2008–09 Arab Champions League

The 6th edition of Arab Champions League, The 2008–2009 is going to play as a knockout stage from 35 clubs, The Algerian club ES Sétif entered automatically as 2007–08 champion.

Format

 * Each federation enter with (1~2) teams from their top Leagues
 * – The teams must be one of the top 5 teams in the latest season, or Cup Champions/Runners-up.


 * The Number of teams of each federation enters based on the previous editions results of the Arab Champions League
 * The official sponsor ART can choose the rest teams to complete the 32 teams, so it may can reach 3 teams from one country
 * – It's not necessary to be one of the top 5 teams.


 * The Algerian club ES Sétif entered automatically as 2007–08 champion.

Participated teams

 * 35 clubs will be competing from the following countries.

The System

 * The Qualifying: Knock out stage
 * Round 32: Knock out stage
 * Round 16: Knock out stage
 * Round 8: Knock out stage
 * Semifinals and final: Knock out stage

The Awards

 * The Champions: 1,000,000 $
 * The Runner-up: 650,000 $
 * Round 4: 200,000 $
 * Round 8: 100,000 $
 * Round 16: 40,000 $
 * Round 32: 20,000 $
 * Qualifying: 5,000 $

The qualifying Stage

 * 4 teams play 1 leg match as Knock out stage.
 * 1 team qualify to the next stage (Round 32).

Round 32
32 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.


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 * 1 The Kuwaiti clubs' matches canceled due to FIFA's freezing of the membership of the Kuwait Football Association.
 * 2 Al-Shaab withdrew.

Round 32 Matches Dates

 * The first legs on 28 and 29 October 2008
 * The second legs on 25 and 26 November 2008

Round 16
16 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.

Qualified teams

 * 🇩🇿 ES Sétif
 * 🇩🇿 USM Alger
 * 🇪🇬 Ismaily
 * 🇮🇶 Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
 * 🇯🇴 Al-Faisaly
 * 🇯🇴 Al-Wahdat
 * 🇲🇦 Raja Casablanca
 * 🇲🇦 Wydad Casablanca
 * 🇸🇦 Al-Hazm
 * 🇸🇩 Al-Hilal Club (Omdurman)
 * 🇸🇩 Al-Merrikh
 * Al-Ittihad Aleppo
 * 🇹🇳 Espérance Sportive de Tunis
 * 🇹🇳 CS Sfaxien
 * 🇹🇳 US Monastir
 * 🇾🇪 Al-Hilal Al-Sahili

Round 16 Matches

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 * 1 🇸🇩 Al-Hilal Omdurman withdrew.

Round 16 Matches Dates

 * The first legs on 16 December 2008
 * The second legs on 26 December 2008

Quarter-finals
8 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.

Qualified teams

 * 🇩🇿 ES Sétif
 * 🇪🇬 Ismaily
 * 🇯🇴 Al-Faisaly
 * 🇯🇴 Al-Wahdat
 * 🇲🇦 Wydad Casablanca
 * 🇹🇳 CS Sfaxien
 * 🇹🇳 Espérance Sportive de Tunis
 * 🇹🇳 US Monastir

Quarter-finals Matches

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Quarter-final Match Dates

 * The first legs between 1 March 2009 and 4 March 2009
 * The second legs between 19 March 2009 and 21 March −2009

Semi-finals
4 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.

Semi-finals Matches

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Second leg

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Top scorers

 * Source: Goalzz.com