2000–01 Asian Club Championship

The 2000–01 Asian Club Championship was the 20th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the AFC region (Asia). It determined that year's club champion of association football in Asia.

2000–2001 Asian Club Championship
Tournament details
DatesAugust 2000 – May 2001
Teams24
Final positions
Champions Suwon Samsung Bluewings (1st title)
Runners-up Júbilo Iwata
Third place Persepolis
Fourth place FC Irtysh
Tournament statistics
Matches played48
Goals scored160 (3.33 per match)
Best player(s) Zoltan Sabo[1]

Suwon Samsung Bluewings of South Korea won the final and became Asian champions for the first time.

First round

West Asia
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Al-Hilal 2–1 Al-Karamah 2–1 0–0
Al Ramtha 2–3 Al-Salmiya 0–1 2–2
Al-Ahli 0–1 Al-Ahli 0–1 0–0
Al-Ansar w/o1 Al-Ittihad Jeddah
Al-Zawraa 2–5 Al-Ain 2–1 0–4
Al-Wakra 3–9 Persepolis 2–4 1–5
FC Irtysh 5–2 Nisa Aşgabat 3–1 2–1
Varzob Dushanbe w/o2 FC Dustlik

1 Al-Ansar withdrew.
2 FC Dustlik did not show up for the 1st leg in Dushanbe due to the civil war in Tajikistan; they were ejected from the competition and fined $10,000.

East Asia
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Polícia de Segurança Pública 0–11 Home United 0–5 0–6
PSM Makassar 4–1 Sông Lam Nghệ An 0–0 4–1

Second round

West Asia
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Al-Hilal 3–1 Al-Salmiya 3–1 0–0
Al-Ittihad Jeddah 8–2 Al-Ahli 2–0 6–2
Persepolis 4–2 Al-Ain 2–0 2–2(aet)
FC Irtysh 7–3 Varzob Dushanbe 4–1 3–2

East Asia
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
PSM Makassar 11–1 Royal Thai Air Force 6–1 5–0
South China 2–6 Júbilo Iwata 1–3 1–3
Shandong Luneng Taishan 6–1 Home United 3–0 3–1
Suwon Samsung Bluewings 2–1 Hurriyya 2–1 0–0

Quarter-finals

West Asia
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Persepolis 3 1 2 0 3 1 +2 5
FC Irtysh 3 1 2 0 2 1 +1 5
Al-Ittihad Jeddah 3 1 1 1 3 2 +1 4
Al-Hilal 3 0 1 2 1 5 −4 1
Source:
Al-Hilal 0–0 FC Irtysh
Persepolis 0–0 Al-Ittihad Jeddah
Persepolis 0–0 FC Irtysh
Al-Ittihad Jeddah 2–0 Al-Hilal
Al Hasan Al-Yami  23'
Sergio Ricardo  85'
Al-Ittihad Jeddah 1–2 FC Irtysh
Mohammad Hwasawi  41' Nilton Pereira Mendes  14'  25'
Persepolis 3–1 Al-Hilal
Ali Karimi  45'
Ali Ansarian  65' (pen.)
Hamed Kavianpour  69'		 Yousuf Al-Thunayan  9'

East Asia
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Júbilo Iwata 3 3 0 0 12 2 +10 9
Suwon Samsung Bluewings 3 2 0 1 14 4 +10 6
Shandong Luneng Taishan 3 1 0 2 5 13 −8 3
PSM Makassar 3 0 0 3 2 14 −12 0
Source:
Suwon Samsung Bluewings 0–3 Júbilo Iwata
Toshiya Fujita  14'
Yang Jong-Hu  77' (og)
Masashi Nakayama  90'
PSM Makassar 1–3 Shandong Luneng Taishan
Suwandi Hadi Siswoyo  90' Sergei Nagorniak  15' (pen.)
Li Xiaopeng  52'
Li Ming  56'
PSM Makassar 1–8 Suwon Samsung Bluewings
Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto  35' Seo Jung-Won  6'  23'  25'
Sandro Cardoso  11'  18'
Park Kun-Ha  37'
Ko Jong-Soo  45' (pen.)  79'
Júbilo Iwata 6–2 Shandong Luneng Taishan
Toshiya Fujita  29' (pen.)
Masashi Nakayama  42'  43'  56'
Aleksandar Živković  66' (pen.)
Daisuke Oku  78'		 Casiano  34'
Li Xiaopeng  90'
Shandong Luneng Taishan 0–6 Suwon Samsung Bluewings
Ko Jong-Soo  8'  38'
Denis Laktionov  28'
Seo Dong-Won  48'  59'
Sabo Zoltan  82'
PSM Makassar 0–3 Júbilo Iwata
Naoki Naruo  37'
Tomoaki Seino  56'
Takahiro Yamanishi  74'

Semi-finals
Júbilo Iwata 1–0 (a.e.t.) FC Irtysh
Jo Kanazawa  103'
Persepolis 1–2 Suwon Samsung Bluewings
Hamed Kavianpour  12' Seo Jung-Won  78'
Park Kun-Ha  90'

Third place match
Persepolis 2–0 FC Irtysh
Esmael Halali  17'
Hamid Reza Estili  34'

Final
Suwon Samsung Bluewings 1–0 Júbilo Iwata
Sandro Cardoso  15'

References
  1. "수원 삼성, 아시아클럽축구 평정". The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). 27 May 2001. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
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