{{Infobox football match | image = 2009 AFC Champions League Final Logo 2.png | event = [[2009 AFC Champions League]] | team1 = [[Al-Ittihad (Jeddah)|Al-Ittihad]] | team1association = {{flagicon|KSA|size=30px}} | team1score = 1 | team2 = [[Pohang Steelers]] | team2association = {{flagicon|KOR|1997|size=30px}} | team2score = 2 | details = | date = 7 November 2009 | stadium = [[National Stadium (Tokyo, 1958)|National Stadium]] | city = [[Tokyo]] | man_of_the_match1a = [[No Byung-jun]] (Pohang Steelers)<ref name="Noh">{{cite news |title=Triple treat for Steelers |url=http://www.the-afc.com/en/afc-champions-league-2009/25921-acl-awards |work=the-afc.com |publisher=[[Asian Football Confederation]] |date=7 November 2009 |access-date=7 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915133546/http://www.the-afc.com/en/afc-champions-league-2009/25921-acl-awards |archive-date=15 September 2018 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> | man_of_the_match1atitle = AFC | man_of_the_match1b = [[Denilson Martins Nascimento|Denilson]] (Pohang Steelers) | man_of_the_match1btitle = Fans' | referee = [[Matthew Breeze]] ([[Football Federation Australia|Australia]]) | attendance = 25,743 | weather = Clear | previous = [[2008 AFC Champions League final|2008]] | next = [[2010 AFC Champions League final|2010]] }} The '''2009 AFC Champions League final''' was a [[Association football|football]] match which was played on Saturday, 7 November 2009. It was the 28th final of the [[AFC Champions League]], Asia's premier club football tournament, and the first single match final since 2002 when the competition was known as the Asian Club Championship. The match was played at the [[National Stadium (Tokyo, 1958)|National Stadium]] in [[Tokyo]] between [[Al-Ittihad (Jeddah)|Al-Ittihad]] of [[Saudi Arabia Football Federation|Saudi Arabia]] and [[Pohang Steelers]] of [[Korea Football Association|South Korea]]. The winners [[Pohang Steelers]] were also entered the quarter-finals of the [[2009 FIFA Club World Cup]].

[[Pohang Steelers]] defeated [[Al-Ittihad (Jeddah)|Al-Ittihad]] 2–1, winning its third title to become the most successful club in [[Asian Football Confederation|Asian football]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/clubworldcup/news/newsid=1129833.html#pohang+book+uae+berth |title=Pohang book UAE berth |date=2009-11-07 |work=FIFA.com |access-date=2009-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091111055041/http://www.fifa.com/clubworldcup/news/newsid%3D1129833.html |archive-date=11 November 2009 |url-status=dead }} </ref>

==Qualified teams== {| class="wikitable" |- !Team !Previous finals appearances (bold indicates winners) |- |{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Al-Ittihad (Jeddah)|Al-Ittihad]] |'''[[2004 AFC Champions League Final|2004]]''', '''[[2005 AFC Champions League Final|2005]]''' |- |{{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Pohang Steelers]] |'''[[1997 Asian Club Championship Final|1997]]''', '''[[1998 Asian Club Championship Final|1998]]''' |}

==Road to Tokyo== [[Image:2009 AFC Champions League Final - Pohang Steelers celebrate.jpg|thumb|right|Pohang Steelers won the 2009 AFC Champions League.]] {{details|2009 AFC Champions League}}

