Al Nasr FC in Asian football

Al Nasr FC in Asian football

Club	Al Nasr
First entry	1987 Asian Club Championship
Latest entry	2024–25 GCC Champions League
Titles
GCC Champions League	1 2014

Al Nasr FC is an Emirati football club from the UAE Pro League, based in Dubai the country's largest city, it has contested in multiple Asian competitions, making it as far as the quarter-finals in the AFC Champions League.

History

Al Nasr, despite being one of the earliest teams in the country, would only make its first real appearance in an Asian competition in 1987 Asian Club Championship where they played in the gulf group, they would finish second last only winning once and drawing once. The club would not qualify for another Asian competition until 1993–94 Asian Cup Winners' Cup however, they withdrew from the tournament. After a decade without continental football, The club finally qualified for the AFC Champions League for the first time in the 2012 edition after finishing third in the league. However, the club would fail to get past the group stage in 2012 finishing third in the group only beating the Qatari side Lekhwiya SC twice. Al Nasr made their second consecutive appearance in the AFC Champions League in 2013 but finished bottom of the group with only one point. In 2016 Al Nasr qualified for the third time after winning the president's cup, the club would pull a surprise 2–1 victory against Saudi giants Al-Ittihad to qualify for the Round of 16 of the AFC Champions League for the first time, they later faced Iranian team Tractor Sazi who topped their group. Al Nasr pulled an upset as they won 4–1 ^[1] against the Iranians in the first leg, and only losing 1–3 in the second, the team qualified for the quarter-finals for the first time. The team would later face Qatari side, El Jaish, they won 3–0 on the first leg however unfortunate events hit the club as they fielded the player Wanderley, who was found to be registered using a fake Indonesian passport. the team were forced to forfeit and award the 3–0 win to El Jaish by the AFC Disciplinary Committee. ^[2] The club later lost 0–1 on the second leg and the team were knocked out. They qualified again in 2019 after finishing fourth in the league but were defeated in the playoff game to the Uzbek side Pakhtakor.

Asian competitions

AFC

Asian Club Championship

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1987	Group 1	Al-Hilal	0–0		4th
		Al-Muharraq	1–0
		Kazma	0–1
		Fanja	2–3

AFC Champions League

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2012 [3]	Group C	Al-Ahli Saudi FC	1–2	1–3	3rd
		Sepahan S.C.	0–3	0–1
		Al-Duhail SC	2–1	2–1
2013 [4]	Play-off round	PFC Lokomotiv Tashkent	3–2
	Group C	Al-Ahli Saudi FC	1–2	2–2	4th
		Sepahan S.C.	1–2	0–3
		Al-Gharafa SC	2–4	1–3
2016 [5]	Group A	Sepahan S.C.	2–0	0–2	2nd
		Al-Ittihad Club (Jeddah)	0–0	2–1
		PFC Lokomotiv Tashkent	1–1	0–0
	Round of 16	Tractor SC	4–1	1–3	5–4
	Quarter-Finals	El Jaish SC	0–1	0–3 (awd.)	0–4
2019 [6]	Play-off round	Pakhtakor Tashkent FC	1–2

UAFA

Arab Cup Winners' Cup

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1991 [7]	Group 1
		Al Ansar FC	1–0		3rd
		Al Mokawloon Al Arab SC	0–0
		Al-Nassr FC	1–1
		Kazma FC	0–0
1993 [8]	Group 2
		Olympique de Casablanca	0–4		5th
		ASO Chlef	0–1
		Haifa SC	0–2
		Al Qadsiah FC	0–0
1995 [9]	Group 2
		Club Africain	1–2		5th
		Al Ahly SC	1–3
		Al Ittihad Ahli of Aleppo SC	0–3
		Al-Riyadh SC	0–2

GCC Champions League

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2014 [10]	Group C
		Busaiteen Club	0–0	1–0	1st
		Al-Khor SC	5–0	2–2
	Quarter-Finals	Al-Jahra SC	2–2 ( p ) (3–1)
	Semi-Finals	Al-Nahda Club	2–1	1–1	3–2
	Final	Saham Club	2–1
2015 [11]	Group C
		Manama Club	2–1	1–2	1st
		Kazma SC	2–1	2–1
	Quarter-Finals	Al-Taawoun FC	1–1 ( p ) (4–2)
	Semi-Finals	Al Shabab Al Arabi Club	1–1	0–2	1–3
2024–25	Group A
		Duhok SC
		Dhofar Club
		Al-Ahli Sanaa Club

Overall record

Record by competition

Competition	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	GF	GA	GD	Win%
AFC Champions League	24	6	4	14	27	43	−16	025.00
Asian Club Championship	4	1	1	2	3	4	−1	025.00
Arab Cup Winners' Cup	12	1	4	7	4	18	−14	008.33
GCC Champions League	15	7	6	2	25	17	+8	046.67
Total	55	15	15	25	59	82	−23	027.27

Record by Country

Country	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win%
Algeria	1	0	0	1	0	1	−1	000.00
Bahrain	5	3	1	1	6	3	+3	060.00
Egypt	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	000.00
Kuwait	5	2	2	1	6	5	+1	040.00
Lebanon	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1	100.00
Morocco	1	0	0	1	0	4	−4	000.00
Oman	4	2	1	1	7	6	+1	050.00
Palestine	1	0	0	1	0	2	−2	000.00
Qatar	8	3	1	4	14	15	−1	037.50
Saudi Arabia	11	1	6	4	9	14	−5	009.09
Syria	1	0	0	1	0	3	−3	000.00
Tunisia	1	0	0	1	1	2	−1	000.00
United Arab Emirates	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	000.00
Uzbekistan	4	1	2	1	5	5	+0	025.00

References

1. "Al Nasr plough through Tractor Sazi 4-1 in the home leg of Asian Champions League last-16". the national. 17 May 2016.
2. "El Jaish (QAT) vs Nasr (UAE) match forfeited". AFC. 12 September 2016.
3. "2012 AFC Champions League".
4. "2013 AFC Champions League".
5. "2016 AFC Champions League".
6. "2019 AFC Champions League".
7. "2nd Arab Cup Winners' Cup 1991".
8. "4th Arab Cup Winners' Cup 1993".
9. "6th Arab Cup Winners' Cup 1995".
10. "2014 Gulf Cup for Clubs".
11. "2015 Gulf Cup for Clubs".