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AFC Champions League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (626 words) |
 | The AFC Champions League is an annual international inter-club football competition between the champions and cup winners of the top 14 Asian leagues. |
 | From 2002/03 the Asian Champions Cup and Asian Cup Winners Cup were merged into one competition and was rebranded the AFC Champions League. |
 | The first goalkeeper scoring in Champions League is Fabio dos Santos of Dong Tam, in the match with Shanghai Shenhua, in 2006. |
| SI.com - Soccer - Al Ain boycott threat overshadows Asian CL semis - Tuesday April 08, 2003 09:39 AM (971 words) |
 | The SARS outbreak has already forced the Asian federation to postpone a regional qualifying series for the women's soccer World Cup -- due to be held in China in September and October -- and delay two qualifying matches for the 2004 Olympics. |
 | Meanwhile, BEC-Tero, the two-time champion of Thailand's premier league, is under intense domestic pressure to repeat the achievements of the now-defunct club Thai Farmers Bank, which won back-to-back Asian Club Championship titles in 1993 and 1994. |
 | The two-time Uzbek national league champion's superb home record helped it survive a grueling series of six matches against Jordan's Al Wihdat, Qatar's Al Etehad and Al Ahli of the UAE in the group stages. |