, Daiki Iwamasa 21, Takuya
Nozawa 34, 90+2, Marcos Gomes Araujo 47, 69, 71, Ryuta Sasaki 73]
Mar 12: Nam Dinh-Beijing Guoan 1-3
[Le Van Duyet 16 - Yan Xiangchuang 57, 90+2, Du Wenhui 60]
Mar 19: Kashima Antlers-Nam Dinh 6-0
[Masashi Motoyama 26, 49, Marcos Gomes Araujo 59, 68, Yuzo Tashiro
74, Danilo Gabriel De Andrade 90+2]
Mar 19: Beijing Guoan-Krung Thai Bank 4-2
[Du Wenhui 40, 74, Walter Julian Martinez Ramos 52, 75 - Nantawat
Thaensopa 59, Peeraphong Pichitchotirat 65]
Apr 9: Kashima Antlers-Beijing Guoan 1-0
Apr 9: Krung Thai Bank-Nam Dinh 9-1
Apr 23: Beijing Guoan-Kashima Antlers -
Apr 23: Nam Dinh-Krung Thai Bank -
May 7: Kashima Antlers-Krung Thai Bank -
May 7: Beijing Guoan-Nam Dinh -
May 21: Krung Thai Bank-Beijing Guoan -
May 21: Nam Dinh-Kashima Antlers -
1.Kashima Antlers 3 3 0 0 16- 1 9
2.Beijing Guoan 3 2 0 1 7- 4 6
3.Krung Thai Bank 3 1 0 2 12-14 3
4.DPM.Nam Dinh 3 0 0 3 2-18 0
Group G
Mar 12: Melbourne Victory-Chunnam Dragons 2-0
[Kevin Muscat 28pen, Rodrigo Alejandro Vargas 66]
Mar 12: Gamba Osaka-Chonburi FC 1-1
[Lucas Severino 90+4 - Arthit Suntornphit 59]
Mar 19: Chunnam Dragons-Gamba Osaka 3-4
[Victor Simoes De Oliveira 5, Kim Tae-su 29, 61 - Takahiro Futagawa
31, Ryuji Bando 55, 76, Michihiro Yasuda 59]
Mar 19: Chonburi FC-Melbourne Victory 3-1
[Ney Fabiano De Oliveira 45, Baga Jules Yves Stephane 79, 90+5 -
Daniel Allsopp 57]
Apr 9: Chunnam Dragons-Chonburi FC 1-0
Apr 9: Melbourne Victory-Gamba Osaka 3-4
Apr 23: Chonburi FC-Chunnam Dragons -
Apr 23: Gamba Osaka-Melbourne Victory -
May 7: Chunnam Dragons-Melbourne Victory -
May 7: Chonburi FC-Gamba Osaka -
May 21: Melbourne Victory-Chonburi FC -
May 21: Gamba Osaka-Chunnam Dragons -
1.Gamba Osaka 3 2 1 0 9- 7 7
2.Chonburi FC 3 1 1 1 4- 3 4
3.Melbourne Victory 3 1 0 2 6- 7 3
4.Chunnam Dragons (Gwangyang) 3 1 0 2 4- 6 3
NB: holders Urawa Red Diamonds have bye to quarterfinals
NB: competition for so-called 'developing' countries, as per the
the 'Vision Asia' paper of AFC President Mohamed Bin Hammam.
These are excluded from the Champions League.
