2007 AFC Champions League final

2007 AFC Champions League final
Event2007 AFC Champions League
Sepahan Urawa Red Diamonds
1 3
First leg
Sepahan Urawa Red Diamonds
1 1
Date7 November 2007
VenueFoolad Shahr Stadium, Fooladshahr
RefereeSubkhiddin Mohd Salleh
Attendance30,000
Second leg
Urawa Red Diamonds Sepahan
2 0
Date14 November 2007
VenueSaitama Stadium, Saitama
RefereeRavshan Irmatov
Attendance59,034

The 2007 AFC Champions League Final was a two-legged association football tie to determine the 2007 champions of Asian club football. Urawa Red Diamonds from Japan defeated Iran's Sepahan 3-1 on aggregate to take the title. The first leg took place on 7 November 2007 at 16:00 local time (UTC+3:30) at Foolad Shahr Stadium in Fooladshahr, Isfahan in Iran and the second leg took place on 14 November 2007 at 19:20 local time (UTC+9) at Saitama Stadium, Saitama, Japan.

This was the first final to feature clubs from Iran and Japan. This was the first AFC Champions League final involving an Iranian club, and the first in an Asian top club football competition since PAS Tehran in the 1992–93 Asian Club Championship. The winners, Urawa Red Diamonds, received US$600,000 prize money and qualified to represent Asia in the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup. Although they were defeated, Sepahan still competed in the FIFA Club World Cup by replacing the normal host country berth, which is reserved for the J. League champions.

Format

The rules for the final were exactly the same as for the previous knockout rounds. The tie was contested over two legs with away goals deciding the winner if the two teams were level on goals after the second leg. If the teams could still not be separated at that stage then extra time would have been played with a penalty shootout taking place if the teams were still level after that.

Route to the final

Further information: AFC Champions League 2007

Sepahan

Opponents Round H/A Score1 Sepahan goalscorers
Al Ittihad Group Stage H 2–1 Mehdi Seyed-Salehi(2)
Al Shabab Group Stage A 1–0 Mehdi Seyed-Salehi
Al Ain Group Stage A 2–3 Mehdi Seyed-Salehi, Emad Mohammed
Al Ain Group Stage H 1–1 Hossein Papi
Al Ittihad Group Stage A 5–0 Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail, Mohammad Nouri(2), Emad Mohammed(2)
Al Shabab Group Stage H 1–0 Mehdi Seyed-Salehi
Kawasaki Frontale Quarter Final, Leg 1 H 0–0
Kawasaki Frontale Quarter Final, Leg 2 A 0–0(p5–4)
Al Wahda Semi Final, Leg 1 H 3–1 Mahmoud Karimi(2), Moharram Navidkia
Al Wahda Semi Final, Leg 2 A 0–0

1Sepahan's goals always recorded first.

Urawa Red Diamonds

Opponents Round H/A Score1 Urawa Reds goalscorers
Persik Kediri Group Stage H 3–0 Yamada, Nagai, Ono
Sydney FC Group Stage A 2–2 Ponte, Nagai
Shanghai Shenhua Group Stage H 1–0 Abe
Shanghai Shenhua Group Stage A 0–0
Persik Kediri Group Stage A 3–3 Ono, Ponte, Abe
Sydney FC Group Stage H 0–0
Jeonbuk Motors Quarter Final, Leg 1 H 2–1 Hasebe, Tatsuya Tanaka
Jeonbuk Motors Quarter Final, Leg 2 A 2–0 Tatsuya Tanaka, Own Goal
Seongnam Ilhwa Semi Final, Leg 1 A 2–2 Tatsuya Tanaka, Ponte
Seongnam Ilhwa Semi Final, Leg 2 H 2–2(p5–3) Washington, Hasebe

1Urawa Red Diamonds' goals always recorded first.

