AFC Champions League 2007

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2007 AFC Champions League
Tournament details
Dates	March 2007 - November 2007
Teams	27 + 1
Final positions
Champions	Urawa Red Diamonds (1st title)
Second place	Sepahan F.C.
Tournament statistics
Matches played	92
Goals scored	230  (2.5 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Mota (7 goals)

The AFC Champions League 2007 is the 26th edition of the top-level Asian club football tournament and the 5th edition under the current AFC Champions League title.

Japanese side Urawa Red Diamonds became the first-time champions, beating Sepahan F.C. of Iran.

Contents 1 Participated Teams 2 Format 3 Group Stage 3.1 Group A 3.2 Group B 3.3 Group C 3.4 Group D 3.5 Group E 3.6 Group F 3.7 Group G 4 Knockout stage 4.1 Quarter Finals 4.2 Semi Finals 4.3 Final 5 Top Scorers 6 External links 7 References

[edit] Participated Teams

Along with the defending champion, Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, 28 other clubs from fourteen countries qualified based on performance in domestic league and cup competitions. Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors will enter the competition at the quarter-finals.

The draw took place in Kuala Lumpur on December 22, allocating teams into seven groups. In February, the AFC disqualified Esteghlal Tehran from Group B for failing to register their players in time.^[1] This reduced the number of competing teams to 28.

Defending Champion (1)
Korea (1)	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors (2006 ACL Winners)
East Asia & ASEAN (12)
Australia (2)†	Adelaide United (2005-06 A-League Premiers) Sydney FC (2005-06 A-League Champions)
China (2)	Shandong Luneng (2006 Chinese Super League Champions and 2006 Chinese FA Cup Winners) Shanghai Shenhua (2006 Chinese Super League Runner-up)
Indonesia (2)	Persik Kediri (2005-06 Liga Indonesia Champions) Arema Malang (2006 Piala Indonesia Winners)
Japan (2)	Urawa Red Diamonds (2006 J. League Champions and 2005 Emperor's Cup Winners) Kawasaki Frontale (2006 J. League Runner-up)
Korea Republic (2)	Seongnam Ilhwa (2006 K-League Champions) Chunnam Dragons (2006 Korean FA Cup Winners)
Thailand (1)†	Bangkok University FC (2006 Thailand Premier League Champions)
Vietnam (1)†	Gach Dong Tam Long An (2006 V-League Champions)
Central & South Asia and West Asia (16) (15)
Iran (2) (1)	Esteghlal Tehran (2005-06 Iranian Premier League Champions) Sepahan (2006 Hazfi Cup Winners)
Iraq (2)	Najaf FC Al-Zawraa
Kuwait (2)	Al Kuwait Kaifan Al-Arabi
Qatar (2)	Al-Rayyan Al Sadd
Saudi Arabia (2)	Al-Shabab Al-Hilal
Syria (2)	Al Ittihad Al-Karamah
UAE (2)	Al-Wahda Al Ain FC
Uzbekistan (2)	FC Pakhtakor (2006 Uzbek League Champions and 2006 Uzbekistani Cup Winners) Neftchi Farg'ona (2006 Uzbek League Runner-up)

[edit] Format

Group Stage

A total of 28 clubs are divided into 7 groups of four, based on region i.e. East Asian and Southeast Asian clubs are drawn in Group E to F, while rest are grouped in Group A to D. Each club plays double round-robin (home and away) against fellow three group members, a total of 6 matches each. Clubs receive 3pts for a win, 1pt for a tie, 0pts for a loss. The clubs are ranked according to points and tie breakers are in following order:

• Points earned between the clubs in question
• Goal Differential between the clubs in question
• Points earned within the group
• Goal Differential within the group
• Goal For within the group

The seven group winners along with the defending champions qualifies to the quarter-finals.

Knockout Round

All 8 clubs are randomly matched; however, the only restriction is that the clubs from same country cannot face each other in the quarterfinals. The games are conduced in 2 legs, home and away, and the aggregates goals decides the match winner. If the aggregate goals cannot produce an winner, away goal rules in used. If still tied, clubs play extra time, where away goal rule still applies. If stilled tied, the game goes to penalties.

