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The 2006 AFC Champions League was the 25th edition of the top-level Asian club football tournament and the fourth edition under the current AFC Champions League title. Al-Ittihad automatically qualified for the quarter-finals as the title holders.

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors won their first AFC Champions League title after beating Al-Karamah 3–2 on aggregate in the final. Jeonbuk also became the first team in history of Asia to have won the Champions League before the national league title (they won their first K League championship three years later, in 2009).

Format

Group stage

A total of 28 clubs were divided into seven groups of four, according to the region. Each club played double round-robin (home and away) against fellow three group members for a total of six matches. Clubs received three points for a win, one for a tie, and no points for a loss. The clubs were ranked according to points. If two or more teams were tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied:

• Points earned between the clubs in question
• Goal difference between the clubs in question
• Goals for between the clubs in question
• Points earned within the group
• Goal difference within the group
• Goals for within the group

The seven group winners along with the defending champion advanced to the quarter-finals.

Knockout round

All 8 clubs were randomly matched; however, the only restriction was that the clubs from the same country could not face each other in the quarter-finals. The games were played over two legs, home and away, and the aggregate score decided the winner. If the aggregate score was level, the away goals rule was used. If still tied, clubs played extra time, where the away goals rule still applied. If still tied, the game went to penalties.

1. As two clubs from Group F and two clubs from Group G were disqualified, the remaining clubs in these groups played each other home and away.

Teams

West Asia		East Asia
Quarter-finals
Team	Qualifying method	Team	Qualifying method
Al-Ittihad	Defending champions
Group Stage
Team	Qualifying method	Team	Qualifying method
Foolad	2004–05 Iran Pro League champions	Dalian Shide	2005 Chinese Super League champions & 2005 Chinese FA Cup winners
Saba Battery	2004–05 Hazfi Cup winners and 2005 Iranian Super Cup winners	Shanghai Shenhua	2005 Chinese Super League runners-up
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	2004–05 Iraqi Premier League champions	Persipura Jayapura	2005 Liga Indonesia Premier Division champions
Al-Minaa	2004–05 Iraqi Premier League runners-up	Arema Malang	2005 Copa Indonesia winners
Al Qadisiya	2004–05 Kuwaiti Premier League champions	Gamba Osaka	2005 J.League Division 1 champions
Al-Arabi	2005 Kuwait Emir Cup winners	Tokyo Verdy 1969	2004 Emperor's Cup winners
Al-Gharafa	2004–05 Qatar Stars League champions	Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i	2005 K League champions
Al Sadd	2004–05 Emir of Qatar Cup winners	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	2005 Korean FA Cup winners
Al Hilal	2004–05 Saudi Premier League champions & 2004–05 Saudi Crown Prince Cup winners	TTM FC	2004–05 Thai League champions
Al Shabab	2004–05 Saudi Premier League runners-up	PEA FC	2004–05 Thai League runners-up
Al-Ittihad	2004–05 Syrian Premier League champions & 2004-05 Syrian Cup winners	Đồng Tâm Long An	2005 V-League champions & 2005 Vietnamese Cup winners
Al-Karamah	2004–05 Syrian Premier League runners-up	Da Nang	2005 V-League runners-up
Al Wahda	2004–05 UAE Football League champions
Al Ain	2004–05 UAE President's Cup winners
Pakhtakor	2005 Uzbek League champions & 2005 Uzbekistan Cup winners
Mash'al	2005 Uzbek League runners-up

Notes

1. The two clubs from Indonesia (Persipura Jayapura and Arema Malang) and the two clubs from Thailand (TTM FC and PEA FC) were disqualified from the competition by the AFC for failing to submit their player registration forms in time. Consequently, Groups F and G only have two teams each.

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al Qadisiya	6	3	2	1	9	11	−2	11
Pakhtakor	6	3	1	2	11	7	+4	10
Al-Ittihad	6	2	2	2	6	7	−1	8
Foolad	6	1	1	4	8	9	−1	4

Foolad	6–0	Al Qadisiya
Rameshgar 10' Soleimani 27' Badavi 34' Khaziravi 54' Ahmadi 59' Montazeri 72'

Pakhtakor	2–0	Al-Ittihad
Inomov 16' Kletskov 85'

Al-Ittihad	0–0	Foolad

Al Qadisiya	2–1	Pakhtakor
Al-Otaibi 87' Al-Mutawa 90'		Soliev 45'

Pakhtakor	2–0	Foolad
Tadjiyev 13' Djeparov 37'

Al-Ittihad	2–2	Al Qadisiya
Homsi 23' Al Agha 83'		Al-Mutawa 20' (pen.) Tarab 90' (o.g.)

