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1997–98 Asian Club Championship

1997–1998 Asian Club Championship

Tournament details
Dates	?? 1997 – April 1998
Teams	29
Final positions
Champions	Pohang Steelers (2nd title)
Runners-up	Dalian Wanda
Third place	Al-Hilal
Fourth place	Persepolis
Tournament statistics
Matches played	58
Goals scored	187 (3.22 per match)
Best player(s)	Ahmed Al-Dokhi[1]
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The 1997–98 Asian Club Championship was the 17th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the AFC region (Asia). It determined that year's club champion of association footballinAsia.

Pohang SteelersofSouth Korea won their 2nd consecutive Asian Champions title, beating Dalian Wanda 6–5 on penalties.

First round[edit]

West Asia[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sur	0–9	Al-Zawraa	0–5	0–4
Al-Ansar	3–1	Al-Arabi	2–1	1–0
Al-Wahda	w/o1	Al-Nasr
Riffa	w/o2	Al-Rayyan
Metallurg Kadamjay	2–4	Dynamo Dushanbe	2–13	0–3

Byes: Al-Hilal (Saudi Arabia), Navbahor Namangan (Uzbekistan), Nisa Aşgabat (Turkmenistan), Persepolis FC (Iran), Taraz Zhambyl (Kazakhstan).

¹ Al-Nasr withdrew.
² Riffa withdrew.
³ First leg also reported 1–2.

East Asia[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Pohang Steelers	13–0	Mohammedan SC	11–0	2–0
Victory SC	4–3	Mahendra Police	3–2	1–1
Finance and Revenue	4–0	Saunders SC	1–0	3–0
Churchill Brothers	1–2	Đồng Tháp F.C.	0–1	1–1
Persebaya Surabaya	2–6	Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i	1–2	1–4
Kashima Antlers	8–2	Geylang United	6–1	2–1
Selangor FA	0–2	South China	0–0	0–2
Dalian Wanda	4–2	Bangkok Bank	4–2	0–0

Intermediate Round[edit]

Central Asia[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Navbahor Namangan	4–2	Dynamo Dushanbe	3–0	1–2
Taraz Zhambyl	2–4	Nisa Aşgabat	2–2	0–2

Second round[edit]

West Asia[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Ansar	4–0	Al-Wahda	2–0	2–0
Al-Zawraa	0–2	Persepolis	0–0	0–2
Al-Hilal	3–2	Al-Rayyan	3–2	0–0
Navbahor Namangan	8–3	Nisa Aşgabat	6–1	2–2

East Asia[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Pohang Steelers	15–0	Victory SC	3–0	12–0
Finance and Revenue	4–4 (a)	Đồng Tháp F.C.	0–1	4–3
Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i	2–6	Kashima Antlers	1–5	1–1
South China	1–6	Dalian Wanda	0–4	1–2

Quarterfinals[edit]

West Asia[edit]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Persepolis	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	7
Al-Hilal	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6
Navbahor Namangan	3	0	2	1	2	4	−2	2
Al-Ansar	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1

Al-Hilal	0–1	Persepolis
		Mehdi Mahdavikia

Al-Ansar	0–0	Navbahor Namangan

Al-Hilal	3–1	Navbahor Namangan

Al-Ansar	0–1	Persepolis
		Mehdi Mahdavikia

Persepolis	1–1	Navbahor Namangan
Alireza Emamifar

Al-Ansar	1–3	Al-Hilal

East Asia[edit]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Pohang Steelers	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	6
Dalian Wanda	3	2	0	1	7	4	+3	6
Kashima Antlers	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6
Finance and Revenue	3	0	0	3	2	12	−10	0

Dalian Wanda	4–1	Finance and Revenue
Wang Tao 20' Hao Haidong 26' 36' Li Ming 46'		Win Aung 1'

Attendance: 8,000

Pohang Steelers	2–1	Kashima Antlers
Park Tae-Ha 36' Lee Dong-Gook 56'		Jorginho 58'

Attendance: 7,000

Kashima Antlers	3–0	Finance and Revenue
Toru Oniki 52' Takayuki Suzuki 88' 89'

Attendance: 7,000

Pohang Steelers	1–2	Dalian Wanda
Serhiy Konovalov 66'		Wu Chengying 74' Wei Yimin 79'

Attendance: 12,000

Finance and Revenue	1–5	Pohang Steelers
Aung Naining 55'		Baek Seung-Chul 15' Lee Dong-Gook 56' Serhiy Konovalov 60' Park Tae-Ha 81' 88'

Attendance: 22,000

Dalian Wanda	1–2	Kashima Antlers
Li Ming 70'		Yasuo Manaka 47' 75'

Attendance: 24,000

Semifinals[edit]

Persepolis	0–2	Dalian Wanda
		Wang Tao 32' Hao Haidong 63'

Al-Hilal	0–1	Pohang Steelers
		Park Tae-Ha 45'

Third place match[edit]

Al-Hilal	4–1	Persepolis

Final[edit]

Pohang Steelers	0–0 (AET, 6–5 PK)	Dalian Wanda

References[edit]

• Asian Club Competitions 1998 at RSSSF.com