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1996–97 Asian Club Championship

international football competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ1137090 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1996–97 Asian Club Championship was the 16th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the AFC region (Asia). It determined that year's club champion of association football in Asia.

Pohang Steelers of South Korea won the final and became Asian champions for the first time after beating Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma in the first ever Asian top club tournament that ended in a one-country final.

First round

West Asia

1 Al-Sharjah withdrew.

East Asia

1 The 2nd leg was cancelled due to political violence in Sri Lanka.

2 GD Artilheiros withdrew.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1996–97 Asian Club Championship” is international football competition. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Asian, Club and Championship, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Asian, Club and Championship is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1137090. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “1996–97 Asian Club Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.