2007 AFC Champions League Final

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.

2007 AFC Champions League Final
Event2007 AFC Champions League
Sepahan Urawa Red Diamonds
1 3
First leg
Sepahan Urawa Red Diamonds
1 1
Date7 November 2007
VenueFoolad Shahr Stadium, Fooladshahr
RefereeSubkhiddin Mohd Salleh
Attendance30,000
Second leg
Urawa Red Diamonds Sepahan
2 0
Date14 November 2007
VenueSaitama Stadium, Saitama
RefereeRavshan Irmatov
Attendance59,034

This was the first final to feature clubs from Iran and Japan. 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 IttihadGroup StageH2–1Mehdi Seyed-Salehi(2)
Al ShababGroup StageA1–0Mehdi Seyed-Salehi
Al AinGroup StageA2–3Mehdi Seyed-Salehi, Emad Mohammed
Al AinGroup StageH1–1Hossein Papi
Al IttihadGroup StageA5–0Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail, Mohammad Nouri(2), Emad Mohammed(2)
Al ShababGroup StageH1–0Mehdi Seyed-Salehi
Kawasaki FrontaleQuarter Final, Leg 1H0–0
Kawasaki FrontaleQuarter Final, Leg 2A0–0(p5–4)
Al WahdaSemi Final, Leg 1H3–1Mahmoud Karimi(2), Moharram Navidkia
Al WahdaSemi Final, Leg 2A0–0

1Sepahan's goals always recorded first.

Urawa Red Diamonds
Opponents Round H/A Score1 Urawa Reds goalscorers
Persik KediriGroup StageH3–0Yamada, Nagai, Ono
Sydney FCGroup StageA2–2Ponte, Nagai
Shanghai ShenhuaGroup StageH1–0Abe
Shanghai ShenhuaGroup StageA0–0
Persik KediriGroup StageA3–3Ono, Ponte, Abe
Sydney FCGroup StageH0–0
Jeonbuk MotorsQuarter Final, Leg 1H2–1Hasebe, Tatsuya Tanaka
Jeonbuk MotorsQuarter Final, Leg 2A2–0Tatsuya Tanaka, Own Goal
Seongnam IlhwaSemi Final, Leg 1A2–2Tatsuya Tanaka, Ponte
Seongnam IlhwaSemi Final, Leg 2H2–2(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 1 – 1 Urawa Red Diamonds
Mahmoud Karimi  47' Robson Ponte  45'
Attendance: 30,000
Sepahan
Urawa Reds
SEPAHAN:
GK1 Abbas Mohammadi
DF5 Hadi Aghili
DF8 Mohsen Bengar
DF17 Jaba Mujiri
MF4 Moharram Navidkia (c)
MF6 Jalal Akbari 46'
MF12 Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail
MF21 Saeid Bayat
MF28 Ehsan Hajsafi 60'
FW13 Mahmoud Karimi 67'
FW20 Emad Mohammed 46'
Substitutes:
GK22 Mohammad Savari
GK24 Masoud Homami
DF2 Hamid Azizzadeh
DF7 Farshad Bahadorani
MF11 Hossein Kazemi 67'
FW18 Mohsen Hamidi 46'
MF19 Jalaleddin Alimohammadi
FW23 Mehdi Seyed-Salehi
MF25 Ebrahim Loveinian 46'
MF29 Behzad Soltani
MF30 Hossein Papi
Manager:
Luka Bonačić
URAWA REDS:
GK23 Ryota Tsuzuki
DF2 Keisuke Tsuboi
DF5 Nenê
DF20 Satoshi Horinouchi
MF13 Keita Suzuki (c)
MF22 Yuki Abe
MF17 Makoto Hasebe
MF14 Tadaaki Hirakawa
MF10 Robson Ponte
FW21 Washington
FW9 Yuichiro Nagai 73'
Substitutes:
GK1 Norihiro Yamagishi
GK28 Nobuhiro Kato
DF12 Shunsuke Tsutsumi
DF19 Hideki Uchidate
MF3 Hajime Hosogai
MF16 Takahito Soma
MF27 Yoshiya Nishizawa
MF30 Masayuki Okano
FW11 Tatsuya Tanaka 73'
FW18 Junki Koike
Manager:
Holger Osieck

Second leg
Urawa Red Diamonds 2 – 0 Sepahan
Yuichiro Nagai  22'
Yuki Abe  71'
Saitama Stadium, Saitama
Attendance: 59,034
Urawa Reds
Sepahan
URAWA REDS:
GK23 Ryota Tsuzuki
DF2 Keisuke Tsuboi
DF4 Marcus Túlio Tanaka
DF20 Satoshi Horinouchi
MF13 Keita Suzuki (c)
MF22 Yuki Abe
MF17 Makoto Hasebe 55'
MF14 Tadaaki Hirakawa
MF10 Robson Ponte 80'
FW21 Washington 89'
FW9 Yuichiro Nagai 85'
Substitutes:
GK1 Norihiro Yamagishi
DF5 Nenê
DF12 Shunsuke Tsutsumi
DF19 Hideki Uchidate 80'
MF16 Takahito Soma
MF30 Masayuki Okano 89'
FW11 Tatsuya Tanaka 85'
FW18 Junki Koike
Manager:
Holger Osieck
SEPAHAN:
GK1 Abbas Mohammadi
DF5 Hadi Aghili
DF8 Mohsen Bengar
DF17 Jaba Mujiri
MF4 Moharram Navidkia (c)
MF12 Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail
MF21 Saeid Bayat 59'
MF25 Ebrahim Loveinian
MF28 Ehsan Hajsafi
FW18 Mohsen Hamidi 46'
FW20 Emad Mohammed 29'
Substitutes:
GK22 Mohammad Savari
GK24 Masoud Homami
DF2 Hamid Azizzadeh
DF6 Jalal Akbari
DF7 Farshad Bahadorani
MF9 Hadi Jafari
MF11 Hossein Kazemi 59'
MF19 Amir Radi
MF29 Behzad Soltani
MF30 Hossein Papi 46'
FW13 Mahmoud Karimi 29'
FW23 Mehdi Seyed-Salehi
Manager:
Luka Bonačić

See also
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