2001 Arab Club Champions Cup

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

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.

Participants

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Participants
Zone Team Qualifying method
Qatar Al-Sadd Hosts
Tunisia CS Sfaxien Holders
Zone 1 Qatar Al-Rayyan SC Replaced Al-Ain FC
Zone 2 Saudi Arabia Al-Ahli Jeddah 1999–2000 Saudi Premier League runners-up
Yemen Al-Ahli Sana'a 1999–2000 Yemeni League winners
Zone 3 Algeria MC Oran 1999–2000 Algerian Championship runners-up
Zone 4 Jordan Al-Faisaly 2000 Jordan League winners
Syria 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
United Arab Emirates Al-Ain 5 4 0 1 6 4 +2 12
Saudi Arabia Al-Ittihad Jeddah 5 3 1 1 10 1 +9 10
Oman Dhofar 5 3 1 1 6 3 +3 10
Kuwait Al-Salmiya 5 1 2 2 5 6 −1 5
Qatar Al-Ittihad Doha 5 1 1 3 6 7 −1 4
Bahrain West Riffa 5 0 1 4 5 17 −12 1
Source: [citation needed]
Al-Ain United Arab Emirates2–1Bahrain West Riffa
Al-Ittihad Jeddah Saudi Arabia0–1Kuwait Al-Salmiya
Dhofar Oman2–0Qatar Al-Ittihad Doha

Al-Ain United Arab Emirates2–1Kuwait Al-Salmiya
West Riffa Bahrain1–4Qatar Al-Ittihad Doha
Al-Ittihad Jeddah Saudi Arabia0–0Oman Dhofar

Al-Ain United Arab Emirates1–0Qatar Al-Ittihad Doha
Al-Salmiya Kuwait1–0Oman Dhofar
West Riffa Bahrain0–7Saudi Arabia Al-Ittihad Jeddah

Al-Salmiya Kuwait1–1Bahrain West Riffa
Al-Ittihad Doha Qatar0–1Saudi Arabia Al-Ittihad Jeddah
Al-Ain United Arab Emirates1–0Oman Dhofar

Al-Ittihad Doha Qatar2–2Kuwait Al-Ittihad Jeddah
Dhofar Oman3–2Bahrain West Riffa
Al-Ain United Arab Emirates0–2Saudi Arabia 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
Saudi Arabia Al-Ahli Jeddah 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yemen Al-Ahli Sana'a' 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sudan 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 Morocco 4–4 Libya Al-Ahli Tripoli 4–2 0–2
ASC Mauritel Mauritania Algeria MC Oran
Al-Ahli Tripoli Libya2–0Morocco MAS Fez
Tripoli Stadium, Tripoli
Second Round
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Al-Ahli Tripoli Libya w/o Algeria 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
Jordan Al-Faisaly 2 2 0 0 6 0 +6 6
Syria Hutteen 2 1 0 1 6 2 +4 3
State of Palestine Hilal Al-Quds 2 0 0 2 2 11 −9 0
Lebanon Nejmeh (D) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: [citation needed]
(D) Disqualified


Al-Faisaly Jordan1–0Syria 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
Qatar Al Sadd SC 3 2 0 1 14 3 +11 6
Algeria MC Oran 3 2 0 1 5 7 −2 6
Yemen Al-Ahli Sana'a 3 1 1 1 3 5 −2 4
Syria Hutteen SC 3 0 1 2 2 9 −7 1
Source: [citation needed]
Al-Ahli Sana'a Yemen2–1Qatar Al Sadd SC
Ahmed 67', 76' Bagheri 90'


MC Oran Algeria0–7Qatar 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
Saudi Arabia Al-Ahli SC 2 1 1 0 7 2 +5 4
Qatar Al Rayyan SC 2 1 0 1 5 6 −1 3
Tunisia CS Sfaxien 2 0 1 1 3 7 −4 1
Jordan Al-Faisaly SC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: [citation needed]
CS Sfaxien Tunisia2–2Jordan Al-Faisaly SC
Ben Younes 43'
Ben Khaled 81'
Salim 7'
Al-Sheikh 74'
Referee: Abdullah Salem (Libya)


Al Rayyan SC Qatar5–1Tunisia 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
 
 
Qatar Al Sadd SC 5
 
10 December 2001 – Doha
 
Qatar Al Rayyan SC 1
 
Qatar Al Sadd SC 3
 
7 December 2001 – Doha
 
Algeria MC Oran 1
 
Saudi Arabia Al-Ahli SC 2 (3)
 
 
Algeria MC Oran (p) 2 (5)
 

Semifinals

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Final

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Al Sadd SC Qatar3–1Algeria 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
Qatar
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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