![]() The Ulsan Hyundai team holds the AFC Champions League trophy | |
Tournament details | |
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Dates | Qualifying: 14–28 January 2020 Competition proper: 10 February – 19 December 2020 |
Teams | Competition proper: 29 teams Total: 52 (from 23 associations) |
Final positions | |
Champions | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 93 |
Goals scored | 236 (2.54 per match) |
Attendance | 182,388 (1,961 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() ![]() (7 goals each) [1] |
Best player(s) | ![]() |
Fair play award | ![]() |
The 2020 AFC Champions League was the 39th edition of Asia's premier club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), and the 18th under the current AFC Champions League title. [3]
Ulsan Hyundai won their second Champions League title by defeating Persepolis 2–1 in the final. [4] Ulsan automatically qualify for the 2021 AFC Champions League (although they had already qualified through their domestic performance), the first time since 2008 that the AFC Champions League holders were guaranteed automatic qualification in the following year. [5] [6] They also earned the right to play in the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar.
The tournament was the last to involve 32 teams during the group stage, which increased to 40 teams in 2021. [7]
The competition was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia after group stage matches on 4 March 2020, [8] and restarted on 14 September 2020. [9] All matches after the restart were played in Qatar, [10] [11] [12] with the final played at the Al Janoub Stadium.
Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia were the defending champions, but the club effectively withdrew from the competition when they could not name the required 13 players for their final group stage match, as all but 11 players had tested positive for COVID-19. [13] [14] For the first time, the video assistant referee (VAR) system was in use from the quarter-finals onwards. [15]
The 46 AFC member associations (excluding the associate member Northern Mariana Islands) were ranked based on their national team's and clubs' performance over the last four years in AFC competitions, with the allocation of slots for the 2019 and 2020 editions of the AFC club competitions determined by the 2017 AFC rankings (Entry Manual Article 2.3): [16]
For the 2020 AFC Champions League, the associations were allocated slots according to their association ranking which was published on 15 December 2017, [17] which took into account their performance in the AFC Champions League and the AFC Cup, as well as their national team's FIFA World Rankings, during the period between 2014 and 2017. [16] [18]
Participation for 2020 AFC Champions League | |
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The following 52 teams from 23 associations entered the competition.
In the following table, the number of appearances and last appearance count only those since the 2002–03 season (including qualifying rounds), when the competition was rebranded as the AFC Champions League.
The schedule of the competition was as follows. [21] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, only some of the group stage matches on matchdays 1–3 in February and March were played as scheduled, and all matches on matchdays 4–6 were postponed until further notice. [8] The round of 16, quarter-finals and semi-finals were also initially moved to 10–12 and 24–26 August, 14–16 and 28–30 September, and 20–21 and 27–28 October. [22] [23]
The AFC announced the calendar of the remaining matches on 9 July 2020, with all matches before the final played at centralised venues, and all knockout ties played as a single match. [9] On 10 September 2020, the AFC announced the new dates for the East Region matches and the final. [24]
Notes:
Stage | Round | Draw date | Match dates |
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Preliminary stage | Preliminary round 1 | No draw | 14 January 2020 |
Preliminary round 2 | 21 January 2020 | ||
Play-off stage | Play-off round | 28 January 2020 | |
Group stage | Matchday 1 | 10 December 2019 | 10–12 February 2020, 18–19 November 2020 (E) |
Matchday 2 | 17–19 February 2020, 21–22 November 2020 (E) | ||
Matchday 3 | 3–4 March 2020 (E), 14–15 September 2020 (W), 24–25 November 2020 (E) | ||
Matchday 4 | 17–18 September 2020 (W), 27–28 November 2020 (E) | ||
Matchday 5 | 20–21 September 2020 (W), 30 November – 1 December 2020 (E) | ||
Matchday 6 | 23–24 September 2020 (W), 3–4 December 2020 (E) | ||
Knockout stage | Round of 16 | 26–27 September 2020 (W), 6–7 December 2020 (E) | |
Quarter-finals | 28 September 2020 (W) 8 December 2020 (E) | 30 September 2020 (W), 10 December 2020 (E) | |
Semi-finals | 3 October 2020 (W), 13 December 2020 (E) | ||
Final | 19 December 2020 |
The original schedule of the competition, as planned before the pandemic, was as follows.
Stage | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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Preliminary stage | Preliminary round 1 | No draw | 14 January 2020 | |
Preliminary round 2 | 21 January 2020 | |||
Play-off stage | Play-off round | 28 January 2020 | ||
Group stage | Matchday 1 | 10 December 2019 | 10–12 February 2020 | |
Matchday 2 | 17–19 February 2020 | |||
Matchday 3 | 2–4 March 2020 | |||
Matchday 4 | 6–8 April 2020 | |||
Matchday 5 | 20–22 April 2020 | |||
Matchday 6 | 4–6 May 2020 | |||
Knockout stage | Round of 16 | 18–19 May 2020 (W), 26–27 May 2019 (E) | 25–26 May 2020 (W), 16–17 June 2020 (E) | |
Quarter-finals | TBD | 24–26 August 2020 | 14–16 September 2020 | |
Semi-finals | 29–30 September 2020 | 20–21 October 2020 | ||
Final | 22 November 2020 | 28 November 2020 |
In the qualifying play-offs, each tie was played as a single match. Extra time and a penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Article 9.2). [3] The bracket of the qualifying play-offs for each region was determined based on the association ranking of each team, with the team from the higher-ranked association hosting the match. [25] Teams from the same association could not be placed into the same tie. The eight winners of the play-off round (four each from both West Region and East Region) advanced to the group stage to join the 24 direct entrants. All losers in each round from associations with only play-off slots entered the AFC Cup group stage.
