2003 Arab Unified Club Championship

2003 Prince Faisal bin Fahd Tournament for Arab Clubs

بطولة الاندية العربية الموحدة 2003 بطولة الأمير فيصل بن فهد للأندية العربية 2003
Tournament details
Host country	Egypt
Dates	6 – 20 July 2003
Teams	10 (from 1 association)
Final positions
Champions	Zamalek (1st title)
Runners-up	Kuwait SC
Tournament statistics
Matches played	23
Goals scored	72 (3.13 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Somália (4 goals)
Best player	Besheer El-Tabei
Best goalkeeper	Dhafer Al-Bishi
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2003 Arab Unified Club Championship, officially named the 2003 Prince Faisal bin Fahd Tournament for Arab Clubs, was the 19th UAFA Club Cup, and the 2nd since the Arab Club Champions Cup and Arab Cup Winners' Cup were unified. The tournament began on 6 July and concluded on 20 July 2003, the matches took place in Cairo Stadium in Cairo, Egypt, Zamalek won the tournament and earning their first UAFA Club Cup title.

Preliminary stage

Main article: 2003 Arab Unified Club Championship preliminary stage

Group stage

The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. 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-Ettifaq	4	3	1	0	10	4	+6	10
Raja Casablanca	4	2	1	1	6	6	0	7
ENPPI	4	1	1	2	4	5	−1	4
Riffa	4	1	1	2	4	6	−2	4
Al-Faisaly	4	0	2	2	5	8	−3	2

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

7 July 2003

ENPPI	0 – 1	Riffa
		Al-Khuzami 54'

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7 July 2003

Al-Ettifaq	4 – 4	Al-Faisaly
Suarez 33' Al-Meghnam 48' Adelson 54', 85' (pen.)		Al-Sheikh 7', 79' Al-Shabool 12' Saleem 59'

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9 July 2003

Riffa	0 – 0	Al-Faisaly

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9 July 2003

ENPPI	1 – 1	Raja Casablanca
Zaki 13'		Kouni 77'

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11 July 2003

Al-Faisaly	0 – 1	Raja Casablanca
		Hirouach 42'

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11 July 2003

Al-Ettifaq	2 – 0	Riffa
Basheer 2' Al-Basha 82'

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14 July 2003

Al-Ettifaq	2 – 0	Raja Casablanca
Junior 4' Basheer 17'

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14 July 2003

ENPPI	3 – 1	Al-Faisaly
Hassan 20' Zaki 28' Thabet 45'		Al-Shabool 19'

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16 July 2003

Riffa	3 – 4	Raja Casablanca
Baba 4' Essa 42' Yousef 70'		Bidodan 9' Aboucherouane 45', 69' Aboucherouane 83'

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16 July 2003

ENPPI	0 – 2	Al-Ettifaq
		Al-Basha 6' Basheer 44'

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kuwait SC	4	2	2	0	9	5	+4	8	Advance to Semi-finals
2	Zamalek	4	2	1	1	5	5	0	7
3	USM Alger	4	1	3	0	7	4	+3	6
4	Al-Jaish	4	1	0	3	6	10	−4	3
5	Al-Shorta	4	0	2	2	6	9	−3	2

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

6 July 2003

Zamalek	1 – 0	Al-Jaish
El-Said 71'

Cairo Stadium

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6 July 2003

Al-Shorta	2 – 2	Kuwait SC
Abdulsattar 18' Manajed 60'		Somália 13' Sabinho 87'

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8 July 2003

Al-Jaish	4 – 2	Al-Shorta
Al-Omair 32', 71', 75' Shaabo 90'		Manajed 3' Raheem 26'

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8 July 2003

21:00 UTC+3

Zamalek	1 – 1	USM Alger
El-Said 42' (pen.)		Achiou 15'

El Sekka El Hadid Stadium, Cairo

Referee: Farid Ali (United Arab Emirates)

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10 July 2003

Al-Shorta	1 – 1	USM Alger
Qassem 82'		Dziri 51'

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10 July 2003

Al-Jaish	1 – 3	Kuwait SC
Shaabo 74'		Somália 18', 54' Sabinho 68'

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13 July 2003

USM Alger	1 – 1	Kuwait SC
Achiou 56'		Aqla 53' (pen.)

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13 July 2003

Zamalek	2 – 1	Al-Shorta
Hassan 76' Youssef 78'		Hussein 86'

Cairo Stadium

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15 July 2003

USM Alger	4 – 1	Al-Jaish
Ouichaoui 34' (pen.) Ammour 40' Deghiche 84', 90'		Jabban 60'

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15 July 2003

Zamalek	1 – 3	Kuwait SC
Youssef 45'		Aqla 6' (pen.), ?' (pen.) Al-Etaiqi 47'

Cairo Stadium

Knock-out stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	18 July 2003 - Cairo
	Al-Ettifaq	1
					20 July 2003 - Cairo
	Zamalek	3
					Zamalek	2
	18 July 2003 - Cairo
					Kuwait SC	1
	Kuwait SC	3
	Raja Casablanca	0

Semi-finals

18 July 2003

Al-Ettifaq	1 – 3 (a.e.t.)	Zamalek
Masambe 45'		Youssef 77' Ali 105', 114'

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18 July 2003

Kuwait SC	3 – 0	Raja Casablanca
Al-Taher 28' Cabral ?' Somália 90+2' (pen.)

Final

Main article: 2003 Arab Unified Club Championship Final

20 July 2003

20:00 UTC+2

Zamalek	2 – 1	Kuwait SC
Saleh 23' Mahmoud 58'		Oliveira 88'

Cairo Stadium

Referee: Jasem Al-Hail (Qatar)

Winners

2003 Prince Faisal bin Fahd Tournament for Arab Clubs
Zamalek First title

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Somália	Kuwait SC	4
2	Sameh Youssef	Zamalek	3
	Ahmed Al-Omair	Al-Jaish	3
	Adel Aqla	Kuwait SC	3
	Alessandro Oliveira	Kuwait SC	3
	Hicham Aboucherouane	Raja Casablanca	3
	Saleh Basheer	Al-Ettifaq	3

Prize money

Competition stage	Final position	Prize money (US dollars)
Final	Winner	$50,000
	runner-up	$30,000
semi-final	Semi-finalists	$20,000

References

• Prince Faysal bin Fahad Tournament for Arab Clubs 2003 (2nd tournament) - rsssf.com