2003 Arab Unified Club Championship

2003 Prince Faisal bin Fahd Tournament for Arab Clubs
بطولة الاندية العربية الموحدة 2003
بطولة الأمير فيصل بن فهد للأندية العربية 2003
Tournament details
Host countryEgypt
Dates6 – 20 July 2003
Teams10 (from 1 association)
Final positions
ChampionsEgypt Zamalek (1st title)
Runners-upKuwait Kuwait SC
Tournament statistics
Matches played23
Goals scored72 (3.13 per match)
Top scorer(s)Brazil Somália
(4 goals)
Best player(s)Egypt Besheer El-Tabei
Best goalkeeperSaudi Arabia Dhafer Al-Bishi
← 2002

2003 Arab Unified Club Championship, officially named the 2003 Prince Faisal bin Fahd Tournament for Arab Clubs, was the 19th UAFA Club Cup, and the 2nd since the Arab Club Champions Cup and Arab Cup Winners' Cup were unified. The tournament began on 6 July and concluded on 20 July 2003, the matches took place in Cairo Stadium in Cairo, Egypt, Zamalek won the tournament and earning their first UAFA Club Cup title.

Preliminary stage

Main article: 2003 Arab Unified Club Championship preliminary stage

Group stage

The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. Each group was played on one leg basis. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the semi-finals.

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Saudi Arabia Al-Ettifaq 4 3 1 0 10 4 +6 10
Morocco Raja Casablanca 4 2 1 1 6 6 0 7
Egypt ENPPI 4 1 1 2 4 5 −1 4
Bahrain Riffa 4 1 1 2 4 6 −2 4
Jordan Al-Faisaly 4 0 2 2 5 8 −3 2
Source: [citation needed]
ENPPI Egypt0 – 1Bahrain Riffa
Al-Khuzami 54'
Al-Ettifaq Saudi Arabia4 – 4Jordan Al-Faisaly
Suarez 33'
Al-Meghnam 48'
Adelson 54', 85' (pen.)		 Al-Sheikh 7', 79'
Al-Shabool 12'
Saleem 59'
Riffa Bahrain0 – 0Jordan Al-Faisaly
ENPPI Egypt1 – 1Morocco Raja Casablanca
Zaki 13' Kouni 77'
Al-Faisaly Jordan0 – 1Morocco Raja Casablanca
Hirouach 42'
Al-Ettifaq Saudi Arabia2 – 0Bahrain Riffa
Basheer 2'
Al-Basha 82'
Al-Ettifaq Saudi Arabia2 – 0Morocco Raja Casablanca
Junior 4'
Basheer 17'
ENPPI Egypt3 – 1Jordan Al-Faisaly
Hassan 20'
Zaki 28'
Thabet 45'		 Al-Shabool 19'
Riffa Bahrain3 – 4Morocco Raja Casablanca
Baba 4'
Essa 42'
Yousef 70'		 Bidodan 9'
Aboucherouane 45', 69'
Aboucherouane 83'
ENPPI Egypt0 – 2Saudi Arabia Al-Ettifaq
Al-Basha 6'
Basheer 44'

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Kuwait Kuwait SC 4 2 2 0 9 5 +4 8 Advance to Semi-finals
2 Egypt Zamalek 4 2 1 1 5 5 0 7
3 Algeria USM Alger 4 1 3 0 7 4 +3 6
4 Syria Al-Jaish 4 1 0 3 6 10 −4 3
5 Iraq Al-Shorta 4 0 2 2 6 9 −3 2
Source: [citation needed]
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Zamalek Egypt1 – 0Syria Al-Jaish
El-Said 71'
Al-Shorta Iraq2 – 2Kuwait Kuwait SC
Abdulsattar 18'
Manajed 60'		 Somália 13'
Sabinho 87'
Al-Jaish Syria4 – 2Iraq Al-Shorta
Al-Omair 32', 71', 75'
Shaabo 90'		 Manajed 3'
Raheem 26'
Zamalek Egypt1 – 1Algeria USM Alger
El-Said 42' (pen.) Achiou 15'
Referee: Farid Ali (United Arab Emirates)
Al-Shorta Iraq1 – 1Algeria USM Alger
Qassem 82' Dziri 51'
Al-Jaish Syria1 – 3Kuwait Kuwait SC
Shaabo 74' Somália 18', 54'
Sabinho 68'
USM Alger Algeria1 – 1Kuwait Kuwait SC
Achiou 56' Aqla 53' (pen.)
Zamalek Egypt2 – 1Iraq Al-Shorta
Hassan 76'
Youssef 78'		 Hussein 86'
USM Alger Algeria4 – 1Syria Al-Jaish
Ouichaoui 34' (pen.)
Ammour 40'
Deghiche 84', 90'		 Jabban 60'
Zamalek Egypt1 – 3Kuwait Kuwait SC
Youssef 45' Aqla 6' (pen.), ?' (pen.)
Al-Etaiqi 47'

Knock-out stage

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
 18 July 2003 - Cairo
 
 
 Saudi Arabia Al-Ettifaq 1
 
 20 July 2003 - Cairo
 
 Egypt Zamalek 3
 
 Egypt Zamalek 2
 
 18 July 2003 - Cairo
 
 Kuwait Kuwait SC 1
 
 Kuwait Kuwait SC 3
 
 
 Morocco Raja Casablanca 0
 

Semi-finals

Al-Ettifaq Saudi Arabia1 – 3 (a.e.t.)Egypt Zamalek
Masambe 45' Youssef 77'
Ali 105', 114'
Kuwait SC Kuwait3 – 0Morocco Raja Casablanca
Al-Taher 28'
Cabral ?'
Somália 90+2' (pen.)

Final

Main article: 2003 Arab Unified Club Championship Final
Zamalek Egypt2 – 1Kuwait Kuwait SC
Saleh 23'
Mahmoud 58'		 Oliveira 88'
Referee: Jasem Al-Hail (Qatar)

Winners

2003 Prince Faisal bin Fahd Tournament for Arab Clubs
Egypt
Zamalek
First title

Top scorers

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Brazil Somália Kuwait Kuwait SC 4
2 Egypt Sameh Youssef Egypt Zamalek 3
Syria Ahmed Al-Omair Syria Al-Jaish 3
Kuwait Adel Aqla Kuwait Kuwait SC 3
Brazil Alessandro Oliveira Kuwait Kuwait SC 3
Morocco Hicham Aboucherouane Morocco Raja Casablanca 3
Saudi Arabia Saleh Basheer Saudi Arabia Al-Ettifaq 3

Prize money

Competition stage Final position Prize money (US dollars)
Final Winner $50,000
runner-up $30,000
semi-final Semi-finalists $20,000

References