2004–05 Arab Champions League

The 2004–05 Arab Champions League was the second edition of a new format called Arab Champions League replacing the former Arab Unified Club Championship. The teams represented Arab nations from Africa and Asia. Al-Ittihad Jeddah of Saudi Arabia won the final against CS Sfaxien of Tunisia.

2004–05 Arab Champions League

دوري أبطال العرب 2004–05
Tournament details
Dates	20 September 2004 – 1 July 2005
Teams	32 (from 1 association)
Final positions
Champions	Al-Ittihad Jeddah (1st title)
Runners-up	CS Sfaxien
Third place	Al-Hilal
Fourth place	Al-Ahli Jeddah
Tournament statistics
Matches played	96
Goals scored	248 (2.58 per match)
← 2003–04 2005–06 →

The competition's sponsor ART invited Iraq's Al-Talaba to compete. The Iraqi FA then nominated two other clubs (Erbil SC and Najaf FC, leaders of the Northern and Southern groups when the domestic championship was abandoned in spring 2004) to participate alongside Al-Talaba, but UAFA only allowed Al-Talaba to compete. The Iraqi FA then withdrew Al-Talaba from the tournament and were subsequently suspended from UAFA.

First round

Al-Hussein SC (Irbid) apparently replaced Al-Wehdat SC.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nejmeh SC	1–7	CS Sfaxien	0–1	1–6
Al-Karamah	0–1	Zamalek SC	0–0	0–1
Al-Muharraq SC	2–3	MC Alger	0–1	2–2
Kuwait SC	2–1	AS Salé	2–0	0–1
Al-Ahli Doha	5–1	Al-Hussein SC (Irbid)	3–0	2–1
Al-Ittihad Jeddah	12–0	Shaab Ibb	10–0	2–0
ASAC Concorde	0–4	ES Sétif	0–2	0–2
Olympic Azzaweya	1–4	Ghazl El-Mahalla	1–2	0–2
Al-Hilal	18–0	Gendarmerie Nationale FC	11–0	7–0
Al-Qadsia	1–1 (a)	Al-Faisaly	1–1	0–0
Tishreen	0–5	Al-Ismaily	0–3	0–2
Al-Ahed	1–3	Club Africain	1–1	0–2
Al-Ittihad Tripoli	1–3	NA Hussein Dey	1–2	0–1
Muscat Club	3–4	CA Bizertin	1–1	1–3
Al-Aqsa SC	2–4	Al-Ahli Jeddah	1–3	1–1
Riffa SC	1–3	Wydad Casablanca	0–1	1–2

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		CSS	MCA	ZSC	KSC
CS Sfaxien	6	4	1	1	13	3	+10	13			4–0	2–0	1–0
MC Alger	6	3	1	2	6	12	−6	10		2–1		0–0	3–2
Zamalek SC	6	2	3	1	9	5	+4	9		1–1	5–0		2–1
Kuwait SC	6	0	1	5	4	12	−8	1		0–4	0–1	1–1

Source:

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		ITT	AHL	ESS	GHA
Al-Ittihad Jeddah	6	4	1	1	12	6	+6	13			1–1	2–0	2–1
Al-Ahli Doha	6	2	3	1	8	6	+2	9		3–2		1–1	2–0
ES Sétif	6	2	2	2	4	5	−1	8		0–2	1–0		2–0
Ghazl El-Mahalla	6	0	2	4	3	10	−7	2		1–3	1–1	0–0

Source:

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		ISC	HIL	CAF	FAI
Al-Ismaily	6	5	1	0	11	5	+6	16			2–0	2–1	2–1
Al-Hilal	6	2	2	2	8	8	0	8		1–1		3–1	2–1
Club Africain	6	2	1	3	5	7	−2	7		1–2	1–0		0–0
Al-Faisaly	6	0	2	4	5	9	−4	2		1–2	2–2	0–1

Source:

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		WAC	AHL	NAHD	CAB
Wydad Casablanca	6	2	3	1	7	4	+3	9			1–1	3–0	1–0
Al-Ahli Jeddah	6	1	5	0	6	5	+1	8		1–1		1–1	1–0
NA Hussein Dey	6	1	4	1	9	9	0	7		1–1	2–2		3–0
CA Bizertin	6	1	2	3	3	7	−4	5		1–0	0–0	2–2

