1996–97 Asian Club Championship

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1996–1997 Asian Club Championship
Tournament details
Dates?? 1996 – March 1997
Teams26
Final positions
ChampionsSouth Korea Pohang Steelers (1st title)
Runners-upSouth Korea Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma
Third placeIran Persepolis
Fourth placeIraq Al-Zawraa
Tournament statistics
Matches played50
Goals scored155 (3.1 per match)
Top scorer(s)South Korea Park Tae-Ha
Best player(s)South Korea An Ik-Soo
Fair play awardIraq Al-Zawraa
← 1995

The 1996–97 Asian Club Championship was the 16th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the AFC region (Asia). It determined that year's club champion of association football in Asia.

Pohang Steelers of South Korea won the final and became Asian champions for the first time after beating Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma in the first ever Asian top club tournament that ended in a one-country final.

First round[]

West Asia[]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
FK Neftchy Farg'ona Uzbekistan 8–2 Tajikistan Pamir Dushanbe 4–1 4–1
AiK Bishkek Kyrgyzstan 3–6 Kazakhstan Yelimay Semipalatinsk 2–4 1–2
Köpetdag Aşgabat Turkmenistan 0–1 Iran Persepolis 0–0 0–1
Kazma Kuwait 10–1 Oman Dhofar 9–0 1–1
West Riffa Bahrain 2-4 Lebanon Al-Nejmeh 2–1 0–3
Al-Nasr Saudi Arabia w/o4 United Arab Emirates Al-Sharjah
Al-Rayyan Qatar bye
Al-Zawraa Iraq bye

2 Al-Sharjah withdrew.

East Asia[]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Shanghai Shenhua China 9–2 Hong Kong Instant-Dict FC 7–1 2–1
Công an Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh Vietnam 1–2 Malaysia Johor F.C. 0–1 1–1(a.e.t.)
JCT FC India 2–2 (4–2p) Nepal New Road Team 1–1 1–1
PSM Makassar Indonesia 1–4 South Korea Pohang Steelers 1–0 0–4
New Radiant Maldives 1–0 Sri Lanka 1–0 n/p1
Yokohama Marinos Japan w/o2 Macau
Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma South Korea bye
Thai Farmers Bank FC Thailand bye

1 The 2nd leg was cancelled due to political violence in Sri Lanka.
2 withdrew.

Second round[]

West Asia[]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Al-Zawraa Iraq 3–1 Uzbekistan FK Neftchy Farg'ona 1–0 2–1
Yelimay Semipalatinsk Kazakhstan 3–5 Iran Persepolis 3–0 0–5
Al-Nejmeh Lebanon 1–4 Saudi Arabia Al-Nasr 1–0 0–4
Al-Kazma Kuwait 1–2 Qatar Al-Rayyan 0–1 1–1

East Asia[]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma South Korea 1–0 China Shanghai Shenhua 0–0 1–0
Yokohama Marinos Japan 3–1 Malaysia Johor F.C. 2–0 1–1
JCT FC India 1–2 Maldives New Radiant 1–0 0–2
Thai Farmers Bank FC Thailand 1–5 South Korea Pohang Steelers 1–3 0–2

Quarterfinals[]

West Asia[]

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Iran Persepolis 3 2 0 1 6 5 +1 6
Iraq Al-Zawraa 3 1 1 1 3 2 +1 4
Saudi Arabia Al-Nasr 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 4
Qatar Al-Rayyan 3 1 0 2 3 5 −2 3
Source:[citation needed]
Al-Rayyan Qatar2–1Saudi Arabia Al-Nasr
Goal 55'
Mohammed Salem Al-Enazi Goal 62'		 Majed Abdullah Goal 72'
Persepolis Iran2–1Iraq Al-Zawraa
Reza Shahroudi Goal 39'
Edmond Bezik Goal 75'		 Abbas Goal 71'
Al-Nasr Saudi Arabia3–2Iran Persepolis
Ohene Kennedy Goal 70' Goal 87' Goal 89' Edmond Bezik Goal 62'
Khodadad Azizi Goal 75'
Al-Zawraa Iraq2–0Qatar Al-Rayyan
Goal 40'
Mahdi Goal 55'
Al-Rayyan Qatar1–2Iran Persepolis
Goal 65' Khodadad Azizi Goal 44' Goal 89'
Al-Nasr Saudi Arabia0–0Iraq Al-Zawraa

East Asia[]

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
South Korea Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma 3 2 1 0 12 2 +10 7
South Korea Pohang Steelers 3 1 2 0 8 2 +6 5
Japan Yokohama Marinos 3 1 1 1 14 5 +9 4
Maldives New Radiant 3 0 0 3 0 25 −25 0
Source:[citation needed]
Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma South Korea9–0Maldives New Radiant
Lee Sang-Yoon Goal 15'
Goal 37' Goal 59'
Hwang Yeon-Seok Goal 44'
Goal 51'
Goal 68' Goal 73'
Gennadi Stepouchkine Goal 69'
Alex Agbo Goal 89'
Pohang Steelers South Korea2–2Japan Yokohama Marinos
Goal 48'
Rade Bogdanović Goal 75'		 Alberto Acosta Goal 32'
Goal 39'
New Radiant Maldives0–6South Korea Pohang Steelers
Cho Jin-Ho Goal 32' Goal 49' (pen.) Goal 83' Goal 89'
Serhiy Konovalov Goal 34' Goal 61'
Yokohama Marinos Japan2–3South Korea Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma
Alberto Acosta Goal 34'
Satoru Noda Goal 57'		 Lee Sang-Yoon Goal 14' Goal 51'
Hwang Yeon-Seok Goal 60'
Yokohama Marinos Japan10–0Maldives New Radiant
M. Suzuki Goal 4'
Alberto Acosta Goal 12'Goal 28'Goal 38'Goal 57'Goal 89'
Yoshito Terakawa Goal 13' Goal 35'
Y. Uena Goal 40'
T. Hirama Goal 75'
Pohang Steelers South Korea0–0South Korea Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma

Semifinals[]

Persepolis Iran1–3South Korea Pohang Steelers
Khodadad Azizi Goal 88' Park Tae-Ha Goal 9' Goal 86'
Yahya Golmohammadi Goal 55' (o.g.)
Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma South Korea1–0Iraq Al-Zawraa
Goal 42'

Third place match[]

Persepolis Iran4–1Iraq Al-Zawraa
Edmond Bezik Goal 20'
Mehdi Mahdavikia Goal 30'
Karim Bagheri Goal 65' Goal 80'		 Fawzi Goal 8'

Final[]

Pohang Steelers South Korea2–1 (a.e.t.)South Korea Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma
Park Tae-Ha Goal 78'
Park Ji-Ho Golden goal 117'  (pen.)		 Goal 79'
Referee: Malaysia

Awards[]

Award[1] Player Team
Sanyo Most Valuable Player South Korea An Ik-Soo South Korea Pohang Steelers
Coca-Cola Best Defender South Korea An Ik-Soo South Korea Pohang Steelers
Diadora Top Goalscorer South Korea Park Tae-Ha South Korea Pohang Steelers
Snickers Fair Play Award — Iraq Al-Zawraa

References[]

  1. ^ "1996 ASIAN CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP". Asian Football Confederation. 7 July 1997. Archived from the original on 7 July 1997.
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