The GCC Champions League (Gulf Cooperation Council Champions League) , known until 2010 under the name Gulf Cup for Clubs , German Golf Club Cup , has been a football competition for club teams of the six Arab members of the Golf Cooperation Council ( Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf or Gulf Cooperation Council - GCC ) - Bahrain , Qatar , Kuwait , Oman , Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - organized by the Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA) .
The best teams in the national championship were eligible to participate. Mostly it was played in a simple league round, most recently in tournament form with group and knockout phases. Until the introduction of the AFC Champions League , the competition also regularly served as a qualification for its predecessor, the Asian Cup of National Champions and the Arab Club Champions Cup . Combined with a fixed contingent of starting places for the AFC Champions League also for some of the participating Gulf states, the importance of the competition decreased significantly, so that recently not all of the best-placed teams from the participating countries started. After one event in 2016 and 2017 failed completely, the competition was discontinued. The GCC Champions League was the club-level equivalent of the golf cup for national teams, but without participants from Iraq and Yemen .
al Shabab (United Arab Emirates) (3rd title)
al-Ahli al-Ettifaq al Shabab (United Arab Emirates) (3 wins each)
Al-Arabi (Kuwait)
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Al-Riffa SC
Al-Arabi
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Fanja
Dhofar
Al-Muharraq