2001 Arab Club Champions Cup

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.

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
Champions Al Sadd SC (1st title)
Runners-up MC Oran
Tournament statistics
Matches played15
Goals scored53 (3.53 per match)
Top scorer(s) Bouchaib El Moubarki (6 goals)
Best player(s) Karim Bagheri[1]
Best goalkeeper Ahmed Khalil
Fair play award Al-Ahli Sana'a

Participants
Participants
Zone Team Qualifying method
Al-Sadd Hosts
CS Sfaxien Holders
Zone 1 Al-Rayyan SC Replaced Al-Ain FC
Zone 2 Al-Ahli Jeddah 1999–2000 Saudi Premier League runners-up
Al-Ahli Sana'a 1999–2000 Yemeni League winners
Zone 3 MC Oran 1999–2000 Algerian Championship runners-up
Zone 4 Al-Faisaly 2000 Jordan League winners
Hutteen 1999–2000 Syrian League runners-up

Preliminary Stage

Zone 1 (Gulf Area)

Qualification from GCC Champions League held in Al Ain on 2001.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Al-Ain 5 4 0 1 6 4 +2 12
Al-Ittihad Jeddah 5 3 1 1 10 1 +9 10
Dhofar 5 3 1 1 6 3 +3 10
Al-Salmiya 5 1 2 2 5 6 −1 5
Al-Ittihad Doha 5 1 1 3 6 7 −1 4
West Riffa 5 0 1 4 5 17 −12 1
Source:
Al-Ain 2–1 West Riffa
  • Khater 53'
  • Johar 86'
  • Darwish 82'
Al-Ittihad Jeddah 0–1 Al-Salmiya
Dhofar 2–0 Al-Ittihad Doha
Al-Ain 2–1 Al-Salmiya
West Riffa 1–4 Al-Ittihad Doha
  • Humaida 71'
  • Al-Kaabi 11'
  • Al-Mazroa 53', 90+2'
  • Massoud 57' (o.g.)
Al-Ittihad Jeddah 0–0 Dhofar
Al-Ain 1–0 Al-Ittihad Doha
  • Al-Kuwaiti 70'
Al-Salmiya 1–0 Dhofar
  • Baalawi 34'
West Riffa 0–7 Al-Ittihad Jeddah
Al-Salmiya 1–1 West Riffa
Al-Ittihad Doha 0–1 Al-Ittihad Jeddah
  • Omar 90+3'
Al-Ain 1–0 Dhofar
  • Ali 9'
Al-Ittihad Doha 2–2 Al-Ittihad Jeddah
Dhofar 3–2 West Riffa
  • Al-Hedhari ?'
  • ? ?'
  • Al-Kathiri 84'
  • Humaida 79'
  • Taleb 90+3'
Al-Ain 0–2 Al-Ittihad Jeddah

Al-Ain qualified but withdrew the tournament, Al-Rayyan replaced it

Zone 2 (Red Sea)

The qualifying tournament took place in Jeddah.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Al-Ahli Jeddah 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Al-Ahli Sana'a' 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Al-Merrikh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source:
Al-Ahli Jeddah 1–0 Al-Merrikh
Al-Jahani 15'
Al-Merrikh 2–2 Al-Ahli Sana'a'
  • Al-Hemy 75'
  • Abdullah 77'
Al-Ahli Jeddah 2–1 Al-Ahli Sana'a'
Valle 28', 84'
  • Al-Salemy 24' (pen.)

Al-Ahli Jeddah and Al-Ahli Sana'a' advanced to the final tournament.

Zone 3 (North Africa)
First Round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
MAS Fez 2–6 Al-Ahli Tripoli 2–4 0–2
ASC Mauritel – MC Oran – –
MAS Fez 2–4 Al-Ahli Tripoli
Stade Hassan II, Fes
Al-Ahli Tripoli 2–0 MAS Fez
  • Moammar
  • Al-Idrissi
Stade Hassan II, Fes
Second Round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Al-Ahli Tripoli w/o MC Oran — —

MC Oran advanced to the final tournament.

