2004 AFC Champions League

2004 AFC Champions League

Tournament details
Dates	10 Feb 2004 - 01 Dec 2004
Teams	26
Final positions
Champions	Al-Ittihad (1st title)
Runners-up	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Third place	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors Pakhtakor
Tournament statistics
Matches played	80
Goals scored	252 (3.15 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Kim Do-hoon (9 Goals)
← 2002–03 2005 →

The 2004 AFC Champions League was the 23rd edition of the top-level Asian club football tournament and the 2nd edition under the current AFC Champions League title. The title was won by Al-Ittihad over Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma.

Format

Group Stage

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

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

The seven group winners along with the defending champion advanced to the quarter-finals.

Knockout Round

All 8 clubs were randomly matched; however, the only restriction was that the clubs from the same country could not face each other in the quarter-finals. The games were conducted in 2 legs, home and away, and the aggregate score decided the match winner. If the aggregate score couldn't produce a winner, "away goals rule" was used. If still tied, clubs played extra time, where "away goals rule" still applied. If still tied, the game went to penalties.

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Pakhtakor	4	2	1	1	3	1	+2	7
Zob Ahan	4	1	2	1	4	5	−1	5
Qatar SC	4	0	3	1	3	4	−1	3
Riffa 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

¹ Riffa withdrew, citing security concerns; they were suspended from AFC competitions for two years.

Feb 11, 2004	Zob Ahan	1–0	Pakhtakor
Feb 25, 2004	Pakhtakor	1–0	Qatar SC
Apr 6, 2004	Zob Ahan	3–3	Qatar SC
Apr 21, 2004	Qatar SC	0–0	Zob Ahan
May 5, 2004	Pakhtakor	2–0	Zob Ahan
May 19, 2004	Qatar SC	0–0	Pakhtakor

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al-Wahda	4	1	3	0	3	0	+3	6
Al Sadd	4	1	2	1	1	1	0	5
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	4	1	1	2	1	4	−3	4
Al Qadisiya 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

¹ On April 20, following the match between Al-Qadisiya and Al-Sadd, Kuwaiti security personnel assaulted the visiting players; Al-Qadisiya were ejected from the competition and banned from AFC competitions for three years. Their record was expunged.

Feb 11, 2004	Al Wahda	0–0	Al Sadd
Feb 25, 2004	Al Sadd	1–0	Al Quwa Al Jawiya
Apr 6, 2004	Al Wahda	3–0	Al Quwa Al Jawiya
Apr 6, 2004	Al Quwa Al Jawiya	0–0	Al Wahda
May 5, 2004	Al Sadd	0–0	Al Wahda
May 18, 2004	Al Quwa Al Jawiya	1–0	Al Sadd

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sharjah	4	3	1	0	10	4	+6	10
Al-Hilal	4	2	1	1	6	6	0	7
Al Shurta	4	0	0	4	3	9	−6	0
Al-Ahli 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

¹ Al-Ahli withdrew following the decision by the Bahraini FA to retain 7 of their players for the national team and Olympic squads for their World Cup and Olympic Games qualifying matches; no penalties were imposed.

Feb 10, 2004	Sharjah	2–0	Al Shurta
Feb 25, 2004	Al Hilal	0–0	Sharjah
Apr 6, 2004	Al Shurta	1–2	Al Hilal
Apr 21, 2004	Al Hilal	2–0	Al Shurta
May 4, 2004	Al Shurta	2–3	Sharjah
May 18, 2004	Sharjah	5–2	Al Hilal

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al-Ittihad	6	4	1	1	14	4	+10	13
Sepahan	6	4	1	1	15	10	+5	13
Al-Arabi	6	2	2	2	8	10	−2	8
Neftchi	6	0	0	6	5	18	−13	0

