Al Ain FC in international football

Al Ain FC is an Emirati football club in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates that competes in the UAE Pro League, it has contested in various international competitions and has won two titles so far. It has made the most appearances in the AFC Champions League out any other team in the United Arab Emirates and is by far the only team in the UAE to win a Champions League title after winning the 2003 Asian CL Final.

Al Ain FC in international football competitions

Club	Al Ain FC
Most appearances	Omar Abdulrahman (61)
Top scorer	Omar Abdulrahman (19)
First entry	1995 Asian Cup Winners' Cup
Latest entry	2020 AFC Champions League
Titles
Champions League	1 2003
GCC Champions League	1 2001

History

Al Ain first contested in the 1995 Asian Cup Winners' Cup were they lost to Kazma SC 1–6 on aggregate. Al Ain won their first international title in the 2001 GCC Champions League after finishing first in a round-robin tournament, however only two years later Al Ain would win its first major international title after beating BEC Tero Sasana 2–1 on aggregate, Al Ain became the first Emirati team to win the Asian Cup and is by far the only UAE side to do so in present time. Al Ain would qualify for the final of the ACL twice only to lose both finals. Al Ain also qualified for the 2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final were they lost to Real Madrid CF 1–4.

International competitions

Asian Cup Winners' Cup

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1995	Second round	Kazma	1–4	0–2	1–6
1999–2000	First round	Al-Jaish	1–2	1–0	2–2 (a)
2001–2002	Second round	Al-Wehdat	2–0	1–2	3–2
	Quarter-Finals	Al-Sadd	2–1	0–1	2–2 (a)

Asian Club Championship

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1998–99	First round	Oman	5–2	2–0	7–2
	Second round	Al-Ansar	3–1	0–1	3–2
	Group Stage	Köpetdag Aşgabat	6–1		1st
		Esteghlal	0–1
		Al-Hilal	1–0
	Semi-Finals	Júbilo Iwata	2–2 (p) (2–4)
	Third place match	Dalian Shide	3–2
2000–01	First round	Al-Zawraa	4–0	1–2	5–2
	Second round	Persepolis	2–2 (a.e.t.)	0–2	2–4

AFC Champions League

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2003	Group Stage	Al-Hilal	1–0		1st
		Al-Sadd	2–0
		Esteghlal	3–1
	Semi-Finals	Dalian Shide	4–2	3–4	7–6
	Final	BEC Tero Sasana	2–0	0–1	2–1
2004	Quarter-Finals	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	0–1	1–4	1–5
2005	Group Stage	Al-Wahda	3–0	3–2	1st
		Sepahan	3–2	1–1
		Al-Shabab	3–0	0–1
	Quarter-Finals	PAS Tehran	1–1	3–3	4–4 (a)
	Semi-Finals	Shenzhen	6–0	0–0	6–0
	Final	Al-Ittihad	1–1	2–4	3–5
2006	Group Stage	Al-Hilal	2–0	1–2	1st
		Mash'al	2–1	1–1
		Al-Minaa	2–1	2–1
	Quarter-Finals	Al-Qadsia	2–2	0–3	2–5
2007	Group Stage	Al-Shabab	0–2	0–2	3rd
		Al-Ittihad	1–1	0–0
		Sepahan	3–2	1–1
2010	Group Stage	Pakhtakor	0–1	2–3	4th
		Sepahan	2–0	0–0
		Al-Shabab	2–1	2–3
2011	Play off round	Sriwijaya	4–0
	Group Stage	FC Seoul	0–1	0–3	3rd
		Hangzhou Greentown	1–0	0–0
		Nagoya Grampus	3–1	0–4
2013	Group Stage	Al-Hilal	3–1	0–2	3rd
		Esteghlal	0–1	0–2
		Al-Rayyan	2–1	1–2
2014	Group Stage	Lekhwiya	2–1	5–0	1st
		Al-Ittihad	1–1	1–2
		Tractor Sazi	3–1	2–2
	Round of 16	Al-Jazira	2–1	2–1	4–2
	Quarter-Finals	Al-Ittihad	2–0	3–1	5–1
	Semi-Finals	Al-Hilal	2–1	0–3	2–4
2015	Group Stage	Al-Shabab	0–0	1–0	1st
		Naft Tehran	3–0	1–1
		Pakhtakor	1–1	1–0
	Round of 16	Al-Ahli	3–3	0–0	3–3 (a)
2016	Group Stage	El-Jaish	1–2	1–2	2nd
		Al-Ahli	1–0	2–1
		Nasaf Qarshi	2–0	1–1
	Round of 16	Zob Ahan	1–1	2–0	3–1
	Quarter-Finals	Lokomotiv Tashkent	0–0	1–0	1–0
	Semi-Finals	El-Jaish	3–1	2–2	5–3
	Final	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	1–1	1–2	2–3
2017	Group Stage	Zob Ahan	1–1	3–0	1st
		Bunyodkor	3–0	3–2
		Al-Ahli	2–2	2–2
	Round of 16	Esteghlal	6–1	0–1	6–2
	Quarter-Finals	Al-Hilal	0–0	0–3	0–3
2018	Play off round	Malkiya	2–0
	Group Stage	Al-Hilal	2–1	0–0	2nd
		Al-Rayyan	1–1	4–1
		Esteghlal	2–2	1–1
	Round of 16	Al-Duhail	2–4	1–4	3–8
2019	Group Stage	Al-Hilal	0–1	0–2	4th
		Esteghlal	1–2	1–1
		Al-Duhail	0–2	2–2
2020	Play off round	Bunyodkor	1–0
	Group Stage	Sepahan	0–4	0–0	4th
		Al-Nassr	1–2	1–0
		Al-Sadd	3–3	0–4

