en 2014 AFC Champions League knockout stage

The knock-out stage of the 2014 AFC Champions League was played from 6 May to 1 November 2014. A total of 16 teams competed in the knock-out stage.^[1]

Qualified teams

The winners and runners-up of each of the eight groups in the group stage qualified for the knock-out stage. Both West Zone and East Zone had eight teams qualified.

Zone	Group	Winners	Runners-up
West Zone (Groups A–D)	A	Al-Shabab	Al-Jazira
	B	Foolad	Bunyodkor
	C	Al-Ain	Al-Ittihad
	D	Al-Hilal	Al-Sadd
East Zone (Groups E–H)	E	Pohang Steelers	Cerezo Osaka
	F	FC Seoul	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
	G	Guangzhou Evergrande	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
	H	Western Sydney Wanderers	Kawasaki Frontale

Format

In the knock-out stage, the 16 teams played a single-elimination tournament, with the teams split between the two zones until the final. Each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. The away goals rule, extra time (away goals do not apply in extra time) and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary.^[1]

Schedule

The schedule of each round was as follows.^[2]

Round	First leg	Second leg
Round of 16	6–7 May 2014	13–14 May 2014
Quarter-finals	19–20 August 2014	26–27 August 2014
Semi-finals	16–17 September 2014	30 September–1 October 2014
Final	25 October 2014	1 November 2014

Bracket

In the round of 16, the winners of one group played the runners-up of another group in the same zone, with the group winners hosting the second leg.^[1] The matchups were determined as follows:

West Zone

Winner Group A vs. Runner-up Group C
Winner Group C vs. Runner-up Group A
Winner Group B vs. Runner-up Group D
Winner Group D vs. Runner-up Group B

East Zone

Winner Group E vs. Runner-up Group G
Winner Group G vs. Runner-up Group E
Winner Group F vs. Runner-up Group H
Winner Group H vs. Runner-up Group F

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 28 May 2014, 16:00 UTC+8, at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[3] The "country protection" rule was not applied, so teams from the same association could be drawn into the same tie.^[4]

There was no draw for the semi-finals, with the matchups determined by the quarter-final draw: Winner QF1 vs. Winner QF2 (West Zone) and Winner QF3 vs. Winner QF4 (East Zone), with winners QF2 and QF4 hosting the second leg.

The draw to decide the order of two legs of the final was held after the quarter-final draw.^[3]

Round of 16				Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	1	0	1

Pohang Steelers	2	1	3
				Pohang Steelers	0	0	0 (0)

				FC Seoul (p)	0	0	0 (3)
Kawasaki Frontale	2	2	4

FC Seoul (a)	3	1	4
								FC Seoul	0	0	0

								Western Sydney Wanderers	0	2	2
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	3	0	3

Western Sydney Wanderers (a)	1	2	3
				Western Sydney Wanderers (a)	1	1	2

				Guangzhou Evergrande	0	2	2
Cerezo Osaka	1	1	2

Guangzhou Evergrande	5	0	5
												Western Sydney Wanderers	1	0	1

												Al-Hilal	0	0	0
Bunyodkor	0	0	0

Al-Hilal	1	3	4
				Al-Hilal	1	0	1

				Al-Sadd	0	0	0
Al-Sadd (a)	0	2	2

Foolad	0	2	2
								Al-Hilal	3	1	4

								Al-Ain	0	2	2
Al-Jazira	1	1	2

Al-Ain	2	2	4
				Al-Ain	2	3	5

				Al-Ittihad	0	1	1
Al-Ittihad	1	3	4

Al-Shabab	0	1	1

Round of 16

West Zone
Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Ittihad	4–1	Al-Shabab	1–0	3–1
Al-Jazira	2–4	Al-Ain	1–2	1–2
Al-Sadd	2–2 (a)	Foolad	0–0	2–2
Bunyodkor	0–4	Al-Hilal	0–1	0–3

East Zone
Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	1–3	Pohang Steelers	1–2	0–1
Cerezo Osaka	2–5	Guangzhou Evergrande	1–5	1–0
Kawasaki Frontale	4–4 (a)	FC Seoul	2–3	2–1
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	3–3 (a)	Western Sydney Wanderers	3–1	0–2