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Chennai City ![]() | 0–1 | ![]() |
Al-Faisaly ![]() | 1–2 (a.e.t.) | ![]() |
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Ceres–Negros ![]() | 3–2 | ![]() |
Tampines Rovers ![]() | 3–5 (a.e.t.) | ![]() |
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Bunyodkor ![]() | 4–1 | ![]() |
Lokomotiv Tashkent ![]() | 0–1 | ![]() |
Shahr Khodro ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() |
Esteghlal ![]() | 3–0 | ![]() |
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Kedah ![]() | 5–1 | ![]() |
Buriram United ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() |
Port ![]() | 0–1 | ![]() |
Melbourne Victory ![]() | 5–0 | ![]() |
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Al-Ain ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
Al-Ahli ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
Al-Sailiya ![]() | 0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–5 p) | ![]() |
Al-Rayyan ![]() | 0–5 | ![]() |
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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FC Seoul ![]() | 4–1 | ![]() |
Shanghai SIPG ![]() | 3–0 | ![]() |
FC Tokyo ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() |
Kashima Antlers ![]() | 0–1 | ![]() |
The draw for the group stage was held on 10 December 2019, 16:30 MYT (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [26] The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four: four groups each in the West Region (Groups A–D) and the East Region (Groups E–H). Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group. In the group stage, each group was played on a double round-robin basis, with matches played home-and-away before the suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but moved to centralised venues after restart. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the round of 16 of the knockout stage.
Tiebreakers |
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The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order (Regulations Article 10.5): [3]
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | AHL | EST | SHO | WAH | |
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1 | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 2–1 | 1–0 | | |
2 | ![]() | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 5 | 3–0 | — | 1–1 | | ||
3 | ![]() | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 2–1 | 1–1 | — | | ||
4 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Withdrew [lower-alpha 1] | | | | — |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | PAK | SAH | SHK | HIL | |
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1 | ![]() | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +5 | 10 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 2–1 | 3–0 | | |
2 | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 7 | 0–0 | — | 1–0 | | ||
3 | ![]() | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | — | | ||
4 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Withdrew [lower-alpha 1] | | | | — |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | PRS | TAW | DUH | SHJ | |
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1 | ![]() | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 10 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 1–0 | 0–1 | 4–0 | |
2 | ![]() | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 9 [lower-alpha 1] | 0–1 | — | 2–0 | 0–6 | ||
3 | ![]() | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 9 [lower-alpha 1] | 2–0 | 0–1 | — | 2–1 | ||
4 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | +2 | 7 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 4–2 | — |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | NAS | SAD | SEP | AIN | |
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1 | ![]() | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 11 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 2–2 | 2–0 | 0–1 | |
2 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 8 | +6 | 9 | 1–1 | — | 3–0 | 4–0 | ||
3 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 7 | 0–2 | 2–1 | — | 0–0 | ||
4 | ![]() | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 | −8 | 5 | 1–2 | 3–3 | 0–4 | — |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | BEI | MVC | SEO | CHI | |
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1 | ![]() | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 16 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 3–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | |
2 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 7 | 0–2 | — | 2–1 | 1–0 | ||
3 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 9 | +1 | 6 | 1–2 | 1–0 | — | 5–0 | ||
4 | ![]() | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | −6 | 5 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 | — |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ULS | TOK | SSH | PRG | |
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1 | ![]() | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 5 | +9 | 16 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 | |
2 | ![]() | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 10 | 1–2 | — | 0–1 | 1–0 | ||
3 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 13 | −4 | 7 | 1–4 | 1–2 | — | 3–3 | ||
4 | ![]() | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 | −6 | 1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–2 | — |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | VIS | SUW | GZE | JDT | |
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1 | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 0–2 | 0–2 | | |
2 | ![]() | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 5 | 0–1 | — | 0–0 | | ||
3 | ![]() | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 1–3 | 1–1 | — | | ||
4 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Withdrew [lower-alpha 1] | | | | — |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | YOK | SSI | JEO | SYD | |
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1 | ![]() | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 5 | +8 | 13 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 1–2 | 4–1 | 4–0 | |
2 | ![]() | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 10 | −4 | 9 | 0–1 | — | 0–2 | 0–4 | ||
3 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | −2 | 7 | 1–2 | 1–2 | — | 1–0 | ||
4 | ![]() | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | −2 | 5 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–2 | — |
In the knockout stage, the 16 teams played a single-elimination tournament, with the teams split into the two regions until the final. Each tie was played as a single-leg match at centralised venues, instead of the usual home-and-away two-legged basis as planned before the COVID-19 pandemic. Extra time and a penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winners if necessary.
