AFC Champions League
| AFC Champions League | |
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| Association | AFC |
| First edition |
1967 (as Asian Champion Club Tournament ) |
| Teams | 32 (group stage) |
| Title holder |
 al-Hilal(3rd title) |
| Record winner |
 Pohang Steelers al-Hilal (3 wins each)
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| Record player |
 Huang Bowen (80 games)
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| Record scorer |
 Dejan Damjanović Lee Dong-gook (36 goals each)
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| Current season | 2020 |
| Website | www.the-afc.com |
| Qualification for |
FIFA Club World Cup Super Cup (1995-2002) |
The AFC Champions League , also known as Asian Champions League called, is a competition for Asian football - club teams , that of the Asian Football Confederation is organized (AFC). As part of the annual Asian Cup before the AFC Cup, it is the more important of the two competitions. In contrast to the European Champions League , not all AFC member associations are eligible to participate in the Asian.
Initially known as the Asian Champion Club Tournament from 1967 to 1971 and then the Asian Club Championship from 1985 to 2002 , the competition has been played as the AFC Champions League in its current form since 2003 , including the national cup winners .
Record winners of this competition are the South Korean club Pohang Steelers and the Saudi Arabian club al-Hilal , each with three titles. With a total of eleven wins, South Korea is ahead of the competition. Japan (7) and Saudi Arabia (5) follow in second and third place . The current defending champion in the 2020 season is the Saudi Arabian club al-Hilal.
Winning the Champions League qualifies the team in question to represent the AFC for participation in the FIFA Club World Cup .
history
| season | Winner of the Asian Champions Club Tournament |
|---|---|
| 1967 | Hapoel Tel Aviv |
| 1969 | Maccabi Tel Aviv |
| 1970 | Taj Club |
| 1971 | Maccabi Tel Aviv |
| season | Asian Club Championship winner |
| 1985/86 | Daewoo Royals |
| 1986 | Furukawa Electric SC |
| 1987 | Yomiuri FC |
| 1988/89 | al-Sadd SC |
| 1989/90 | Liaoning Hongyun |
| 1990/91 | Esteghlal Tehran |
| 1991 | al-Hilal |
| 1992/93 | PAS Tehran FC |
| 1993/94 | Thai Farmers Bank FC |
| 1994/95 | Thai Farmers Bank FC |
| 1995 | Ilhwa Chunma |
| 1996/97 | Pohang Steelers |
| 1997/98 | Pohang Steelers |
| 1998/99 | Júbilo Iwata |
| 1999/2000 | al-Hilal |
| 2000/01 | Suwon Samsung Bluewings |
| 2001/02 | Suwon Samsung Bluewings |
| season | AFC Champions League winner |
| 2002/03 | al Ain Club |
| 2004 | Ittihad FC |
| 2005 | Ittihad FC |
| 2006 | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors |
| 2007 | Urawa Red Diamonds |
| 2008 | Gamba Osaka |
| 2009 | Pohang Steelers |
| 2010 | Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma |
| 2011 | al-Sadd SC |
| 2012 | Ulsan Hyundai |
| 2013 | Guangzhou Evergrande |
| 2014 | Western Sydney Wanderers |
| 2015 | Guangzhou Evergrande |
| 2016 | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors |
| 2017 | Urawa Red Diamonds |
| 2018 | Kashima Antlers |
| 2019 | al-Hilal |
| 2020 |
1967 to 1972 - beginnings and rapid decline
The first season of the competition took place in 1967 under the name Asian Champion Club Tournament . Masters from eight countries were to take part: Hong Kong , India , Iran , Israel , Malaysia , South Korea , South Vietnam and Thailand . Before the start, however, the teams from India and Iran withdrew. The competition finally started in May 1967 in the knockout system with the six teams Bangkok Bank FC , Daehan Tungsten FC , Hapoel Tel Aviv , Selangor FA , South China AA and Vietnam Customs . In the final on December 19, 1967 , the Israeli representative Hapoel Tel Aviv defeated the Malaysian representative Selangor FA 2-1 and thus became the first team to win the cup.
After the competition did not take place in 1968, the format was changed for the 1969 season . For example, the game was played in a group stage at a fixed venue before it continued in the knockout system. For the first time, a game for third place took place in addition to the final. The first four events were dominated by Israeli clubs, which won three titles in four finals. The last final in 1971 between Maccabi Tel Aviv and al-Shorta did not take place because the Iraqis refused to play against Israel, so Maccabi was named the winner.
