2013 AFC Champions League knockout stage

The knock-out stage of the 2013 AFC Champions League was played from 14 May to 9 November 2013. 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.

Group	Winners	Runners-up
West Zone (Groups A–D)
A	Al-Shabab	El Jaish
B	Lekhwiya	Al-Shabab Al-Arabi
C	Al-Ahli	Al-Gharafa
D	Esteghlal	Al-Hilal
East Zone (Groups E–H)
E	FC Seoul	Buriram United
F	Guangzhou Evergrande	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
G	Bunyodkor	Beijing Guoan
H	Kashiwa Reysol	Central Coast Mariners

Format

In the knock-out stage, the 16 teams played a single-elimination tournament. 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	14–15 May 2013	21–22 May 2013
Quarter-finals	21 August 2013	18 September 2013
Semi-finals	25 September 2013	2 October 2013
Final	25 or 26 October 2013	8 or 9 November 2013

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, semi-finals, and final (to decide the order of two legs) was held on 20 June 2013, 16:00 UTC+8, at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[3] In this draw, teams from different zones could play each other, and the "country protection" rule was applied: if there are exactly two teams from the same association, they may not play each other in the quarter-finals; however, if there are more than two teams from the same association, they may play each other in the quarter-finals.

	Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	El Jaish	1	0	1
	Al-Ahli	1	2	3
							Al-Ahli	1	0	1
							FC Seoul	1	1	2
	Beijing Guoan	0	1	1
	FC Seoul	0	3	3
													FC Seoul	2	2	4
													Esteghlal	0	2	2
	Al-Shabab Al-Arabi	2	0	2
	Esteghlal	4	0	4
							Esteghlal	1	2	3
							Buriram United	0	1	1
	Buriram United	2	0	2
	Bunyodkor	1	0	1
																			FC Seoul	2	1	3
																			Guangzhou Evergrande (a)	2	1	3
	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	0	2	2
	Kashiwa Reysol	2	3	5
							Kashiwa Reysol (a)	1	2	3
							Al-Shabab	1	2	3
	Al-Gharafa	1	0	1
	Al-Shabab	2	3	5
													Kashiwa Reysol	1	0	1
													Guangzhou Evergrande	4	4	8
	Central Coast Mariners	1	0	1
	Guangzhou Evergrande	2	3	5
							Guangzhou Evergrande	2	4	6
							Lekhwiya	0	1	1
	Al-Hilal	0	2	2
	Lekhwiya	1	2	3

Round of 16

The first legs were played on 14 and 15 May 2013, and the second legs were played on 21 and 22 May 2013.

West Zone

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Gharafa	1–5	Al-Shabab	1–2	0–3
El Jaish	1–3	Al-Ahli	1–1	0–2
Al-Hilal	2–3	Lekhwiya	0–1	2–2
Al-Shabab Al-Arabi	2–4	Esteghlal	2–4	0–0

East Zone

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Beijing Guoan	1–3	FC Seoul	0–0	1–3
Buriram United	2−1	Bunyodkor	2–1	0−0
Central Coast Mariners	1–5	Guangzhou Evergrande	1–2	0–3
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	2–5	Kashiwa Reysol	0–2	2–3

First leg

Buriram United	2–1	Bunyodkor
Anawin 17' Ekkachai 76'	Report	Taran 45+1'

14 May 2013

18:00 UTC+7

New I-Mobile Stadium, Buriram

Attendance: 18,603

Referee: Ben Williams (Australia)

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Beijing Guoan	0–0	FC Seoul
	Report

14 May 2013

19:30 UTC+8

Workers Stadium, Beijing

Attendance: 36,458

Referee: Andre El Haddad (Lebanon)

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Al-Gharafa	1–2	Al-Shabab
Bresciano 42'	Report	Tagliabué 56' Al-Shamrani 83'

14 May 2013

18:45 UTC+3

Thani bin Jassim Stadium, Al Rayyan

Attendance: 4,212

Referee: Kim Jong-Hyeok (South Korea)

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El Jaish	1–1	Al-Ahli
Anderson 76'	Report	Al-Musa 45+1'

14 May 2013

19:00 UTC+3

Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium, Doha^[4][5][6][7]

Attendance: 8,291

Referee: Ali Abdulnabi (Bahrain)

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Central Coast Mariners	1–2	Guangzhou Evergrande
Duke 7'	Report	Barrios 28' Muriqui 76'

