2018–19 Zayed Champions Cup

2018–19 Arab Club Champions Cup
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 5–24 May 2018 Competition proper: 31 July 2018 – 18 April 2019
Teams	40 (from 2 confederations) (from 19 associations)
Final positions
Champions	ES Sahel (1st title)
Runners-up	Al-Hilal
Tournament statistics
Matches played	69
Goals scored	177 (2.57 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Mohamed Abdel Rahman (7 goals)
Best player(s)	Yassine Chikhaoui
Best goalkeeper	Abdullah Al-Mayouf
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The 2018–19 Arab Club Champions Cup, officially named the 2018–19 Zayed Champions Cup ( Arabic: كأس زايد للأندية الأبطال 2018–19) to mark 100 years since the birth of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, was the 28th season ^[a] of the Arab Club Champions Cup, the Arab world's club football tournament organised by UAFA, and the first season since it was renamed from the Arab Club Championship to the Arab Club Champions Cup. ^[1]

The final was played at the Hazza bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, between Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia and Étoile du Sahel of Tunisia. It was the fourth time Al-Hilal reached the final in their history, while it marked the first appearance of Étoile du Sahel in this stage. Étoile du Sahel defeated Al-Hilal 2–1 in the final and won the title for the first time in their history, becoming the third Tunisian team to win the competition in the last five editions.

Espérance de Tunis were the defending champions, having won the title in the previous edition. They were eliminated by Al-Ittihad Alexandria in the first round.

Prize money

The prize money was as follows: ^[2]

• Winners: $6 million
• Runners-up: $2.5 million

Teams

A total of 40 teams participated in the tournament; 20 from Asia and 20 from Africa. 10 clubs started in the qualifying play-off where two of them advanced to the first round which consisted of 32 teams. From then on, the tournament was played in a knockout format with home and away legs, until the final which was a one-leg match played in the United Arab Emirates. Due to the new format of the competition only being announced after the 2016–17 season had already ended, UAFA decided that for this edition of the tournament, teams would be invited to participate rather than strictly qualifying through performance in the 2016–17 season's domestic competitions.

Associations which did not enter a team

Palestine Qatar Yemen

Notes

Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows:

Phase	Round	Draw date	Dates
Qualifying play-off	Preliminary round	24 April 2018	5–9 May 2018
	Play-off round		17–24 May 2018
Knockout stage	First round		31 July – 30 September 2018
	Second round	6 October 2018	27 October – 11 December 2018
	Quarter-finals	17 December 2018	26 January – 25 February 2019
	Semi-finals		27 February – 15 April 2019
	Final		18 April 2019

Qualifying rounds

Preliminary round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ADT	BAN	NGA
1	ASAS Djibouti Télécom (H)	2	1	1	0	4	2	+2	4	Advance to Play-off round		—	1–1	3–1
2	Banadir	2	1	1	0	4	3	+1	4				—	3–2
3	Ngazi de Mirontsi	2	0	0	2	3	6	−3	0					—

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Play-off round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		NEJ	CA	CON	FAI
1	Al-Nejmeh	3	3	0	0	7	1	+6	9	Advance to First round		—	1–0	4–0
2	Club Africain	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4				—		2–2
3	ASAC Concorde	3	1	0	2	4	7	−3	3				1–2	—
4	Al-Faisaly	3	0	1	2	4	7	−3	1			1–2		1–3	—

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ITH	FUS	SAL	ADT
1	Al-Ittihad Alexandria	3	2	1	0	14	1	+13	7	Advance to First round		—	1–1		8–0
2	FUS Rabat	3	2	1	0	13	1	+12	7				—	5–0
3	Al-Salmiya	3	1	0	2	4	10	−6	3			0–5		—	4–0
4	ASAS Djibouti Télécom	3	0	0	3	0	19	−19	0				0–7		—

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Knockout phase

Bracket

	First round						Second round						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Al-Hilal	1	1	2
	Al-Shabab	0	0	0			Al-Hilal	4	2	6
	Al-Naft ( a)	1	2	3			Al-Naft	0	0	0
	CS Sfaxien	1	2	3									Al-Hilal	3	0	3
	Al-Ittihad Alexandria ( a)	1	2	3									Al-Ittihad Alexandria	0	0	0
	Espérance de Tunis	1	2	3			Al-Ittihad Alexandria ( p)	0	1	1 (4)
	Zamalek ( a)	0	1	1			Zamalek	1	0	1 (3)
	Al-Qadsia	0	1	1															Al-Hilal ( p)	1	0	1 (3)
	Al-Ahly	0	4	4															Al-Ahli Jeddah	0	1	1 (2)
	Al-Nejmeh	0	1	1			Al-Ahly	2	1	3
	Al-Ittihad Jeddah	1	0	1			Al-Wasl ( a)	2	1	3
	Al-Wasl ( a)	1	0	1									Al-Wasl	2	1	3
	Al-Ain	1	1	2									Al-Ahli Jeddah	2	2	4
	ES Sétif ( a)	2	0	2			ES Sétif	0	1	1
	Al-Muharraq	0	0	0			Al-Ahli Jeddah	1	1	2
	Al-Ahli Jeddah	2	3	5																					Al-Hilal	1
	Ismaily ( p)	2	0	2 (4)																					Étoile du Sahel	2
	Al-Kuwait	0	2	2 (2)			Ismaily	0	0	0 (2)
	Salam Zgharta	1	1	2			Raja Casablanca ( p)	0	0	0 (4)
	Raja Casablanca	2	1	3									Raja Casablanca	0	1	1
	Wydad Casablanca ( p)	1	1	2 (4)									Étoile du Sahel	2	0	2
	Al-Ahli Tripoli	1	1	1 (2)			Wydad Casablanca	0	0	0
	Étoile du Sahel	3	3	6			Étoile du Sahel	0	1	1
	Al-Ramtha	1	1	2															Étoile du Sahel	1	0	1
	Al-Jazira	1	1	2															Al-Merrikh	0	0	0
	Al-Nassr	2	4	6			Al-Nassr	0	1	1
	Al-Riffa	1	0	1			MC Alger	1	2	3
	MC Alger	2	0	2									MC Alger	0	0	0
	Al-Jaish	1	1	2									Al-Merrikh	0	3	3
	Al-Merrikh	3	1	4			Al-Merrikh	4	0	4
	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	0	0	0			USM Alger	1	2	3
	USM Alger	1	3	4

