The 1985 Arab Club Champions Cup took place in

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and featured three teams.

Al-Rasheed Al-Rasheed Sports Club ( ar, نادي الرشيد الرياضي) was an Iraqi sports club based in Karkh, Baghdad. Its professional football team played in the Iraqi Premier League, the top tier of the Iraqi football, from 1984 until 1990. ...

took the championship back to Iraq.

Participants

Qualifying round

Zone 1

Preliminary round tournament held in Jeddah,

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. ¹ The match originally finished 1-1, but

were awarded a 2-0 win as Al-Ahli Sana'a played a Sudanese player who was not registered according to competition rules. ''

advanced to the final tournament.''

Zone 2

Nejmeh Nejmeh Sporting Club ( ar, نادي النجمة الرياضي, lit=The Star Sporting Club) is a football club based in Manara, a district in Ras Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, that competes in the . The club was established in Beirut in 1945, and ...

advanced to the final tournament.''

Zone 3

USM El Harrach Union Sportive de la Médina d'El Harrach ( ar, الإتحاد الرياضي لمدينة الحراش), known as USM El Harrach or simply USMH for short, is an Algerian Association football, football club based in El Harrach, Algiers. The club ...

advanced to the final tournament.''

Final tournament

Winner

External links

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