| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | September 2001 – April 2002 |
| Teams | 27 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Suwon Samsung Bluewings (2nd title) |
| Runners-up | Anyang LG Cheetahs |
| Third place |  Esteghlal |
| Fourth place |  Nasaf Qarshi |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 48 |
| Goals scored | 177 (3.69 per match) |
← 2000–01 2002–03 (AFC Champions League) → | |
The 2001–02 Asian Club Championship was the 21st and last edition of the annual international club football competition held in the AFC region (Asia). It determined that year's club champion of association footballinAsia.
Suwon Samsung Bluewings won their 2nd consecutive Asian Championship, beating Anyang LG Cheetahs in an all-Korean final 4–2 on penaltiesatAzadi stadium, Tehran.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esteghlal
|
w/o1 |  Al-Hikma
|
||
Al-Ahli 
|
w/o2 |  Al-Ittihad Jeddah
|
||
Al-Quds 
|
2–1 |  Al-Ahli
|
0–0 | 2–1 |
Jableh 
|
0–2 |  Al-Kuwait
|
0–0 | 0–2 |
Al-Zawraa 
|
7–1 |  Al-Wakra
|
3–0 | 4–1 |
Köpetdag Aşgabat 
|
0–4 | Nasaf Qarshi
|
0–1 | 0–3 |
1 Al-Hikma withdrew.
2 Al-Ahli withdrew.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sông Lam Nghệ An 
|
w/o1 |  Saunders SC
|
||
Happy Valley 
|
12–0 |  GD Lam Pak
|
7–0 | 5–0 |
Selangor FA2 
|
0–7 |  Dalian Shide
|
0–2 | 0–5 |
New Radiant 
|
1–3 |  Muktijoddha Sangsad
|
1–2 | 0–1 |
BEC Tero Sasana 
|
8–1 |  Singapore Armed Forces
|
3–0 | 5–1 |
Kashima Antlers 
|
4–13 |  Persija Jakarta
|
4–1 | n/p |
1 Sông Lam Nghệ An withdrew.
2 Selangor FA were entered after Penang withdrew due to the club's financial problems.
3 The match was played over one leg in Kashima on 24 October due to the political climate in Indonesia.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al-Ittihad Jeddah
|
4–4 (a) | Esteghlal
|
3–2 | 1–2 |
| Al-Kuwait
|
9–3 | Al-Quds
|
3–2 | 6–1 |
Al-Wahda 
|
3–3 (4–3p) | Al-Zawraa
|
1–2 | 2–1 |
| Nasaf Qarshi
|
7–3 |  Umed Dushanbe
|
4–1 | 3–2 |
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suwon Samsung Bluewings
|
21–0 | Saunders SC
|
18–0 | 3–0 1 |
| Happy Valley
|
1–10 | Dalian Shide
|
0–2 | 1–8 |
| Anyang LG Cheetahs
|
11–0 | Muktijoddha Sangsad
|
8–0 | 3–0 |
| Kashima Antlers
|
3–1 | BEC Tero Sasana
|
3–0 | 0–1 |
1 Saunders SC withdrew after the 1st leg.
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esteghlal
|
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 7 |
| Nasaf Qarshi
|
3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 5 |
| Al-Kuwait
|
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 2 |
| Al-Wahda
|
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 1 |
| Al-Kuwait | 1–1 | Nasaf Qarshi |
|---|---|---|
Faraj Laheeb  74' |
Bahromjon Haydarov |
| Al-Wahda | 3–5 | Esteghlal |
|---|---|---|
| Faouzi Rouissi 12' Abdulrahim Jumaa 49', 72' |
Sirous Dinmohammadi 40' Alireza Akbarpour 64'Faraz Fatemi 80', 83'Mehdi Hasheminasab 87' |
| Nasaf Qarshi | 1–1 | Esteghlal |
|---|---|---|
|
Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht |
| Al-Wahda | 2–2 | Al-Kuwait |
|---|---|---|
| Jessie Rogers', Yuma Asami' |
Annabel Chong', Elena Berkova' |
| Al-Kuwait | 0–3 | Esteghlal |
|---|---|---|
| Alireza Akbarpour 76' Faraz Fatemi 80' 85' |
| Al-Wahda | 1–2 | Nasaf Qarshi |
|---|---|---|
| Mohammed Salem Al Enazi 1' |
Abdul Aziz Mohammed 41' (o.g.) Numon Khasanov 45' |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suwon Samsung Bluewings
|
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 | 7 |
| Anyang LG Cheetahs
|
3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Dalian Shide
|
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 2 |
| Kashima Antlers
|
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 2 |
| Dalian Shide | 0–0 | Kashima Antlers |
|---|---|---|
| Suwon Samsung Bluewings | 0–0 | Anyang LG Cheetahs |
|---|---|---|
| Kashima Antlers | 0–2 | Suwon Samsung Bluewings |
|---|---|---|
| Seo Jung-Won 55' Son Dae-Ho 82' |
| Anyang LG Cheetahs | 1–1 | Dalian Shide |
|---|---|---|
| Wang Jung-Hyun 85' |
Yan Song 12' |
| Suwon Samsung Bluewings | 2–0 | Dalian Shide |
|---|---|---|
| Sandro Cardoso 8' 18' |
| Anyang LG Cheetahs | 1–1 | Kashima Antlers |
|---|---|---|
| Andre Luiz Alves Santos 90' |
Masashi Motoyama 54' |
| Semi-finals | Final | ||||
| ||||||
| 3 April – Tehran | |||||
| ||||||
| Suwon Samsung Bluewings | 3 | ||||
| 5 April – Tehran | |||||
| Nasaf Qarshi | 0 | ||||
| Suwon Samsung Bluewings (p) | 0 (4) | ||||
| 3 April – Tehran | |||||
| Anyang LG Cheetahs | 0 (2) | ||||
| Esteghlal | 1 | ||||
| ||||||
| Anyang LG Cheetahs | 2 | ||||
| Third place play-off | |||||
| ||||||
| 5 April – Tehran | |||||
| ||||||
| Esteghlal | 5 | ||||
| ||||||
| Nasaf Qarshi | 2 | ||||
| Suwon Samsung Bluewings | 3–0 | Nasaf Qarshi |
|---|---|---|
| Alen Avdić 49' Seo Jung-Won 72' Lee Sun-Woo 90' |
| Esteghlal | 1–2 | Anyang LG Cheetahs |
|---|---|---|
| Yadollah Akbari 62' |
Marco Aurélio Martins Ivo 55' Andre Luiz Alves Santos 72' |
| Esteghlal | 5–2 | Nasaf Qarshi |
|---|---|---|
| Mohammad Navazi Bottir Karaev (og) Faraz Fatemi Mehdi Pashazadeh |
Oybek Usmankhojaev Zafar Kholmurodov |
| Suwon Samsung Bluewings | 0–0 (a.e.t.) | Anyang LG Cheetahs |
|---|---|---|
| Penalties | ||
| 4–2 | ||
Referee: Ali Bujsaim ( United Arab Emirates)
|
| |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
« 2000 2002 » | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
« 2001 2003 » | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||
