2008–09 Arab Champions League

Format

• Each federation enter with teams from their top Leagues
• The Number of teams of each federation enters based on the previous editions results of the Arab Champions League
• The official sponsor ART can choose the rest teams to complete the 32 teams, so it may can reach 3 teams from one country
• The Algerian club ES Sétif entered automatically as 2007–08 champion.

  Participated teams

• 35 clubs will be competing from the following countries.

  Asia

Africa

The System

• The Qualifying: Knock out stage
• Round 32: Knock out stage
• Round 16: Knock out stage
• Round 8: Knock out stage
• Semifinals and final: Knock out stage

  The Awards

• The Champions: 1,000,000 $
• The Runner-up: 650,000 $
• Round 4: 200,000 $
• Round 8: 100,000 $
• Round 16: 40,000 $
• Round 32: 20,000 $
• Qualifying: 5,000 $

  The Qualifying Stage

• 4 teams play 1 leg match as Knock out stage.
• 1 team qualify to the next stage.

  Round 32

Round 32 Matches Dates

• The first legs on 28 and 29 October 2008
• The second legs on 25 and 26 November 2008

  Round 16

Qualified teams

• ES Sétif
• USM Alger
• Ismaily
• Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
• Al-Faisaly
• Al-Wahdat
• Raja Casablanca
• Wydad Casablanca
• Al-Hazm
• Al-Hilal Club
• Al-Merrikh
• Al-Ittihad Aleppo
• Espérance Sportive de Tunis
• CS Sfaxien
• US Monastir
• Al-Hilal Al-Sahili

  Round 16 Matches

Round 16 Matches Dates

• The first legs on 16 December 2008
• The second legs on 26 December 2008

  Quarter finals

Qualified teams

• ES Sétif
• Ismaily
• Al-Faisaly
• Al-Wahdat
• Wydad Casablanca
• CS Sfaxien
• Espérance Sportive de Tunis
• US Monastir

  Quarter Finals Matches

Quarter Final Match Dates

• The first legs between 1 March 2009 and 4 March 2009
• The second legs between 19 March 2009 and 21 March −2009

  Semi finals

Semi Finals Matches

First Legs

Second Legs

Final

First leg

Second leg

Champions

Arab Champions League 2008–09 Winners

Espérance Sportive de Tunis Second Title

Top scorers

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