2008–09 Arab Champions League

The 6th edition of Arab Champions League, The 2008–2009 is going to play as a knockout stage from 35 clubs, The Algerian club ES Sétif entered automatically as 2007–08 champion.

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.

The System

The Qualifying: Knock out stageRound 32: Knock out stageRound 16: Knock out stageRound 8: Knock out stageSemifinals 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

32 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.

Round 32 Matches Dates

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

Round 16

16 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.

Qualified teams

Round 16 Matches Dates

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

Quarter-finals

8 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.

Qualified teams

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

4 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.

Semi-finals Matches

First Legs

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Second Legs

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Champions

Arab Champions League 2008–09
Winners

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Top scorers

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