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
2000
2002

Participants

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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

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Zone 1 (Gulf Area)

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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)

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

Zone 3 (North Africa)

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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)

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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  1–0  Hutteen
Referee: Mohamed Risha (Egypt)

Al-Faisaly and Hutteen advanced to the final tournament.

Final tournament

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Venues

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Doha
Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium
Capacity: 18,000
 

Group stage

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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

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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'

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'

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

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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

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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

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Al Sadd SC  5–1  Al Rayyan SC
El Moubarki   14', 18'
Bagheri   43' (pen.)
Khalifa   52'
F. Al-Kuwari   52'
B. Abdullah   59'

Final

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Al Sadd SC  3–1  MC Oran
Khalifa   25', 53'
Utaka   82'
Haddou   61' (pen.)
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Mahmoud Abbas (Syria)

Winners

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2001 Arab Club Champions Cup
 
Al Sadd SC
First title

References

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  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.
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