2001 Arab Club Champions Cup

2001 Arab Club Champions Cup
بطولة الأندية العربية لأبطال الدوري 2001
Tournament details
Host country	Qatar
City	Doha
Teams	10 (from 1 association)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Al Sadd SC (1st title)
Runners-up	MC Oran
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	53 (3.53 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Bouchaib El Moubarki (6 goals)
Best player(s)	Karim Bagheri
Best goalkeeper	Ahmed Khalil
Fair play award	Al-Ahli Sana'a
	← 2000 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
Zone	Team	Qualifying method
	Al-Sadd	Hosts
	CS Sfaxien	Holders
Zone 1	Al-Rayyan SC	Replaced Al-Ain FC
Zone 2	Al-Ahli Jeddah	1999–2000 Saudi Premier League runners-up
Zone 2	Al-Ahli Sana'a	1999–2000 Yemeni League winners
Zone 3	MC Oran	1999–2000 Algerian Championship runners-up
Zone 4	Al-Faisaly	2000 Jordan League winners
Zone 4	Hutteen	1999–2000 Syrian League runners-up

Preliminary stage

Zone 1 (Gulf Area)

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

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al-Ain	5	4	0	1	6	4	+2	12
Al-Ittihad Jeddah	5	3	1	1	10	1	+9	10
Dhofar	5	3	1	1	6	3	+3	10
Al-Salmiya	5	1	2	2	5	6	−1	5
Al-Ittihad Doha	5	1	1	3	6	7	−1	4
West Riffa	5	0	1	4	5	17	−12	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

3 January 2001

Al-Ain	2–1	West Riffa
Khater 53' Johar 86'		Darwish 82'

Al Ain

4 January 2001

Al-Ittihad Jeddah	0–1	Al-Salmiya
		Al-Huwaidi 29'

Al Ain

4 January 2001

Dhofar	2–0	Al-Ittihad Doha
Al-Katheeri 79' Al-Dhabit 91' (pen.)

Al Ain

6 January 2001

Al-Ain	2–1	Al-Salmiya
Khater 47' Al-Kuwaiti 70'		Al-Huwaidi 90+5'

Al Ain

6 January 2001

West Riffa	1–4	Al-Ittihad Doha
Humaida 71'		Al-Kaabi 11' Al-Mazroa 53', 90+2' Massoud 57' (o.g.)

Al Ain

7 January 2001

Al-Ittihad Jeddah	0–0	Dhofar

Al Ain

8 January 2001

Al-Ain	1–0	Al-Ittihad Doha
Al-Kuwaiti 70'

Al Ain

9 January 2001

Al-Salmiya	1–0	Dhofar
Baalawi 34'

Al Ain

9 January 2001

West Riffa	0–7	Al-Ittihad Jeddah
		Al-Yami 5', 33', 63' (pen.), 67' Al-Otaibi 19', 90+2' Al-Saqri 38'

Al Ain

11 January 2001

Al-Salmiya	1–1	West Riffa
Abdullah 51' (pen.)		Massoud 88' (pen.)

Al Ain

11 January 2001

Al-Ittihad Doha	0–1	Al-Ittihad Jeddah
		Omar 90+3'

Al Ain

12 January 2001

Al-Ain	1–0	Dhofar
Ali 9'

Al Ain

13 January 2001

Al-Ittihad Doha	2–2	Al-Ittihad Jeddah
Al-Mazroa 5' (pen.) Adam 74'		Al-Huwaidi 45' (pen.), 62'

Al Ain

14 January 2001

Dhofar	3–2	West Riffa
Al-Hedhari ?' ? ?' Al-Kathiri 84'		Humaida 79' Taleb 90+3'

Al Ain

14 January 2001

Al-Ain	0–2	Al-Ittihad Jeddah
		Al-Yami 23', 78'

Al Ain

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

Zone 2 (Red Sea)

The qualifying tournament took place in Jeddah.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al-Ahli Jeddah	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Al-Ahli Sana'a'	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Al-Merrikh	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

20 May 2001

Al-Ahli Jeddah	1–0	Al-Merrikh
Al-Jahani 15'

Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

22 May 2001

Al-Merrikh	2–2	Al-Ahli Sana'a'
		Al-Hemy 75' Abdullah 77'

Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

24 May 2001

Al-Ahli Jeddah	2–1	Al-Ahli Sana'a'
Valle 28', 84'		Al-Salemy 24' (pen.)

Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Al-Ahli Jeddah and Al-Ahli Sana'a' advanced to the final tournament.

Zone 3 (North Africa)

First Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
MAS Fez	4–4	Al-Ahli Tripoli	4–2	0–2
ASC Mauritel	–	MC Oran	–	–

2001

MAS Fez	4-2	Al-Ahli Tripoli
Chkilit Kissi * Hassi		Al-Shibli Gaddafi

Stade Hassan II, Fes

2001

Al-Ahli Tripoli	2–0	MAS Fez
Moammar Al-Idrissi

Tripoli Stadium, Tripoli

Second Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Ahli Tripoli	w/o	MC Oran	—	—

MC 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]

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al-Faisaly	2	2	0	6	0	+6	6
Hutteen	2	1	1	6	2	+4	3
Hilal Al-Quds	2	0	2	2	11	−9	0
Nejmeh (D)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(D) Disqualified

... July 2001

Al-Faisaly	5–0	Hilal Al-Quds

Amman International Stadium, Amman

... July 2001

Hutteen	6–2	Hilal Al-Quds

Amman International Stadium, Amman

26 July 2001

Al-Faisaly	1–0	Hutteen
		Al-Hasnat 31'

Amman International Stadium, Amman

Referee: Mohamed Risha (Egypt)

Al-Faisaly and Hutteen advanced to the final tournament.

Final tournament

Venues

Doha	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

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al Sadd SC	3	2	0	1	14	3	+11	6
MC Oran	3	2	0	1	5	7	−2	6
Al-Ahli Sana'a	3	1	1	1	3	5	−2	4
Hutteen SC	3	0	1	2	2	9	−7	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

28 November 2001

Al-Ahli Sana'a	2–1	Al Sadd SC
Ahmed 67', 76'		Bagheri 90'

Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha

28 November 2001

Hutteen SC	0–2	MC Oran
		Zerrouki 7' El-Aouni 52'

Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha

30 November 2001

Al-Ahli Sana'a	0–3	MC Oran
		Benzerga 28' El-Aouni 42', 58'

Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha

30 November 2001

Hutteen SC	1–6	Al Sadd SC
Jablawi 35'		Bagheri 10', 45' Mahmood 25' El Moubarki 28' Utaka 39' J. Al-Kuwari 79'

Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha

3 December 2001

Al-Ahli Sana'a	1–1	Hutteen SC
Al-Barek 85'		Shuman 90+2'

Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha

3 December 2001

MC Oran	0–7	Al Sadd SC
		Khalifa 12' El Moubarki 28', 32', 73' Utaka 44' F. Al-Kuwari 89' Bagheri 90+3'

Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha

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.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al-Ahli SC	2	1	1	0	7	2	+5	4
Al Rayyan SC	2	1	0	1	5	6	−1	3
CS Sfaxien	2	0	1	1	3	7	−4	1
Al-Faisaly SC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

29 September 2001

Al Rayyan SC	0–5	Al-Ahli SC
		Gahwji 8', 87' Al-Dosari 10' Al-Shahri 56' Suwayed 89' (pen.)

Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha

29 September 2001

CS Sfaxien	2–2	Al-Faisaly SC
Ben Younes 43' Ben Khaled 81'		Salim 7' Al-Sheikh 74'

Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha

Referee: Abdullah Salem (Libya)

1 December 2001

CS Sfaxien	2–2	Al-Ahli SC
N'Diaye 53' Ben Younes 80' (pen.)		Fallatah 3' Al-Gizani 13'

Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha

4 December 2001

Al Rayyan SC	5–1	CS Sfaxien
B. Abdullah 6', 81', 90' Al-Huwaidi 9', 46'		Trabelsi 67'

Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha

Knock-out stage

Semi-finals		Final

7 December 2001 – Doha

Al Sadd SC	5
		10 December 2001 – Doha
Al Rayyan SC	1
		Al Sadd SC	3
7 December 2001 – Doha
		MC Oran	1
Al-Ahli SC	2 (3)

MC Oran (p)	2 (5)