In 1972 the competition was discontinued for the second time. The reasons lay in the low interest of the clubs to participate. At that time, soccer in Asia was still in its "infancy" and the clubs rarely had the money to travel long distances. In addition, international conflicts such as the non-recognition of Israel by the Arab world (as a result of which the Israel Football Association was excluded from the AFC) or the Cold War divided the continent.
1985 to 2002 - revival under new names
It took 14 years for the AFC to hold a similar competition again. In the fall of 1985, qualifying games for the now called Asian Club Championship competition took place for the first time . Participation was again limited to the respective national champions. The final round was held the following January. In the final, the South Korean club Daewoo Royals (now Busan IPark ) beat al-Ahli from Saudi Arabia with 3-1 in extra time . In the next two seasons, clubs from Japan dominated , with the 1986 final only consisting of four teams and being played in a round robin format , while in 1987 the Saudi Arabian final opponent al-Hilal did not play. In the years that followed, there were always clubs that withdrew from the competition for financial or other reasons or did not even take part.
From 1985 the format of the competition was changed several times. An important innovation from the 1993/94 season was the division of the teams according to geographic affiliation ( West or East Asia ), sometimes up to the quarter-finals. As early as the 1990/91 season, the AFC introduced the Asian Cup Winners' Cup , in which the respective national cup winners took part. The winners of both competitions then played the Super Cup from 1995 .
From 1988 to 1995 the titles were distributed fairly evenly among Qatar , South Korea, Iran, Japan, China , Thailand and Saudi Arabia. The Thai Farmers Bank FC could defend 1994/95 first club his title from last season. From the mid-1990s until the competition was renamed for the 2002/03 season, South Korean clubs won five titles in seven years. The Pohang Steelers (1996/97 and 1997/98) and Suwon Samsung Bluewings (2000/01 and 2001/02) each in a row.
2003 to 2013 - renamed the Champions League
At the end of the 2001/02 season, the Asian Cup Winners' Cup (and thus also the Super Cup) was merged with the Asian Club Championship based on the model of the UEFA Champions League to form the AFC Champions League. With the renaming, a major redesign of the competition followed. More clubs took part in the competition than before, and several clubs from one country were allowed. The division of teams according to geographical affiliation (West or East Asia), which had already been introduced for the 1993/94 season, continued to exist. The tournament was initially played in four groups of four participants before the semi-finals and the final followed. The al Ain Club from the United Arab Emirates won the first edition of the AFC Champions League in the final against the Thai club BEC-Tero Sasana 2-0.
With the introduction of the AFC Cup in the 2004 season and the AFC President's Cup in the 2005 season, the AFC followed its Vision Asia plan , which sought to take account of the enormous development differences within the continent and to prevent the association from disintegrating into different spheres of interest. From then on, the Champions League was only reserved for the “strongest” associations.
From 2004 the schedule was set to run from February / March to November / December. Other changes were the abolition of the qualifying rounds and the introduction of a permanent qualification place in the quarter-finals (the remaining places were given to the seven group winners) for the defending champion. Ittihad FC from Saudi Arabia was the only club that was able to use this advantage to win another title in 2005 after having won the cup the previous year.
With the 2009 season , the competition was again significantly changed. As with UEFA , the individual associations were evaluated according to various criteria and assessed according to a point system. In addition, the qualifying rounds were played out again, as was a round of 16 introduced. The defending champion lost his fixed qualification position, but the two finalists of last year's AFC Cup were given the right to qualify for the Champions League if they fulfilled the license requirements.
From 2006 onwards, East Asian clubs dominated, with four South Korean, two Japanese and one Chinese clubs winning in eight years. The remaining profit was won by the al-Sadd SC from Qatar in 2011.
Since 2014 - introduction of a four-year rating and increased number of participants
At the end of 2014, the AFC President's Cup was abolished, which increased the number of participants in the other two competitions. The 24 “strongest” associations are now eligible to participate in the Champions League, while the rest of them play for the AFC Cup. At the same time, the AFC expanded its initial rating system into the AFC four-year rating (comparable to the UEFA five-year rating), which consists of an association rating and a club rating. In 2014, with the Western Sydney Wanderers from Australia , an association based outside of Asia was able to prevail for the first time .
From 2021 the Champions League will be increased from 32 to 40 teams, adding one group of four in the western region and one in the eastern region.