GCC Champions League

Season	Round	Club	Result
2001[1]	Round robin	Al-Riffa	2–1
		Al-Salmiya	2–1
		Al-Gharafa	1–0
		Dhofar	1–0
		Al-Ittihad	0–2

Arab Club Champions Cup

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2018–19	First round	ES Sétif	1–2	1–0	2–2 (a)

FIFA Club World Cup

Season	Round	Club	Result
2018	First round	Team Wellington	3–3 (p) (4–3)
	Second round	Espérance de Tunis	3–0
	Semi-Finals	River Plate	2–2 (p) (5–4)
	Final	Real Madrid	1–4

Statistics

Overall record

Asia
Competition	Seasons	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals For	Goals Against
Champions League	17	133	55	38	40	207	170
Cup Winners' Cup	3	6	2	0	4	8	12
GCC Champions League	1	5	4	0	1	6	4
Total	21	144	61	38	45	221	186

Worldwide
Competition	Seasons	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals For	Goals Against
Arab Champions League	1	2	1	0	1	2	2
FIFA Club World Cup	1	4	1	2	1	9	9
Total	2	6	2	2	2	11	11

ACL goals

Since 2002–03 AFC Champions League
Statistics correct as of game against Sepahan on September 21, 2020

P	Player	TOTAL
1	Omar Abdulrahman	19
2	Asamoah Gyan	18
3	Marcus Berg	8
4	Boubacar Sanogo	7
	Ibrahim Diaky
6	Nenad Jestrović	6
	Caio
8	Mohamed Abdulrahman	5
	Douglas
	Danilo Asprilla

FCWC goals

Statistics correct as of game against Real Madrid on December 22, 2018

P	Player	TOTAL
1	Marcus Berg	2
	Tsukasa Shiotani
3	Mohamed Ahmed	1
	Bandar Al-Ahbabi
	Tongo Doumbia
	Hussein El Shahat

