2007 AFC Champions League final

2007 AFC Champions League Sepahan Urawa Red Diamonds IRN 30px JPN 30px 1 3 1 1 0 2 First leg Second leg 7 November 2007 14 November 2007 Foolad Shahr Stadium Saitama Stadium Fooladshahr Saitama 30,000 59,034 Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh Ravshan Irmatov 2006 2008 The 2007 AFC Champions League final was a two-legged association football tie to determine the 2007 champions of Asian club football. Urawa Red Diamonds from Japan defeated Iran's Sepahan 3-1 on aggregate to take the title. The first leg took place on 7 November 2007 at 16:00 local time (UTC+3:30) at Foolad Shahr Stadium in Fooladshahr, Isfahan in Iran and the second leg took place on 14 November 2007 at 19:20 local time (UTC+9) at Saitama Stadium, Saitama, Japan. This was the first final to feature clubs from Iran and Japan. This was the first AFC Champions League final involving an Iranian club, and the first in an Asian top club football competition since PAS Tehran in the 1992–93 Asian Club Championship. The winners, Urawa Red Diamonds, received US$600,000 prize money and qualified to represent Asia in the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup. Although they were defeated, Sepahan still competed in the FIFA Club World Cup by replacing the normal host country berth, which is reserved for the J. League champions. Format The rules for the final were exactly the same as for the previous knockout rounds. The tie was contested over two legs with away goals deciding the winner if the two teams were level on goals after the second leg. If the teams could still not be separated at that stage then extra time would have been played with a penalty shootout taking place if the teams were still level after that. Route to the final AFC Champions League 2007 Sepahan OpponentsRoundH/AScore1Sepahan goalscorersSYR Al IttihadGroup StageH2–1Mehdi Seyed-Salehi(2)KSA Al ShababGroup StageA1–0Mehdi Seyed-SalehiUAE Al AinGroup StageA2–3Mehdi Seyed-Salehi, Emad MohammedUAE Al AinGroup StageH1–1Hossein PapiSYR Al IttihadGroup StageA5–0Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail, Mohammad Nouri(2), Emad Mohammed(2)KSA Al ShababGroup StageH1–0Mehdi Seyed-SalehiJPN Kawasaki FrontaleQuarter Final, Leg 1H0–0JPN Kawasaki FrontaleQuarter Final, Leg 2A0–0(p5–4)UAE Al WahdaSemi Final, Leg 1H3–1Mahmoud Karimi(2), Moharram NavidkiaUAE Al WahdaSemi Final, Leg 2A0–0 1Sepahan's goals always recorded first. Urawa Red Diamonds OpponentsRoundH/AScore1Urawa Reds goalscorersIDN Persik KediriGroup StageH3–0Yamada, Nagai, OnoAUS Sydney FCGroup StageA2–2Ponte, NagaiCHN Shanghai ShenhuaGroup StageH1–0AbeCHN Shanghai ShenhuaGroup StageA0–0IDN Persik KediriGroup StageA3–3Ono, Ponte, AbeAUS Sydney FCGroup StageH0–0KOR Jeonbuk MotorsQuarter Final, Leg 1H2–1Hasebe, Tatsuya TanakaKOR Jeonbuk MotorsQuarter Final, Leg 2A2–0Tatsuya Tanaka, Own GoalKOR Seongnam IlhwaSemi Final, Leg 1A2–2Tatsuya Tanaka, PonteKOR Seongnam IlhwaSemi Final, Leg 2H2–2(p5–3)Washington, Hasebe 1Urawa Red Diamonds' goals always recorded first. Final summary Sepahan IRN 1–3 Urawa Red Diamonds JPN 1–1 0–2 |} First leg 7 November 2007 16:00 (UTC+3:30) Sepahan IRN 1 – 1 JPN Urawa Red Diamonds Mahmoud Karimi 47 Robson Ponte 45 Foolad Shahr Stadium, Fooladshahr 30,000 