2010 AFC Champions League final

The 2010 AFC Champions League Final was a football match which was played on Saturday, 13 November 2010. It was the 29th final of the AFC Champions League, Asia's premier club football tournament. The match was played at the National Stadium in Tokyo and was contested by Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma of South Korea and Zob Ahan from Iran. For Seongnam this was the fourth appearance in the final of the main AFC tournament, after two consecutive Asian Club Championship finals in 1996 and 1997 and AFC Champions League final in 2004, with one trophy been won in 1996. Zob Ahan was a debutant of the final stage.

2010 AFC Champions League final

Event	2010 AFC Champions League
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma Zob Ahan 3 1
Date	13 November 2010
Venue	National Stadium, Tokyo
AFC Man of the Match	Saša Ognenovski (Seongnam)
Fans' Man of the Match	Saša Ognenovski (Seongnam)
Referee	Yuichi Nishimura (Japan)
Attendance	27,308
Weather	Fine
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2010 AFC Champions League winner Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma.

The winners entered the quarterfinals of the 2010 FIFA Club World Cup.

Seongnam won 3–1 to clinch the title.^[1]

Qualified teams

Team	Previous finals appearances (bold indicates winners)
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	1995, 1997, 2004
Zob Ahan	None

Road to Tokyo

Further information: 2010 AFC Champions League

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma			Round	Zob Ahan
Main article: 2010 AFC Champions League group stage: Group E Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 6 5 0 1 11 6 +5 15 Beijing Guoan 6 3 1 2 7 5 +2 10 Kawasaki Frontale 6 2 0 4 8 8 0 6 Melbourne Victory 6 1 1 4 3 10 −7 4			Group stage	Main article: 2010 AFC Champions League group stage: Group B Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Zob Ahan 6 4 1 1 8 3 +5 13 Bunyodkor 6 3 1 2 10 7 +3 10 Al-Ittihad 6 2 2 2 9 7 +2 8 Al-Wahda 6 1 0 5 3 13 −10 3
Opponent	Result	Legs	Knockout stage	Opponent	Result	Legs
Gamba Osaka	3–0	One-leg match played	Round of 16	Mes Kerman	1–0	One-leg match played
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	4–3	4–1 home; 0–2 away	Quarterfinals	Pohang Steelers	3–2	2–1 home; 1–1 away
Al-Shabab	4–4 (a)	1–0 home; 3–4 away	Semifinals	Al-Hilal	2–0	1–0 home; 1–0 away

Match details

13 November 2010

19:00 (JST)

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	3 – 1	Zob Ahan
Ognenovski 29' Cho Byung-kuk 53' Kim Cheol-ho 83'	Report	Khalatbari 67'

National Stadium, Tokyo

Attendance: 27,308

Referee: Yuichi Nishimura (Japan)

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma

Zob Ahan

GK 1 Jung Sung-ryong CB 24 Kim Tae-yoon CB 5 Cho Byung-kuk CB 4 Saša Ognenovski (c) RM 2 Ko Jae-sung CM 16 Kim Sung-hwan CM 17 Kim Cheol-ho LM 14 Song Ho-young  80' AM 30 Jo Jae-cheol  71' AM 11 Mauricio Molina CF 9 Cho Dong-geon  88' Substitutes DF 3 Yun Young-sun DF 13 Jeong Ho-jeong FW 18 Namkung Do  88' FW 20 Kim Jin-yong  80' FW 28 Moon Dae-seong DF 38 Yong Hyun-jin GK 41 Kang Sung-kwan Manager Shin Tae-yong

GK 1 Shahab Gordan RB 2 Mohammad Hosseini CB 3 Mohamad Ali Ahmadi  81' CB 4 Farshid Talebi LB 25 Hossein Mahini  69' CM 14 Ghasem Hadadifar (c) CM 19 Mohammad Ghazi  90' CM 15 Igor Castro  87' RF 31 Shahin Kheiri  56' CF 30 Mehdi Rajabzadeh  69' LF 9 Mohammad Reza Khalatbari Substitutes DF 5 Mohammad Salsali  87' FW 10 Esmail Farhadi  69' GK 12 Abbas Ghasemi MF 17 Sina Ashouri  86'  56' DF 23 Ahmad Mohammadpour MF 24 Alireza Hadadifar FW 32 Jalal Rafkhaei Manager Mansour Ebrahimzadeh

AFC Man of the Match: Saša Ognenovski (Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma) Association referees: Toru Sagara (Japan) Toshiyuki Nagi (Japan) Fourth official: Hiroyoshi Takayama (Japan)

See also

• 2010 AFC Champions League
• 2010 FIFA Club World Cup