[edit] Group Stage

Group matches were scheduled to be played over match days on March 7, March 21, April 11, April 25, May 9 and May 23, 2007.

[edit] Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Al-Wahda	13	6	4	1	1	13	6	+7
Al-Zawraa	11	6	3	2	1	9	6	+3
Al-Arabi	7	6	2	1	3	10	12	-2
Al-Rayyan	2	6	0	2	4	3	11	-8

March 7, 2007	Al-Arabi	0–1	Al-Zawraa	Sabah Al Salem Stadium, Kuwait City, Kuwait Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Muhsen Basma
		(Report)	Muslim Mubarak 66'

March 7, 2007	Al-Rayyan	0–1	Al-Wahda	Al Rayyan Sports Club, Ar Rayyan, Qatar Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Yang Zhiqiang
		(Report)	Mohamed Saeed 81'

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March 21, 2007	Al-Wahda	4–1	Al-Arabi	Al-Nahyan Stadium, Abu Dhabi, UAE Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Yuichi Nishimura
	Mamadou Bagayoko 40', 56'(pen) Saleh Al Menhali 63' Basheer Saeed 68'	(Report)	Mohamed Jarragh 35'

March 21, 2007	Al-Zawraa	0–0	Al-Rayyan	Al Rayyan Sports Club, Doha, Qatar Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Lee Gi-young
		(Report)

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April 11, 2007	Al-Zawraa	1–2	Al-Wahda	Al Rayyan Sports Club, Doha, Qatar Attendance: 500 Referee: Taalat Najm
	Ahmad Abd Ali 46'	(Report)	Abdulraheem Jumaa 13' Basheer Saeed 74'

April 11, 2007	Al-Arabi	1–1	Al-Rayyan	Sabah Al Salem Stadium, Kuwait City, Kuwait Attendance: 300 Referee: Naser Al-Ghafary
	Jarrah Al Zuhair 60'	(Report)	Adel Lamy 52'

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April 25, 2007	Al-Rayyan	1–3	Al-Arabi	Al Rayyan Sports Club, Doha, Qatar Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Ali Al Mutlaq
	Thiago Cardoso 44'	(report)	Khalid Kalaf 25' Firas Al Khatib 63' 69'

April 25, 2007	Al-Wahda	1–1	Al-Zawraa	Al-Nahyan Stadium, Abu Dhabi, UAE Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Jasim Karim
	Abdulraheem Jumaa 57'	(report)	Haidar Sabah 75'

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May 9, 2007	Al-Zawraa	3–2	Al-Arabi	Al Rayyan Sports Club, Doha, Qatar Attendance: 500 Referee: Mohsen Torky
	Wissam Kadhim 21' Ahmad Abrahim 70' Nawaf Falah 78'	(Report)	Firas Al Khatib 50', 84'

May 9, 2007	Al-Wahda	3–0	Al-Rayyan	Al-Nahyan Stadium, Abu Dhabi, UAE Referee: Mark Shield
	Maurito 8' Haidar Alo Ali 30'(pen) Mamadou Bagayoko 76'(pen)	(Report)

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May 23, 2007	Al-Arabi	3–2	Al-Wahda	Sabah Al Salem Stadium, Kuwait City, Kuwait
	Khalid Abd Al-Kudos 6' Khalid Kalaf 55' Jarrah Al Zuhair 87'	(Report)	Saeed Salem 23' Yaser Matar 90'

May 23, 2007	Al-Rayyan	1–3	Al-Zawraa	Al-Gharrafa Stadium, Doha, Qatar Attendance: 200
	Saoud Khames 75'	(Report)	Selman Mesbeh og 13' Abdul-Salam Abood 26' Haidar Sabah 34'

[edit] Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Al-Hilal	8	4	2	2	0	5	1	+4
FC Pakhtakor	6	4	2	0	2	3	5	-2
Al Kuwait Kaifan	2	4	0	2	2	2	4	-2
Esteghlal*	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

* Esteghlal Tehran was disqualified from the competition.