Malaysia Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh FFC900 FFC900 FFC900 000000 FFC900 Sepahan FF0000 FF0000 FF0000 FFFFFF 000000 Urawa Reds SEPAHAN: GK 1 IRN Abbas MohammadiDF 5 IRN Hadi AghiliDF 8 IRN Mohsen Bengar DF 17 GEO Jaba MujiriMF 4 IRN Moharram Navidkia (c)MF 6 IRN Jalal Akbari 46MF 12 IRQ 2004 Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-HailMF 21 IRN Saeid BayatMF 28 IRN Ehsan Hajsafi 60FW 13 IRN Mahmoud Karimi 67FW 20 IRQ 2004 Emad Mohammed 46Substitutes:GK 22 IRN Mohammad SavariGK 24 IRN Masoud HomamiDF 2 IRN Hamid AzizzadehDF 7 IRN Farshad BahadoraniMF 11 IRN Hossein Kazemi 67FW 18 IRN Mohsen Hamidi 46MF 19 IRN Jalaleddin AlimohammadiFW 23 IRN Mehdi Seyed-SalehiMF 25 IRN Ebrahim Loveinian 46MF 29 IRN Behzad SoltaniMF 30 IRN Hossein PapiManager:CRO Luka BonačićURAWA REDS: GK 23 JPN Ryota TsuzukiRB 2 JPN Keisuke TsuboiCB 5 BRA NenêCB 17JPN Makoto HasebeLB 20JPN Satoshi HorinouchiCM 13 JPN Keita Suzuki (c)CM 22 JPN Yuki AbeRW 14 JPN Tadaaki HirakawaAM 10BRA Robson PonteLW 9JPN Yuichiro Nagai 73CF 21BRA WashingtonSubstitutes:GK 1JPN Norihiro YamagishiGK 28JPN Nobuhiro KatoDF 12JPN Shunsuke TsutsumiDF 19JPN Hideki UchidateMF 3JPN Hajime HosogaiMF 16JPN Takahito SomaMF 27JPN Yoshiya NishizawaMF 30JPN Masayuki OkanoFW 11 JPN Tatsuya Tanaka 73FW 18 JPN Junki KoikeManager:GER Holger Osieck Second leg 14 November 2007 19:20 (UTC+9) Urawa Red Diamonds JPN 2 – 0 IRN Sepahan Yuichiro Nagai 22Yuki Abe 71 Saitama Stadium, Saitama 59,034 UZB Ravshan Irmatov FF0000 FF0000 FF0000 FFFFFF 000000 Urawa RedsFFC900 FFC900 FFC900 000000 FFC900 Sepahan URAWA REDS: GK 23 JPN Ryota TsuzukiRB 2 JPN Keisuke TsuboiCB 17JPN Makoto Hasebe 55CB 4 JPN Marcus Túlio TanakaLB 20JPN Satoshi HorinouchiCM 13 JPN Keita Suzuki (c)CM 22 JPN Yuki AbeRW 14 JPN Tadaaki HirakawaAM 10BRA Robson Ponte 80LW 9JPN Yuichiro Nagai 85CF 21BRA Washington 89Substitutes:GK 1JPN Norihiro YamagishiDF 5BRA NenêDF 12JPN Shunsuke TsutsumiDF 19JPN Hideki Uchidate 80MF 16JPN Takahito SomaMF 30JPN Masayuki Okano 89FW 11 JPN Tatsuya Tanaka 85FW 18 JPN Junki KoikeManager:GER Holger OsieckSEPAHAN: GK 1 IRN Abbas MohammadiDF 5 IRN Hadi AghiliDF 8 IRN Mohsen Bengar DF 17 GEO Jaba MujiriMF 4 IRN Moharram Navidkia (c)MF 12 IRQ 2004 Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-HailMF 21 IRN Saeid Bayat 59MF 25 IRN Ebrahim LoveinianMF 28 IRN Ehsan HajsafiFW 18 IRN Mohsen Hamidi 46FW 20 IRQ 2004 Emad Mohammed 29Substitutes:GK 22 IRN Mohammad SavariGK 24 IRN Masoud HomamiDF 2 IRN Hamid AzizzadehDF 6 IRN Jalal AkbariDF 7 IRN Farshad BahadoraniMF 9 IRN Hadi JafariMF 11 IRN Hossein Kazemi 59MF 19 IRN Amir RadiMF 29 IRN Behzad SoltaniMF 30 IRN Hossein Papi 46FW 13 IRN Mahmoud Karimi 29FW 23 IRN Mehdi Seyed-SalehiManager:CRO Luka Bonačić See also 2007 AFC Champions League 2007 FIFA Club World Cup External links fa Sepahan Official club website en Urawa Red Diamonds Official Site championsleague Final AFC Champions League Final 2007 Category:AFC Champions League Elite finals AFC AFC Champions League Final 2007 Category:2007–08 in Iranian football Category:Sport in Isfahan province Category:Sports competitions in Saitama (city) Category:Football finals in Japan Category:Football matches in Iran Category:November 2007 sports events in Japan Category:November 2007 sports events in Asia