2003–04 Arab Champions League

2003–04 Arab Champions League

دوري أبطال العرب 2003–04
Tournament details
Dates	24 Oct 2003 – 27 Jun 2004
Teams	32 (from 1 association)
Final positions
Champions	CS Sfaxien (2nd title)
Runners-up	El-Ismaily
Third place	Zamalek SC
Fourth place	Al-Hilal
Tournament statistics
Matches played	104
Goals scored	277 (2.66 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Tanem N'Daye (8 goals)

The 2003–04 Arab Champions League is the first edition of a new format called Arab Champions League replacing the former Arab Champions Cup and Prince Faysal bin Fahad Tournament for Arab Clubs. The teams represented Arab nations from Africa and Asia. CS Sfaxien of Tunisia won the final against El-Ismaily of Egypt.

First round

Qatar and UA Emirates forfeited for undisclosed reasons. Dahak Club (Djibouti) were originally announced as participants but apparently not included in the draw.

Zone Asia

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Jaish	3–3 (a)	Al-Hilal	2–2	1–1
Al-Aqsa SC	3–4	Al-Zawra'a	1–3	2–1
Olympic Beirut	2–2 (a)	Al-Wehdat	1–2	1–0
Al-Qadsia	1–3	Al-Ahli Jeddah	1–2	0–1
Riffa SC	4–4 (a)	Kuwait SC	4–2	0–2
Al-Nasr	3–4	Al-Faisaly	2–0	1–4
Al-Ittihad Aleppo	0–2	Al-Ittihad Jeddah	0–0	0–2
Shaab Ibb	2–5	Al-Talaba	1–1	1–4

Zone Africa

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
CS Sfaxien	5–3	Al-Hilal Benghazi	3–1	2–2
FC Nouadhibou	2–7	Zamalek SC	1–2	1–5
Al-Hilal Club	3–7	Espérance de Tunis	3–1	0–6
MAS Fez	2–3	USM Blida	1–3	1–0
Al-Ittihad Tripoli	2–5	Étoile du Sahel	1–5	1–0
MC Oran	3–7	El-Ismaily	1–1	2–6
Hassania Agadir	0–3	Al Ahly	0–0	0–3
Al-Merrikh	1–5	NA Hussein Dey	0–2	1–3

Second round

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Al-Hilal 6 4 2 0 10 1 +9 14 Al-Ahli Jeddah 6 3 2 1 9 8 +1 11 Al-Zawra'a 6 1 3 2 8 10 −2 6 Al-Wehdat 6 0 1 5 3 11 −8 1

AHL HIL WEH ZSC Al-Ahli Jeddah — 1–1 2–1 2–2 Al-Hilal 3–0 — 2–0 3–0 Al-Wehdat 0–1 0–1 — 2–2 Al-Zawra'a 1–3 0–0 3–0 —

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Al-Ittihad Jeddah 6 3 3 0 6 1 +5 12 Al-Talaba 6 3 3 0 8 4 +4 12 Kuwait SC 6 2 1 3 10 9 +1 7 Al-Faisaly 6 0 1 5 2 13 −11 1

FAI ITT TSC KSC Al-Faisaly — 0–0 1–2 0–1 Al-Ittihad Jeddah 3–0 — 0–0 3–1 Al-Talaba 2–0 0–0 — 2–1 Kuwait SC 5–1 0–1 2–2 —

Group C

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Zamalek SC 6 4 1 1 11 5 +6 13 CS Sfaxien 6 3 1 2 9 7 +2 10 Espérance de Tunis 6 3 0 3 10 9 +1 9 USM Blida 6 0 2 4 4 13 −9 2

CSS EST USMB ZSC CS Sfaxien — 0–1 1–0 1–3 Espérance de Tunis 1–3 — 2–1 1–2 USM Blida 2–2 0–5 — 0–2 Zamalek SC 0–2 3–0 1–1 —

Group D

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Al-Ismaily 6 2 3 1 8 4 +4 9 Al Ahly 6 2 3 1 3 5 −2 9 Étoile du Sahel 6 1 4 1 5 4 +1 7 NA Hussein Dey 6 1 2 3 2 5 −3 5

AHL ISC ESS NAHD Al Ahly — 1–0 0–0 1–1 Al-Ismaily 4–0 — 2–2 1–0 Étoile du Sahel 0–0 1–1 — 2–0 NA Hussein Dey 0–1 0–0 1–0 —

Group Stage

Group 1

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts CS Sfaxien 6 3 3 0 12 4 +8 12 Al-Ismaily 6 2 2 2 7 12 −5 8 Al-Ahli Jeddah 6 1 4 1 9 9 0 7 Al-Ittihad Jeddah 6 0 3 3 7 10 −3 3

AHL ISC ITT CSS Al-Ahli Jeddah — 3–3 1–1 1–1 Al-Ismaily 1–0 — 1–0 0–3 Al-Ittihad Jeddah 2–3 2–2 — 1–1 CS Sfaxien 1–1 4–0 2–1 —

Group 2

Al Ahly withdrew after the first match of the group against Al-Hilal, the result of this match was not counted.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Al-Hilal 4 2 1 1 5 4 +1 7 Zamalek SC 4 2 1 1 5 4 +1 7 Al-Talaba 4 1 0 3 4 6 −2 3 Al Ahly 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

AHL HIL TSC ZSC Al Ahly — 0–0 — — Al-Hilal — — 1–0 2–0 Al-Talaba — 3–1 — 1–2 Zamalek SC — 1–1 2–0 —

Knock-out stage

Knock-out stage held in Beirut, Lebanon.

	Semifinals							Final
	Zamalek SC		0	1	1
	CS Sfaxien		2	2	4
								CS Sfaxien (p)		0 (4)
								El-Ismaily		0 (3)
	Al-Hilal		0	2	2
	El-Ismaily		2	1	3			Third place
								Zamalek SC		3
								Al-Hilal		2

Semifinals

Zamalek SC v CS Sfaxien

23 June 2004

Zamalek SC	0–2	CS Sfaxien
		Ba  18' N'Daye  85'

Camille Chamoun Stadium, Beirut

Al-Hilal v El-Ismaily

23 June 2004

Al-Hilal	0–2	El-Ismaily
		Gamal  53' Al-Dossari  64' (o.g.)

Camille Chamoun Stadium, Beirut

CS Sfaxien v Zamalek SC

25 June 2004

CS Sfaxien	2–1	Zamalek SC
Ba  85' N'Daye  90+17'		Ali  35'

Camille Chamoun Stadium, Beirut

El-Ismaily v Al-Hilal

25 June 2004

El-Ismaily	1–2	Al-Hilal
Gamal  29'		Ceesay  67' Al-Ali  90+1'

Camille Chamoun Stadium, Beirut

Third place match

Zamalek SC v Al-Hilal

27 June 2004

Zamalek SC	3–2	Al-Hilal
Saleh  6' El-Tabei  26' Seddek  83'		Al-Shalhoub  15' Al-Swaileh  40'

Camille Chamoun Stadium, Beirut

Final

CS Sfaxien v El-Ismaily

27 June 2004

CS Sfaxien	0–0	El-Ismaily
	Penalties
N'Daye – Abdi Ba El Taib	4–3	Said Fathy Homos Abougrisha Gamal

Camille Chamoun Stadium, Beirut Referee: Mohamed Guezzaz (Morocco)

Winners

2003–04 Arab Champions League
CS Sfaxien Second title

External links

• Arab Champions' League 2003–04 – rsssf.com