Tourney Name: | AFC Champions League |
Year: | 2005 |
Num Teams: | 29 |
Champion Other: | Al-Ittihad |
Count: | 2 |
Second Other: | Al Ain |
Matches: | 98 |
Goals: | 286 |
Top Scorer: | Mohammed Kallon (6 goals) |
Player: | Mohammed Noor[1] |
Prevseason: | 2004 |
Nextseason: | 2006 |
The 2005 AFC Champions League was the 24th edition of the top-level Asian club football tournament and the 3rd edition under the current AFC Champions League title. The championship was retained by the Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad with a 5–3 aggregate victory over Al Ain from the United Arab Emirates. Following a 1–1 draw at the Tahnoun bin Mohammed Stadium in Al Ain in the first leg, Al-Ittihad recorded a 4–2 victory at the Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium in Jeddah to lift the trophy for the second consecutive season. They also qualified for the 2005 FIFA Club World Cup.
The seven group winners along with the defending champion advanced to the quarter-finals.
Syria were promoted to 'mature' status (after both their representatives had reached the 2004 AFC Cup final) while Bahrain were excluded from AFC competitions for 2005 following the withdrawal of both their Champions' League entrants in 2004.
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Shenzhen Jianlibao won 4–3 on aggregate.----4–4 on aggregate, Al Ain won on away goals.----Busan IPark won 5–1 on aggregate.----Al-Ittihad won 8–3 on aggregate.
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Al Ain won 6–0 on aggregate.----Al-Ittihad won 7–0 on aggregate.
Al-Ittihad won 5–3 on aggregate.