March 7, 2007	Al-Hilal	1–1	Al Kuwait Kaifan	King Fahd II Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh
	Rodrigão 16'	(Report)	Fahad Shaheen 90'

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March 21, 2007	Al Kuwait Kaifan	0–1	FC Pakhtakor	Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium, Kuwait City, Kuwait Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Satop Tongkhan
		(Report)	Aleksandr Kletskov 69'

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April 11, 2007	FC Pakhtakor	0–2	Al-Hilal	Army Stadium, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Junjie Huang
		(Report)	Omar Al-Ghamdi 54' Rodrigão 59'

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April 25, 2007	Al-Hilal	2–0	FC Pakhtakor	King Fahd II Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Lee Gi-young
	Rodrigão 30', 90'(pen)	(report)

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May 9, 2007	Al Kuwait Kaifan	0–0	Al-Hilal	Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium, Kuwait City, Kuwait Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Jasim Karim
		(Report)

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May 23, 2007	FC Pakhtakor	2–1	Al Kuwait Kaifan	Army Stadium, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Shamsul Maidin
	Uche Iheruome 45' Shakhboz Erkinov 59'	(Report)	Faraj Laheeb 71'

[edit] Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Al-Karamah	11	6	3	2	1	11	7	+4
Neftchi Farg'ona	10	6	3	1	2	6	7	-1
Najaf FC	8	6	2	2	2	9	8	+1
Al Sadd	4	6	1	1	4	6	10	-4

March 7, 2007	Al-Karamah	2–1	Al Sadd	Khaled bin Walid Stadium, Homs, Syria Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Madhad Saif Al Badwawi
	Senghor Koupouleni 70' Abdalrahman Akkari 85'	(Report)	Magid Mohamed 22'

March 7, 2007	Najaf FC	0–1	Neftchi	Sabah Al Salem Stadium, Kuwait City, Kuwait Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Hedayat Mombini
		(Report)	Akmal Holmatov 71'

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March 21, 2007	Al Sadd	1–4	Najaf FC	Al Sadd Stadium, Doha, Qatar Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Ben Williams
	Talal Al Bloushi 45'	(Report)	Aqeel Mohammed 47' Saeed Mohsen 55', 86'(pen) Karrar Jassim 70'

March 21, 2007	Neftchi	2–1	Al-Karamah	Fargona Stadium, Fergana, Uzbekistan Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Tayeb Hasan Shamsuzzaman
	Anvar Berdiyev 27' Nosirbek Otakuziev 77'	(Report)	Firas Issmael 32'

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April 11, 2007	Al Sadd	2–0	Neftchi	Al Sadd Stadium, Doha, Qatar Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Tan Hai
	Khalfan Ibrahim 65' Emerson 75'	(Report)

April 11, 2007	Al Karamah	1–1	Najaf FC	Khaled bin Walid Stadium, Homs, Syria Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Jasim Karim
	Fahd Aodi 90'(pen)	(Report)	Hasan Falah 71'

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April 25, 2007	Najaf FC	2–4	Al-Karamah	Sabah Al Salem Stadium, Kuwait City, Kuwait Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Saad Al Fadhli
	Saeed Mohsen 7'(pen) Qassim Faraj 86' (pen)	(Report)	Jehad Al Hussein 46', 52' Fahd Aodi 50' Senghor Koupouleni 65'

April 25, 2007	Neftchi	2–1	Al Sadd	Fargona Stadium, Fergana, Uzbekistan Attendance: 14,600 Referee: Kazuhiko Matsumura
	Iqboljon Akramov 1' Nasim Shoimov 41'	(Report)	Emerson 17'

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May 9, 2007	Al Sadd	1–1	Al-Karamah	Al Sadd Stadium, Doha, Qatar Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Chaiwat Kunsuta
	Ali Nasser 16'	(Report)	Iyad Mando 44'

May 9, 2007	Neftchi	1–1	Najaf FC	Fargona Stadium, Fergana, Uzbekistan Attendance: 16,000
	Akmal Holmatov 43'	(Report)	Ali Mohammed 60'

