Liga Champions AFC 2007

Liga Champions AFC 2007

Informasi turnamen
Jadwal penyelenggaraan	Maret 2007 - November 2007
Jumlah tim peserta	28
Hasil turnamen
Juara	Urawa Red Diamonds (gelar ke-1)
Tempat kedua	Sepahan
Statistik turnamen
Jumlah pertandingan	92
Jumlah gol	230 (2,5 per pertandingan)
Pemain terbaik	Yuichiro Nagai (Urawa Red Diamonds)
Pencetak gol terbanyak	Mota (7 gol)
← 2006 2008 →

Liga Champions AFC 2007 adalah edisi ke-26 dari turnamen tingkat pertama klub-klub sepak bola Asia dan edisi ke-5 dengan nama Liga Champions AFC.

Klub Jepang Urawa Red Diamonds menjadi juara untuk pertama kalinya, mengalahkan Sepahan dari Iran dan menjadi klub Jepang keempat yang memenangkan kejuaraan tingkat Asia.

Klub peserta

Along with the defending champion, Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, 28 other clubs from fourteen countries qualified based on performance in domestic league and cup competitions. Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors entered the competition at the quarter-finals.

The draw took place in Kuala Lumpur on December 22, allocating teams into seven groups. In February, the AFC disqualified Esteghlal Tehran from Group B for failing to register their players in time.^[1] This reduced the number of competing teams to 28.

Defending Champions (1)
Korea Republic (1)	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors (2006 AFC Champions League winners)
East Asia & ASEAN (12)
Australia (2)†	Adelaide United (2005–06 A-League premiers) Sydney FC (2005–06 A-League champions)
China (2)	Shandong Luneng Taishan (2006 Chinese Super League champions and 2006 Chinese FA Cup winners) Shanghai Shenhua (2006 Chinese Super League runners-up)
Indonesia (2)	Persik Kediri (2006 Liga Indonesia Premier Division champions) Arema Malang (2006 Copa Indonesia winners)
Japan (2)	Urawa Red Diamonds (2006 J. League Division 1 champions and 2006–07 Emperor's Cup winners) Kawasaki Frontale (2006 J. League Division 1 runners-up)
Korea Republic (2)	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma (2006 K-League champions) Chunnam Dragons (2006 Korean FA Cup winners)
Thailand (1)†	Bangkok University FC (2006 Thailand Premier League champions)
Vietnam (1)†	Gach Dong Tam Long An (2006 V-League champions)
Central & South Asia and West Asia (16) (15)
Iran (2) (1)	Esteghlal Tehran (2005–06 Iran Pro League champions) Sepahan (2005–06 Hazfi Cup winners)
Iraq (2)	Al-Zawraa (2005–06 Iraqi Premier League champions) Najaf FC (2005–06 Iraqi Premier League runners-up)
Kuwait (2)	Al Kuwait Kaifan (2005–06 Kuwaiti Premier League champions) Al-Arabi (2006 Kuwait Emir Cup winners)
Qatar (2)	Al Sadd (2005–06 Qatar Stars League champions) Al-Rayyan (2006 Emir of Qatar Cup winners)
Saudi Arabia (2)	Al-Shabab (2005–06 Saudi Premier League champions) Al-Hilal (2005–06 Saudi Crown Prince Cup winners)
Syria (2)	Al-Karamah (2005–06 Syrian League champions) Al Ittihad (2005–06 Syrian Cup winners)
UAE (2)	Al-Wahda (2005–06 UAE Football League runners-up) Al Ain Club (2005–06 UAE Emir Cup winners)
Uzbekistan (2)	FC Pakhtakor (2006 Uzbek League champions and 2006 Uzbekistani Cup winners) Neftchi Farg'ona (2006 Uzbek League runners-up)

Format

Group Stage

A total of 28 clubs are divided into 7 groups of four, based on region i.e. East Asian and Southeast Asian clubs are drawn in Group E to F, while rest are grouped in Group A to D. Each club plays double round-robin (home and away) against fellow three group members, a total of 6 matches each. Clubs receive 3pts for a win, 1pt for a tie, 0pts for a loss. The clubs are ranked according to points and tie breakers are in following order:

• Points earned between the clubs in question
• Goal Differential between the clubs in question
• Points earned within the group
• Goal Differential within the group
• Goal For within the group

The seven group winners along with the defending champions qualifies to the quarter-finals.

