First Round
West Asia (Sep 4-18)
Air Force Irq Khadamat Rafat Pal 7-0 2-0 9-0x
Al Ain UAE Omani Club Omn 5-2 2-0 7-2
Al Ansar Leb Al Arabi Qat 1-0 2-3 *3-3
West Riffa Bah Al Wahda Sana Yem 2-0 0-3 2-3 asdet
Al Salmiya Kuw Al Hilal Sau 0-0 2-3 2-3
Vaksh Kurgan-Tyube Taj Neftchi Fergana Uzb w/o y
Kopet-Dag Ashkhabad Tkm Irtysh Pavlodor Kaz 4-1 0-3 4-4z
Esteghlal Irn bye
x both legs in Bagdad
y Neftchi Fergana withdrew before 1st leg
z Irtysh Pavlodor disqualified for using two ineligible players
East Asia (Aug-Oct)
Pohang Steelers SKo Saigon Port Vie 2-0 4-0 6-0
Singapore Armed Forces Sin Selangor Mly 1-4 1-0 2-4
Instant Dict Hkg Jubilo Iwata Jap 0-3 0-4 0-7
BEC Tero Sasana Tha Three Star Nep 6-1 w/o x
Dalian Wanda Chn East Bengal Ind 6-0 0-0 6-0
Allied Bank Pak Saunders AC SrL w/o y
Valencia Mld Pusan Daewoo Royals SKo 0-2 0-4 0-6
Finance and Revenue Mya bye z
x 2nd leg apparently not played; Tero Sasana represented Thailand after three
clubs who had finished above them in the championship withdrew for economic
reasons
y Allied Bank withdrew before 1st leg
z were drawn against the representatives of Indonesia, where the 1997/98 season
had been abandoned
Second Round
West Asia (Oct 9 & 23)
Air Force Irq Esteghlal Irn 1-1 0-2 1-3
Al Ain UAE Al Ansar Leb 3-1 0-1 3-2
Al Wahda Sana Yem Al Hilal Sau 2-2 0-4 2-6
Vaksh Kurgan-Tyube Taj Kopet-Dag Ashkhabad Tkm 0-1 0-5 0-6
East Asia (Oct-Nov)
Dalian Wanda Chn BEC Tero Sasana Tha 3-0 0-1 3-2
Jubilo Iwata Jap Finance and Revenue Mya 4-0 w/o x
Saunders AC SrL Pusan Daewoo Royals SKo 1-4 0-5 1-9
Pohang Steelers SKo Selangor Mly 6-0 4-1 10-1
x 2nd leg apparently not played
Quarterfinals
West Asia (in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Feb 25: Al Ain-Kopet-Dag Ashkhabad 6-1
[Majed Hamad 5, 80, Abdullah Shila 14, 41, Abedi Pele 55,
Helal Saeed 8; Vladimir Bairamov 20]
Feb 25: Al Hilal-Esteghlal 1-2
[Bashar Abdullah 47; Farhad Majidi 13, Sirous Dinmohammadi 40]
Feb 27: Al Ain-Esteghlal 0-1
[Ali Reza Akbapour 70]
Feb 27: Al Hilal-Kopet-Dag Ashkhabad 4-2
[Elijah Litana 17, Nawaf Al Temiyat 21, Abdullah Al Dossary 41,
Sami Al Jaber 62 pen; Azat Kuldjaqazov 14, Vladimir Bairamov 31]
Mar 1: Al Ain-Al Hilal 1-0
[Garib Harib 68]
Mar 1: Esteghlal-Kopet-Dag Ashkhabad 0-1
[Vladimir Khalikov 72]
1.Al Ain 3 2 0 1 7- 2 6
2.Esteghlal (Tehran) 3 2 0 1 3- 2 6
3.Al Hilal (Riyadh) 3 1 0 2 5- 5 3
4.Kopet-Dag Ashkhabad 3 1 0 2 4-10 3
East Asia (in Chongqing, China)
Feb 10: Jubilo Iwata-Pohang Steelers 1-1
[Nakayama 28; Park Sang In 48]
Feb 10: Dalian Wanda-Pusan Daewoo Royals 2-2
[Hao Haidong 42, Wang Peng 64; Ahn Jung Hwan 45P, Kim Jae Young 81]
Feb 12: Pusan Daewoo Royals-Pohang Steelers 1-1
[Jasenko Sabitovic 17og; Park Sang In 15]
Feb 12: Dalian Wanda-Jubilo Iwata 2-0
[Hao Haidong 1, 74]
Feb 14: Pusan Daewoo Royals-Jubilo Iwata 0-2
[Daisuke Oku 63, Toshiya Fujita 90]
Feb 14: Dalian Wanda-Pohang Steelers 1-1
[Wang Peng 16; Abbas Jassim 60]
1.Dalian Wanda 3 1 2 0 5- 3 5
2.Jubilo Iwata 3 1 1 1 3- 3 4
3.Pohang Steelers 3 0 3 0 3- 3 3
4.Pusan Daewoo Royals 3 0 2 1 3- 5 2
Semifinals (Apr 28, in Tehran, Iran)
Al Ain UAE Jubilo Iwata Jap 2-2 asdet 2-4p