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May 23, 2007	Al-Karamah	2–0	Neftchi	Khaled bin Walid Stadium, Homs, Syria Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Ali Al Mutlaq
	Iyad Mando 12', 50'	(Report)

May 23, 2007	Najaf FC	1–0	Al Sadd	Sabah Al Salem Stadium, Kuwait City, Kuwait
	Saeed Mohsen 78'	(Report)

[edit] Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Sepahan	13	6	4	1	1	12	5	+7
Al-Shabab	10	6	3	1	2	9	3	+6
Al Ain FC	6	6	1	3	2	5	8	-3
Al Ittihad	3	6	0	3	3	3	13	-10

March 7, 2007	Sepahan	2–1	Al Ittihad	Foolad Shahr Stadium, Isfahan, Iran Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Saad Kameel Al Fadhli
	Seyed Mohamad Salehi 19', 29'	(Report)	Anas Sari 12'

March 7, 2007	Al Ain	0–2	Al Shabab	Sheikh Khalifa International Stadium, Al Ain, UAE Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Abdullah Mohamed Al Hilali
		(Report)	Godwin Attram 45' Waleed Al Gizani 72'

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March 21, 2007	Al Shabab	0–1	Sepahan	King Fahd II Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Ravshan Irmatov
		(Report)	Seyed Mohamad Salehi 83'

March 21, 2007	Al Ittihad	0–0	Al Ain	Al-Hamadaniah Stadium, Aleppo, Syria Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Ala Abdul Kadir Nema
		(Report)

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April 11, 2007	Al Shabab	4–0	Al Ittihad	King Fahd II Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Shamsul Maidin
	Abdullah Al Dosari 35', 48' Naji Majrashi 60'(pen) Waleed Al Gizani 79'	(Report)

April 11, 2007	Al Ain	3–2	Sepahan	Sheikh Khalifa International Stadium, Al Ain, UAE Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Chaiwat Kunsuta
	Ali Al-Wehaibi 6' Msalam Faiez 44' Frank Olivier Ongfiang 84'	(Report)	Seyed Mohamad Salehi 8' Emad Mohammed 65'

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April 25, 2007	Sepahan	1–1	Al Ain	Foolad Shahr Stadium, Isfahan, Iran Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Mark Shield
	Hossein Papi 49'	(Report)	Hawar Mulla Mohammed 86'

April 25, 2007	Al Ittihad	1–1	Al Shabab	Al-Hamadaniah Stadium, Aleppo, Syria Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Talaat Najm
	Ammar Rihawi 36'	(Report)	Ahmed Ateef 65'

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May 9, 2007	Al Shabab	2–0	Al Ain	King Fahd II Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Jong Chul Kwon
	Abdullah Al Astaa 59' Waleed Al Gizani 88'	(Report)

May 9, 2007	Al Ittihad	0–5	Sepahan	Al-Hamadaniah Stadium, Aleppo, Syria Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Lee Gi Young
		(Report)	Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail 10' Mohammad Nori 40', 55' Emad Mohammed 70', 90'

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May 23, 2007	Al Ain	1–1	Al Ittihad	Sheikh Khalifa International Stadium, Al Ain, UAE Attendance: 2,500
	Ghareeb Hareb 53'	(Report)	Anas Sari 90'

May 23, 2007	Sepahan	1–0	Al Shabab	Foolad Shahr Stadium, Isfahan, Iran Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Yuichi Nishimura
	Seyed Mohamad Salehi 33'	(Report)

[edit] Group E

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Urawa Red Diamonds	10	6	2	4	0	9	5	+4
Sydney FC	9	6	2	3	1	8	5	+3
Persik Kediri	7	6	2	1	3	6	16	-10
Shanghai Shenhua	5	6	1	2	3	7	4	+3

March 7, 2007	Shanghai Shenhua	1–2	Sydney FC	Yuanshen Stadium, Shanghai, China Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Lee Gi Young
	Xie Hui 78'	(Report)	Steve Corica 8' Ufuk Talay 23'

March 7, 2007	Urawa Red Diamonds	3–0	Persik Kediri	Saitama Stadium, Saitama, Japan Attendance: 31,303 Referee: Kim Dong Jin
	Nobuhisa Yamada 12' Yuichiro Nagai 45' Shinji Ono 76'	(Report)

