2010 AFC Champions League final

2010 AFC Champions League final

Event2010 AFC Champions League
Date13 November 2010
VenueNational Stadium, Tokyo
AFC Man of the MatchSaša Ognenovski (Seongnam)
Fans' Man of the MatchSaša Ognenovski (Seongnam)
RefereeYuichi Nishimura (Japan)
Attendance27,308
WeatherFine

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

Team Previous finals appearances (bold indicates winners)
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 1995, 1997, 2004
Zob Ahan None

Road to Tokyo

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Round Zob Ahan
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 6 5 0 1 11 6 +5 15
Beijing Guoan 6 3 1 2 7 5 +2 10
Kawasaki Frontale 6 2 0 4 8 8 0 6
Melbourne Victory 6 1 1 4 3 10 −7 4
Group stage
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Zob Ahan 6 4 1 1 8 3 +5 13
Bunyodkor 6 3 1 2 10 7 +3 10
Al-Ittihad 6 2 2 2 9 7 +2 8
Al-Wahda 6 1 0 5 3 13 −10 3
Opponent Result Legs Knockout stage Opponent Result Legs
Gamba Osaka 3–0 One-leg match played Round of 16 Mes Kerman 1–0 One-leg match played
Suwon Samsung Bluewings 4–3 4–1 home; 0–2 away Quarterfinals Pohang Steelers 3–2 2–1 home; 1–1 away
Al-Shabab 4–4 (a) 1–0 home; 3–4 away Semifinals Al-Hilal 2–0 1–0 home; 1–0 away

Match details

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 3 – 1 Zob Ahan
Ognenovski 29'
Cho Byung-kuk 53'
Kim Cheol-ho 83'
Report Khalatbari 67'
Attendance: 27,308
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Zob Ahan
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 Song Ho-young  80'
AM 30 Jo Jae-cheol  71'
AM 11 Mauricio Molina
CF 9 Cho Dong-geon  88'
Substitutes
DF 3 Yun Young-sun
DF 13 Jeong Ho-jeong
FW 18 Namkung Do  88'
FW 20 Kim Jin-yong  80'
FW 28 Moon Dae-seong
DF 38 Yong Hyun-jin
GK 41 Kang Sung-kwan
Manager
Shin Tae-yong
GK 1 Shahab Gordan
RB 2 Mohammad Hosseini
CB 3 Mohamad Ali Ahmadi  81'
CB 4 Farshid Talebi
LB 25 Hossein Mahini  69'
CM 14 Ghasem Hadadifar (c)
CM 19 Mohammad Ghazi  90'
CM 15 Igor Castro  87'
RF 31 Shahin Kheiri  56'
CF 30 Mehdi Rajabzadeh  69'
LF 9 Mohammad Reza Khalatbari
Substitutes
DF 5 Mohammad Salsali  87'
FW 10 Esmail Farhadi  69'
GK 12 Abbas Ghasemi
MF 17 Sina Ashouri  86'  56'
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

References

  1. ^ "Seongnam seal ACL glory". the-afc.com. 13 November 2010. Retrieved 13 November 2010.