1997–98 Asian Club Championship

The 1997–98 Asian Club Championship was the 17th 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.

1997–1998 Asian Club Championship
Tournament details
Dates?? 1997 – April 1998
Teams29
Final positions
ChampionsSouth Korea Pohang Steelers (2nd title)
Runners-upChina Dalian Wanda
Third placeSaudi Arabia Al-Hilal
Fourth placeIran Persepolis
Tournament statistics
Matches played58
Goals scored187 (3.22 per match)
Best player(s)Saudi Arabia Ahmed Al-Dokhi[1]

Pohang Steelers of South Korea won their 2nd consecutive Asian Champions title, beating Dalian Wanda 6–5 on penalties.

First round edit

West Asia edit

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Sur   0–9   Al-Zawraa 0–5 0–4
Al-Ansar   3–1   Al-Arabi 2–1 1–0
Al-Wahda   w/o1   Al-Nasr
Riffa   w/o2   Al-Rayyan
Metallurg Kadamjay   2–4   Dynamo Dushanbe 2–13 0–3

Byes: Al-Hilal (Saudi Arabia), Navbahor Namangan (Uzbekistan), Nisa Aşgabat (Turkmenistan), Persepolis FC (Iran), Taraz Zhambyl (Kazakhstan).

1 Al-Nasr withdrew.
2 Riffa withdrew.
3 First leg also reported 1–2.

East Asia edit

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Pohang Steelers   13–0   Mohammedan SC 11–0 2–0
Victory SC   4–3   Mahendra Police 3–2 1–1
Finance and Revenue   4–0   Saunders SC 1–0 3–0
Churchill Brothers   1–2   Đồng Tháp F.C. 0–1 1–1
Persebaya Surabaya   2–6   Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i 1–2 1–4
Kashima Antlers   8–2   Geylang United 6–1 2–1
Selangor FA   0–2   South China 0–0 0–2
Dalian Wanda   4–2   Bangkok Bank 4–2 0–0

Intermediate Round edit

Central Asia edit

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Navbahor Namangan   4–2   Dynamo Dushanbe 3–0 1–2
Taraz Zhambyl   2–4   Nisa Aşgabat 2–2 0–2

Second round edit

West Asia edit

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Al-Ansar   4–0   Al-Wahda 2–0 2–0
Al-Zawraa   0–2   Persepolis 0–0 0–2
Al-Hilal   3–2   Al-Rayyan 3–2 0–0
Navbahor Namangan   8–3   Nisa Aşgabat 6–1 2–2

East Asia edit

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Pohang Steelers   15–0   Victory SC 3–0 12–0
Finance and Revenue   4–4 (a)   Đồng Tháp F.C. 0–1 4–3
Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i   2–6   Kashima Antlers 1–5 1–1
South China   1–6   Dalian Wanda 0–4 1–2

Quarterfinals edit

West Asia edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Persepolis 3 2 1 0 3 1 +2 7
  Al-Hilal 3 2 0 1 6 3 +3 6
  Navbahor Namangan 3 0 2 1 2 4 −2 2
  Al-Ansar 3 0 1 2 1 4 −3 1
Al-Hilal  0–1  Persepolis
Mehdi Mahdavikia  

Al-Ansar  0–0  Navbahor Namangan

Al-Hilal  3–1  Navbahor Namangan



Al-Ansar  1–3  Al-Hilal

East Asia edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Pohang Steelers 3 2 0 1 8 4 +4 6
  Dalian Wanda 3 2 0 1 7 4 +3 6
  Kashima Antlers 3 2 0 1 6 3 +3 6
  Finance and Revenue 3 0 0 3 2 12 −10 0
Dalian Wanda  4–1  Finance and Revenue
Wang Tao   20'
Hao Haidong   26'   36'
Li Ming   46'
Win Aung   1'
Attendance: 8,000

Pohang Steelers  2–1  Kashima Antlers
Park Tae-Ha   36'
Lee Dong-Gook   56'
Jorginho   58'
Attendance: 7,000

Kashima Antlers  3–0  Finance and Revenue
Toru Oniki   52'
Takayuki Suzuki   88'   89'
Attendance: 7,000

Pohang Steelers  1–2  Dalian Wanda
Serhiy Konovalov   66' Wu Chengying   74'
Wei Yimin   79'
Attendance: 12,000

Finance and Revenue  1–5  Pohang Steelers
Aung Naining   55' Baek Seung-Chul   15'
Lee Dong-Gook   56'
Serhiy Konovalov   60'
Park Tae-Ha   81'   88'
Attendance: 22,000

Dalian Wanda  1–2  Kashima Antlers
Li Ming   70' Yasuo Manaka   47'   75'
Attendance: 24,000

Semifinals edit


Third place match edit

Final edit

References edit

  1. ^ "الدوخي أفضل لاعب في البطولة". al-jazirah.com (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2 September 2021. Retrieved 2 September 2021.