Arab Champions League 2008-2009

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2008–09 Arab Champions League
Tournament details
Dates 12 September 2008 – 22 May 2009
Teams 32 (from UAFA confederations)

The 6th Edition of Arab Champions League 2008-2009 is going to play as a knockout stage from 32 clubs, Entente Sportive de Sétif entered automatically as 2007-2008 Champion.

Contents

[edit] The Format

  • Each federation enter with (1~2) teams from their top Leagues
- The teams must be one of the top 5 teams in the latest season, or Cup Champions/Runners-up.
  • The Number of teams of each federation enters based on the previous editions results of the Arab Champions League
  • The official sponsor ART can choose the rest teams to complete the 32 teams, so it may can reach 3 teams from one country
- It's not necessary to be one of the top 5 teams.

[edit] Participated teams

32 clubs will be competing from the following countries.

[edit] Asia

Flag of Bahrain Bahrain
Flag of Iraq Iraq
Flag of Jordan Jordan
Flag of Kuwait Kuwait
Flag of Lebanon Lebanon
Flag of Qatar Qatar
Flag of Oman Oman
Palestinian flag Palestine
Flag of Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia
Flag of Syria Syria
Flag of the United Arab Emirates UAE
Flag of Yemen Yemen

[edit] Africa

Flag of Algeria Algeria Entente Sportive de Sétif (Arab CL 2007-2008 Champions, Algerian CN 2007-2008 3rd Place)
Flag of the Comoros Comoros
Flag of Djibouti Djibouti
Flag of Egypt Egypt
Flag of Libya Libya
Flag of Mauritania Mauritania
Flag of Morocco Morocco
Flag of Somalia Somalia
Flag of Sudan Sudan
Flag of Tunisia Tunisia

[edit] The System

  • Round 32: Knock out stage
  • Round 16: Knock out stage
  • Round 8: Knock out stage
  • Semifinals and final: Knock out stage

[edit] The Awards

  • The Champions: 1,500,000 $
  • The Runner-up: 1,000,000 $
  • Round 4: 400,000 $
  • Round 8: 300,000 $
  • Round 16: 60,000 $
  • Round 32: 30,000 $

[edit] Round 32

32 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.

Team #1   Agg.   Team #2   1st leg     2nd leg  
Team A - Team B - -
Team A - Team B - -
Team A - Team B - -
Team A - Team B - -
Team A - Team B - -
Team A - Team B - -
Team A - Team B - -
Team A - Team B - -
Team A - Team B - -
Team A - Team B - -
Team A - Team B - -
Team A - Team B - -
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Team A - Team B - -
Team A - Team B - -
Team A - Team B - -

[edit] External Sources

Arab Champions League
v • d • e

2003-2004 | 2004-2005 | 2005-2006 | 2006-2007 | 2007-2008 | 2008-2009
Union Arab de Football Association National teams competitions
v • d • e

Arab Nations Cup | Pan Arab Games | Gulf Cup of Nations
Union Arab de Football Association Clubs competitions
v • d • e

Arab Champions League  | Gulf Club Champions Cup
Arab Cup Winners' Cup (defunct)  | Arab Super Cup (defunct)

Algeria | Bahrain | Comoros | Djibouti | Egypt | Iraq | Jordan | Kuwait | Lebanon | Libya | Mauritania | Morocco | Oman | Palestine | Qatar | Saudi Arabia | Somalia | Sudan | Syria | Tunisia | United Arab Emirates | Yemen