2007 AFC Champions League Final

2007 AFC Champions League Final

Event	2007 AFC Champions League
Sepahan Urawa Red Diamonds 1 3
First leg
Sepahan Urawa Red Diamonds 1 1
Date	7 November 2007
Venue	Foolad Shahr Stadium, Fooladshahr
Referee	Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh
Attendance	30,000
Second leg
Urawa Red Diamonds Sepahan 2 0
Date	14 November 2007
Venue	Saitama Stadium, Saitama
Referee	Ravshan Irmatov
Attendance	59,034

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 defeated 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 and the second leg took place on 14 November 2007 at 19:20 local time (UTC+9) at Saitama Stadium, Saitama.

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 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

Sepahan

Opponents	Round	H/A	Score1	Sepahan goalscorers
Al Ittihad	Group Stage	H	2–1	Mehdi Seyed-Salehi(2)
Al Shabab	Group Stage	A	1–0	Mehdi Seyed-Salehi
Al Ain	Group Stage	A	2–3	Mehdi Seyed-Salehi, Emad Mohammed
Al Ain	Group Stage	H	1–1	Hossein Papi
Al Ittihad	Group Stage	A	5–0	Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail, Mohammad Nouri(2), Emad Mohammed(2)
Al Shabab	Group Stage	H	1–0	Mehdi Seyed-Salehi
Kawasaki Frontale	Quarter Final, Leg 1	H	0–0
Kawasaki Frontale	Quarter Final, Leg 2	A	0–0(p5–4)
Al Wahda	Semi Final, Leg 1	H	3–1	Mahmoud Karimi(2), Moharram Navidkia
Al Wahda	Semi Final, Leg 2	A	0–0

¹Sepahan's goals always recorded first.

Urawa Red Diamonds

Opponents	Round	H/A	Score1	Urawa Reds goalscorers
Persik Kediri	Group Stage	H	3–0	Yamada, Nagai, Ono
Sydney FC	Group Stage	A	2–2	Ponte, Nagai
Shanghai Shenhua	Group Stage	H	1–0	Abe
Shanghai Shenhua	Group Stage	A	0–0
Persik Kediri	Group Stage	A	3–3	Ono, Ponte, Abe
Sydney FC	Group Stage	H	0–0
Jeonbuk Motors	Quarter Final, Leg 1	H	2–1	Hasebe, Tatsuya Tanaka
Jeonbuk Motors	Quarter Final, Leg 2	A	2–0	Tatsuya Tanaka, Own Goal
Seongnam Ilhwa	Semi Final, Leg 1	A	2–2	Tatsuya Tanaka, Ponte
Seongnam Ilhwa	Semi Final, Leg 2	H	2–2(p5–3)	Washington, Hasebe

¹Urawa Red Diamonds' goals always recorded first.

Final summary

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sepahan	1–3	Urawa Red Diamonds	1–1	0–2

First leg

Sepahan v Urawa Red Diamonds

7 November 2007 16:00 (UTC+3:30)

Sepahan	1 – 1	Urawa Red Diamonds
Mahmoud Karimi  47'		Robson Ponte  45'

Foolad Shahr Stadium, Fooladshahr Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh

Sepahan

Urawa Reds

SEPAHAN: GK 1 Abbas Mohammadi DF 5 Hadi Aghili DF 8 Mohsen Bengar DF 17 Jaba Mujiri MF 4 Moharram Navidkia (c) MF 6 Jalal Akbari  46' MF 12 Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail MF 21 Saeid Bayat MF 28 Ehsan Hajsafi  60' FW 13 Mahmoud Karimi  67' FW 20 Emad Mohammed  46' Substitutes: GK 22 Mohammad Savari GK 24 Masoud Homami DF 2 Hamid Azizzadeh DF 7 Farshad Bahadorani MF 11 Hossein Kazemi  67' FW 18 Mohsen Hamidi  46' MF 19 Jalaleddin Alimohammadi FW 23 Mehdi Seyed-Salehi MF 25 Ebrahim Loveinian  46' MF 29 Behzad Soltani MF 30 Hossein Papi Manager: Luka Bonačić

URAWA REDS: GK 23 Ryota Tsuzuki DF 2 Keisuke Tsuboi DF 5 Nenê DF 20 Satoshi Horinouchi MF 13 Keita Suzuki (c) MF 22 Yuki Abe MF 17 Makoto Hasebe MF 14 Tadaaki Hirakawa MF 10 Robson Ponte FW 21 Washington FW 9 Yuichiro Nagai  73' Substitutes: GK 1 Norihiro Yamagishi GK 28 Nobuhiro Kato DF 12 Shunsuke Tsutsumi DF 19 Hideki Uchidate MF 3 Hajime Hosogai MF 16 Takahito Soma MF 27 Yoshiya Nishizawa MF 30 Masayuki Okano FW 11 Tatsuya Tanaka  73' FW 18 Junki Koike Manager: Holger Osieck

Second leg

Urawa Red Diamonds v Sepahan

14 November 2007 19:20 (UTC+9)

Urawa Red Diamonds	2 – 0	Sepahan
Yuichiro Nagai  22' Yuki Abe  71'

Saitama Stadium, Saitama Attendance: 59,034 Referee: Ravshan Irmatov

Urawa Reds

Sepahan

URAWA REDS: GK 23 Ryota Tsuzuki DF 2 Keisuke Tsuboi DF 4 Marcus Túlio Tanaka DF 20 Satoshi Horinouchi MF 13 Keita Suzuki (c) MF 22 Yuki Abe MF 17 Makoto Hasebe  55' MF 14 Tadaaki Hirakawa MF 10 Robson Ponte  80' FW 21 Washington  89' FW 9 Yuichiro Nagai  85' Substitutes: GK 1 Norihiro Yamagishi DF 5 Nenê DF 12 Shunsuke Tsutsumi DF 19 Hideki Uchidate  80' MF 16 Takahito Soma MF 30 Masayuki Okano  89' FW 11 Tatsuya Tanaka  85' FW 18 Junki Koike Manager: Holger Osieck

SEPAHAN: GK 1 Abbas Mohammadi DF 5 Hadi Aghili DF 8 Mohsen Bengar DF 17 Jaba Mujiri MF 4 Moharram Navidkia (c) MF 12 Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail MF 21 Saeid Bayat  59' MF 25 Ebrahim Loveinian MF 28 Ehsan Hajsafi FW 18 Mohsen Hamidi  46' FW 20 Emad Mohammed  29' Substitutes: GK 22 Mohammad Savari GK 24 Masoud Homami DF 2 Hamid Azizzadeh DF 6 Jalal Akbari DF 7 Farshad Bahadorani MF 9 Hadi Jafari MF 11 Hossein Kazemi  59' MF 19 Amir Radi MF 29 Behzad Soltani MF 30 Hossein Papi  46' FW 13 Mahmoud Karimi  29' FW 23 Mehdi Seyed-Salehi Manager: Luka Bonačić

See also

• 2007 AFC Champions League
• 2007 FIFA Club World Cup

External links

• (Persian) Sepahan Official club website
• Urawa Red Diamonds Official Site