Final summary

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Sepahan 1–3 Urawa Red Diamonds 1–1 0–2

First leg

Sepahan 1 – 1 Urawa Red Diamonds
Mahmoud Karimi 47' Robson Ponte 45'
Attendance: 30,000
Sepahan
Urawa Reds
SEPAHAN:
GK 1 Abbas Mohammadi
DF 5 Hadi Aghili
DF 8 Mohsen Bengar
DF 17 Jaba Mujiri
MF 4 Moharram Navidkia (c)
MF 6 Jalal Akbari  46'
MF 12 Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail
MF 21 Saeid Bayat
MF 28 Ehsan Hajsafi  60'
FW 13 Mahmoud Karimi  67'
FW 20 Emad Mohammed  46'
Substitutes:
GK 22 Mohammad Savari
GK 24 Masoud Homami
DF 2 Hamid Azizzadeh
DF 7 Farshad Bahadorani
MF 11 Hossein Kazemi  67'
FW 18 Mohsen Hamidi  46'
MF 19 Jalaleddin Alimohammadi
FW 23 Mehdi Seyed-Salehi
MF 25 Ebrahim Loveinian  46'
MF 29 Behzad Soltani
MF 30 Hossein Papi
Manager:
Luka Bonačić
URAWA REDS:
GK 23 Ryota Tsuzuki
RB 2 Keisuke Tsuboi
CB 5 Nenê
CB 17 Makoto Hasebe
LB 20 Satoshi Horinouchi
CM 13 Keita Suzuki (c)
CM 22 Yuki Abe
RW 14 Tadaaki Hirakawa
AM 10 Robson Ponte
LW 9 Yuichiro Nagai  73'
CF 21 Washington
Substitutes:
GK 1 Norihiro Yamagishi
GK 28 Nobuhiro Kato
DF 12 Shunsuke Tsutsumi
DF 19 Hideki Uchidate
MF 3 Hajime Hosogai
MF 16 Takahito Soma
MF 27 Yoshiya Nishizawa
MF 30 Masayuki Okano
FW 11 Tatsuya Tanaka  73'
FW 18 Junki Koike
Manager:
Holger Osieck

Second leg

Urawa Red Diamonds 2 – 0 Sepahan
Yuichiro Nagai 22'
Yuki Abe 71'
Attendance: 59,034
Urawa Reds
Sepahan
URAWA REDS:
GK 23 Ryota Tsuzuki
RB 2 Keisuke Tsuboi
CB 17 Makoto Hasebe  55'
CB 4 Marcus Túlio Tanaka
LB 20 Satoshi Horinouchi
CM 13 Keita Suzuki (c)
CM 22 Yuki Abe
RW 14 Tadaaki Hirakawa
AM 10 Robson Ponte  80'
LW 9 Yuichiro Nagai  85'
CF 21 Washington  89'
Substitutes:
GK 1 Norihiro Yamagishi
DF 5 Nenê
DF 12 Shunsuke Tsutsumi
DF 19 Hideki Uchidate  80'
MF 16 Takahito Soma
MF 30 Masayuki Okano  89'
FW 11 Tatsuya Tanaka  85'
FW 18 Junki Koike
Manager:
Holger Osieck
SEPAHAN:
GK 1 Abbas Mohammadi
DF 5 Hadi Aghili
DF 8 Mohsen Bengar
DF 17 Jaba Mujiri
MF 4 Moharram Navidkia (c)
MF 12 Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail
MF 21 Saeid Bayat  59'
MF 25 Ebrahim Loveinian
MF 28 Ehsan Hajsafi
FW 18 Mohsen Hamidi  46'
FW 20 Emad Mohammed  29'
Substitutes:
GK 22 Mohammad Savari
GK 24 Masoud Homami
DF 2 Hamid Azizzadeh
DF 6 Jalal Akbari
DF 7 Farshad Bahadorani
MF 9 Hadi Jafari
MF 11 Hossein Kazemi  59'
MF 19 Amir Radi
MF 29 Behzad Soltani
MF 30 Hossein Papi  46'
FW 13 Mahmoud Karimi  29'
FW 23 Mehdi Seyed-Salehi
Manager:
Luka Bonačić

See also

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