{| class="wikitable" width="100%" style="text-align:center" |- valign=top bgcolor=#c1e0ff !colspan=3 style="width:1*"|Al-Ittihad !'''Round''' !colspan=3 style="width:1*"|Pohang Steelers |- |colspan="3" align=center| {{main|2009 AFC Champions League group stage#Group C|l1=2009 AFC Champions League group stage: Group C}} {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |- !width=175 |Team !width=20 |{{Tooltip| Pld | Played}} !width=20 |{{Tooltip| W | Won}} !width=20 |{{Tooltip| D | Drawn}} !width=20 |{{Tooltip| L | Lost}} !width=20 |{{Tooltip| GF | Goals for}} !width=20 |{{Tooltip| GA | Goals against}} !width=20 |{{Tooltip| GD | Goal difference}} !width=20 |{{Tooltip| Pts | Points}} |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" |align="left"|{{flagicon|KSA}} '''[[Al-Ittihad (Jeddah)|Al-Ittihad]]''' |6||3||3||0||14||4||+10||'''12''' |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" |align="left"|{{flagicon|QAT}} [[Umm-Salal Sports Club|Umm-Salal]] |6||2||2||2||6||13||&minus;7||'''8''' |- |align="left"|{{flagicon|UAE}} [[Al-Jazira Club|Al-Jazira]] |6||0||5||1||6||7||&minus;1||'''5''' |- |align="left"|{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Esteghlal F.C.|Esteghlal]] |6||0||4||2||6||8||&minus;2||'''4''' |} |bgcolor=#c1e0ff|Group stage |colspan=3 align=center| {{main|2009 AFC Champions League group stage#Group H|l1=2009 AFC Champions League group stage: Group H}} {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |- !width=175 |Team !width=20 |{{Tooltip| Pld | Played}} !width=20 |{{Tooltip| W | Won}} !width=20 |{{Tooltip| D | Drawn}} !width=20 |{{Tooltip| L | Lost}} !width=20 |{{Tooltip| GF | Goals for}} !width=20 |{{Tooltip| GA | Goals against}} !width=20 |{{Tooltip| GD | Goal difference}} !width=20 |{{Tooltip| Pts | Points}} |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" |align="left"|{{flagicon|KOR|1997}} '''[[Pohang Steelers]]''' |6||3||3||0||7||3||+4||'''12''' |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" |align="left"|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kawasaki Frontale]] |6||3||1||2||10||7||+3||'''10''' |- |align="left"|{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Tianjin Teda F.C.|Tianjin Teda]] |6||2||2||2||6||5||+1||'''8''' |- |align="left"|{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Central Coast Mariners FC|C.C. Mariners]] |6||0||2||4||5||13||&minus;8||'''2''' |} |- valign=top bgcolor=#c1e0ff |Opponent |Result |Legs |bgcolor=#c1e0ff|[[2009 AFC Champions League knockout stage|Knockout stage]] |Opponent |Result |Legs |- |{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Al-Shabab (Saudi Arabia)|Al-Shabab]] |2–1 | |bgcolor=#c1e0ff|Round of 16 |{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Newcastle United Jets FC|Newcastle United Jets]] |6–0 | |- |{{flagicon|UZB}} [[FC Pakhtakor Tashkent|Pakhtakor Tashkent]] |5–1 |4–0 home; 1–1 away |bgcolor=#c1e0ff|Quarter-finals |{{flagicon|UZB}} [[FC Bunyodkor|Bunyodkor]] |5–4 |4–1 home; 1–3 away |- |{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Nagoya Grampus]] |8–3 |6–2 home; 2–1 away |bgcolor=#c1e0ff|Semi-finals |{{flagicon|QAT}} [[Umm-Salal]] |4–1 |2–0 home; 2–1 away |}

==Match details== {{footballbox |date = 7 November 2009 |time= 19:00 ([[Japan Standard Time|JST]]) |team1 = [[Al-Ittihad (Jeddah)|Al-Ittihad]] {{flagicon|KSA}} |score = 1 – 2 |report = [https://archive.today/20120912140813/http://www.the-afc.com/en/component/joomleague/?view=report&compID=367&matchId=2484 Report] |team2= {{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Pohang Steelers]] |goals1 = [[Mohammed Noor]] {{goal|74}} |goals2 = [[No Byung-jun]] {{goal|57}}<br/>[[Kim Hyung-il]] {{goal|66}} |stadium = [[National Stadium (Tokyo, 1958)|National Olympic Stadium]], [[Tokyo]] |attendance = 25,743 |referee = [[Matthew Breeze]] ([[Football Federation Australia|Australia]]) }}

