Preliminary Stage Automatically qualified: WA Tlemcen (Algeria, holders), Al Ahly (Egypt, hosts). Zone 1 Salmiya (Kuwait) and West Riffa (Bahrain) qualified in GCC Champions' Cup 1999: Round 1 [Jan 25] Ittihad 5-1 Oman [Jan 26] Sharjah 2-2 Arabi Salmiya 2-0 West Riffa Round 2 [Jan 28] Ittihad 3-0 Arabi Oman 1-4 West Riffa [Jan 29] Sharjah 0-3 Salmiya Round 3 [Jan 30] Ittihad 2-0 West Riffa [Jan 31] Arabi 0-2 Salmiya Oman 2-2 Sharjah Round 4 [Feb 2] Arabi 2-0 Oman West Riffa 3-1 Sharjah [abandoned after 50 minutes] [Feb 3] Ittihad 3-0 Salmiya Round 4 [Feb 4] West Riffa 5-0 Arabi [Feb 5] Salmiya 2-0 Oman Ittihad 2-1 Sharjah 1.Al Ittihad 5 5 0 0 15- 2 15 [Saudi Arabia] 2.Salmiya 5 4 0 1 9- 3 12 [Kuwait] 3.West Riffa 5 3 0 2 12- 6 9 [Bahrain] 4.Al Arabi 5 1 1 3 4-12 4 [Qatar] 5.Sharjah 5 0 2 3 6-12 2 [UAE] 6.Oman 5 0 1 4 4-15 1 [Oman] Zone 2 (in Abha, Saudi Arabia) 15- 8 Al Shabab 4-0 Al Wahda Sana 17- 8 Al Hilal Kh. 3-5 Al Wahda Sana 19- 8 Al Shabab 2-0 Al Hilal Kh. 1.Al Shabab 2 2 0 0 6- 0 6 [Saudi Arabia] 2.Al Wahda Sana 2 1 0 1 5- 7 3 [Yemen] 3.Al Hilal Khartoum 2 0 0 2 3- 7 0 [Sudan] Al Shabab qualified. Zone 3 (in Benghazi, Libya) Al Mahalla (Libya) disqualified by Arab FF, Sonalec (Mauritania) withdrew, leaving only one club: Olympique Béja (Tunisia) qualified. Zone 4 (in Amman, Jordan) 3- 9 Al Wahdat 4-1 Rafah Services 5- 9 Al Wahdat 0-2 Al Jaish 7- 9 Al Jaish 1-0 Rafah Services 1.Al Jaish 2 2 0 0 3- 0 6 [Syria] 2.Al Wahdat 2 1 0 1 4- 3 3 [Jordan] 3.Rafah Services 2 0 0 2 1- 5 0 [Palestine] Al Jaish and Al Wahdat qualified. Final Stage (Cairo, Sep 23-Oct 3) Group A Round 1 [Sep 23] Wahdat 0-1 Salmiya [Ali Marwi Al-Hidaya (36')] Shabab 5-0 WA Tlemcen [Saeed Al-Owairan (23'; 52' pen.), Marzouq Al-Otaibi (60'), Abdulaziz Al-Khathran (80'), Yahya Dissa (90')] Round 2 [Sep 25] Salmiya 1-2 WA Tlemcen [Omar Baygovo (77') - Sufian Dawood (55'), Eidra Eissa (81')] Shabab 1-0 Wahdat [Abdullah Al-Waked (67')] Round 3 [Sep 28] Wahdat 3-1 WA Tlemcen [Morad Awaynah (60'), Mahmoud Shilbaya (80'; 83') - Anwar Boushakji (59')] Shabab 0-1 Salmiya [Ali Marwi Al-Hidaya (73')] Table: 1.Al Shabab 3 2 0 1 6- 1 6 [Saudi Arabia] 2.Al Salmiya 3 2 0 1 3- 2 6 [Kuwait] 3.Al Wahdat 3 1 0 2 3- 3 3 [Jordan] 4.WA Tlemcen 3 1 0 2 3- 9 3 [Algeria] Group B Round 1 [Sep 24] Ol. Beja 0-2 Jaish [Ahmed Azzam (9'), Maher Al-Sayyed (84')] Ahly (Cairo) 1-1 West Riffa [Mohamed Farouq (67') - Shahin Bilal (89')] Round 2 [Sep 27] Ol. Beja 2-0 West Riffa [Hatem Al-Missawi (52'), Mohamed Sleiti (82')] Ahly (Cairo) 2-0 Jaish [Hisham Hanafi (8'), Shadi Mohamed (25')] Round 3 [Sep 29] Jaish 4-0 West Riffa [Maher Al-Sayyed (27'), Ahmed Azzam (28'), Mohamed Mansour (59'), Sharif Kurdiyyah (82')] Ahly (Cairo) 1-1 Ol. Beja [Mohamed Farouq (32') - Mohamed Al-Sliti (68')] Table: 1.Al Jaish 3 2 0 1 6- 2 6 [Syria] 2.Al Ahly 3 1 2 0 4- 2 5 [Egypt] 3.Olympique Béja 3 1 1 1 3- 3 4 [Tunisia] 4.West Riffa 3 0 1 2 1- 7 1 [Bahrain] Semifinals [Oct 1] Shabab 1-1 Ahly (Cairo) [aet, 3-2 pen] [Abdullah Al-Sheehan (90') - Mohamed Farouq (14')] Jaish 2-1 Salmiya [Mohamed Afash (54'; 66') - Ali Marwi Al-Hidaya (27')] Final [Oct 3, Cairo International Stadium; att: 5,000] Shabab 2-0 Jaish [Saeed Al-Owairan (3'), Abdullah Al-Sheehan (16')] [ref: Mr. Karim Daho (Algeria)] Al-Shabab: Abdulrahman Al-Hamdan - Abdullah Al-Waked, Saleh Al-Dawood, Saleh Seddiq, Fahad Al-Subaiyi - Salem Srour, Abdulaziz Al-Khathran, Khaled Al-Shneif - Saeed Al-Owairan (50'. Walid Al-Sada'an), Abdullah Al-Sheehan (74'. Yahya Dissa), Marzouq Al-Otaybi (63'. Fahad Al-Mehallal). Al-Jaish: Mohamed Bayrouti - Hossam Al-Sayyed, Ra'fat Mohamed (53'. Sharif Kurdiyyah), Mohamed Khalaf (46'. Ahmed Koussa),Raghdan Shéhadé, Nouhad Hajj-Mustapha - Ahmed Azzam, Fadi Afash (66'. Nabil Al-Shahma), Jomard Moussa - Mohamed Mansour, Maher Al-Sayyed.
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