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March 21, 2007	Persik Kediri	1–0	Shanghai Shenhua	Manahan Stadium, Surakarta, Indonesia Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Abdulhameed Ebrahim
	Bertha Yuana Putra 71'	(Report)

March 21, 2007	Sydney FC	2–2	Urawa Red Diamonds	Aussie Stadium, Sydney, Australia Attendance: 21,010 Referee: Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh
	David Carney 1' Ufuk Talay 23' (pen)	(Report)	Robson Ponte 30' Yuichiro Nagai 55'

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April 11, 2007	Urawa Red Diamonds	1–0	Shanghai Shenhua	Saitama Stadium, Saitama, Japan Attendance: 28,828 Referee: Masoud Moradi
	Yuki Abe 45'	(Report)

April 12, 2007	Persik Kediri	2–1	Sydney FC	Manahan Stadium, Surakarta, Indonesia Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Abdulla Mohamed Balideh
	Aris Budi Prasetyo 25' Budi Sudarsono 70'	(Report)	Steve Corica 8'

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April 25, 2007	Shanghai Shenhua	0–0	Urawa Red Diamonds	Yuanshen Stadium, Shanghai, China Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Mahmood Al Ghatrifi
		(Report)

April 25, 2007	Sydney FC	3–0	Persik Kediri	Parramatta Stadium, Sydney, Australia Attendance: 10,075 Referee: Minh Tri Vo
	Steve Corica 24', 90' Alex Brosque 73'	(Report)

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May 9, 2007	Persik Kediri	3-3	Urawa Red Diamonds	Manahan Stadium, Surakarta, Indonesia Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Tayeb Hasan Shamsuzzaman
	Christian Gonzalez 23'(pen), 31' Budi Sudarsono 83'	(Report)	Shinji Ono 9'(pen) Robson Ponte 50' Yuki Abe 62'

May 9, 2007	Sydney FC	0–0	Shanghai Shenhua	Aussie Stadium, Sydney, Australia Attendance: 14,786 Referee: Abdul Bashir
		(Report 1 2)

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May 23, 2007	Urawa Red Diamonds	0–0	Sydney FC	Saitama Stadium, Saitama, Japan Attendance: 44,793 Referee: Fareed Al-Marzouqi
		(Report)

May 23, 2007	Shanghai Shenhua	6–0	Persik Kediri	Yuanshen Stadium, Shanghai, China Attendance: 8,000
	Xie Hui 8' Gao Lin 25' Diego Alonso 79', 87', 90' Sergio Blanco 86'	(Report)

[edit] Group F

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Kawasaki Frontale	16	6	5	1	0	15	4	+11
Chunnam Dragons	10	6	3	1	2	7	8	-1
Arema Malang	4	6	1	1	4	2	9	-7
Bangkok University FC	3	6	0	3	3	4	7	-3

March 7, 2007	Bangkok Uni	0–0	Chunnam Dragons	Thai-Japanese Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Matthew Breeze
		(Report)

March 7, 2007	Arema Malang	1–3	Kawasaki Frontale	Gajayana Stadium, Malang, Indonesia Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Naser Al-Ghafary
	Elli Aiboy 12'	(Report)	Magnum 1', 73' Kengo Nakamura 82'

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March 21, 2007	Chunnam Dragons	2–0	Arema Malang	Gwang-Yang Stadium, Gwangyang, South Korea Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Huang Junjie
	Kim Tae-su 48' Sandro Cardoso 82'	(Report)

March 21, 2007	Kawasaki Frontale	1–1	Bangkok Uni	Todoroki Athletics Stadium, Kawasaki, Japan Attendance: 10,816 Referee: Shamsul Maidin
	Patiparn Phetphun(og) 78'	(Report)	Suriya Domtaisong 7'

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April 11, 2007	Chunnam Dragons	1–3	Kawasaki Frontale	Gwang-Yang Stadium, Gwangyang, South Korea Attendance: 5,703 Referee: Khalil Al Ghamdi
	Kang Min-soo 90'	(Report)	Juninho 29'(pen), 70' Magnum 57'

