2001 Arab Club Champions Cup Explained

Tourney Name:Arab Club Champions Cup
Year:2001
Other Titles:بطولة الأندية العربية لأبطال الدوري 2001
Country:Qatar
City:Doha
Num Teams:10
Associations:1
Venues:1
Cities:1
Champion Other: Al Sadd SC
Count:1
Second Other: MC Oran
Matches:15
Goals:53
Top Scorer: Bouchaib El Moubarki (6 goals)
Player: Karim Bagheri[1]
Goalkeeper: Ahmed Khalil
Fair Play: Al-Ahli Sana'a
Prevseason:2000
Nextseason:2002

The 2001 Arab Club Champions Cup edition, called Prince Faisal bin Fahd Cup, was won by Qatari side Al Sadd SC, the hosts. It was the 17th tournament and was held from 28 November to 12 December 2001.

Participants

Participants
ZoneTeamQualifying method
Al-SaddHosts
CS SfaxienHolders
Zone 1 Al-Rayyan SCReplaced Al-Ain FC
Zone 2 Al-Ahli Jeddah1999–2000 Saudi Premier League runners-up
Al-Ahli Sana'a1999–2000 Yemeni League winners
Zone 3 MC Oran1999–2000 Algerian Championship runners-up
Zone 4 Al-Faisaly2000 Jordan League winners
Hutteen1999–2000 Syrian League runners-up

Preliminary stage

Zone 1 (Gulf Area)

Qualification from GCC Champions League held in Al Ain on 2001.

----------------Al-Ain qualified but withdrew the tournament, Al-Rayyan replaced it

Zone 2 (Red Sea)

The qualifying tournament took place in Jeddah.--------Al-Ahli Jeddah and Al-Ahli Sana'a' advanced to the final tournament.

Zone 3 (North Africa)

First Round
Second RoundMC Oran advanced to the final tournament.

Zone 4 (East Region)

The qualifying tournament took place in Amman. Nejmeh was disqualified from the qualifying tournament because the fifa has frozen the activity of the Lebanese Football Association.[2]

--------Al-Faisaly and Hutteen advanced to the final tournament.

Final tournament

Venues

Doha
Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium
Capacity: 18,000

Group stage

The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four. Each group was played on one leg basis. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the semi-finals.

Group A

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Group B

Al-Faisaly SC withdrew from the tournament after the first match after contesting the referee falsely, the result was annulled.[3]
Al Rayyan SC replaced Al Ain SC who withdrew from the tournament.

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Knock-out stage

Semifinals

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Final

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jazirah newspaper 2001-12-11 .
  2. Web site: الفيصلي يفوز على حطين ويصالح جماهيره في ختام بطولة الأندية العربية . . 28 July 2001.
  3. Web site: انسحاب الفيصلي بعد تعادله مع الصفاقسي . . 2001 .