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{| width="100%" |valign="top" width="50%"| {| style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" |- !width=25| !!width=25| |- |GK ||'''1''' ||{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Mabrouk Zaid]] |- |RB ||'''6''' ||{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Obaid Al-Shamrani]] || || {{suboff|64}} |- |CB ||'''4''' ||{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Redha Tukar]] |- |CB ||'''21'''||{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Hamad Al-Montashari]] |- |LB ||'''19'''||{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Saleh Al-Saqri]] |- |DM ||'''14'''||{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Saud Khariri]] |- |RM ||'''11'''||{{flagicon|MAR}} [[Hicham Aboucherouane]] |- |CM ||'''18'''||{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Mohammed Noor]] ([[Captain (association football)|c]]) || {{yel|50}} |- |CM ||'''12'''||{{flagicon|OMA}} [[Ahmed Hadid]] |- |LM ||'''8''' ||{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Manaf Abushgeer]] |- |CF ||'''27'''||{{flagicon|TUN}} [[Amine Chermiti]] |- |colspan=3|'''Substitutes:''' |- |GK ||'''22'''||{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Tisir Al-Antaif]] |- |DF ||'''5''' ||{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Mohammed Salem (footballer, born 1985)|Mohammed Salem]] |- |DF ||'''33'''||{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Osama Al-Muwallad]] |- |MF ||'''16'''||{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Meshal Al-Said]] |- |MF ||'''30'''||{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Sultan Al-Nemri]] |- |FW ||'''15'''||{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Luciano Leguizamón]] || || {{subon|64}} |- |FW ||'''29'''||{{flagicon|KSA}} [[Talal Al-Meshal]] |- |colspan=3|'''Manager:''' |- |colspan=4|{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Gabriel Calderón]] |} | {| style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align=center |- !width=25| !!width=25| |- |GK ||'''1''' ||{{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Shin Hwa-yong]] |- |RB ||'''2''' ||{{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Choi Hyo-jin]] |- |CB ||'''24''' ||{{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Hwang Jae-won]] ([[Captain (association football)|c]]) |- |CB ||'''32''' ||{{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Kim Hyung-il]] |- |LB ||'''16''' ||{{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Kim Jung-kyum]] || || {{suboff|75}} |- |CM ||'''20''' ||{{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Shin Hyung-min]] || {{yel|39}} |- |CM ||'''5''' ||{{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Kim Tae-su]] |- |RW ||'''10''' ||{{flagicon|BRA}} [[Denílson (footballer, born 1976)|Denílson]] || || {{suboff|90+3}} |- |AM ||'''7''' ||{{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Kim Jae-sung]] || {{yel|29}} |- |LW ||'''22''' ||{{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[No Byung-jun]] || {{yel|90+1}} |- |CF ||'''9''' ||{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Stevica Ristić]] || || {{suboff|71}} |- |colspan=3|'''Substitutes:''' |- |GK ||'''41'''||{{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Kim Jee-hyuk]] |- |DF ||'''4'''||{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Kazunari Okayama]] |- |MF ||'''8'''||{{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Hwang Jin-sung]] |- |MF ||'''12'''||{{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Park Hee-chul]] || || {{subon|75}} |- |MF ||'''14'''||{{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Song Chang-ho]] || {{yel|90+1}} || {{subon|71}} |- |FW ||'''18'''||{{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Namkung Do]] || || {{subon|90+3}} |- |FW ||'''23'''||{{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Yoo Chang-hyun]] |- |colspan=3|'''Manager:''' |- |colspan=4|{{flagicon|BRA}} [[Sérgio Farias]] |} |} {| width=100% style="font-size: 90%" | '''AFC Man of the Match:''' <br />{{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[No Byung-jun]]<ref name="Noh"/>

'''Assistant referees:''' <br />{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Matthew Cream]] <br />{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Benjamin Wilson (referee)|Benjamin Wilson]] <br />'''Fourth official:''' <br />{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Peter Green (referee)|Peter Green]] |}

==See also== *[[2009 AFC Champions League]] *[[2009 FIFA Club World Cup]]

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6v1D-7ZhKU] Video highlights {{Pohang Steelers matches}} {{AFC Club Football seasons|group=championsleague}} {{2009 in Asian Football (AFC)}}

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