April 11, 2007	Bangkok Uni	0–0	Arema Malang	Royal Thai Army Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Kadyrbek Chynybekov
		(Report)

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April 25, 2007	Arema Malang	1–0	Bangkok Uni	Gajayana Stadium, Malang, Indonesia Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Sun Baojie
	Bruno Casimir 56'	(Report)

April 25, 2007	Kawasaki Frontale	3–0	Chunnam Dragons	Todoroki Athletics Stadium, Kawasaki, Japan Attendance: 10,070 Referee: Ben Williams
	Juninho 25' Chong Tese 81', 87'	(Report)

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May 9, 2007	Chunnam Dragons	3–2	Bangkok Uni	Gwang-Yang Stadium, Gwangyang, South Korea Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Abdul Neman
	Kim Seung-Hyun 28' Song Tae-Lim 79', 90'	(Report)	Kittisak Siriwaen 11' Kraisorn Pancharoen 39'

May 9, 2007	Kawasaki Frontale	3–0	Arema Malang	Todoroki Athletics Stadium, Kawasaki, Japan Attendance: 9,453 Referee: Minh Tri Vo
	Kengo Nakamura 4', 70' Taku Harada 80'	(Report)

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May 23, 2007	Bangkok Uni	1–2	Kawasaki Frontale	Royal Thai Army Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand
	Ekkaphan Petvises 40'	(Report)	Taku Harada 17' Takahisa Nishiyama 63'

May 23, 2007	Arema Malang	0–1	Chunnam Dragons	Gajayana Stadium, Malang, Indonesia Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Mahmood Al Ghatrifi
		(Report)	Ju Kwang-Youn 47'

[edit] Group G

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Seongnam Ilhwa	13	6	4	1	1	13	6	+7
Shandong Luneng	13	6	4	1	1	12	8	+4
Adelaide United FC	8	6	2	2	2	9	6	+3
Gach Dong Tam Long An	0	6	0	0	6	4	18	-14

March 7, 2007	Adelaide United	0–1	Shandong Luneng	Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide, Australia Attendance: 7,645 Referee: Satop Tongkhan
		(Report)	Michael Valkanis og 47'

March 7, 2007	Seongnam Ilhwa	4–1	Gach Dong Tam Long An	Seongnam 2 Stadium, Seongnam, South Korea Attendance: 300 Referee: Dilovarshokh Orzuev
	Mota 9', 69'(pen) Kim Dong Hyun 70' Adrian Neaga 81'	(Report)	Kabanga Tshamala 87'

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March 21, 2007	Shandong Luneng	2–1	Seongnam Ilhwa	Shandong Stadium, Jinan, China Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Talaat Najm
	Aleksandar Živković 62'(pen) Wang Yongpo 78'	(Report)	Cho Byung-Kuk 77'

March 21, 2007	Gach Dong Tam Long An	0–2	Adelaide United	Long An Stadium, Tân An, Vietnam Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Ali Saleem
		(Report)	Fernando 18' Travis Dodd 30'

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April 11, 2007	Shandong Luneng	4–0	Gach Dong Tam Long An	Shandong Stadium, Jinan, China Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Win Cho
	Han Peng 42', 52' Wang Yongpo 54' Li Jinyu 74'	(Report)

April 11, 2007	Adelaide United	2–2	Seongnam Ilhwa	Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide, Australia Attendance: 9,093 Referee: Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh
	Fernando 48' Bruce Djite 55'	(Report)	Kim Dong Hyun 57' Mota 75'

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April 25, 2007	Seongnam Ilhwa	1–0	Adelaide United	Seongnam 2 Stadium, Seongnam, South Korea Attendance: 2000 Referee: Muhsen Basma
	Choi Sung-Kuk 29'	(Report)

April 25, 2007	Gach Dong Tam Long An	2–3	Shandong Luneng	Long An Stadium, Tân An, Vietnam Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Mohamed Al Saeedi
	Kabanga Tshamala 14' Nguyen Hoang Thuong 36'	(Report)	Wang Yongpo 29' Li Jinyu 49', '90