Source:

Knock-out stage

	Quarterfinals						Semifinals						Finals
	Al-Ahli Jeddah	2	0	2
	Al-Ismaily	0	1	1
							Al-Ahli Jeddah	0	4	4
							CS Sfaxien	3	4	7
	Al-Ahli Doha	1	1	2
	CS Sfaxien	2	2	4
													CS Sfaxien	0	1	1
													Al-Ittihad	2	2	4
	Al-Hilal	1	1	2
	Wydad AC	0	1	1
							Al-Hilal	0	1	1			Third place
							Al-Ittihad	1	2	3
	MC Alger	1	0	1 (4)									Al-Hilal	3	2	5
	Al-Ittihad (p)	0	1	1 (5)									Al-Ahli Jeddah	1	2	3

Quarterfinals

4 April 2005

Al-Ahli Doha	1–2	CS Sfaxien
Bouden 89'		Guemamdia 45' Essafi 71'

Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium, Doha

20 April 2005

CS Sfaxien	2–1	Al-Ahli Doha
Taher 8' (o.g.) Kouassi 38'		Jawhar 57'

Stade Taïeb Mhiri, Sfax

CS Sfaxien won 4–2 on aggregate.

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4 April 2005

MC Alger	1–0	Al-Ittihad
Benali 73'

Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers

20 April 2005

Al-Ittihad	1–0	MC Alger
Idris 90'
Penalties
	5–4

Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Al-Ittihad 1–1 MC Alger on aggregate. Al-Ittihad won 5–4 on penalties.

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4 April 2005

Al-Ahli Jeddah	2–0	Al-Ismaily
Pereira 47', 90' (pen.)

Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

20 April 2005

Al-Ismaily	1–0	Al-Ahli Jeddah
Abd-Rabou 5'

Ismailia Stadium, Ismailia

Al-Ahli Jeddah won 2–1 on aggregate.

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4 April 2005

Al-Hilal	1–0	Wydad Casablanca
Al-Jaber 14'

King Fahd Stadium, Riyadh

20 April 2005

Wydad Casablanca	1–1	Al-Hilal
Madihi 65'		Al-Shalhoub 26'

Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca

Al-Hilal won 2–1 on aggregate.

Semifinals

5 May 2005

Al-Ahli Jeddah	0–3	CS Sfaxien
		Ba 55' Kouassi 81' Essafi 90+4'

Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

18 May 2005

CS Sfaxien	4–4	Al-Ahli Jeddah
Guemamdia 9', 90' Massaoud 28' Nafti 64'		Kim 24', 55' Lúcio Flávio 75' Al-Meshal 82'

Stade Taïeb Mhiri, Sfax

CS Sfaxien won 7–4 on aggregate.

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5 May 2005

Al-Hilal	0–1	Al-Ittihad
		Al-Waked 60'

King Fahd Stadium, Riyadh

18 May 2005

Al-Ittihad	2–1	Al-Hilal
Al-Montashari 29' Al-Eissa 40'		Camacho 73'

Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Al-Ittihad won 3–1 on aggregate.

Third place match

25 June 2005

Al-Hilal	3–1	Al-Ahli Jeddah
Al-Mofarij 53' Camacho 60' Al-Jaber 87'		Pereira 75'

King Fahd Stadium, Riyadh

30 June 2005

Al-Ahli Jeddah	2–2	Al-Hilal
Al-Muhamadi 68' Al-Abdullah 90+3'		Al-Anbar 64' Al-Temyat 67'

Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Al-Hilal won 5–3 on aggregate.

Final

24 June 2005

CS Sfaxien	0–2	Al-Ittihad Jeddah
		Al-Shahrani 63', 90'

Stade Taïeb Mhiri, Sfax

Referee: Jassem Al-Heel (Qatar)

1 July 2005

Al-Ittihad Jeddah	2–1	CS Sfaxien
Gharbi 11' (o.g.) Noor 23'		Khammassi 42'

Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium, Jeddah

Referee: Mohamed Guezzaz (Morocco)

Al-Ittihad won 4–1 on aggregate.

Winners

2003–04 Arab Champions League
Al-Ittihad Jeddah First title

External links

• Arab Champions' League 2004–05 – rsssf.com