The bracket was decided after the draw for the quarter-finals. The draw for the West Region quarter-finals was held on 28 September 2020, 11:00 AST (UTC+3), and the draw for the East Region quarter-finals was held on 8 December 2020, 11:30 AST (UTC+3), both in Doha, Qatar. [31] [32] [33] [34]
Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||
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26 September – Al Wakrah | ||||||||||||||
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19 December – Al Wakrah | ||||||||||||||
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13 December – Doha (Jassim) | ||||||||||||||
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10 December – Al Wakrah | ||||||||||||||
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7 December – Doha (Khalifa) | ||||||||||||||
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In the round of 16, the winners of one group played against the runners-up of another group from the same region and the matchups were determined by the group stage draw.
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Al-Ahli ![]() | 1–1 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p) | ![]() |
Pakhtakor ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() |
Persepolis ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
Al-Nassr ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Beijing FC ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
Ulsan Hyundai ![]() | 3–0 | ![]() |
Vissel Kobe ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() |
Yokohama F. Marinos ![]() | 2–3 | ![]() |
In the quarter-finals, the four teams from the West Region played in two ties, and the four teams from the East Region played in two ties, with the matchups decided by draw, without any seeding or country protection. The draw for the West Region quarter-finals was held on 28 September 2020, [31] [32] and the draw for the East Region quarter-finals was held on 8 December 2020. [33] [34]
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Al-Nassr ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() |
Persepolis ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() |
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Ulsan Hyundai ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() |
Vissel Kobe ![]() | 1–1 (a.e.t.) (7–6 p) | ![]() |
In the semi-finals, the two quarter-final winners from the West Region played against each other, and the two quarter-final winners from the East Region played against each other.
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Al-Nassr ![]() | 1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–5 p) | ![]() |
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Ulsan Hyundai ![]() | 2–1 (a.e.t.) | ![]() |
In the final, the two semi-final winners played against each other, at Al Janoub Stadium in Al Wakrah, Qatar. [12]
Award | Player | Team |
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Most Valuable Player [2] | ![]() | ![]() |
Top Scorer [1] | ![]() | ![]() |
Fair Play Award | ![]() |
Note: Abderrazak Hamdallah finished ahead of Júnior Negrão to win the Top Scorer award despite scoring the same number of goals, and also having the same number of assists (first tiebreaker), since he played fewer minutes throughout the competition (second tiebreaker). [1]
Source: [35]
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Source: [36]
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The AFC took polls of fans in its website after the tournament.
Award | Player | Team |
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Fans' Best Player | ![]() | ![]() |
Best Goal | ![]() | ![]() |
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Category [38] | Player | Team | Figure |
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Goals | ![]() | ![]() | 7 |
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Chances created | ![]() | ![]() | 22 |
Clearances | ![]() | ![]() | 34 |
Duels won | ![]() | ![]() | 54 |
Shooting accuracy | ![]() | ![]() | 61.1% |
Passing accuracy | ![]() | ![]() | 91.6% |
Saves | ![]() | ![]() | 26 |
Rank | Player | Team | MD1 | MD2 | MD3 | MD4 | MD5 | MD6 | R16 | QF | SF | F | Total |
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1 | ![]() | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||||
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3 | ![]() | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||||||
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Note: Goals scored in the qualifying play-offs and matches voided by AFC are not counted when determining top scorer (Regulations Article 64.4). [3]
Stage | Matchday | Player of the Week | Team | Ref. |
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Group stage | Matchday 1 | ![]() | ![]() | [39] |
Matchday 2 | ![]() | ![]() | [40] | |
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Matchday 3 – East | ![]() | ![]() | [42] | |
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Matchday 3 – West | ![]() | ![]() | [44] | |
Matchday 4 – East | ![]() | ![]() | [45] | |
Matchday 4 – West | ![]() | ![]() | [46] | |
Matchday 5 – East | ![]() | ![]() | [47] | |
Matchday 5 – West | ![]() | ![]() | [48] | |
Matchday 6 – East | ![]() | ![]() | [49] | |
Matchday 6 – West | ![]() | ![]() | [50] | |
Knockout stage | Round of 16 – East | ![]() | ![]() | [51] |
Round of 16 – West | ![]() | ![]() | [52] | |
Quarter-finals – East | ![]() | ![]() | [53] | |
Quarter-finals – West | ![]() | ![]() | [54] | |
Semi-finals – East | ![]() | ![]() | [55] | |
Semi-finals – West | ![]() | ![]() | [56] |
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Al-Duhail SC, a Qatari professional association football club, has gained entry to Asian Football Confederation (AFC) competitions on several occasions. They have represented Qatar in the Champions League on ten occasions and FIFA Club World Cup on one occasion.
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The 2023–24 AFC Champions League was the 42nd edition of Asia's premier club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), and the 21st and final under the AFC Champions League title, as the competition would be rebranded as the AFC Champions League Elite starting in 2024–25.