Foolad	1–3	Pakhtakor
Soleimani 34'		Bayramov 46' Kiryan 48' Tadjiyev 57'

Al Qadisiya	1–0	Al-Ittihad
Al-Mutawa 83'

Al Qadisiya	2–0	Foolad
Al-Mutawa 3', 90+3' (pen.)

Al-Ittihad	2–1	Pakhtakor
Al Rashad 17' Al Damen 45+2'		Ponomarev 20'

Pakhtakor	2–2	Al Qadisiya
Bayramov 12' Soliev 90'		Fadhel 7' Al-Salamah 58'

Foolad	1–2	Al-Ittihad
Kolahkaj 77'		Al Damen 21' Boudaka 73'

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al Ain	6	4	1	1	10	6	+4	13
Al-Hilal	6	3	1	2	12	7	+5	10
Mash'al	6	2	2	2	7	11	−4	8
Al-Minaa	6	0	2	4	6	11	−5	2

Al-Minaa	0–1	Mash'al
		Kholmurodov 31'

Al Ain	2–0	Al-Hilal
Ali 42' Kelly 49'

Mash'al	1–1	Al Ain
Mirholdirshaev 90+4'		Diaky 15'

Al-Hilal	3–1	Al-Minaa
Tavares 31' Aoda 60' (o.g.) Al-Qahtani 90'		Hamoud 45'

Al Ain	2–1	Al-Minaa
Jestrović 14', 33' (pen.)		Jabbar 15'

Al-Hilal	5–0	Mash'al
Al-Mouri 30' Giovanni 34' Al-Swaileh 63' Camacho 79' Al-Shalhoub 85'

Mash'al	2–1	Al-Hilal
Karaev 50' Kholmurodov 82'		Al-Dosari 90+2'

Al-Minaa	1–2	Al Ain
Falah 7'		Kelly 64' (pen.) Diaky 66'

Mash'al	2–2	Al-Minaa
Hasanov 30' Mirholdirshaev 72'		Abdulkazem 12' Abdulsattar 60'

Al-Hilal	2–1	Al Ain
Camacho 33' Al-Shalhoub 86' (pen.)		Jestrović 49'

Al Ain	2–1	Mash'al
Jestrović 35', 45'		Kholmurodov 23'

Al-Minaa	1–1	Al-Hilal
Falah 34'		Giovanni 48'

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al-Karamah	6	4	0	2	10	11	−1	12
Saba Battery	6	3	1	2	13	8	+5	10
Al-Wahda	6	2	1	3	14	15	−1	7
Al-Gharafa	6	2	0	4	11	14	−3	6

Al Gharafa	0–2	Saba Battery
		Daei 47', 52'

Al-Karamah	2–1	Al-Wahda
Al Hamwi 45+2' Turkmani 86'		Matar 13'

Saba Battery	1–2	Al-Karamah
Daei 16'		Al-Hussain 63' Ibrahim 90'

Al-Wahda	2–0	Al Gharafa
Matar 27' Maurito 45'

Al Gharafa	4–0	Al-Karamah
Hubail 59' (pen.), 71' Ali 81' Quaye 89'

Saba Battery	2–2	Al-Wahda
Ghasemian 24' Akbari 27'		Maurito 60' Mitrović 62'

Al-Wahda	2–4	Saba Battery
Golmohammadi 40' (o.g.) Masoud 86'		Avdić 29' Beigi 33', 52' Bakhtiarizadeh 48'

Al-Karamah	3–1	Al Gharafa
Turkmani 67', 74' Rifai 83' (pen.)		El Assas 65'

Saba Battery	4–1	Al Gharafa
Avdić 72' Daei 77', 83' Golmohammadi 90'		Al-Mazroui 55'

Al-Wahda	4–2	Al-Karamah
Ameen 19' Abdul Razzaq 21' Ahmed 64' Al Menhali 84'		Rifai 31' (pen.) Jenyat 40'

Al Gharafa	5–3	Al-Wahda
Hubail 23', 66', 73' Al Shammari 29' Sergio 72' (pen.)		Ameen 16' Al Menhali 60', 89'

