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The 2002–03 AFC Champions League was the twenty-second edition of Asia's premier football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation, and the first edition under the AFC Champions League 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. In the final it was Al-Ain of the United Arab Emirates beating BEC Tero Sasana F.C. of Thailand 2–1 on aggregate.

Qualification Round

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
BEC Tero Sasana (H)	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	7
Daejeon Citizen	3	2	0	1	3	3	0	6
Shanghai Shenhua	3	1	0	2	6	7	−1	3
Kashima Antlers	3	0	1	2	5	7	−2	1

Shanghai Shenhua	1–2	Daejeon Citizen
Luo Xiao 85'	(Report)	Han Jung-kook 8' Kim Eun-jung 44'

Kashima Antlers	2–2	BEC Tero Sasana
Hirase 21' Fernando 77'	(Report)	Yongant 76', 90'

Kashima Antlers	3–4	Shanghai Shenhua
Aoki 24' Fernando 56' Nozawa 90'	(Report)	Yang Guang 1' Zhang Yuning 11' Martínez 31', 87'

Daejeon Citizen	0–2	BEC Tero Sasana
	(Report)	Kongpraphan 14' Chaiman 73'

BEC Tero Sasana	2–1	Shanghai Shenhua
Thongsukh 27' Chaiman 85'	(Report)	Martínez 58'

Daejeon Citizen	1–0	Kashima Antlers
Papa Oumar 87'	(Report)

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Dalian Shide (H)	3	2	1	0	10	2	+8	7
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	3	2	0	1	9	4	+5	6
Shimizu S-Pulse	3	1	1	1	8	2	+6	4
Osotsapa FC	3	0	0	3	1	20	−19	0

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	6–0	Osotsapa FC
Park Nam-yeol 22' Kim Dae-eui 31' Kim Do-hoon 37', 61', 83' Drakulić 53'	(Report)

Shimizu S-Pulse	0–0	Dalian Shide
	(Report)

Shimizu S-Pulse	1–2	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Ahn Jung-hwan 53'	(Report)	Drakulić 74' Kim Dae-eui 87'

Osotsapa FC	1–7	Dalian Shide
Jankam 13'	(Report)	Hao Haidong 27', 32', 49', 61' Yan Song 60' Zou Jie 80' Dong Fangzhuo 82'

Dalian Shide	3–1	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Hao Haidong 57', 64' Yan Song 90'	(Report)	Kim Dae-eui 51'

Osotsapa FC	0–7	Shimizu S-Pulse
	(Report)	Takagi 23', 40' Sawanobori 27' Alex 50' Ahn Jung-hwan 60', 71' Kitajima 75'

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al-Ain (H)	3	3	0	0	6	1	+5	9
Al Sadd	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	3
Esteghlal	3	1	0	2	5	7	−2	3
Al-Hilal	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3

Al Sadd	1–2	Esteghlal
Sergio Ricardo 72'	(Report)	Samereh 6' Khatibi 64'

Al-Ain	1–0	Al-Hilal
Harib 12' (pen.)	(Report)

Al-Ain	2–0	Al Sadd
Traoré 24' Sanogo 89'	(Report)

Esteghlal	2–3	Al-Hilal
Khatibi 18' Samereh 42'	(Report)	Abedzadeh 34'(o.g.) Ricardo 42' Abdullah 82'

Al-Hilal	1–3	Al Sadd
Jumaan 57'	(Report)	Keita 45' Sergio Ricardo 80' Kamil 90'

Esteghlal	1–3	Al-Ain
Samereh 67'	(Report)	Faisal Ali 65' Sanogo 76' Harib 78'

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Pakhtakor (H)	3	3	0	0	7	0	+7	9
Persepolis	3	2	0	1	5	2	+3	6
Al-Talaba	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	3
Nisa Asgabat	3	0	0	3	1	10	−9	0

Nisa Asgabat	0–3	Pakhtakor
	(Report)	Hamidullaev 44' Soliev 57' Koshelev 72'

Al-Talaba	0–1	Pirozi
	(Report)	YaYa 62'

Al-Talaba	3–0	Nisa Asgabat
Abdulsada 10' Mahmoud 24', 90'	(Report)

Pakhtakor	1–0	Pirozi
Soliev 22'	(Report)

Pirozi	4–1	Nisa Asgabat
Khanmohammadi 14', 76' YaYa 47' Aslanian 90'	(Report)	Meredov 89' (pen.)

Pakhtakor	3–0	Al-Talaba
Krokhmal 25', 57' Goçgulyýew 37'	(Report)

Knock-out stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals							Final
	1	Al-Ain	4	3	7
	4	Dalian Shide	2	4	6
								Al-Ain		2	0	2
								BEC Tero Sasana		0	1	1
	3	BEC Tero Sasana	3	0	3
	2	Pakhtakor	1	1	2

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
BEC Tero Sasana	3–2	Pakhtakor	3–1	0–1
Al-Ain	7–6	Dalian Shide	4–2	3–4

First leg

BEC Tero Sasana	3–1	Pakhtakor
Srimaka 41' Fuangprakob 69' Chaiman 84'	(Report)	Soliev 80'

Al-Ain	4–2	Dalian Shide
Sanogo 62' (pen.) 83' Omar 64' Yaslam 75'	(Report)	Hao Haidong 17' Li Yao 88'

Second leg

Pakhtakor	1–0	BEC Tero Sasana
Djeperov 86'	(Report)

BEC Tero Sasana won 3–2 on aggregate.

Dalian Shide	4–3	Al-Ain
Wang Peng 27' Janković 77' Hao Haidong 81', 84'	(Report)	Rodrigo Fabiano 46' Omar 65' Majidi 87'

Al-Ain won 7–6 on aggregate.

Final

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Ain	2–1	BEC Tero Sasana	2–0	0–1

First leg

Al-Ain	2–0	BEC Tero Sasana
Jowhar 38' Omar 74'

Second leg

BEC Tero Sasana	1–0	Al-Ain
Chaiman 60' (pen.)

Al-Ain won 2–1 on aggregate.

Top scorers

9

• Hao Haidong (Dalian Shide)

4

• Boubacar Sanogo (Al Ain)
• Therdsak Chaiman (BEC Tero Sasana)

3

• Patrick Suffo (Al-Hilal)
• Mohammad Omar (Al Ain)
• Ali Samereh (Esteghlal)
• Anvarjon Soliev (Pakhtakor)
• Kim Dae-eui (Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma)
• Kim Do-hoon (Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma)
• Saul Martínez (Shanghai Shenhua)
• Ahn Jung-hwan (Shimizu S-Pulse)

Notes

1. Matches was postponed from 22 April 2003 to 30 August 2003 due to SARS outbreak in China.

External links

• AFC Champions League 2002/03
• AFC Champions League 2002/03 - Final stage

• 2002–03 AFC Champions League
• AFC Champions League Elite seasons
• 2002–03 in AFC football