The 2015 AFC Champions League knockout stage was played from 19 May to 21 November 2015. A total of 16 teams competed in the knockout stage to decide the champions of the 2015 AFC Champions League.[1]
Qualified teams
[edit]The winners and runners-up of each of the eight groups in the group stage qualified for the knockout stage. Both West Zone and East Zone had eight teams qualified.
Zone | Group | Winners | Runners-up |
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West Zone (Groups A–D) |
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B | ![]() |
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C | ![]() |
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D | ![]() |
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East Zone (Groups E–H) |
E | ![]() |
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F | ![]() |
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G | ![]() |
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H | ![]() |
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Format
[edit]In the knockout stage, the 16 teams played a single-elimination tournament, with the teams split between the two zones until the final. Each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. The away goals rule, extra time (away goals do not apply in extra time) and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary.[1]
Schedule
[edit]The schedule of each round was as follows.[2]
Round | First leg | Second leg |
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Round of 16 | 19–20 May 2015 | 26–27 May 2015 |
Quarter-finals | 25–26 August 2015 | 15–16 September 2015 |
Semi-finals | 29–30 September 2015 | 20–21 October 2015 |
Final | 7 November 2015 | 21 November 2015 |
Bracket
[edit]In the round of 16, the winners of one group played the runners-up of another group in the same zone, with the group winners hosting the second leg.[1] The matchups are determined as follows:
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The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 18 June 2015, 16:00 UTC+8, at the Grand Millennium Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[3] Teams from different zones could not be drawn into the same tie, and there was no seeding or country protection, so teams from the same association could be drawn into the same tie.[4]
In the semi-finals, the matchups were determined by the quarter-final draw: Winner QF1 vs. Winner QF2 (West Zone) and Winner QF3 vs. Winner QF4 (East Zone), with winners QF2 and QF4 hosting the second leg.[4]
In the final, the finalist from the West Zone hosted the first leg, while the finalist from the East Zone hosted the second leg (no draw was held to determine the order of legs, as it was reversed from the previous season's final).[4]
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Round of 16
[edit]Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Al-Sadd ![]() |
3–4 | ![]() |
1–2 | 2–2 |
Persepolis ![]() |
1–3 | ![]() |
1–0 | 0–3 |
Al-Ahli ![]() |
3–3 (a) | ![]() |
0–0 | 3–3 |
Naft Tehran ![]() |
2–2 (a) | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–2 |
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Suwon Samsung Bluewings ![]() |
4–4 (a) | ![]() |
2–3 | 2–1 |
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors ![]() |
2–1 | ![]() |
1–1 | 1–0 |
FC Seoul ![]() |
3–6 | ![]() |
1–3 | 2–3 |
Seongnam FC ![]() |
2–3 | ![]() |
2–1 | 0–2 |
First leg
[edit]Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors ![]() | 1–1 | ![]() |
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Kim Kee-hee ![]() |
Report | Batalla ![]() |
Suwon Samsung Bluewings ![]() | 2–3 | ![]() |
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Yeom Ki-hun ![]() Jong Tae-se ![]() |
Report | Barada ![]() Leandro ![]() |
Persepolis ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
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Digão ![]() |
Report |
Seongnam FC ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() |
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Jorginho ![]() Kim Do-heon ![]() |
Report | Huang Bowen ![]() |
FC Seoul ![]() | 1–3 | ![]() |
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Yun Ju-tae ![]() |
Report | Usami ![]() Yonekura ![]() |
Naft Tehran ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
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Rezaei ![]() |
Report |
Second leg
[edit]Kashiwa Reysol ![]() | 1–2 | ![]() |
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Kobayashi ![]() |
Report | Jong Tae-se ![]() Koo Ja-ryong ![]() |
4–4 on aggregate. Kashiwa Reysol won on away goals.
Beijing Guoan ![]() | 0–1 | ![]() |
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Report | Edu ![]() |
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors won 2–1 on aggregate.
Lekhwiya won 4–3 on aggregate.
Al-Hilal ![]() | 3–0 | ![]() |
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Al-Salem ![]() Al-Shalhoub ![]() A. Al-Dawsari ![]() |
Report |
Al-Hilal won 3–1 on aggregate.
Gamba Osaka ![]() | 3–2 | ![]() |
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Patric ![]() Kurata ![]() Lins ![]() |
Report | Yun Ju-tae ![]() |
Gamba Osaka won 6–3 on aggregate.
Guangzhou Evergrande ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() |
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Goulart ![]() |
Report |
Guangzhou Evergrande won 3–2 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate. Al-Ahli won on away goals.
Al-Ahli ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() |
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Al Soma ![]() |
Report | Padovani ![]() |
2–2 on aggregate. Naft Tehran won on away goals.
Quarter-finals
[edit]Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Al-Hilal ![]() |
6–3 | ![]() |
4–1 | 2–2 |
Naft Tehran ![]() |
1–3 | ![]() |
0–1 | 1–2 |
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Kashiwa Reysol ![]() |
2–4 | ![]() |
1–3 | 1–1 |
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors ![]() |
2–3 | ![]() |
0–0 | 2–3 |
First leg
[edit]Kashiwa Reysol ![]() | 1–3 | ![]() |
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Kudo ![]() |
Report | Suzuki ![]() Paulinho ![]() Gao Lin ![]() |
Naft Tehran ![]() | 0–1 | ![]() |
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Report | Lima ![]() |
- Notes
Second leg
[edit]Guangzhou Evergrande ![]() | 1–1 | ![]() |
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Huang Bowen ![]() |
Report | Cristiano ![]() |
Guangzhou Evergrande won 4–2 on aggregate.
Al-Hilal won 6–3 on aggregate.
Gamba Osaka ![]() | 3–2 | ![]() |
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Patric ![]() Kurata ![]() Yonekura ![]() |
Report | Leonardo ![]() Vera ![]() |
Gamba Osaka won 3–2 on aggregate.
Al-Ahli won 3–1 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
[edit]Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Al-Hilal ![]() |
3–4 | ![]() |
1–1 | 2–3 |
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Guangzhou Evergrande ![]() |
2–1 | ![]() |
2–1 | 0–0 |
First leg
[edit]Guangzhou Evergrande ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() |
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Huang Bowen ![]() Zheng Zhi ![]() |
Report | Feng Xiaoting ![]() |
Second leg
[edit]Al-Ahli won 4–3 on aggregate.
Guangzhou Evergrande won 2–1 on aggregate.
Final
[edit]Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Al-Ahli ![]() |
0–1 | ![]() |
0–0 | 0–1 |
Guangzhou Evergrande ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() |
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Elkeson ![]() |
Report |
Guangzhou Evergrande won 1–0 on aggregate.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "AFC Champions League 2015 Competition Regulations" (PDF). AFC.
- ^ "AFC Calendar of Competitions 2015" (PDF). AFC.
- ^ "Al Hilal to face Lekhwiya in ACL quarter-finals". AFC. 18 June 2015.
- ^ a b c "ACL quarter-finalists to learn opponents on Thursday". AFC. 16 June 2015.
- ^ "ACL clubs sanctioned for crowd disturbances". AFC. 16 June 2015.
External links
[edit]- AFC Champions League, the-AFC.com
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