Al-Karamah	1–0	Saba Battery
Rifai 31'

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al-Shabab	6	4	1	1	9	6	+3	13
Al Sadd	6	4	1	1	13	5	+8	13
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	6	2	0	4	5	9	−4	6
Al-Arabi	6	1	0	5	5	12	−7	3

Al-Arabi	0–1	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
		Abdul-Ghani 76'

Al-Shabab	0–0	Al Sadd

Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	0–2	Al-Shabab
		Attram 36', 45'

Al Sadd	4–1	Al-Arabi
Ibrahim 32' Tenorio 51' (pen.) Al-Kuwari 62' Ahmed 73'		Al-Khatib 48'

Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	0–2	Al Sadd
		Tenorio 58' Mohamed 87'

Al-Arabi	3–0	Al-Shabab
Al-Khatib 21', 87' Jarragh 68'

Al Sadd	3–0	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
Al-Kuwari 23' Felipe 83' Mohamed 90'

Al-Shabab	2–0	Al-Arabi
Al-Shamrani 11' Attram 13'

Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	3–0	Al-Arabi
Abdul-Ghani 31', 45' Kathem 74'

Al Sadd	2–3	Al-Shabab
Tenorio 83', 90'		Akram 22' Al-Shamrani 39' Attram 56'

Al-Arabi	1–2	Al Sadd
Al Qhareeb 34'		Felipe 63' Ahmed 79'

Al-Shabab	2–1	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
Al-Shamrani 41' Akram 69'		Khodair 35'

Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	6	4	1	1	11	5	+6	13
Dalian Shide	6	4	0	2	7	6	+1	12
Gamba Osaka	6	3	1	2	26	7	+19	10
Da Nang	6	0	0	6	1	27	−26	0

Da Nang	0–2	Dalian Shide
		Zou Jie 40' Ji Mingyi 48'

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	3–2	Gamba Osaka
Milton 29' Kim Hyeung-bum 70', 84'		Endō 15' Magno Alves 59'

Dalian Shide	1–0	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Zou Jie 40'

Gamba Osaka	15–0	Da Nang
Endō 8' (pen.) Fernandinho 20', 21', 37', 78' Bando 24' Magno Alves 42', 49', 70', 86' Maeda 77', 80' Miyamoto 82' Hashimoto 85' Ienaga 90'

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	3–0	Da Nang
Milton 23' Kim Hyeung-bum 40' Botti 80'

Gamba Osaka	3–0	Dalian Shide
Endō 48' (pen.) Magno Alves 56', 71'

Da Nang	0–1	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
		Zé Carlos 21'

Dalian Shide	2–0	Gamba Osaka
Zou Jie 19' Zhang Yaokun 48'

Gamba Osaka	1–1	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Yamaguchi 73'		Cho Jin-soo 45'

Dalian Shide	1–0	Da Nang
Liu Cheng 4'

Da Nang	1–5	Gamba Osaka
Rogerio 72' (pen.)		Fernandinho 21', 45' Magno Alves 36' Futagawa 53' Yamaguchi 75'

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	3–1	Dalian Shide
Kim Hyeung-bum 66', 88' Wang Jung-hyun 81'		Zou Jie 58'

Group F

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i	2	2	0	0	3	0	+3	6
Tokyo Verdy 1969	2	0	0	2	0	3	−3	0
TTM FC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Arema Malang	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

1. ^ TTM FC and Arema Malang were disqualified for failing to fill in their player registration forms in time.

Tokyo Verdy 1969	0–2	Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i
		Choi Sung-kuk 57' Machado 71'

Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i	1–0	Tokyo Verdy 1969
Lee Chun-soo 43'

Group G

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Shanghai Shenhua	2	2	0	0	7	3	+4	6
Đồng Tâm Long An	2	0	0	2	3	7	−4	0
Persipura Jayapura	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
PEA FC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

1. ^ Persipura Jayapura and PEA FC were disqualified for failing to fill in their player registration forms in time.

Shanghai Shenhua	3–1	Đồng Tâm Long An
Wang Ke 6' Xie Hui 11', 51'		Carlos 65' (pen.)

