2008–09 Arab Champions League
international football competition
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 (1~2) teams from their top Leagues
– The teams must be one of the top 5 teams in the latest season, or Cup Champions/Runners-up.
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
– It's not necessary to be one of the top 5 teams.
The Algerian club ES Sétif entered automatically as 2007–08 champion.
Participated teams
35 clubs will be competing from the following countries.
Asia
Africa
The System
The Qualifying: Knock out stage
Round 32: Knock out stage
Round 16: Knock out stage
Round 8: Knock out stage
Semifinals 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).
Round 32
32 teams play home and away matches as Knock out stage.
1 The Kuwaiti clubs' matches canceled due to FIFA's freezing of the membership of the Kuwait Football Association.
2 Al-Shaab withdrew.
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