Record by country

Country	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Algeria	ES Sétif	2	1	0	1	2	2	0
Subtotal		2	1	0	1	2	2	0
Argentina	River Plate	1	0	1	0	2	2	0
Subtotal		1	0	1	0	2	2	0
Bahrain	Al-Riffa	1	1	0	0	2	1	+1
	Malkiya	1	1	0	0	2	0	+2
Subtotal		2	2	0	0	4	1	+3
China	Dalian Shide	3	2	0	1	10	8	+2
	Shenzhen	2	1	1	0	6	0	+6
	Z.E. Greentown	2	1	1	0	1	0	+1
Subtotal		7	4	2	1	17	8	+9
Indonesia	Sriwijaya	1	1	0	0	4	0	+4
Subtotal		1	1	0	0	4	0	+4
Iran	Esteghlal	10	2	3	5	15	13	+2
	Naft Tehran	2	1	1	0	4	1	+3
	PAS Tehran	2	0	2	0	4	4	0
	Persepolis	2	0	1	1	2	4	–2
	Sepahan	8	3	4	1	10	10	0
	Tractor Sazi	2	1	1	0	5	3	+2
	Zob Ahan	4	2	2	0	7	2	+5
Subtotal		30	9	14	7	46	37	+9
Iraq	Al-Zawraa	2	1	0	1	5	2	+3
	Al-Minaa	2	2	0	0	4	2	+2
Subtotal		2	3	0	1	9	4	+5
Japan	Júbilo Iwata	1	0	1	0	2	2	0
	Nagoya Grampus	2	1	0	1	3	5	–2
Subtotal		3	1	1	1	5	7	–2
Jordan	Al-Wehdat	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1
Subtotal		2	1	0	1	3	2	+1
Kuwait	Al-Qadsia	2	0	1	1	2	5	−3
	Kazma	2	0	0	2	1	6	−5
Subtotal		4	0	1	3	3	11	−8
Lebanon	Al-Ansar	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1
Subtotal		2	1	0	1	3	2	+1
New Zealand	Team Wellington	1	0	1	0	3	3	0
Subtotal		1	0	1	0	3	3	0
Oman	Dhofar	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1
	Oman	2	2	0	0	7	2	+5
Subtotal		3	3	0	0	8	2	+6
Qatar	Al-Duhail	6	2	1	3	12	13	–1
	Al-Gharafa	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1
	Al-Rayyan	4	2	1	1	8	5	0
	Al-Sadd	5	2	1	2	7	9	–2
	El-Jaish	4	1	1	2	7	7	0
Subtotal		20	9	4	8	35	36	–1
Saudi Arabia	Al-Ahli	4	2	2	0	7	5	+2
	Al-Hilal	14	6	2	6	12	16	–4
	Al-Ittihad	7	2	2	3	10	11	–1
	Al-Nassr	2	1	0	1	2	2	0
	Al-Shabab	8	3	1	4	8	9	–1
Subtotal		35	14	7	14	39	43	–4
South Korea	FC Seoul	2	0	0	2	0	4	–4
	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	4	0	1	3	3	8	–5
Subtotal		6	0	1	5	2	12	–10
Spain	Real Madrid	1	0	0	1	1	4	–3
Subtotal		1	0	0	1	1	4	–3
Syria	Al-Ittihad	2	0	2	0	1	1	0
	Al-Jaish	2	1	0	1	2	2	0
	Al-Wahda	2	2	0	0	6	2	+4
Subtotal		6	3	2	1	9	5	+4
Thailand	Police Tero	2	1	0	1	2	1	+1
Subtotal		2	1	0	1	2	1	+1
Tunisia	Espérance de Tunis	1	1	0	0	3	0	+3
Subtotal		1	1	0	0	3	0	+3
Turkmenistan	Köpetdag Aşgabat	1	1	0	0	6	1	+5
Subtotal		1	1	0	0	6	1	+5
United Arab Emirates	Al-Jazira	2	2	0	0	4	2	+2
	Shabab Al-Ahli	2	0	2	0	3	3	0
Subtotal		4	2	2	0	7	5	+2
Uzbekistan	Bunyodkor	3	3	0	0	7	2	+5
	Lokomotiv Tashkent	2	1	1	0	1	0	+1
	Mash'al	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1
	Nasaf	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2
	Pakhtakor	4	1	1	2	4	5	–1
Subtotal		13	7	4	2	18	10	+8
Total		150	62	40	49	232	194	+38

References

1. "Gulf Cup for Clubs 2001". rsssf.com.

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