Đồng Tâm Long An	2–4	Shanghai Shenhua
Carlos 29' Santos 62'		Gao Lin 45', 90', 90+1' Yu Tao 65'

Knock-out stage

Bracket

	Quarter finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Shanghai Shenhua	1	2	3
	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	0	4	4
							Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	2	4	6
							Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i	3	1	4
	Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i	6	1	7
	Al-Shabab	0	0	0
													Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	2	1	3
													Al-Karamah	0	2	2
	Al-Ittihad	2	0	2
	Al-Karamah (a.e.t.)	0	4	4
							Al-Karamah	0	1	1
							Al Qadisiya	0	0	0
	Al Qadisiya	2	3	5
	Al Ain	2	0	2

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i	7–0	Al-Shabab	6–0	1–0
Shanghai Shenhua	3–4	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	1–0	2–4
Al Qadisiya	5–2	Al Ain	2–2	3–0
Al-Ittihad (2005 Champion)	2–4	Al-Karamah	2–0	0–4 (a.e.t.)

First leg

Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i	6–0	Al-Shabab
Lee Chun-soo 22' Lee Sang-ho 28' Choi Sung-kuk 35', 78' Leandrão 69' Machado 87'

Shanghai Shenhua	1–0	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Gao Lin 32'

Al Qadisiya	2–2	Al Ain
Al-Salamah 45', 48'		Jestrović 23' Dodô 66'

Al-Ittihad	2–0	Al-Karamah
Keita 43' Borgetti 46'

Second leg

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	4–2	Shanghai Shenhua
Zé Carlos 44', 61' Yeom Ki-hun 69' Jung Jong-kwan 78'		Gao Lin 35' Jancker 89'

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors won 4–3 on aggregate.

Al Ain	0–3	Al Qadisiya
		Bashir 25', 90' Al-Hinai 90+3'

Al Qadisiya won 5–2 on aggregate.

Al-Shabab	0–1	Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i
		Park Dong-hyuk 49'

Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i won 7–0 on aggregate.

Al-Karamah	4–0 (a.e.t.)	Al-Ittihad
Mando 41' Omaier 49' Ibrahim 104', 110'

Al-Karamah won 4–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	6–4	Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i	2–3	4–1
Al-Karamah	1–0	Al Qadisiya	0–0	1–0

First leg

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	2–3	Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i
Zé Carlos 26' (pen.) Yeom Ki-hun 46'		Yoo Kyoung-youl 6' Vinícius 37' Choi Sung-kuk 82'

Al-Karamah	0–0	Al Qadisiya

Second leg

Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i	1–4	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Lee Chun-soo 70'		Choi Jin-cheul 10' Jung Jong-kwan 20' Lim You-hwan 68' Lee Kwang-hyun 81'

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors won 6–4 on aggregate.

Al Qadisiya	0–1	Al-Karamah
		Jenyat 15'

Al-Karamah won 1–0 on aggregate.

Final

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	3–2	Al-Karamah	2–0	1–2

First leg

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	2–0	Al-Karamah
Yeom Ki-hun 59' Botti 90+1'

Second leg

Al-Karamah	2–1	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Mando 54' Ibrahim 61'		Zé Carlos 86'

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors won 3–2 on aggregate.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	MD1	MD2	MD3	MD4	MD5	MD6	QF1	QF2	SF1	SF2	F1	F2	Total
1	Magno Alves	Gamba Osaka	1	4	2			1							8
2	Fernandinho	Gamba Osaka		4				2							6
	Nenad Jestrović	Al Ain			2		1	2	1
4	Ali Daei	Saba Battery	2	1			2								5
	Gao Lin	Shanghai Shenhua					3		1	1
	A'ala Hubail	Al-Gharafa			2			3
	Kim Hyeung-bum	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	2		1			2
	Bader Al-Mutawa	Al Qadisiya		1	1	1	2
	Zé Carlos	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors				1				2	1			1
10	Godwin Attram	Al-Shabab		2		1	1								4
	Choi Sung-kuk	Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i	1						2		1
	Mohannad Ibrahim	Al-Karamah		1						2				1
	Carlos Tenorio	Al Sadd		1	1		2
	Zou Jie	Dalian Shide	1	1		1		1

See also

• 2006 FIFA Club World Cup

References

1. "전북 현대 AFC 챔피언스리그 우승". Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). 9 November 2006. Retrieved 2 September 2021.

External links

• AFC Champions League 2006 Official Page (English)

• 2006 AFC Champions League
• 2006 in Asian football