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1996–1997 Asian Club Championship
Tournament details
Dates?? 1996 – March 1997
Teams26
Final positions
ChampionsSouth Korea Pohang Steelers (1st title)
Runners-upSouth Korea Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma
Third placeIran Persepolis
Fourth placeIraq Al-Zawraa
Tournament statistics
Matches played50
Goals scored155 (3.1 per match)
Top scorer(s)South Korea Park Tae-Ha
Best player(s)South Korea An Ik-Soo
Fair play awardIraq Al-Zawraa
1995

The 1996–97 Asian Club Championship was the 16th 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.

Pohang Steelers of South Korea won the final and became Asian champions for the first time after beating Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma in the first ever Asian top club tournament that ended in a one-country final.

First round

West Asia

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
FK Neftchy Farg'ona Uzbekistan 8–2 Tajikistan Pamir Dushanbe 4–1 4–1
AiK Bishkek Kyrgyzstan 3–6 Kazakhstan Yelimay Semipalatinsk 2–4 1–2
Köpetdag Aşgabat Turkmenistan 0–1 Iran Persepolis FC 0–0 0–1
Kazma Kuwait 10–1 Oman Dhofar 9–0 1–1
West Riffa Bahrain 2-4 Lebanon Al-Nejmeh 2–1 0–3
Al-Nasr Saudi Arabia w/o4 United Arab Emirates Al-Sharjah
Al-Rayyan Qatar bye
Al-Zawraa Iraq bye

2 Al-Sharjah withdrew.

East Asia

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Shanghai Shenhua China 9–2 Hong Kong Instant-Dict FC 7–1 2–1
Công an Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh Vietnam 1–2 Malaysia Johor F.C. 0–1 1–1(a.e.t.)
JCT FC India 2–2 (4–2p) Nepal New Road Team 1–1 1–1
PSM Makassar Indonesia 1–4 South Korea Pohang Steelers 1–0 0–4
New Radiant Maldives 1–0 Sri Lanka Pettah United SC 1–0 n/p1
Yokohama Marinos Japan w/o2 Macau GD Artilheiros
Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma South Korea bye
Thai Farmers Bank FC Thailand bye

1 The 2nd leg was cancelled due to political violence in Sri Lanka.
2 GD Artilheiros withdrew.

Second round

West Asia

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Al-Zawraa Iraq 3–1 Uzbekistan FK Neftchy Farg'ona 1–0 2–1
Yelimay Semipalatinsk Kazakhstan 3–5 Iran Persepolis FC 3–0 0–5
Al-Nejmeh Lebanon 1–4 Saudi Arabia Al-Nasr 1–0 0–4
Al-Kazma Kuwait 1–2 Qatar Al-Rayyan 0–1 1–1

East Asia

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma South Korea 1–0 China Shanghai Shenhua 0–0 1–0
Yokohama Marinos Japan 3–1 Malaysia Johor F.C. 2–0 1–1
JCT FC India 1–2 Maldives New Radiant 1–0 0–2
Thai Farmers Bank FC Thailand 1–5 South Korea Pohang Steelers 1–3 0–2

Quarterfinals

West Asia

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Iran Persepolis FC 3 2 0 1 6 5 +1 6
Iraq Al-Zawraa 3 1 1 1 3 2 +1 4
Saudi Arabia Al-Nasr 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 4
Qatar Al-Rayyan 3 1 0 2 3 5 −2 3
Source: [citation needed]
Al-Rayyan Qatar2–1Saudi Arabia Al-Nasr
Zamel Essa 55'
Mohammed Salem Al-Enazi 62'
Majed Abdullah 72'


Al-Nasr Saudi Arabia3–2Iran Persepolis FC
Ohene Kennedy 70' 87' 89' Edmond Bezik 62'
Khodadad Azizi 75'

Al-Zawraa Iraq2–0Qatar Al-Rayyan
Moayad Attiya 40'
Mohamed Medhi 55'

Al-Rayyan Qatar1–2Iran Persepolis FC
Mohamed Mutlaq 65' Khodadad Azizi 44' 89'

Al-Nasr Saudi Arabia0–0Iraq Al-Zawraa

East Asia

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
South Korea Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma 3 2 1 0 12 2 +10 7
South Korea Pohang Steelers 3 1 2 0 8 2 +6 5
Japan Yokohama Marinos 3 1 1 1 14 5 +9 4
Maldives New Radiant 3 0 0 3 0 25 −25 0
Source: [citation needed]


New Radiant Maldives0–6South Korea Pohang Steelers
Cho Jin-Ho 32' 49' (pen.) 83' 89'
Serhiy Konovalov 34' 61'


Yokohama Marinos Japan10–0Maldives New Radiant
M. Suzuki 4'
Alberto Acosta 12' 28' 38' 57' 89'
Yoshito Terakawa 13' 35'
Y. Uena 40'
T. Hirama 75'

Semifinals


Third place match

Final

Awards

Award[1] Player Team
Sanyo Most Valuable Player South Korea An Ik-Soo South Korea Pohang Steelers
Coca-Cola Best Defender South Korea An Ik-Soo South Korea Pohang Steelers
Diadora Top Goalscorer South Korea Park Tae-Ha South Korea Pohang Steelers
Snickers Fair Play Award Iraq Al-Zawraa

References

  1. ^ "1996 ASIAN CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP". Asian Football Confederation. 7 July 1997.