1969 Asian Champion Club Tournament
.jpg) Giora Spiegel of Maccabi Tel Aviv lifting the trophy | |
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Thailand |
| Dates | 15 – 30 January 1969 |
| Teams | 10 |
| Venue | 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Maccabi Tel Aviv (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Yangzee |
| Third place |  Toyo Kogyo |
| Fourth place |  Mysore State |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 24 |
| Goals scored | 85 (3.54 per match) |
← 1967 1970 → | |
The 1969 Asian Champion Club Tournament was the 2nd edition of the annual Asian club football competition hosted by Asian Football Confederation. Ten domestic league champions from ten countries competed in the tournament. The tournament was held in Bangkok, Thailand and ten clubs were split in two groups of five. The group winners and the runners up advanced to semifinals.
Maccabi Tel Aviv defeated Korean club Yangzee and became the second Israeli club to win the competition.
Participants
| Participants | |
|---|---|
| Team | Qualifying method |
 Kowloon Motor Bus |
1966–67 Hong Kong First Division League champions |
 Perak FA |
1967 Malaysia Cup champions |
| Toyo Kogyo |
1967 Japan Soccer League champions |
 Manila Lions |
1967 Manila Football League Championship champions |
 Bangkok Bank |
1967 Kor Royal Cup champions |
| Maccabi Tel Aviv |
1966-68 Liga Leumit (extended season) champions |
| Mysore State |
1968–69 Santosh Trophy champions |
 National Police |
1965–66 South Vietnam Division of Honour champions (Both the 1967–68 and the 1968–69 championships were not organized, so the winner of the 1965–66 championship was picked.) |
| Yangzee |
1968 Korean President's Cup champions |
 Persepolis |
1968–69 Tehran Tournament champions |
Teams location
Group stage
Group A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yangzee |
4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | +16 | 8 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Mysore State |
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 5 | |
| 3 | Bangkok Bank |
4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 4 | |
| 4 | National Police |
4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | +3 | 3 | |
| 5 | Manila Lions |
4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 20 | −19 | 0 |
| Yangzee | 5–0 | Mysore State |
|---|---|---|
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Report |
| Mysore State | 1–1 | Bangkok Bank |
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Report |
| Mysore State | 2–1 | National Police |
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Report |
| Mysore State | 2–1 | Manila Lions |
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| Report |
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Attendance: 1,000
Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maccabi Tel Aviv |
4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Toyo Kogyo |
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 6 | |
| 3 | Persepolis |
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 5 | |
| 4 | Perak FA |
4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 3 | |
| 5 | Kowloon Motor Bus |
4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 16 | −14 | 0 |
| Persepolis | 4–2 | Perak FA |
|---|---|---|
Vafakhah  14', 27' Behzadi 81' Vatankhah 89' |
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Attendance: 25,000
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | 1–1 | Perak FA |
|---|---|---|
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Attendance: 30,000
| Persepolis | 4–0 | Kowloon Motor Bus |
|---|---|---|
| Kalani 17' Vafakhah 64', 74', 78' |
Knockout stage
Bracket
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 28 January – Bangkok | ||||||
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | 6 | |||||
| 30 January– Bangkok | ||||||
| Mysore State | 1 | |||||
| Maccabi Tel Aviv (a.e.t.) | 1 | |||||
| 28 January – Bangkok | ||||||
| Yangzee | 0 | |||||
| Yangzee | 2 | |||||
| Toyo Kogyo | 0 | |||||
| Third place play-off | ||||||
| 30 January – Bangkok | ||||||
| Toyo Kogyo | 2 | |||||
| Mysore State | 0 | |||||
Semi-finals
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | 6–1 | Mysore State |
|---|---|---|
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Third-place match
Final
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | 1–0 (a.e.t.) | Yangzee |
|---|---|---|
| Bar-Nur 112' |
References
- ↑ "History of the Asian Club Championship". Asian Football. 9 April 1997. Archived from the original on 9 April 1997. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
External links
- Mulcahy, Enda; Karsdorp, Dirk. "Asian Club Competitions 1968/69". RSSSF.