2010 AFC Champions League final explained

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Event:2010 AFC Champions League
Team1:Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Team1association:
Team1score:3
Team2:Zob Ahan
Team2association:
Team2score:1
Date:13 November 2010
Stadium:National Stadium
City:Tokyo
Man Of The Match1a:Saša Ognenovski (Seongnam)
Man Of The Match1atitle:AFC
Man Of The Match1b:Saša Ognenovski (Seongnam)
Man Of The Match1btitle:Fans'
Referee:Yuichi Nishimura (Japan)
Attendance:27,308
Weather:Fine
Previous:2009
Next:2011

The 2010 AFC Champions League Final was a football match which was played on Saturday, 13 November 2010. It was the 29th final of the AFC Champions League, Asia's premier club football tournament. The match was played at the National Stadium in Tokyo and was contested by Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma of South Korea and Zob Ahan from Iran. For Seongnam this was the fourth appearance in the final of the main AFC tournament, after two consecutive Asian Club Championship finals in 1996 and 1997 and AFC Champions League final in 2004, with one trophy been won in 1996. Zob Ahan was a debutant of the final stage.

The winners entered the quarterfinals of the 2010 FIFA Club World Cup.

Seongnam won 3–1 to clinch the title.[1]

Qualified teams

TeamPrevious finals appearances (bold indicates winners)
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma1995, 1997, 2004
Zob AhanNone

Road to Tokyo

Seongnam Ilhwa ChunmaRoundZob Ahan
width=200 Teamwidth=20 width=20 width=20 width=20 width=20 width=20 width=20 width=20
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma6501116+515
Beijing Guoan631275+210
Kawasaki Frontale62048806
Melbourne Victory6114310−74
Group stage
width=175 Teamwidth=20 width=20 width=20 width=20 width=20 width=20 width=20 width=20
Zob Ahan641183+513
Bunyodkor6312107+310
Al-Ittihad622297+28
Al-Wahda6105313−103
OpponentResultLegsKnockout stageOpponentResultLegs
Gamba Osaka3–0One-leg match playedRound of 16 Mes Kerman1–0One-leg match played
Suwon Samsung Bluewings4–34–1 home; 0–2 awayQuarterfinals Pohang Steelers3–22–1 home; 1–1 away
Al-Shabab4–4 (a)1–0 home; 3–4 awaySemifinals Al-Hilal2–01–0 home; 1–0 away

Match details

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GK 1 Jung Sung-ryong
CB 24 Kim Tae-yoon
CB 5 Cho Byung-kuk
CB 4 Saša Ognenovski (c)
RM 2 Ko Jae-sung
CM 16 Kim Sung-hwan
CM 17 Kim Cheol-ho
LM 14
AM 30
AM 11 Mauricio Molina
CF 9
Substitutes
DF 3 Yun Young-sun
DF 13 Jeong Ho-jeong
FW 18
FW 20
FW 28 Moon Dae-seong
DF 38 Yong Hyun-jin
GK 41 Kang Sung-kwan
Manager
Shin Tae-yong
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GK 1 Shahab Gordan
RB 2 Mohammad Hosseini
CB 3
CB 4 Farshid Talebi
LB 25
CM 14 Ghasem Hadadifar (c)
CM 19
CM 15
RF 31
CF 30
LF 9 Mohammad Reza Khalatbari
Substitutes
DF 5
FW 10
GK 12 Abbas Ghasemi
MF 17
DF 23 Ahmad Mohammadpour
MF 24 Alireza Hadadifar
FW 32 Jalal Rafkhaei
Manager
Mansour Ebrahimzadeh
AFC Man of the Match:
Saša Ognenovski (Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma)

Association referees


Toru Sagara (Japan)
Toshiyuki Nagi (Japan)
Fourth official


Hiroyoshi Takayama (Japan)

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Seongnam seal ACL glory. 2010-11-13. the-afc.com. 2010-11-13.