Participating teams
The 24 “strongest” associations of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) are eligible to participate . Divided into the western and eastern regions (which also includes Australia), the associations are each entitled to twelve direct starting places in the group stage. Four more will be decided by qualification in each region.
The direct starting positions are shared by the top six associations in the western and eastern regions, while the others start in the qualification. Associations in 1st and 2nd place each receive three direct and one qualifying place. The third and fourth placed association each have two direct and two qualification places. The fifth strongest association receives one direct and two qualification places, the sixth strongest one direct and one qualification place and the associations in places seven to twelve each have one qualification place.
The maximum number of starting places is a third of the total number of clubs in the first division, so Australia only receives a maximum of three places, as only nine Australian clubs currently play in the A-League .
Finances
In the 2015 season , every club that traveled to an away game received financial support. This was for the play-off round at 20,000 US dollars , for the group stage at 34,200 dollars, for the quarter-finals and semifinals at 30,000 dollars each and for the final at 60,000 dollars.
A win in the group stage was rewarded with $ 40,000 and a tie with $ 20,000. The clubs were each paid out for reaching the respective final round: Round of 16, $ 50,000 in the round of 16, $ 80,000 in the quarter-finals and $ 120,000 in the semi-finals. The cup winner received $ 1.5 million, the defeated finalist had to be content with $ 750,000. At best, a club could earn $ 1.99 million in bonuses.
The fees were increased for the 2016 season . For reaching the round of 16, $ 80,000 was paid out, for the quarter-finals $ 120,000 and for the semifinals $ 200,000. The prize money for the cup winner and the defeated finalist was doubled, and amounted to 3 and 1.5 million dollars, respectively. The total amount of possible rewards rose to almost $ 3.65 million.
For comparison: In the 2014/15 season, the winner of the UEFA Europa League won up to 9.9 million euros and the winner of the Champions League up to 37.4 million euros.
statistics
Leaderboards
After clubs
In the history of the AFC Champions League, 24 different clubs have won the title. The most successful were Pohang Steelers and al-Hilal , who could each win three finals. Twelve clubs triumphed when they participated for the first time : Hapoel Tel Aviv (1967 when the first took place), Maccabi Tel Aviv (1969), Esteghlal Tehran (1970), Busan IPark (1985/86), JEF United Ichihara Chiba (1986), Yomiuri FC (1987), al-Sadd SC (1988/89), PAS Tehran FC (1992/93), Pohang Steelers (1996/97), Júbilo Iwata (1999), Urawa Red Diamonds (2007) and Western Sydney Wanderers (2014) .
So far, four clubs ( Thai Farmers Bank FC , Pohang Steelers , Suwon Samsung Bluewings and Ittihad FC ) have been able to defend their title from the previous year.
Remarks
By country
So far, clubs from ten countries have won the competition. With a total of eleven successes, the clubs from South Korea lead this ranking well ahead of the Japanese clubs in second place with seven titles. In third place are Saudi Arabian clubs with five titles, followed by clubs from Iran, China and Israel with three titles each.
Most of the finals, namely 17, came from South Korean clubs.
| rank | country | title | Clubs (italics: only finalists) | final | Quota |
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| 1 |
South Korea
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11 |
Pohang Steelers, Seongnam FC, Suwon Samsung Bluewings, Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, Busan IPark, Ulsan Hyundai Yangzee FC, FC Seoul |
17th | 65% |
| 2 |
 Japan
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7th |
Júbilo Iwata, Gamba Osaka, JEF United Ichihara Chiba, Tokyo Verdy, Urawa Red Diamonds, Kashima Antlers Yokohama F. Marinos |
11 | 63% |
| 3 |
Saudi Arabia
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5 |
al-Hilal, Ittihad FC al-Ahli, al-Shabab, al-Nasr |
14th | 35% |
| 4th |
 Iran
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3 |
Esteghlal Tehran, PAS Tehran FC Sepahan FC, Zob Ahan Isfahan, Persepolis Tehran |
8th | 38% |
| 5 |
China
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3 |
Liaoning Hongyun, Guangzhou Evergrande Dalian Shide |
5 | 60% |
| 6th |
 Israel
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3 | Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Tel Aviv | 4th | 75% |
| 7th |
 Qatar
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2 |
al-Sadd SC al-Arabi |
3 | 66% |
 Thailand
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2 |
FC Thai Farmers Bank BEC-Tero Sasana |
3 | 66% | |
| 9 |
 Ver. Arab. Emirates
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1 |
al Ain Club al-Ahli Dubai |
4th | 25% |
| 10 |
 Australia
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1 |
Western Sydney Wanderers Adelaide United |
2 | 50% |
| 11 |
 Iraq
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al-Shorta SC, al-Rasheed SC | 2 | 0% | |
| 12 |
 Malaysia
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Selangor FA | 1 | 0% | |
 Oman
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Oman Club | 1 | 0% | ||
 Syria
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al-Karama | 1 | 0% |
Record player
Leading the list of record players is the Chinese Huang Bowen with 91 appearances. Behind him are fellow countrymen Gao Lin with 80 and Feng Xiaoting with 77 and South Korean Lee Dong-gook with 74 games. Other players with over 70 appearances are the Saudi Arabian Mohammad asch-Schalhub and the two Chinese Zhang Linpeng and Zheng Zhi .
