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1996–97 Asian Club Championship

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.

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 played51
Goals scored155 (3.04 per match)
Top scorer(s)South Korea Park Tae-Ha
Best player(s)South Korea An Ik-Soo
Fair play awardIraq Al-Zawraa
← 1995

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 edit

West Asia edit

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
FK Neftchy Farg'ona   8–2   Pamir Dushanbe 4–1 4–1
AiK Bishkek   3–6   Yelimay Semipalatinsk 2–4 1–2
Köpetdag Aşgabat   0–1   Persepolis 0–0 0–1
Kazma   10–1   Dhofar 9–0 1–1
West Riffa   2-4   Nejmeh 2–1 0–3
Al-Nassr   w/o1   Al-Sharjah
Al-Rayyan   bye
Al-Zawraa   bye

1 Al-Sharjah withdrew.

East Asia edit

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

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

Second round edit

West Asia edit

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Al-Zawraa   3–1   FK Neftchy Farg'ona 1–0 2–1
Yelimay Semipalatinsk   3–5   Persepolis 3–0 0–5
Nejmeh   1–4   Al-Nassr 1–0 0–4
Al-Kazma   1–2   Al-Rayyan 0–1 1–1

East Asia edit

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

Quarterfinals edit

West Asia edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Persepolis 3 2 0 1 6 5 +1 6
  Al-Zawraa 3 1 1 1 3 2 +1 4
  Al-Nassr 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 4
  Al-Rayyan 3 1 0 2 3 5 −2 3
Source: [citation needed]
Al-Rayyan  2–1  Al-Nassr
Zamel Essa   55'
Mohammed Salem Al-Enazi   62'		 Majed Abdullah   72'
Persepolis  2–1  Al-Zawraa
Reza Shahroudi   39'
Edmond Bezik   75'		 Abbas   71'
Al-Nassr  3–2  Persepolis
Ohene Kennedy   70'   87'   89' Edmond Bezik   62'
Khodadad Azizi   75'
Al-Zawraa  2–0  Al-Rayyan
Attiya   40'
Mahdi   55'
Al-Rayyan  1–2  Persepolis
Mohamed Mutlaq   65' Khodadad Azizi   44'   89'
Al-Nassr  0–0  Al-Zawraa

East Asia edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma 3 2 1 0 12 2 +10 7
  Pohang Steelers 3 1 2 0 8 2 +6 5
  Yokohama Marinos 3 1 1 1 14 5 +9 4
  New Radiant 3 0 0 3 0 25 −25 0
Source: [citation needed]
Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma  9–0  New Radiant
Lee Sang-Yoon   15'
Kim Dong-Gun   37'   59'
Hwang Yeon-Seok   44'
Lee Ki-Beom   51'
Han Jung-Guk   68'   73'
Gennadi Stepouchkine   69'
Alex Agbo   89'
Pohang Steelers  2–2  Yokohama Marinos
Lee Young-Sang   48'
Rade Bogdanović   75'		 Alberto Acosta   32'
Fumitake Miura   39'
New Radiant  0–6  Pohang Steelers
Cho Jin-Ho   32'   49' (pen.)   83'   89'
Serhiy Konovalov   34'   61'
Yokohama Marinos  2–3  Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma
Alberto Acosta   34'
Satoru Noda   57'		 Lee Sang-Yoon   14'   51'
Hwang Yeon-Seok   60'
Yokohama Marinos  10–0  New Radiant
Masaharu Suzuki   4'
Alberto Acosta   12'  28'  38'  57'  89'
Yoshito Terakawa   13'   35'
Yoshiharu Ueno   40'
Tomokazu Hirama   75'
Pohang Steelers  0–0  Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma

Semifinals edit

Persepolis  1–3  Pohang Steelers
Khodadad Azizi   88' Park Tae-Ha   9'   86'
Yahya Golmohammadi   55' (o.g.)
Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma  1–0  Al-Zawraa
Kim Chang-Won   42'

Third place match edit

Persepolis  4–1  Al-Zawraa
Edmond Bezik   20'
Mehdi Mahdavikia   30'
Karim Bagheri   65'   80'		 Fawzi   8'

Final edit

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Pohang Steelers  2–1 (a.e.t.)  Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma
Park Tae-Ha   78'
Park Ji-Ho   117'  (pen.)		 Hong Jong-Kyoung   79'
Referee: Nik Ahmad (Malaysia)

Awards edit

Award[2] Player Team
Sanyo Most Valuable Player   An Ik-Soo   Pohang Steelers
Coca-Cola Best Defender   An Ik-Soo   Pohang Steelers
Diadora Top Goalscorer   Park Tae-Ha   Pohang Steelers
Snickers Fair Play Award —   Al-Zawraa

References edit

  1. ^ "Pohang's golden goal tilts it". New Straits Times. 10 March 1997. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  2. ^ "1996 ASIAN CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP". Asian Football Confederation. 7 July 1997. Archived from the original on 7 July 1997.
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