The 6th edition of

Arab Champions League The Arab Club Champions Cup (, ) is a club football competition organised by the Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA) and contested by top clubs from the Arab world. The tournament is contested by a total of 37 teams from Asia and Africa. F ...

, The 2008–2009 is going to play as a knockout stage from 35 clubs, The Algerian club

ES Sétif Entente Sportive Sétifienne (), known as Entente de Sétif, commonly referred to as ES Sétif or ESS for short, is an Algerian professional association football, football club based in Sétif. The club was founded in 1958 and its colours are bl ...

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

entered automatically as 2007–08 champion.

Participated teams

* 35 clubs will be competing from the following countries.

Asia

Africa

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. : ¹ The Kuwaiti clubs' matches canceled due to

FIFA The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (), more commonly known by its acronym FIFA ( ), is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded on 21 May 1904 to o ...

's freezing of the membership of the

Kuwait Football Association The Kuwait Football Association () is the governing body of association football in Kuwait. Kuwait has thrice been suspended by FIFA for political interference since 2007 and were allowed to participate in the 2011 Asian Cup qualifying campaign ...

. : 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

USM Alger Union Sportive de la Médina d'Alger (); known as USM Alger or simply USMA for short, is a Association football, football club based in the inner suburbs of Algiers. The club was founded in 1937 and its colours are red and black. Their home sta ...

Ismaily Ismaily Sporting Club () is an Egyptian football club, established on 20 March 1921 as El Nahda Sporting Club () ( Egyptian pronunciation: Nady El Nahda), based in Ismaïlia, Egypt. The club is best known for its football team. Also it's consi ...

Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya () is an Iraqi sports club based in Al-Rusafa, Iraq, Rusafa District, Baghdad that competes in the Iraq Stars League, the top-flight of Football in Iraq, Iraqi football. Founded in 1931, it is the oldest existing club in Iraq. ...

* Al-Faisaly * Al-Wahdat *

Raja Casablanca Raja Club Athletic, widely known as Raja Casablanca or simply Raja, is a Football team, football club based in Casablanca, Morocco, that competes in Botola, the top flight of Moroccan football league system, Moroccan football. Founded on 20 M ...

Wydad Casablanca Wydad Athletic Club (, ), often known outside Morocco as Wydad Casablanca, is a Moroccan sports club based in Casablanca. Wydad AC is best known for its professional football team that competes in Botola, the top tier of the Moroccan football ...

* Al-Hazm *

Al-Hilal Club (Omdurman) Al Hilal Sports Club (), known as Al Hilal S.C or simply Al Hilal, is a Sudanese professional Football team, football club based in Omdurman that competes in the Sudan Premier League. The club currently competes in the Super D1, the top-fligh ...

Al-Merrikh Al-Merrikh Sporting Club () is a Sudanese professional football club based in the city of Omdurman. Their home stadium is Al-Merrikh Stadium, which is locally known as The Red Castle. Founded in 1908, Al-Merrikh is one of the oldest football cl ...

Al-Ittihad Aleppo Al-Ittihad Ahli of Aleppo Sports Club () also known as Al-Ittihad Ahli, is a professional multi-sports club based in the Syrian city of Aleppo, mostly known for its football team which competes in the Syrian Premier League, the top league of Syr ...

Espérance Sportive de Tunis Espérance Sportive de Tunis (), known as ES Tunis or simply EST for short, is a Tunisian professional sports club founded on 15 January 1919 in the Bab Souika neighborhood of Tunis. Its football (soccer), football section has competed in th ...

CS Sfaxien Club Sportif Sfaxien (), known as CS Sfaxien or simply CSS for short, is a Tunisian football club based in Sfax. The club was founded in 1928 and its colours are black and white (Bianconero). Their home stadium, Taieb Mhiri Stadium, has a capac ...

* US Monastir *

Al-Hilal Al-Sahili Al-Hilal al-Sahili () is a Yemeni professional football club based in Al Hudaydah. The club was founded in 1971. Achievements *Yemeni League **Champions (2): 2008, 2009 * Yemeni President Cup **Champions (2): 2005, 2008 *Yemeni September 26 Cu ...

Round 16 Matches

: ¹

Al-Hilal Omdurman Al Hilal Sports Club (), known as Al Hilal S.C or simply Al Hilal, is a Sudanese professional football club based in Omdurman that competes in the Sudan Premier League. The club currently competes in the Super D1, the top-flight of football ...

withdrew.Entente Sportive de Sétif goes straight through – Al-Hilal Omdurman withdrew
(Kooora)

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

* Al-Faisaly * Al-Wahdat *

* US Monastir

Quarter-finals Matches

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

First Legs

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Second Legs

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Final

First leg

Second leg

Champions

Top scorers

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References

External links

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