2000–01 Asian Club Championship

2000–2001 Asian Club Championship

Tournament details
Dates	August 2000 – May 2001
Teams	24
Final positions
Champions	Suwon Samsung Bluewings (1st title)
Runners-up	Júbilo Iwata
Third place	Persepolis
Fourth place	FC Irtysh
Tournament statistics
Matches played	48
Goals scored	160 (3.33 per match)
Best player(s)	Zoltan Sabo[1]
← 1999–2000 2001–02 →

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.

Suwon Samsung Bluewings of South Korea won the final and became Asian champions for the first time, beating 1-0 Júbilo Iwata who were playing in their third consecutive final.

First round

West Asia

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	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.Tooltip Aggregate score	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.Tooltip Aggregate score	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.Tooltip Aggregate score	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

7 March 2001

Al-Hilal	0–0	FC Irtysh

Tehran, Iran

7 March 2001

Persepolis	0–0	Al-Ittihad Jeddah

Tehran, Iran

9 March 2001

Persepolis	0–0	FC Irtysh

Tehran, Iran

9 March 2001

Al-Ittihad Jeddah	2–0	Al-Hilal
Al Hasan Al-Yami 23' Sergio Ricardo 85'

Tehran, Iran

11 March 2001

Al-Ittihad Jeddah	1–2	FC Irtysh
Mohammad Hwasawi 41'		Nilton Pereira Mendes 14' 25'

Tehran, Iran

11 March 2001

Persepolis	3–1	Al-Hilal
Ali Karimi 45' Ali Ansarian 65' (pen.) Hamed Kavianpour 69'		Yousuf Al-Thunayan 9'

Tehran, Iran

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

21 March 2001

Suwon Samsung Bluewings	0–3	Júbilo Iwata
		Toshiya Fujita 14' Yang Jong-Hu 77' (og) Masashi Nakayama 90'

Makassar, Indonesia

21 March 2001

PSM Makassar	1–3	Shandong Luneng Taishan
Suwandi Hadi Siswoyo 90'		Sergei Nagorniak 15' (pen.) Li Xiaopeng 52' Li Ming 56'

Makassar, Indonesia

23 March 2001

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'

Makassar, Indonesia

23 March 2001

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'

Makassar, Indonesia

25 March 2001

Shandong Luneng Taishan	0–6	Suwon Samsung Bluewings
		Ko Jong-Soo 8' 38' Denis Laktionov 28' Seo Dong-Won 48' 59' Sabo Zoltan 82'

Makassar, Indonesia

25 March 2001

PSM Makassar	0–3	Júbilo Iwata
		Naoki Naruo 37' Tomoaki Seino 56' Takahiro Yamanishi 74'

Makassar, Indonesia

Semi-finals

24 May 2001

Júbilo Iwata	1–0 (a.e.t.)	FC Irtysh
Jo Kanazawa 103'

Suwon, South Korea

24 May 2001

Persepolis	1–2	Suwon Samsung Bluewings
Hamed Kavianpour 12'		Seo Jung-Won 78' Park Kun-Ha 90'

Suwon, South Korea

Third place match

26 May 2001

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

Suwon, South Korea

Final

26 May 2001

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

Suwon Sports Complex, Suwon, South Korea

References

• Asian Club Competitions 2001 at RSSSF.com