Compared to 2007, Thailand and Vietnam do not enter any clubs
as their second team was allowed to the Champions League again
following the exclusion of Indonesia; Turkmenistan were relegated
to the Presidents Cup, and the Indian clubs moved to the western
groups; due to this there are only 5 groups as compared to 6 last
season
The 10 eligible countries are:
West Asia (5): Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Yemen
East Asia (5): Hongkong, India, Malaysia, Maldives, Singapore
Group A
Mar 11: Dempo SC-Al-Ansar 3-1
[Ranti Martins Soleye 21, 32, Chidi Edeh 62 - Hassan Danach 89]
Mar 11: Muharraq-Sur 3-2
[Leandson Dias Da Silva 24, Jaycee Okwunwannee 45+2, Abdulla Adnan
Saleh Salman Aldakeel 83 - Khalid Mubarak Zayid Al-Gheilani 35, Jose
Rogerto Antunes Estefane Junior 39]
Mar 18: Sur-Dempo SC 3-2
[Daouda Traore 9, Mamoudou Camara 69, Climax Lawrence og 80 - Ranti
Martins Soleye 26, Roberto Mendes Silva 62]
Mar 18: Al-Ansar-Muharraq 0-0
Apr 2: Al-Ansar-Sur 1-0
[Salih Sader 28]
Apr 2: Dempo SC-Muharraq 0-4
[Rico 8, 31, 49pen, 59]
Apr 16: Sur-Al-Ansar 0-2
Apr 16: Muharraq-Dempo SC 1-2
Apr 30: Al-Ansar-Dempo SC -
Apr 30: Sur-Muharraq -
May 14: Dempo SC-Sur -
May 14: Muharraq-Al-Ansar -
1.Muharraq 4 2 1 1 8- 4 7
2.Al-Ansar (Beirut) 4 2 1 1 4- 3 7
3.Dempo SC (Goa) 4 2 0 2 7- 9 6
4.Sur 4 1 0 3 5- 8 3
Group B
Mar 11: Al-Ahli (Sana'a)-Al-Wahdat 1-1
[Adel Abdullah Ali Al-Salemi 28 - Hasan Abdel-Fattah Hasan Mahmoud 40]
Mar 11: Safa-East Bengal 1-0
[Adel Abdullah Ali Al-Salemi 28 - Hasan Abdel-Fattah Hasan Mahmoud 40]
Mar 18: East Bengal-Al-Ahli (Sana'a) 1-0
[Edmilson Marques 34]
Mar 18: Al-Wahdat-Safa 3-3
[Mahmoud Omar Mahmoud Shelbaieh 51, Hasan Abdel-Fattah Hasan Mahmoud
86, Basem Fathi Imar Othman 90+5 - Prince Bobby 16, Ramez Dayoub 31,
Rony Azar 83]
Apr 2: Al-Wahdat-East Bengal 0-2
[Alvito D'Cunha 58, Ikechukwu Ibe 69]
Apr 2: Al-Ahli (Sana'a)-Safa 0-0
Apr 16: East Bengal-Al-Wahdat 2-4
Apr 16: Safa-Al-Ahli (Sana'a) 1-0
Apr 30: Al-Wahdat-Al-Ahli (Sana'a) -
Apr 30: East Bengal-Safa -
May 14: Al-Ahli (Sana'a)-East Bengal -
May 14: Safa-Al-Wahdat -
1.Safa (Beirut) 4 2 2 0 5- 3 8
2.East Bengal (Calcutta) 4 2 0 2 5- 5 6
3.Al-Wahdat (Amman) 4 1 2 1 8- 8 5
4.Al-Ahli (Sana'a) 4 0 2 2 1- 3 2
Group C
Mar 11: Al-Nahda-Al-Najma 0-0
Mar 11: Shabab Al-Ordon-Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut 1-1
[Odai Yousef Ismail Alsaify 51 - Haytham El Rashied Bakhit Mahadi 38]
Mar 18: Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut-Al-Nahda 3-1
[Munassar Awadh Abdullah Ba Haj 44, 45+1, Murad Omar Ahmed Al-Nohi 51
- Datoma Libambani Yedibahoma 52]
Mar 18: Al-Najma-Shabab Al-Ordon 0-0
Apr 2: Al-Najma-Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut 2-1
[Rashed Jamal 8, Adeeb Ba Karman og 54 - Alaaeldin Aly 67]
Apr 2: Al-Nahda-Shabab Al-Ordon 1-1
[Salim Al Shamsi 26 - Abdulhadi Al Hariri 86]
Apr 16: Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut-Al-Najma 0-0
Apr 16: Shabab Al-Ordon-Al-Nahda 0-1
Apr 30: Al-Najma-Al-Nahda -
Apr 30: Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut-Shabab Al-Ordon -
May 14: Al-Nahda-Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut -
May 14: Shabab Al-Ordon-Al-Najma -
1.Al-Najma (Manama) 4 1 3 0 2- 1 6
2.Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut (Mukalla) 4 1 2 1 5- 4 5
3.Al-Nahda (Oman) 4 1 2 1 3- 4 5
4.Shabab Al-Ordon (Amman) 4 0 3 1 2- 3 3
Group D
Mar 11: South China-Home United 2-3
[Cheng Siu Wai 60, 90 - Peres De Oliveira 17, 40, Shi Jiayi 77]
Mar 11: Kedah-Victory SC 1-0
[Baddrol Bakhtiar 49]
Mar 18: Victory SC-South China 0-0
Mar 18: Home United-Kedah 5-1
[Ludovick Kengne 31, 58, Shahril Ishak 36, Peres De Oliveira 70,
81pen - Shafiq Jamal 12]
Apr 2: Home United-Victory SC 2-1
[Indra Sahdan Daud 37, Peres Oliveira 50 - Ashad Ali 25]
Apr 2: South China-Kedah 1-3