15 May 2013

19:30 UTC+10

Central Coast Stadium, Gosford

Attendance: 8,953

Referee: Abdul Malik Abdul Bashir (Singapore)

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Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	0–2	Kashiwa Reysol
	Report	Kudo 3' Masushima 74'

15 May 2013

19:00 UTC+9

Jeonju World Cup Stadium, Jeonju

Attendance: 9,431

Referee: Mohamed Al Zarouni (United Arab Emirates)

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Al-Shabab Al-Arabi	2–4	Esteghlal
Luiz Henrique 45+2' Edgar 85'	Report	Samuel 55' Nekounam 72' Majidi 80' Heydari 89'

15 May 2013

19:40 UTC+4

Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Stadium, Dubai

Attendance: 6,375

Referee: Yuichi Nishimura (Japan)

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Al-Hilal	0–1	Lekhwiya
	Report	Msakni 81'

15 May 2013

21:00 UTC+3

Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh

Attendance: 14,810

Referee: Kim Dong-Jin (South Korea)

Second leg

FC Seoul	3–1	Beijing Guoan
Adi 60' Yun Il-Lok 70' Koh Myong-Jin 90+4'	Report	Kanouté 9'

21 May 2013

19:30 UTC+9

Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul

Attendance: 14,437

Referee: Mohsen Torky (Iran)

FC Seoul won 3–1 on aggregate.

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Bunyodkor	0–0	Buriram United
	Report

21 May 2013

19:00 UTC+5

Bunyodkor Stadium, Tashkent

Attendance: 11,672

Referee: Abdullah Balideh (Qatar)

Buriram United won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Al-Ahli	2–0	El Jaish
Bruno César 24' Al-Bassas 37'	Report

21 May 2013

20:45 UTC+3

King Abdul Aziz Stadium, Makkah

Attendance: 17,246

Referee: Valentin Kovalenko (Uzbekistan)

Al-Ahli won 3–1 on aggregate.

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Al-Shabab	3–0	Al-Gharafa
Tagliabué 35', 48' Radeah 90+2'	Report

21 May 2013

20:50 UTC+3

King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

Attendance: 4,716

Referee: Masaaki Toma (Japan)

Al-Shabab won 5–1 on aggregate.

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Kashiwa Reysol	3–2	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
Watanabe 41' Wagner 51' Kudo 69'	Report	Masushima 21' (o.g.) Oris 86'

22 May 2013

19:00 UTC+9

Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium, Kashiwa

Attendance: 8,897

Referee: Abdullah Al Hilali (Oman)

Kashiwa Reysol won 5–2 on aggregate.

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Guangzhou Evergrande	3–0	Central Coast Mariners
Muriqui 7' Conca 45+1' (pen.) Gao Lin 68'	Report

22 May 2013

20:00 UTC+8

Tianhe Stadium, Guangzhou

Attendance: 39,564

Referee: Abdulrahman Abdou (Qatar)

Guangzhou Evergrande won 5–1 on aggregate.

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Lekhwiya	2–2	Al-Hilal
Dia 14' Musa 52'	Report	Al-Faraj 64' Al-Shalhoub 78' (pen.)

22 May 2013

18:30 UTC+3

Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 10,221

Referee: Peter Green (Australia)

Lekhwiya won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Esteghlal	0–0	Al-Shabab Al-Arabi
	Report

22 May 2013

21:00 UTC+4:30

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 25,700

Referee: Tan Hai (China PR)

Esteghlal won 4–2 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

The first legs were played on 21 August 2013, and the second legs were played on 18 September 2013.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Ahli	1–2	FC Seoul	1–1	0–1
Esteghlal	3–1	Buriram United	1–0	2–1
Kashiwa Reysol	3–3 (a)	Al-Shabab	1–1	2–2
Guangzhou Evergrande	6–1	Lekhwiya	2–0	4–1

First leg

Kashiwa Reysol	1–1	Al-Shabab
Kudo 21'	Report	Fernando 44'

21 August 2013

19:00 UTC+9

Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium, Kashiwa

Attendance: 11,299

Referee: Kim Jong-Hyeok (South Korea)

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Guangzhou Evergrande	2–0	Lekhwiya
Conca 73' (pen.) Elkeson 76'	Report

21 August 2013

20:00 UTC+8

Tianhe Stadium, Guangzhou

Attendance: 52,384

Referee: Kim Dong-Jin (South Korea)