[Fahd Hasan 35, 66; Makoto Tanaka 15, Toshiya Fujita 37]
Dalian Wanda Chn Esteghlal Irn 3-4 asdet
[Yan Song 60, 63, Li Ming 77; Mahmoud Fekri 44, Saeed Ali Mousavi 51, 108,
Ali Reza Akbapour 84]
Third Place Match (Apr 30, in Tehran, Iran)
Al Ain UAE Dalian Wanda Chn 3-2
[Seydou Traoré 7, Abedi Pelé Ayew 61, Grarib Harib Farhan 80; Yan Song 23,
Vaclav Nemelek 44]
Final (Apr 30, in Tehran, Iran)
Jubilo Iwata Jap Esteghlal Irn 2-1
[Hideto Suzuki 36, Masashi Nakayama 45; Sirous Dinmohammadi 66]
First Round West Asia (Sep 4 & 18) Kazma Kuw Al Wahda UAE 2-0 3-2 5-2 Al Ahli Sana Yem Talaba Irq 0-0 0-3 0-3 Paas Irn Seeb Omn 10-1 0-2 10-3 Al Ahli Qat Al Nijmeh Leb 0-0 w/o x FK Khujand Taj Pakhtakor Tashkent Uzb 1-1 1-4 2-5 Nisa Ashkhabad Tkm Kaisar Kzyl-Orda Kaz 1-0 1-1 2-1 Al Nasr Sau bye Al Ittihad Sau bye x Al Nijmeh withdrew after 1st leg East Asia (Sep-Oct) Sinthana Tha Woodlands Wellington Sin 4-1 1-1 5-2 Customs Vie Sarawak Mly 1-2 1-3 2-5 Chunnam Dragons SKo Police SC SrL w/o x Salgaocar Ind Beijing Guo'an Chn 1-0 0-4 1-4 Mahendra Police Nep New Radiant Mld 0-0 0-2 0-2 Happy Valley Hkg PIA Pak w/o x Yangon City Development Mya bye y Kashima Antlers Jap bye x Police SC and Pakistan International Airlines withdrew before 1st leg y were drawn against the representatives of Indonesia, where the 1997/98 season had been abandoned Second Round West Asia (Oct 9 & 23) Kazma Kuw Al Nasr Sau 3-0 1-2 4-2 Paas Irn Talaba Irq 0-1 1-1 1-2 Al Ahli Qat Al Ittihad Sau 0-0 1-7 1-7 Nisa Ashkhabad Tkm Pakhtakor Tashkent Uzb 5-0 0-6 5-6 East Asia (Oct-Nov) Yangon City Development Mya Sarawak Mly 0-1 w/o x New Radiant Mld Happy Valley Hkg 3-1 1-5 4-6 Sinthana Tha Kashima Antlers Jap 1-2 0-9 1-11 Beijing Guo'an Chn Chunnam Dragons SKo 0-2 0-2 0-4 x Yangon City Development withdrew after 1st leg Quarterfinals West Asia (Feb 12 & 21) Kazma Kuw Talaba Irq w/o x Al Ittihad Sau Pakhtakor Tashkent Uzb 3-0 1-0 4-0 x Kazma withdrew before 1st leg East Asia (Feb 28 & Mar 6) Happy Valley Hkg Chunnam Dragons SKo 0-3 1-4 1-7 Sarawak Mly Kashima Antlers Jap 2-4 0-10 2-14x x 1st leg Feb 17(?), 2nd leg Mar 3 Semifinals (in Tokyo, Japan, Apr 16) Talaba Irq Al Ittihad Sau 1-3 [Qathan Jathir Drain 36; Mohammed Al Sahafi 20, Dalian Atkinson 25, Ahmed Bahja 90] Kashima Antlers Jap Chunnam Dragons SKo 1-4 [Yutaka Akita 12; Roh Sang-rae 33, 86, Kim Jong-hyun 48, Lim Kwan-sik 66] Third Place Match (in Tokyo, Japan, Apr 18) Kashima Antlers Jap Talaba Irq 1-0 [Tomoyuki Hirase 42] Final (in Tokyo, Japan, Apr 18) Al Ittihad Sau Chunnam Dragons SKo 3-2 asdet [Ahmed Bahja 10pen, 105pen, Mohammed Hawsawi 84; Roh Sang-rae 14, 70]
Final (Oct 22 and Nov 19) Jubilo Iwata Jap Al Ittihad Sau 1-0 1-2 *2-2 [Masashi Nakayama] [Hassan Al Yani 78, Mohammad Haider 90; Masashi Nakayama 58]
Prepared and maintained by Seungsoo Lee, Alisher Nikimbaev, Mohammed Qayed and Karel Stokkermans for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Authors: Seungsoo Lee (tratak@mail.hitel.net),
Alisher Nikimbaev
(ppgoal@nuron.ccc.uz),
Mohammed Qayed
(mhqayed@emirates.net.ae)
and Karel Stokkermans
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