The following table lists all players with at least 65 appearances, whereby only appearances since the renaming of the competition to AFC Champions League for the 2002/03 season are taken into account.
| rank | Nat | player | Games | from | to |
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| 1 |
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Huang Bowen | 91 | 2008 | -active- |
| 2 |
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Gao Lin | 80 | 2006 | -active- |
| 3 |
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Feng Xiaoting | 77 | 2010 | -active- |
| 4th |
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Lee Dong-gook | 74 | 2010 | -active- |
| 5 |
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Mohammad asch-Schalhub | 72 | 2009 | -active- |
| 6th |
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Zhang Linpeng | 71 | 2012 | -active- |
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Zheng Zhi | 71 | 2012 | -active- | |
| 8th |
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Zeng Cheng | 69 | 2010 | -active- |
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Abdullah al-Zori | 69 | 2010 | 2018 | |
| 10 |
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Shinzō Kōroki | 67 | 2008 | -active- |
| 11 |
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Nawaf al-Abed | 66 | 2010 | -active- |
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Dejan Damjanović | 66 | 2009 | 2018 | |
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Ignatiy Nesterov | 66 | 2008 | 2018 | |
| 14th |
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Salem al-Dawsari | 65 | 2012 | -active- |
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Elkeson | 65 | 2013 | -active- | |
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Salman al-Faraj | 65 | 2010 | -active- | |
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Kwoun Sun-tae | 65 | 2010 | -active- | |
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Yasser al-Shahrani | 65 | 2012 | -active- | |
| Status: end of the 2019 season | |||||
Record goal scorers
Leading the list of all-time top scorers is South Korean Lee Dong-gook with 37 goals ahead of Montenegrin Dejan Damjanović with 36. Behind the two follow the Brazilian Elkeson and the Saudi Arabian Nasser al-Shamrani with 29 goals each. With a rate of 1.06 goals per game, the Brazilian Adriano has the top score among the most successful goalscorers.
The following table lists all players with at least 18 goals, only taking into account goals since the competition was renamed AFC Champions League for the 2002/03 season.
| rank | Nat | player | Gates | Games | Quota | from | to |
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| 1 |
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Lee Dong-gook | 37 | 74 | 0.50 | 2010 | -active- |
| 2 |
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Dejan Damjanović | 36 | 66 | 0.55 | 2009 | 2018 |
| 3 |
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Nasser al-Shamrani | 29 | 53 | 0.55 | 2009 | 2017 |
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Elkeson | 29 | 65 | 0.45 | 2013 | -active- | |
| 5 |
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Shinzō Kōroki | 26th | 67 | 0.38 | 2008 | -active- |
| 6th |
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Ricardo Goulart | 25th | 38 | 0.66 | 2015 | 2018 |
| 7th |
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Kim Shin-wook | 21st | 50 | 0.42 | 2009 | -active- |
| 8th |
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Youssef El-Arabi | 20th | 25th | 0.80 | 2012 | -active- |
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Leandro | 20th | 29 | 0.69 | 2009 | 2015 | |
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Asamoah Gyan | 20th | 32 | 0.63 | 2013 | 2017 | |
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Muriqui | 20th | 40 | 0.50 | 2012 | 2017 | |
| 9 |
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Adriano | 19th | 18th | 1.06 | 2016 | -active- |
| 10 |
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Omar al-Somah | 18th | 24 | 0.75 | 2015 | -active- |
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Hulk | 18th | 26th | 0.69 | 2016 | -active- | |
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Romarinho | 18th | 30th | 0.60 | 2016 | -active- | |
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Eninho | 18th | 38 | 0.47 | 2010 | 2015 | |
| Status: end of the 2019 season | |||||||
Top scorer
The Chinese Hao Haidong was the first top scorer in the AFC Champions League with nine goals in the 2002/03 season. The Brazilians Muriqui (2013) and Adriano (2016) as well as the Algerian Baghdad Bounedjah (2018) hold the record of 13 goals in one season . Altogether there are eight Brazilians among the previous 16 top scorer. So far no player has been twice top scorer.