Feb 10, 2004	Sepahan	4–0	Neftchi
Feb 11, 2004	Al Ittihad	2–0	Al Arabi
Feb 24, 2004	Neftchi	1–3	Al Ittihad
Feb 24, 2004	Al Arabi	2–2	Sepahan
Apr 7, 2004	Sepahan	3–2	Al Ittihad
Apr 20, 2004	Al Ittihad	4–0	Sepahan
Apr 21, 2004	Al Arabi	3–2	Neftchi
May 4, 2004	Neftchi	1–3	Sepahan
May 4, 2004	Al Arabi	0–0	Al-Ittihad
May 18, 2004	Sepahan	3–1	Al Arabi
May 18, 2004	Al-Ittihad	3–0	Neftchi
May 26, 2004	Neftchi	1–2	Al Arabi

Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	6	4	0	2	14	5	+9	12
Jubilo Iwata	6	4	0	2	14	11	+3	12
Shanghai Shenhua	6	3	0	3	7	9	−2	9
BEC Tero	6	1	0	5	6	16	−10	3

Feb 11, 2004	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	1–2	Jubilo Iwata
Feb 11, 2004	BEC Tero	4–1	Shanghai Shenhua
Feb 25, 2004	Jubilo Iwata	3–0	BEC Tero
Feb 25, 2004	Shanghai Shenhua	0–1	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Apr 6, 2004	Jubilo Iwata	2–1	Shanghai Shenhua
Apr 7, 2004	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	4–0	BEC Tero
Apr 20, 2004	BEC Tero	0–4	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Apr 22, 2004	Shanghai Shenhua	3–2	Jubilo Iwata
May 5, 2004	Shanghai Shenhua	1–0	BEC Tero
May 12, 2004	Jubilo Iwata	2–4	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
May 19, 2004	BEC Tero	2–3	Jubilo Iwata
May 19, 2004	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	0–1	Shanghai Shenhua

Group F

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Dalian Shide	6	5	0	1	11	5	+6	15
Hoang Anh	6	2	1	3	10	10	0	7
Krung Thai	6	2	1	3	8	11	−3	7
PSM Makassar	6	2	0	4	9	12	−3	6

Feb 10, 2004	Krung Thai	0–2	Dalian Shide
Feb 11, 2004	Hoang Anh	5–1	PSM Makassar
Feb 24, 2004	Dalian Shide	2–0	Hoang Anh
Feb 25, 2004	PSM Makassar	2–3	Krung Thai
Apr 6, 2004	Hoang Anh	0–1	Krung Thai
Apr 7, 2004	PSM Makassar	0–1	Dalian Shide
Apr 21, 2004	Krung Thai	2–2	Hoang Anh
Apr 21, 2004	Dalian Shide	2–1	PSM Makassar
May 4, 2004	Dalian Shide	3–1	Krung Thai
May 5, 2004	PSM Makassar	3–0	Hoang Anh
May 18, 2004	Hoang Anh	3–1	Dalian Shide
May 18, 2004	Krung Thai	1–2	PSM Makassar

Group G

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	6	5	0	1	24	4	+20	15
Yokohama F. Marinos	6	5	0	1	19	3	+16	15
Persik Kediri	6	1	1	4	5	27	−22	4
Binh Dinh	6	0	1	5	3	17	−14	1

Feb 10, 2004	Binh Dinh	0–3	Yokohama F. Marinos
Feb 11, 2004	Persik Kediri	1–2	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Feb 24, 2004	Yokohama F. Marinos	4–0	Persik Kediri
Feb 25, 2004	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	2–0	Binh Dinh
Apr 7, 2004	Binh Dinh	2–2	Persik Kediri
Apr 7, 2004	Yokohama F. Marinos	1–2	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Apr 21, 2004	Persik Kediri	1–0	Binh Dinh
Apr 21, 2004	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	0–1	Yokohama F. Marinos
May 5, 2004	Yokohama F. Marinos	6–0	Binh Dinh
May 11, 2004	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	15-0	Persik Kediri
May 19, 2004	Persik Kediri	1–4	Yokohama F. Marinos
May 19, 2004	Binh Dinh	1–3	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma

Knock-out stage

Quarter finals

First-leg home team shown first. First-leg home team score shown first for both legs.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Ain (2003 Champion)	1–5	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	0–1	1–4
Dalian Shide	1–2	Al-Ittihad	1–1	0–1
Al-Wahda	1–5	Pakhtakor	1–1	0–4
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	11–2	Sharjah	6–0	5–2

First leg

September 14, 2004

Dalian Shide	1–1	Al-Ittihad
Zou Jie 66'		Mario Carević 25'

People's Stadium, Dalian

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September 14, 2004

Al-Ain	0–1	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
		Luís André Gomes 90+3'

Tahnoun Bin Mohamed Stadium, Al Ain

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September 15, 2004

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	6–0	Sharjah
Kim Do-Hoon 20' Lee Ki-Hyung 49' Dudu 52', 65' (pen.) Do Jae-Joon 81' Denis Laktionov 89'

Seongnam 2 Stadium, Seongnam

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September 15, 2004

Al-Wahda	1–1	Pakhtakor
Antonin Koutouan 10'		Ildar Magdeev 85'

Al-Nahyan Stadium, Abu Dhabi

Second leg

September 21, 2004

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	4–1	Al-Ain
Nam Kung-Do 53' Paulo Rink 69' Luís André Gomes 90+1' Park Dong-Hyuk 90+3'		Rami Yaslam 88'

Jeonju World Cup Stadium, Jeonju

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors won 5–1 on aggregate.

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September 21, 2004

Al-Ittihad	1–0	Dalian Shide
Tukar 68'

PAF Stadium, Jeddah

Al-Ittihad won 2–1 on aggregate.

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September 22, 2004

Pakhtakor	4–0	Al-Wahda
Anvarjon Soliev 21' Vladimir Shishelov 44', 90' Abdullah Salem 86' (o.g.)

Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent

Pakhtakor won 5–1 on aggregate.

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September 22, 2004

Sharjah	2–5	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Simba Ndaye 44' Anderson 66'		Dudu 11', 25' Marcelo 20' Kim Do-Hoon 32' Denis Laktionov 74'

Sharjah Stadium, Sharjah

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma won 11–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

First-leg home team shown first. First-leg home team score shown first for both legs.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Ittihad	4–3	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	2–1	2–2
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	2–0	Pakhtakor	0–0	2–0

First leg

October 19, 2004

Al-Ittihad	2–1	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Noor 27' Montashari 87'		Botti 85'

PAF Stadium, Jeddah

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October 20, 2004

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	0–0	Pakhtakor

Seongnam 2 Stadium, Seongnam

Second leg

October 26, 2004

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	2–2	Al-Ittihad
Paulo Rink 32' Botti 43'		Tcheco 68' (pen.) Osama 89'

Jeonju World Cup Stadium, Jeonju

Al-Ittihad won 4–3 on aggregate.

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October 27, 2004

Pakhtakor	0–2	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
		Kim Do-Hoon 37' Dudu 56'

Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma won 2–0 on aggregate.

Final

First-leg home team shown first. First-leg home team score shown first for both legs.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Ittihad	6–3	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	1–3	5–0

First leg

November 24, 2004

Al-Ittihad	1–3	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Tukar 28'		Denis Laktionov 26' Kim Do-Hoon 80' Jang Hak-Young 88'

PAF Stadium, Jeddah

Second leg

December 1, 2004

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	0–5	Al-Ittihad
		Tukar 29' Idris 45+4' Noor 56', 78' Abushgeer 90+5'

Seongnam 2 Stadium, Seongnam

Al-Ittihad won 6–3 on aggregate.

Champions

2004 AFC Champions League Al-Ittihad First Title

External links

• AFC Champions League 2004 Official Page (English)
• AFC Champions League 2004 at RSSSF.com