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May 9, 2007	Shandong Luneng	2–2	Adelaide United	Shandong Stadium, Jinan, China Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Khalil Al Ghamdi
	Li Wei 39' Shu Chuang 56'	(Report)	Fernando 36' (pen) Nathan Burns 48'

May 9, 2007	Gach Dong Tam Long An	1–2	Seongnam Ilhwa	Long An Stadium, Tân An, Vietnam Attendance: 5,000
	Phan Van Tai Em 45'	(Report)	Mota 17' Choi Sung-Kuk 83'

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May 23, 2007	Adelaide United	3–0	Gach Dong Tam Long An	Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide, Australia Attendance: 6,917 Referee: Abdul Bashir
	Travis Dodd 7', 22', 49'	(Report)

May 23, 2007	Seongnam Ilhwa	3–0	Shandong Luneng	Seongnam 2 Stadium, Seongnam, South Korea Attendance: 13,243 Referee: Masoud Moradi
	Kim Dong Hyun 37' Son Dae-Ho 42' Mota 71'	(Report)

[edit] Knockout stage

[edit] Quarter Finals

In this round the first leg matches were played on September 19. The second leg was on September 26.

Quarter-final

Semi-final

Final

Group D Winner

Sepahan

0 (5)

Group F Winner

Kawasaki Frontale

0 (4)

Sepahan

3

Al-Wahda

1

Group A Winner

Al-Wahda

1

Group B Winner

Al-Hilal

1

Sepahan

1

Urawa Red Diamonds

3

Group G Winner

Seongnam Ilhwa

4

Group C Winner

Al-Karamah

1

Seongnam Ilhwa

4 (3)

Urawa Red Diamonds

4 (5)

Group E Winner

Urawa Red Diamonds

4

Champion 2006

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors

1

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First Leg

19 September 2007	Sepahan	0–0	Kawasaki Frontale	Foolad Shahr Stadium, Isfahan, Iran Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Jasim Karim
		Report

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19 September 2007	Al-Wahda	0–0	Al-Hilal	Al-Nahyan Stadium, Abu Dhabi, UAE Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Abdullah Balideh
		Report

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19 September 2007	Seongnam Ilhwa	2–1	Al-Karamah	Seongnam 2 Stadium, Seongnam, South Korea Attendance: 1,300 Referee: Hedayat Mombini
	Kim Min-Ho 72' Cho Byung-Kuk 74'	Report	Senghor Koupouleni 9'

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19 September 2007	Urawa Red Diamonds	2–1	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	Saitama Stadium, Saitama, Japan Attendance: 33,103 Referee: Salem Mahmoud Mujghef
	Makoto Hasebe 4' Tatsuya Tanaka 59'	Report	Choi Jin-cheul 90'

Second Leg

26 September 2007	Kawasaki Frontale	0–0	Sepahan	Todoroki Athletics Stadium, Kawasaki, Japan Attendance: 13,507 Referee: Saad Kameel Al Fadhli
		Report

	Penalties Juninho Kazuki Ganaha Masahiro Ohashi Hiroyuki Taniguchi Shuhei Terada	4 – 5	Penalties Hadi Aghili Moharram Navidkia Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail Farshad Bahadorani Jalal Akbari

• Sepahan progress 5-4 on penalties after 0-0 aggregate score

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26 September 2007	Al-Hilal	1–1	Al-Wahda	King Fahd II Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
	Tarik El Taib 85'	Report	Ismail Matar 18'

• Al-Wahda progress on away goals rule with 1-1 aggregate score

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26 September 2007	Al-Karamah	0–2	Seongnam Ilhwa	Khaled bin Walid Stadium, Homs, Syria
		Report	Mota 9' Kim Dong Hyun 71'

• Seongnam Ilhwa progress 4-1 on aggregate

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26 September 2007	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	0–2	Urawa Red Diamonds	Jeonju World Cup Stadium, Jeonju, South Korea Referee: Khalil Al Ghamdi
		Report	Tatsuya Tanaka 3' Choi Jin-cheul(og) 66'

• Urawa Red Diamonds progress 4-1 on aggregate

[edit] Semi Finals

In this round the first leg matches were played on October 3. The second leg was on October 24.