Knockout Round

All 8 clubs are randomly matched; however, the only restriction is that the clubs from same country cannot face each other in the quarterfinals. The games are conduced in 2 legs, home and away, and the aggregates goals decides the match winner. If the aggregate goals cannot produce an winner, away goal rules in used. If still tied, clubs play extra time, where away goal rule still applies. If stilled tied, the game goes to penalties.

Babak grup

Babak grup dimainkan pada 7 dan 21 Maret, 11 dan 25 April, serta 9 dan 23 Mei 2007.

Grup A

Pos	Tim	Main	M	S	K	MG	KG	SG	Poin	Kualifikasi
1	Al-Wahda	6	4	1	1	13	6	+7	13	Lolos ke babak gugur
2	Al-Zawraa	6	3	2	1	9	6	+3	11
3	Al-Arabi	6	2	1	3	10	12	−2	7
4	Al-Rayyan	6	0	2	4	3	11	−8	2

---

---

---

---

---

Grup B

Pos	Tim	Main	M	S	K	MG	KG	SG	Poin	Kualifikasi
1	Al-Hilal	4	2	2	0	5	1	+4	8	Lolos ke babak gugur
2	Pakhtakor	4	2	0	2	3	5	−2	6
3	Al Kuwait	4	0	2	2	2	4	−2	2
4	Esteghlal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0[a]	Diskualifikasi

---

---

---

---

---

Grup C

Pos	Tim	Main	M	S	K	MG	KG	SG	Poin	Kualifikasi
1	Al-Karamah	6	3	2	1	11	7	+4	11	Lolos ke babak gugur
2	Neftchi	6	3	1	2	6	7	−1	10
3	Najaf FC	6	2	2	2	9	8	+1	8
4	Al Sadd	6	1	1	4	6	10	−4	4

---

---

---

---

---

Grup D

Pos	Tim	Main	M	S	K	MG	KG	SG	Poin	Kualifikasi
1	Sepahan	6	4	1	1	12	5	+7	13	Lolos ke babak gugur
2	Al-Shabab	6	3	1	2	9	3	+6	10
3	Al Ain	6	1	3	2	5	8	−3	6
4	Al-Ittihad	6	0	3	3	3	13	−10	3

---

---

---

---

---

Grup E

Pos	Tim	Main	M	S	K	MG	KG	SG	Poin	Kualifikasi
1	Urawa Red Diamonds	6	2	4	0	9	5	+4	10	Lolos ke babak gugur
2	Sydney FC	6	2	3	1	8	5	+3	9
3	Persik Kediri	6	2	1	3	6	16	−10	7
4	Shanghai Shenhua	6	1	2	3	7	4	+3	5

---

---

---

---

---

Grup F

Pos	Tim	Main	M	S	K	MG	KG	SG	Poin	Kualifikasi
1	Kawasaki Frontale	6	5	1	0	15	4	+11	16	Lolos ke babak gugur
2	Chunnam Dragons	6	3	1	2	7	8	−1	10
3	Arema Malang	6	1	1	4	2	9	−7	4
4	Bangkok University	6	0	3	3	4	7	−3	3

---

---

---

---

---

Grup G

Pos	Tim	Main	M	S	K	MG	KG	SG	Poin	Kualifikasi
1	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	6	4	1	1	13	6	+7	13	Lolos ke babak gugur
2	Shandong Luneng Taishan	6	4	1	1	12	8	+4	13
3	Adelaide United	6	2	2	2	9	6	+3	8
4	Gach Dong Tam Long An	6	0	0	6	4	18	−14	0

