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2008–09 Arab Champions League

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Runners-up
  
Wydad Casablanca

Teams
  
35

Matches played
  
62

Period
  
2008 – 22 May 2009

Goals scored
  
140

Dates
  
4 October 2008 – 22 May 2009

Top scorer(s)
  
Abdelmalek Ziaya Mahmoud Shelbaieh Rafik Abdessamad(5 goals each)

Champion
  
Espérance Sportive de Tunis

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2007–08 Arab Champions League

The 6th edition of Arab Champions League, The 2008–2009 is going to play as a knockout stage from 35 clubs, The Algerian club ES Sétif entered automatically as 2007–08 champion.

Contents

The Format

  • Each federation enter with (1~2) teams from their top Leagues
    • – The teams must be one of the top 5 teams in the latest season, or Cup Champions/Runners-up.
  • The Number of teams of each federation enters based on the previous editions results of the Arab Champions League
  • The official sponsor ART can choose the rest teams to complete the 32 teams, so it may can reach 3 teams from one country
    • – It's not necessary to be one of the top 5 teams.
  • The Algerian club ES Sétif entered automatically as 2007–08 champion.

    • Participated teams

  • 35 clubs will be competing from the following countries.

    • The System

  • The Qualifying: Knock out stage
  • Round 32: Knock out stage
  • Round 16: Knock out stage
  • Round 8: Knock out stage
  • Semifinals and final: Knock out stage

    • The Awards

  • The Champions: 1,000,000 $
  • The Runner-up: 650,000 $
  • Round 4: 200,000 $
  • Round 8: 100,000 $
  • Round 16: 40,000 $
  • Round 32: 20,000 $
  • Qualifying: 5,000 $

    • The Qualifying Stage

  • 4 teams play 1 leg match as Knock out stage.
  • 1 team quaify to the next stage (Round 32).

    • Round 32

    32 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.

    1 The Kuwaiti clubs' matches canceled due to FIFA's freezing of the membership of the Kuwait Football Association.2 Al-Shaab withdrew.

    Round 32 Matches Dates

  • The first legs on 28 and 29 October 2008
  • The second legs on 25 and 26 November 2008

    • Round 16

    16 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.

    Round 16 Matches

    1 Al-Hilal Omdurman withdrew.

    Round 16 Matches Dates

  • The first legs on 16 December 2008
  • The second legs on 26 December 2008

    • Quarter finals

    8 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.

    Quarter Final Match Dates

  • The first legs between 1 March 2009 and 4 March 2009
  • The second legs between 19 March 2009 and 21 March −2009

    • Semi finals

    4 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.

    Top scorers

  • Source: Goalzz.com

    • References

    2008–09 Arab Champions League Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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