The top scorer came from the winning team four times and the top scorer was named “best player” of the competition four times in the same season.
| year | Nat | player | society | Gates |
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| 2002/03 |
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Hao Haidong | Dalian Shide | 9 |
| 2004 |
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Kim Do-hoon | Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma | 9 |
| 2005 |
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Mohammed Kallon | Ittihad FC | 6th |
| 2006 |
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Magno Alves | Gamba Osaka | 9 |
| 2007 |
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Mota | Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma | 7th |
| 2008 |
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Nantawat Thansopa | FC Krung Thai Bank | 9 |
| 2009 |
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Leandro | Gamba Osaka | 10 |
| 2010 |
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José Mota | Suwon Samsung Bluewings | 9 |
| 2011 |
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Lee Dong-gook | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors | 9 |
| 2012 |
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Ricardo Oliveira | al-Jazira Club | 12 |
| 2013 |
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Muriqui | Guangzhou Evergrande | 13 |
| 2014 |
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Asamoah Gyan | al Ain Club | 12 |
| 2015 |
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Ricardo Goulart | Guangzhou Evergrande | 8th |
| 2016 |
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Adriano | FC Seoul | 13 |
| 2017 |
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Omar Khribin | al-Hilal | 10 |
| 2018 |
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Baghdad Bounedjah | al-Sadd SC | 13 |
| 2019 |
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Bafétimbi Gomis | al-Hilal | 11 |
| Winner of the MVP award winning team record mark | ||||
Best player and fair play award
Since the 2007 season, the MVP Award has been given to the “best player” in the competition at the end of each season . Japanese players have already won it four times, followed by South Koreans with three and Australian and Brazilian players with two wins each. With the exception of the 2011 and 2016 seasons, the MVP player always came from the winning team.
The Fair Play Award has also been presented since 2008 . There are clubs from South Korea leading with five wins.
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Highest victories
Only matches since the competition was renamed the AFC Champions League for the 2002/03 season are taken into account .
| round | season | winner | Result | loser |
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| Qualification 1 | 2016 | FC Tokyo | 9-0 | Chonburi FC |
| Group stage | 2004 | Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma | 15: 0 | Persik Kediri |
| 2006 | Gamba Osaka | 15: 0 | Đà Nẵng | |
| Round of 16 2 | 2009 | Pohang Steelers | 6-0 | Newcastle Jets |
| 2012 | al-Hilal | 7: 1 | Baniyas SC | |
| Quarter finals 3 | 2004 | Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma | 6-0 | Sharjah FC |
| 2006 | Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i | 6-0 | al-Shabab | |
| Semifinals | 2005 | al Ain Club | 6-0 | Shenzhen Jianlibao |
| final | 2004 | Ittihad FC | 5-0 | Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma |
Remarks
Eternal table
The column Ø points shows the average number of points gained per game. The following two name the number of titles won or finals. The third column shows the national association in which the club is currently playing. The fourth column shows how many seasons the club has played in the AFC Champions League.