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Zamalek	1–1 ( a)	Al-Qadsia	0–0	1–1
Al-Ain	2–2 ( a)	ES Sétif	1–2	1–0
Ismaily	2–2 (4–2 p)	Al-Kuwait	2–0	0–2
Salam Zgharta	2–3	Raja Casablanca	1–2	1–1
Al-Ittihad Jeddah	1–1 ( a)	Al-Wasl	1–1	0–0
Al-Naft	3–3 ( a)	CS Sfaxien	1–1	2–2
Al-Hilal	2–0	Al-Shabab	1–0	1–0
Al-Riffa	1–2	MC Alger	1–2	0–0
Étoile du Sahel	6–2	Al-Ramtha	3–1	3–1
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	0–4	USM Alger	0–1	0–3 [a]
Al-Jazira	2–6	Al-Nassr	1–2	1–4
Al-Ittihad Alexandria	3–3 ( a)	Espérance de Tunis	1–1	2–2
Wydad Casablanca	2–2 (4–2 p)	Al-Ahli Tripoli	1–1	1–1
Al-Jaish	2–4	Al-Merrikh	1–3	1–1
Al-Ahly	4–1	Al-Nejmeh	0–0	4–1
Al-Muharraq	0–5	Al-Ahli Jeddah	0–2	0–3

1–1 on aggregate. Zamalek won on away goals.

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2–2 on aggregate. ES Sétif won on away goals.

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2–2 on aggregate. Ismaily won 4–2 on penalties.

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Raja Casablanca won 3–2 on aggregate.

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1–1 on aggregate. Al-Wasl won on away goals.

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3–3 on aggregate. Al-Naft won on away goals.

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Al-Hilal won 2–0 on aggregate.

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MC Alger won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Étoile du Sahel won 6–2 on aggregate.

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USM Alger won 4–0 on aggregate. They were awarded a 3–0 walkover win in the second leg after Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya's players withdrew from the match at 71 minutes while losing 2–0 in protest at offensive chants from the home fans.

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Al-Nassr won 6–2 on aggregate.

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3–3 on aggregate. Al-Ittihad Alexandria won on away goals.

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2–2 on aggregate. Wydad Casablanca won 4–2 on penalties.

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Al-Merrikh won 4–2 on aggregate.

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Al-Ahly won 4–1 on aggregate.

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Al-Ahli Jeddah won 5–0 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Merrikh	4–3	USM Alger	4–1	0–2
Al-Nassr	1–3	MC Alger	0–1	1–2
Al-Ahly	3–3 ( a)	Al-Wasl	2–2	1–1
Wydad Casablanca	0–1	Étoile du Sahel	0–0	0–1
Al-Hilal	6–0	Al-Naft	4–0	2–0
Ismaily	0–0 (2–4 p)	Raja Casablanca	0–0	0-0
Al-Ittihad Alexandria	1–1 (4–3 p)	Zamalek	0–1	1–0
ES Sétif	1–2	Al-Ahli Jeddah	0–1	1–1

Al-Merrikh won 4–3 on aggregate.

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MC Alger won 3–1 on aggregate.

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3–3 on aggregate. Al-Wasl won on away goals.

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Étoile du Sahel won 1–0 on aggregate.

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Al-Hilal won 6–0 on aggregate.

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0–0 on aggregate. Raja Casablanca won 4–2 on penalties.

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1–1 on aggregate. Al-Ittihad Alexandria won 4–3 on penalties.

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Al-Ahli Jeddah won 2–1 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Hilal	3–0	Al-Ittihad Alexandria	3–0	0–0
Al-Wasl	3–4	Al-Ahli Jeddah	2–2	1–2
Raja Casablanca	1–2	Étoile du Sahel	0–2	1–0
MC Alger	0–3	Al-Merrikh	0–0	0–3

Al-Hilal won 3–0 on aggregate.

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Al-Ahli Jeddah won 4–3 on aggregate.

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Étoile du Sahel won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Al-Merrikh won 3–0 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Hilal	1–1 (3–2 p)	Al-Ahli Jeddah	1–0	0–1
Étoile du Sahel	1–0	Al-Merrikh	1–0	0–0

1–1 on aggregate. Al-Hilal won 3–2 on penalties.

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Étoile du Sahel won 1–0 on aggregate.

Final

Top scorers

Statistics exclude qualifying rounds.

As of 18 April 2019

Rank	Player	Team	FR1	FR2	SR1	SR2	QF1	QF2	SF1	SF2	F	Total
1	Mohamed Abdel Rahman	Al-Merrikh	2		3			2				7
2	Bafétimbi Gomis	Al-Hilal			1	1	2				1	5
3	Abdulrahman Ghareeb	Al-Ahli Jeddah		2	1							3
	Yahya Al-Shehri	Al-Nassr	1	1		1
	Carlos Eduardo	Al-Hilal		1		1	1

Broadcasting

2018–19 Zayed Champions Cup Media Coverage
Country	Television Channel
United Arab Emirates	AD Sports [3]

Notes & references

Notes

References

External links

• UAFA Official website (in Arabic)