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2001 Arab Club Champions Cup

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.

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
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2002 →

Participants edit

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

Preliminary stage edit

Zone 1 (Gulf Area) edit

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

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Al-Ain 5 4 0 1 6 4 +2 12
  Al-Ittihad Jeddah 5 3 1 1 10 1 +9 10
  Dhofar 5 3 1 1 6 3 +3 10
  Al-Salmiya 5 1 2 2 5 6 −1 5
  Al-Ittihad Doha 5 1 1 3 6 7 −1 4
  West Riffa 5 0 1 4 5 17 −12 1
Source: [citation needed]
Al-Ain  2–1  West Riffa
  • Khater   53'
  • Johar   86'
Al-Ittihad Jeddah  0–1  Al-Salmiya
Dhofar  2–0  Al-Ittihad Doha
Al-Ain  2–1  Al-Salmiya
West Riffa  1–4  Al-Ittihad Doha
Al-Ittihad Jeddah  0–0  Dhofar
Al-Ain  1–0  Al-Ittihad Doha
Al-Salmiya  1–0  Dhofar
West Riffa  0–7  Al-Ittihad Jeddah
Al-Salmiya  1–1  West Riffa
Al-Ittihad Doha  0–1  Al-Ittihad Jeddah
Al-Ain  1–0  Dhofar
Al-Ittihad Doha  2–2  Al-Ittihad Jeddah
Dhofar  3–2  West Riffa
Al-Ain  0–2  Al-Ittihad Jeddah

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

Zone 2 (Red Sea) edit

The qualifying tournament took place in Jeddah.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Al-Ahli Jeddah 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Al-Ahli Sana'a' 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Al-Merrikh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: [citation needed]
Al-Ahli Jeddah  1–0  Al-Merrikh
Al-Jahani   15'
Al-Merrikh  2–2  Al-Ahli Sana'a'
  •   
Al-Ahli Jeddah  2–1  Al-Ahli Sana'a'
Valle   28', 84'

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

Zone 3 (North Africa) edit

First Round
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
MAS Fez   4–4   Al-Ahli Tripoli 4–2 0–2
ASC Mauritel   –   MC Oran – –
MAS Fez  4-2  Al-Ahli Tripoli
Stade Hassan II, Fes
Al-Ahli Tripoli  2–0  MAS Fez
Tripoli Stadium, Tripoli
Second Round
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Al-Ahli Tripoli   w/o   MC Oran — —

MC Oran advanced to the final tournament.

Zone 4 (East Region) edit

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
  Al-Faisaly 2 2 0 0 6 0 +6 6
  Hutteen 2 1 0 1 6 2 +4 3
  Hilal Al-Quds 2 0 0 2 2 11 −9 0
  Nejmeh (D) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: [citation needed]
(D) Disqualified
Al-Faisaly  5–0  Hilal Al-Quds
Hutteen  6–2  Hilal Al-Quds
Al-Faisaly  1–0  Hutteen
Referee: Mohamed Risha (Egypt)

Al-Faisaly and Hutteen advanced to the final tournament.

Final tournament edit

Venues edit

Doha
Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium
Capacity: 18,000
 

Group stage edit

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 edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Al Sadd SC 3 2 0 1 14 3 +11 6
  MC Oran 3 2 0 1 5 7 −2 6
  Al-Ahli Sana'a 3 1 1 1 3 5 −2 4
  Hutteen SC 3 0 1 2 2 9 −7 1
Source: [citation needed]
Al-Ahli Sana'a  2–1  Al Sadd SC
Ahmed   67', 76' Bagheri   90'
Hutteen SC  0–2  MC Oran
Zerrouki   7'
El-Aouni   52'
Al-Ahli Sana'a  0–3  MC Oran
Benzerga   28'
El-Aouni   42', 58'
Hutteen SC  1–6  Al Sadd SC
Jablawi   35' Bagheri   10', 45'
Mahmood   25'
El Moubarki   28'
Utaka   39'
J. Al-Kuwari   79'
Al-Ahli Sana'a  1–1  Hutteen SC
Al-Barek   85' Shuman   90+2'
MC Oran  0–7  Al Sadd SC
Khalifa   12'
El Moubarki   28', 32', 73'
Utaka   44'
F. Al-Kuwari   89'
Bagheri   90+3'

Group B edit

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
  Al-Ahli SC 2 1 1 0 7 2 +5 4
  Al Rayyan SC 2 1 0 1 5 6 −1 3
  CS Sfaxien 2 0 1 1 3 7 −4 1
  Al-Faisaly SC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: [citation needed]
Al Rayyan SC  0–5  Al-Ahli SC
Gahwji   8', 87'
Al-Dosari   10'
Al-Shahri   56'
Suwayed   89' (pen.)
CS Sfaxien  2–2  Al-Faisaly SC
Ben Younes   43'
Ben Khaled   81'		 Salim   7'
Al-Sheikh   74'
Referee: Abdullah Salem (Libya)
CS Sfaxien  2–2  Al-Ahli SC
N'Diaye   53'
Ben Younes   80' (pen.)		 Fallatah   3'
Al-Gizani   13'
Al Rayyan SC  5–1  CS Sfaxien
B. Abdullah   6', 81', 90'
Al-Huwaidi   9', 46'		 Trabelsi   67'

Knock-out stage edit

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

Semifinals edit

Al Sadd SC  5–1  Al Rayyan SC
El Moubarki   14', 18'
Bagheri   43' (pen.)
Khalifa   52'
F. Al-Kuwari   52'		 B. Abdullah   59'
Al-Ahli SC  2–2 (a.e.t.)  MC Oran
Gahwji   29'
Al-Khazami   77'		 B. Daoud   5'
Haddou   58'
Penalties
Al-Dosari  
Al-Khazami  
Al-Shehri  
Al-Zahrani  		 3–5   Haddou
  Gaïd
  Laouni
  Zerrouki
  Acimi

Final edit

Main article: 2001 Arab Club Champions Cup Final
Al Sadd SC  3–1  MC Oran
Khalifa   25', 53'
Utaka   82'		 Haddou   61' (pen.)
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Mahmoud Abbas (Syria)

Winners edit

2001 Arab Club Champions Cup
 
Al Sadd SC
First title

References edit

  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.

External links edit

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