2000–01 Asian Club Championship

The Asian Club Championship 2000-01 was the 20th 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.

Suwon Samsung Bluewings of South Korea won the final and became Asian champions for the first time.

First round

West Asia

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Hilal	2-1	Al-Karamah	2-1	0-0
Al Ramtha	2-3	Al-Salmiya	0-1	2-2
Al-Ahli	0-1	Al-Ahli	0-1	0-0
Al-Ansar	w/o1	Al-Ittihad
Al-Zawraa	2-5	Al-Ain	2-1	0-4
Al-Wakra	3-9	Persepolis	2-4	1-5
FC Irtysh	5-2	Nisa Aşgabat	3-1	2-1
Varzob Dushanbe	w/o2	FC Dustlik

¹ Al-Ansar withdrew.
² Dustlik Tachkent did not show up for the 1st leg in Dushanbe due to the civil war in Tajikistan; they were ejected from the competition and fined $10,000.

East Asia

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Polícia de Segurança Pública	0-11	Home United	0-5	0-6
PSM Makassar	4-1	Sông Lam Nghệ An	0-0	4-1

Second round

West Asia

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Hilal	3-1	Al-Salmiya	3-1	0-0
Al-Ittihad	8-2	Al-Ahli	2-0	6-2
Persepolis	4-2	Al-Ain	2-0	2-2(aet)
FC Irtysh	7-3	Varzob Dushanbe	4-1	3-2

East Asia

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
PSM Makassar	11-1	Royal Thai Air Force	6-1	5-0
South China	2-6	Júbilo Iwata	1-3	1-3
Shandong Luneng Taishan	6-1	Home United	3-0	3-1
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	2-1	Hurriyya	2-1	0-0

Quarterfinals

West Asia

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Persepolis	3	1	2	0	3	1	+2	5
FC Irtysh	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	5
Al-Ittihad	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4
Al-Hilal	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1

March 7, 2001	Al-Hilal	0–0	FC Irtysh	Tehran, Iran

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March 7, 2001	Persepolis	0–0	Al-Ittihad	Tehran, Iran

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March 9, 2001	Persepolis	0–0	FC Irtysh	Tehran, Iran

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March 9, 2001	Al-Ittihad	2–0	Al-Hilal	Tehran, Iran
	Al Hasan Al-Yami  23' Sergio Ricardo  85'

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March 11, 2001	Al-Ittihad	1–2	FC Irtysh	Tehran, Iran
	Mohammad Hwasawi  41'		Nilton Pereira Mendes  14'  25'

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March 11, 2001	Persepolis	3–1	Al-Hilal	Tehran, Iran
	Ali Karimi  45' Ali Ansarian  65'(p) Hamed Kavianpour  69'		Sami Al-Jaber  9'

East Asia

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Júbilo Iwata	3	3	0	0	12	2	+10	9
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	3	2	0	1	14	4	+10	6
Shandong Luneng Taishan	3	1	0	2	5	13	−8	3
PSM Makassar	3	0	0	3	2	14	−12	0

March 21, 2001	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	0–3	Júbilo Iwata	Makassar, Indonesia
			Toshiya Fujita  14' Yang Jong-Hu  77'(og) Masashi Nakayama  90'

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March 21, 2001	PSM Makassar	1–3	Shandong Luneng Taishan	Makassar, Indonesia
	Suwandi Hadi Siswoyo  90'		Sergei Nagorniak  15'(p) Li Xiaopeng  52' Li Ming  56'

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March 23, 2001	PSM Makassar	1–8	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Makassar, Indonesia
	Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto  35'		Seo Jung-Won  6'  23'  25' Sandro Cardoso  11'  18' Park Kun-Ha  37' Ko Jong-Soo  45'(p)  79'

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March 23, 2001	Júbilo Iwata	6–2	Shandong Luneng Taishan	Makassar, Indonesia
	Toshiya Fujita  29'(p) Masashi Nakayama  42'  43'  56' Aleksandar Živković  66'(p) Daisuke Oku  78'		Casiano  34' Li Xiaopeng  90'

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March 25, 2001	Shandong Luneng Taishan	0–6	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Makassar, Indonesia
			Ko Jong-Soo  8'  38' Denis Laktionov  28' Seo Dong-Won  48'  59' Sabo Zoltan  82'

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March 25, 2001	PSM Makassar	0–3	Júbilo Iwata	Makassar, Indonesia
			Naoki Naruo  37' Tomoaki Seino  56' Takahiro Yamanishi  74'

Semifinals

May 24, 2001	Júbilo Iwata	1–0 (AET)	FC Irtysh	Suwon, South Korea
	Jo Kanazawa  103'

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May 24, 2001	Persepolis	1–2	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Suwon, South Korea
	Hamed Kavianpour  12'		Seo Jung-Won  78' Park Kun-Ha  90'

Third place match

May 26, 2001	Persepolis	2–0	FC Irtysh	Suwon, South Korea
	Esmael Halali  17' Hamid Reza Estili  34'

Final

May 26, 2001	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	1–0	Júbilo Iwata	Suwon World Cup Stadium, Suwon, South Korea
	Sandro Cardoso  15'

Champions

Asian Club Championship 2000-01 Suwon Samsung Bluewings First Title

References

• Asian Club Competitions 2001 at RSSSF.com