First Leg

3 October 2007	Seongnam Ilhwa	2–2	Urawa Red Diamonds	Seongnam 2 Stadium, Seongnam, South Korea Referee: Abdulrahman Abdou
	Mota 10' Kim Do-Heon 80'	Report	Tatsuya Tanaka 52' Robson Ponte 65'(pen)

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3 October 2007	Sepahan	3–1	Al-Wahda	Foolad Shahr Stadium, Isfahan, Iran Referee: Abdul Bashir
	Mahmoud Karimi 11', 58' Moharram Navidkia 85'(pen)	Report	Mohamed Al Shehhi 48'

Second Leg

24 October 2007	Urawa Red Diamonds	2–2	Seongnam Ilhwa	Saitama Stadium, Saitama, Japan Attendance: 51,651 Referee: Saad Kameel Al Fadhli
	Washington 21' Makoto Hasebe 73'	Report	Choi Sung-Kuk 56' Kim Dong Hyun 69'

	Penalties Robson Ponte Washington Yuki Abe Yuichiro Nagai Tadaaki Hirakawa	5 – 3	Penalties Kim Sang-Sik Choi Sung-Kuk Kim Dong Hyun Park Jin-Sub

• Urawa Red Diamonds progress 5-3 on penalties after 4-4 aggregate score

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24 October 2007	Al-Wahda	0–0	Sepahan	Al-Nahyan Stadium, Abu Dhabi, UAE Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Ben Williams
		Report

• Sepahan progress 3-1 on aggregate

[edit] Final

In the final round the first leg matches were played on November 7. The second leg was on November 14.

7 November 2007	Sepahan	1–1	Urawa Red Diamonds	Foolad Shahr Stadium, Isfahan, Iran Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh
	Mahmoud Karimi 47'	Report	Robson Ponte 45'

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14 November 2007	Urawa Red Diamonds	2–0	Sepahan	Saitama Stadium, Saitama, Japan Attendance: 59,034 Referee: Ravshan Irmatov
	Yuichiro Nagai 22' Yuki Abe 71'	Report

• Urawa Red Diamonds win 3-1 on aggregate

AFC Champions League 2007 Winners
Urawa Red Diamonds 1st Title

[edit] Top Scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mota	Seongnam Ilhwa	7
2	Seyed Mohammad Salehi	Sepahan	5
=	Kim Dong Hyun	Seongnam Ilhwa	5
4	Steve Corica	Sydney FC	4
=	Rodrigão	Al-Hilal	4
=	Firas Al Khatib	Al-Arabi	4
=	Saeed Mohsen	Najaf FC	4
=	Travis Dodd	Adelaide United	4
=	Robson Ponte	Urawa Red Diamonds	4
10	Magnum	Kawasaki Frontale	3
=	Juninho	Kawasaki Frontale	3
=	Kengo Nakamura	Kawasaki Frontale	3
=	Wang Yongpo	Shandong Luneng	3
=	Li Jinyu	Shandong Luneng	3
=	Emad Mohammed	Sepahan	3
=	Mahmoud Karimi	Sepahan	3
=	Fernando	Adelaide United FC	3
=	Mamadou Bagayoko	Al-Wahda	3
=	Waleed Al Gizani	Al-Shabab	3
=	Diego Alonso	Shanghai Shenhua	3
=	Iyad Mando	Al-Karamah	3
=	Senghor Koupouleni	Al-Karamah	3
=	Tatsuya Tanaka	Urawa Red Diamonds	3
=	Yuichiro Nagai	Urawa Red Diamonds	3
=	Yuki Abe	Urawa Red Diamonds	3
=	Choi Sung-Kuk	Seongnam Ilhwa	3

[edit] External links

• AFC Champions League Official Page (English)
• AFC Calendar of Events 2007
• Champions League 2007, Group Stage Draw from official site.
• Champions League 2007, Knockout Stage Draw from official site.

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