Zone 4 (East Region)

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
Al-Faisaly 2 2 0 0 6 0 +6 6
Hutteen 2 1 0 1 6 2 +4 3
Hilal Al-Quds 2 0 0 2 2 11 −9 0
Nejmeh (D) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source:
(D) Disqualified
Al-Faisaly 5–0 Hilal Al-Quds
Hutteen 6–2 Hilal Al-Quds
Al-Faisaly 1–0 Hutteen
  • Al-Hasnat 31'
Referee: Mohamed Risha (Egypt)

Al-Faisaly and Hutteen advanced to the final tournament.

Final Tournament

Venues
Doha
Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium
Capacity: 18,000

Group Stage

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
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Al Sadd SC 3 2 0 1 14 3 +11 6
MC Oran 3 2 0 1 5 7 −2 6
Al-Ahli Sana'a 3 1 1 1 3 5 −2 4
Hutteen SC 3 0 1 2 2 9 −7 1
Source:
Al-Ahli Sana'a 2–1 Al Sadd SC
Ahmed 67', 76' Bagheri 90'
Hutteen SC 0–2 MC Oran
Zerrouki 7'
El-Aouni 52'
Al-Ahli Sana'a 0–3 MC Oran
Benzerga 28'
El-Aouni 42', 58'
Hutteen SC 1–6 Al Sadd SC
Jablawi 35' Bagheri 10', 45'
Mahmood 25'
El Moubarki 28'
Utaka 39'
J. Al-Kuwari 79'
Al-Ahli Sana'a 1–1 Hutteen SC
Al-Barek 85' Shuman 90+2'
MC Oran 0–7 Al Sadd SC
Khalifa 12'
El Moubarki 28', 32', 73'
Utaka 44'
F. Al-Kuwari 89'
Bagheri 90+3'

Group B

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
Al-Ahli SC 2 1 1 0 7 2 +5 4
Al Rayyan SC 2 1 0 1 5 6 −1 3
CS Sfaxien 2 0 1 1 3 7 −4 1
Al-Faisaly SC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source:
Al Rayyan SC 0–5 Al-Ahli SC
Gahwji 8', 87'
Al-Dosari 10'
Al-Shahri 56'
Suwayed 89' (pen.)
CS Sfaxien 2–2 Al-Faisaly SC
Ben Younes 43'
Ben Khaled 81'		 Salim 7'
Al-Sheikh 74'
Referee: Abdullah Salem (Libya)
CS Sfaxien 2–2 Al-Ahli SC
N'Diaye 53'
Ben Younes 80' (pen.)		 Fallatah 3'
Al-Gizani 13'
Al Rayyan SC 5–1 CS Sfaxien
B. Abdullah 6', 81', 90'
Al-Huwaidi 9', 46'		 Trabelsi 67'

Knock-out stage
 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
 7 December 2001 – Doha
 
 
 Al Sadd SC 5
 
 10 December 2001 – Doha
 
 Al Rayyan SC 1
 
 Al Sadd SC 3
 
 7 December 2001 – Doha
 
 MC Oran 1
 
 Al-Ahli SC 2 (3)
 
 
 MC Oran (p) 2 (5)
 

Semifinals
Al Sadd SC 5–1 Al Rayyan SC
El Moubarki 14', 18'
Bagheri 43' (pen.)
Khalifa 52'
F. Al-Kuwari 52'		 B. Abdullah 59'
Al-Ahli SC 2–2 (a.e.t.) MC Oran
Gahwji 29'
Al-Khazami 77'		 B. Daoud 5'
Haddou 58'
Penalties
Al-Dosari
Al-Khazami
Al-Shehri
Al-Zahrani 		3–5 Haddou
Gaïd
Laouni
Zerrouki
Acimi

Final
Al Sadd SC 3–1 MC Oran
Khalifa 25', 53'
Utaka 82'		 Haddou 61' (pen.)
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Mahmoud Abbas (Syria)

Winners
2001 Arab Club Champions Cup

Al Sadd SC
First title

References
  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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