---

---

---

---

---

Babak gugur

Peta

	Perempat final						Semifinal						Final
	Sepahan (a.p.)	0	0	0 (5)
	Kawasaki Frontale	0	0	0 (4)
							Sepahan	3	0	3
							Al-Wahda	1	0	1
	Al-Wahda (p.g.t.)	0	1	1
	Al-Hilal	0	1	1
													Sepahan	1	0	1
													Urawa Red Diamonds	1	2	3
	Seognam Ilhwa Chunma	2	2	4
	Al-Karamah	1	0	1
							Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	2	2	4 (3)
							Urawa Red Diamonds (a.p.)	2	2	4 (5)
	Urawa Red Diamonds	2	2	4
	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	1	0	1

Perempat final

Tim 1	Agregat	Tim 2	Leg 1	Leg 2
Sepahan	0–0 (5–4 a.p.)	Kawasaki Frontale	0–0	0–0 (p.w.)
Al-Wahda	1–1 (p.g.t.)	Al-Hilal	0–0	1–1
Seognam Ilhwa Chunma	4–1	Al-Karamah	2–1	2–0
Urawa Red Diamonds	4–1	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	2–1	2–0

Aggregat 0–0. Sepahan menang pada adu penalti dengan skor 5–4.

---

Aggregat 1–1. Al-Wahda menang menurut peraturan gol tandang.

---

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma menang dengan aggregat 4–1.

---

Urawa Red Diamonds menang dengan aggregat 4–1.

Semifinal

Tim 1	Agregat	Tim 2	Leg 1	Leg 2
Sepahan	3–1	Al-Wahda	3–1	0–0
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	4–4 (3–5 a.p.)	Urawa Red Diamonds	2–2	2–2 (p.w.)

Aggregat 4–4. Urawa Red Diamonds menang pada adu penalti dengan skor 5–3.

---

Sepahan menang dengan aggregat 3–1.

Final

Tim 1	Agregat	Tim 2	Leg 1	Leg 2
Sepahan	1–3	Urawa Red Diamonds	1–1	0–2

---

Urawa Red Diamonds menang dengan aggregat 3–1.

Juara

Liga Champions AFC 2007
Urawa Red Diamonds Gelar pertama

Pencetak gol terbanyak

Peringkat	Pemain	Klub	Gol
1	Mota	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	7
2	Mehdi Seyed Salehi	Sepahan	5
	Kim Dong Hyun	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
4	Steve Corica	Sydney FC	4
	Rodrigão	Al-Hilal
	Firas Al Khatib	Al-Arabi
	Saeed Mohsen	Najaf FC
	Travis Dodd	Adelaide United
	Robson Ponte	Urawa Red Diamonds
10	Magnum	Kawasaki Frontale	3
	Juninho	Kawasaki Frontale
	Kengo Nakamura	Kawasaki Frontale
	Wang Yongpo	Shandong Luneng Taishan
	Li Jinyu	Shandong Luneng Taishan
	Emad Mohammed	Sepahan
	Mahmoud Karimi	Sepahan
	Fernando	Adelaide United FC
	Mamadou Bagayoko	Al-Wahda
	Waleed Al Gizani	Al-Shabab
	Diego Alonso	Shanghai Shenhua
	Iyad Mando	Al-Karamah
	Senghor Koupouleni	Al-Karamah
	Tatsuya Tanaka	Urawa Red Diamonds
	Yuichiro Nagai	Urawa Red Diamonds
	Yuki Abe	Urawa Red Diamonds
	Choi Sung-Kuk	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma

Lihat juga

• Piala Dunia Antarklub FIFA 2007

Pranala luar

• AFC Champions League Official Page (English) Diarsipkan 2006-07-21 di Wayback Machine.
• AFC Calendar of Events 2007
• Champions League 2007, Group Stage Draw from official site.
• Champions League 2007, Knockout Stage Draw from official site.

Referensi