The 2002–03 AFC Champions League was the twenty-second edition of Asia's premier
football
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competition organised by the
Asian Football Confederation
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is the governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal in most countries and territories in Asia. The AFC was formed in 1954. It has 47 members. The Asian Ladies Football Confederation ( ...
, and the first edition under the
AFC Champions League
The AFC Champions League Elite (abbreviated as the ACL Elite) is an annual continental club association football, football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation, and contested by Asia's List of top-division football clubs i ...
title.
Sixteen teams competed in this edition as they went through qualifying before going into four groups of four with only the winner of the group qualifying to the knockout-stage which went to two-legs instead of the single leg that the previous year competition had.
Teams
Qualification Round
First qualifying round
Second qualifying round
Third qualifying round
Fourth qualifying round
Group stage
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Knock-out stage
Bracket
Semi-finals
Matches
''BEC Tero Sasana won 3–2 on aggregate.''
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''Al-Ain won 7–6 on aggregate.''
Final
Matches
''Al-Ain won 2–1 on aggregate.''
Top scorers
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Notes
External links
AFC Champions League 2002/03AFC Champions League 2002/03 - Final stage
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Club Championship
Club Championship