| Pl. | society | country | Years | Sp. | S. | U | N | T + | T- | Diff. | Points | Ø pt. | title | final | First participant | Last participants |
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| 1. | al-Hilal |
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14th | 115 | 51 | 35 | 29 | 178 | 120 | +58 | 188 | 1.63 | 0 | 2 | 2003 | 2018 |
| 2. | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors |
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11 | 101 | 53 | 17th | 31 | 208 | 127 | +81 | 176 | 1.74 | 2 | 3 | 2003 | 2018 |
| 3. | al Ain Club |
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13 | 105 | 44 | 32 | 29 | 164 | 131 | +33 | 164 | 1.56 | 1 | 3 | 2003 | 2018 |
| 4th | Ittihad FC |
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10 | 82 | 44 | 18th | 20th | 156 | 83 | +73 | 150 | 1.83 | 2 | 3 | 2004 | 2016 |
| 5. | Guangzhou Evergrande |
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7th | 71 | 35 | 21st | 15th | 134 | 75 | +59 | 126 | 1.77 | 2 | 2 | 2012 | 2018 |
| 6th | Sepahan FC |
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11 | 78 | 35 | 16 | 27 | 114 | 95 | +19 | 121 | 1.55 | 0 | 1 | 2003 | 2016 |
| 7th | Paxtakor Tashkent |
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13 | 81 | 35 | 16 | 30th | 109 | 105 | +4 | 121 | 1.49 | 0 | 0 | 2003 | 2016 |
| 8th. | al-Ahli |
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9 | 74 | 33 | 21st | 20th | 128 | 88 | +40 | 120 | 1.62 | 0 | 1 | 2005 | 2018 |
| 9. | Suwon Samsung Bluewings |
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9 | 71 | 33 | 20th | 18th | 119 | 76 | +43 | 119 | 1.68 | 0 | 0 | 2005 | 2018 |
| 10. | al-Sadd SC |
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11 | 86 | 30th | 24 | 32 | 109 | 100 | +9 | 114 | 1.33 | 1 | 1 | 2003 | 2018 |
| 11. | al-Shabab |
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9 | 67 | 33 | 12 | 22nd | 90 | 76 | +14 | 111 | 1.66 | 0 | 0 | 2004 | 2015 |
| 12. | FC Seoul |
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7th | 70 | 29 | 22nd | 19th | 114 | 88 | +26 | 109 | 1.56 | 0 | 1 | 2009 | 2017 |
| 15th | Kashima Antlers |
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8th | 60 | 32 | 12 | 16 | 125 | 64 | +61 | 108 | 1.8 | 1 | 1 | 2003 | 2018 |
| 13. | Gamba Osaka |
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9 | 69 | 31 | 14th | 24 | 132 | 90 | +42 | 107 | 1.55 | 1 | 1 | 2006 | 2017 |
| 14th | Seongnam FC |
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6th | 52 | 32 | 9 | 11 | 117 | 55 | +62 | 105 | 2.02 | 1 | 2 | 2003 | 2015 |
| 16. | al-Duhail SC |
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7th | 58 | 29 | 13 | 16 | 89 | 75 | +14 | 100 | 1.72 | 0 | 0 | 2012 | 2018 |
| 17th | Esteghlal Tehran |
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9 | 65 | 26th | 20th | 19th | 95 | 80 | +15 | 98 | 1.51 | 0 | 0 | 2003 | 2018 |
| 18th | Bunyodkor Tashkent |
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10 | 78 | 25th | 21st | 32 | 86 | 103 | −17 | 96 | 1.23 | 0 | 0 | 2008 | 2017 |
| 19th | Pohang Steelers |
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7th | 55 | 23 | 18th | 14th | 68 | 48 | +20 | 87 | 1.58 | 1 | 1 | 2008 | 2016 |
| 20th | Persepolis Tehran |
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7th | 55 | 24 | 14th | 17th | 72 | 67 | +5 | 86 | 1.56 | 0 | 1 | 2003 | 2018 |
| Status: After the final of the 2018 season | ||||||||||||||||
Web links
- Official website of the AFC Champions League
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Israel Football Association was a member of the AFC from 1956 to 1974
- ^ AFC to invest in the new era of national team and club competitions . In: The-AFC.com . October 26, 2019. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
- ↑ AFC Champions League slots allocated for 2015-2016 . In: The-AFC.com . December 4, 2014. Archived from the original on December 9, 2014. Retrieved March 30, 2015.
- ↑ a b AFC Champions League 2015 Competition Regulations (PDF) In: The-AFC.com . 72. Archived from the original on December 15, 2014. Retrieved March 30, 2015.
- ↑ AFC reveals details of increased club competition prize money . In: The-AFC.com . December 10, 2015. Accessed December 10, 2015.
- ↑ Details of the income distribution . In: UEFA.com . September 15, 2014. Accessed March 30, 2015.
- ↑ Champions League: Distribution key 2014/15 . In: UEFA.com . September 15, 2014. Accessed March 30, 2015.
- ↑ The information on world football is not complete. Older data (before 2008) are taken from an archive version ( Memento of May 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) of the previous official website.
- ↑ Record player . In: Weltfussball.de . Retrieved November 24, 2019.
- ↑ Record scorer . In: Weltfussball.de . Retrieved November 24, 2019.