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Esteghlal	1–0	Buriram United
Heydari 2'	Report

21 August 2013

20:15 UTC+4:30

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 95,300

Referee: Abdulrahman Abdou (Qatar)

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Al-Ahli	1–1	FC Seoul
Al-Sawadi 81'	Report	Damjanović 10'

21 August 2013

21:00 UTC+3

King Abdul Aziz Stadium, Makkah

Attendance: 25,012

Referee: Abdullah Balideh (Qatar)

Second leg

FC Seoul	1–0	Al-Ahli
Damjanović 90'	Report

18 September 2013

19:30 UTC+9

Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul

Attendance: 18,094

Referee: Masaaki Toma (Japan)

FC Seoul won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Buriram United	1–2	Esteghlal
Osmar 38'	Report	Omranzadeh 53' Teymourian 90+2'

18 September 2013

18:00 UTC+7

New I-Mobile Stadium, Buriram

Attendance: 19,006

Referee: Ryuji Sato (Japan)

Esteghlal won 3–1 on aggregate.

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Lekhwiya	1–4	Guangzhou Evergrande
Zhang Linpeng 51' (o.g.)	Report	Conca 14' Elkeson 16', 77' Muriqui 31'

18 September 2013

18:15 UTC+3

Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 3,251

Referee: Mohamed Al Zarouni (United Arab Emirates)

Guangzhou Evergrande won 6–1 on aggregate.

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Al-Shabab	2–2	Kashiwa Reysol
Hazazi 10' Fallatah 85'	Report	Kwak Tae-Hwi 13' (o.g.) Kondo 73'

18 September 2013

20:15 UTC+3

King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh

Attendance: 6,830

Referee: Nawaf Shukralla (Bahrain)

3–3 on aggregate. Kashiwa Reysol won on away goals.

Semi-finals

The first legs were played on 25 September 2013, and the second legs were played on 2 October 2013.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
FC Seoul	4–2	Esteghlal	2–0	2–2
Kashiwa Reysol	1–8	Guangzhou Evergrande	1–4	0–4

First leg

Kashiwa Reysol	1–4	Guangzhou Evergrande
Wagner 10'	Report	Muriqui 58', 90+1' Conca 67', 82'

25 September 2013

19:00 UTC+9

Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium, Kashiwa

Attendance: 11,932

Referee: Valentin Kovalenko (Uzbekistan)

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FC Seoul	2–0	Esteghlal
Damjanović 39' Go Yo-Han 47'	Report

25 September 2013

19:30 UTC+9

Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul

Attendance: 12,774

Referee: Ben Williams (Australia)

Second leg

Guangzhou Evergrande	4–0	Kashiwa Reysol
Elkeson 16' Conca 57' Muriqui 79', 87'	Report

2 October 2013

20:00 UTC+8

Tianhe Stadium, Guangzhou

Attendance: 41,000

Referee: Abdulrahman Abdou (Qatar)

Guangzhou Evergrande won 8–1 on aggregate.

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Esteghlal	2–2	FC Seoul
Samuel 50' Ghazi 75'	Report	Ha Dae-Sung 37' Kim Jin-Kyu 80' (pen.)

2 October 2013

19:00 UTC+3:30

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 88,330

Referee: Khalil Al Ghamdi (Saudi Arabia)

FC Seoul won 4–2 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 2013 AFC Champions League Final

The first leg was played on 26 October 2013, and the second leg was played on 9 November 2013.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
FC Seoul	3–3 (a)	Guangzhou Evergrande	2–2	1–1

FC Seoul	2–2	Guangzhou Evergrande
Escudero 11' Damjanović 83'	Report	Elkeson 30' Gao Lin 58'

26 October 2013

19:30 UTC+9

Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul

Attendance: 55,501

Referee: Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)

Guangzhou Evergrande	1–1	FC Seoul
Elkeson 58'	Report	Damjanović 63'

9 November 2013

20:00 UTC+8

Tianhe Stadium, Guangzhou

Attendance: 55,847

Referee: Nawaf Shukralla (Bahrain)

3–3 on aggregate. Guangzhou Evergrande won on away goals.

References

1. "AFC Champions League 2013 Competition Regulations". AFC. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-03-02.
2. "AFC Calendar of Competitions 2013" (PDF). AFC.
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5. "El Jaish hold Ahli, Al Gharafa lose". Doha Stadium Plus. 15 May 2013. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
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External links

• AFC Champions League