[Cris 59 - Baddrol Bakhtiar 31, Marlon Alex James 65, Samransak Kram 85]
Apr 16: Victory SC-Home United 1-3
Apr 16: Kedah-South China 3-0
Apr 30: Home United-South China -
Apr 30: Victory SC-Kedah -
May 14: South China-Victory SC -
May 14: Kedah-Home United -
1.Home United (Singapore) 4 4 0 0 13- 5 12
2.Kedah (Alor Star) 4 3 0 1 8- 6 9
3.Victory SC (Malé) 4 0 1 3 2- 6 1
4.South China (Hongkong) 4 0 1 3 3- 9 1
Group E
Mar 11: New Radiant-Perak 1-3
[Daniel Mbock 8 - Carlos Caceres 9, 17, Khalid Jamlus 38]
Mar 11: Singapore Armed Forces-Kitchee 4-0
[Jamil Ali 12, Therdsak Chaiman 25, Aleksandar Duric 37, Wang
Zhenpeng og 51]
Mar 18: Kitchee-New Radiant 2-0
[Wilfred Ndzedzeni Bamnjo 11, Goran Stankovski 36]
Mar 18: Perak-Singapore Armed Forces 1-6
[Mario Berrios 45+2pen - Therdsak Chaiman 8, Aleksandar Duric 45, 49,
71, 74, Mustaqim Manzur Ahmed Khan 58]
Apr 2: Perak-Kitchee 2-1
[Hardi Jaafar 11, Mario Berrios 90+2 - Goran Stankovski 73]
Apr 2: New Radiant-Singapore Armed Forces 0-3
[Ashrin Shariff 7, Aleksandar Duric 44, Ibrahim Amil og 86]
Apr 16: Kitchee-Perak 2-2
Apr 16: Singapore Armed Forces-New Radiant 1-1
Apr 30: Perak-New Radiant -
Apr 30: Kitchee-Singapore Armed Forces -
May 14: New Radiant-Kitchee -
May 14: Singapore Armed Forces-Perak -
1.Singapore Armed Forces 4 3 1 0 14- 2 10
2.Perak (Ipoh) 4 2 1 1 8-10 7
3.Kitchee (Hongkong) 4 1 1 2 5- 8 4
4.New Radiant (Malé) 4 0 1 3 2- 9 1
Participating countries (11): Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan,
Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,
Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
NB: the following 11 AFC members do not enter any continental club
competition 2008: Afghanistan, Brunei, East Timor, Guam, Indonesia,
Laos, Macao, Mongolia, North Korea, Palestine, Philippines.
Group A (scheduled for Dashrath Stadium, Kathmandu, Nepal; Nepal
renounced on the organisation due to political unrest)
Apr 20: Nepal Police Club-Abahani -
Apr 20: Regar-TadAZ Tursunzade-Pakistan Army -
Apr 22: Nepal Police Club-Pakistan Army -
Apr 22: Regar-TadAZ Tursunzade-Abahani -
Apr 24: Pakistan Army-Abahani -
Apr 24: Nepal Police Club-Regar-TadAZ -
NB: the originally published schedule above had Pakistan Army as
Pakistan representatives; they have meanwhile been replaced
by 2007/08 champions WAPDA but no new fixtures (or venue) have
been published yet
1.Abahani Ltd. (Dhaka) 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0
2.Nepal Police Club (Kathmandu) 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0
3.Regar-TadAZ Tursunzade 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0
4.WAPDA (Lahore) 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0
x Nepal Police Club is the new name for 2006/07 champions Mahendra
Police Club (no league was held 2007/08)
Group B (at Chungshan Stadium, Taipeh, Taiwan)
Apr 12: Tai Power Company-Nagacorp 2-2
Apr 14: Tai Power Company-Dordoy-Dinamo Naryn 0-3
Apr 16: Dordoy-Dinamo Naryn-Nagacorp 2-0
1.Dordoy-Dinamo Naryn 2 2 0 0 5- 0 6
2.Nagacorp (Cambodia) 2 0 1 1 2- 4 1
3.Tai Power Company (Taiwan) 2 0 1 1 2- 5 1
Group C (at Sugathadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Apr 23: FK Asgabat-Kanbawza -
Apr 23: Ratnam SC-Transport United -
Apr 25: Transport United-FK Asgabat -
Apr 25: Ratnam SC-Kanbawza -
Apr 27: Kanbawza-Transport United -
Apr 27: Ratnam SC-FK Asgabat -
1.FK Asgabat 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0
2.Kanbawza (Myanmar) 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0
3.Ratnam SC (Colombo) 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0
4.Transport United (Bhutan) 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0
NB: 3 group winners and best runners-up advance to knock-out
stage, scheduled for Sep 19-21, 2008, at venue tba.
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