Prince Faysal bin Fahad Tournament for Arab Clubs 2003 (2nd tournament)


Preliminary Stage

Qualified as holders: Al-Ahly (Jeddah)
Qualified as hosts: Zamalek and ENBE (Egypt)



Zone 1 (Gulf Area)

- Representatives: Riffa (Bahrain), Kuwait SC (Kuwait), ? (UAE), ? (Oman),
                   ? (Qatar)
- Qatar, UAE and Oman representatives withdrew
- Two teams qualify
- Qualified: Kuwait SC (Kuwait), Riffa (Bahrain)

Zone 2 (Red Sea)

- Representatives: Al-Ittifaq (Saudi Arabia), Al-Sha'ab (Ibb) (Yemen)
- Will be played in Saudi Arabia in May 2003
- No representatives from Egypt, Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan and Comoros Islands
- One team will qualify

First Leg [May 23]
Ittifaq          3-0 Sha'ab (Ibb)

Second Leg [May 25, in Saudi Arabia]
Sha'ab (Ibb)     2-2 Ittifaq

Al-Ittifaq qualified

Zone 3 (North Africa)

- Representatives: Club Africain (Tunisia), Raja Casablanca (Morocco),
                   USM Alger (Algeria)
- No decision was taken for date of the this group yet
- No representative from Libya and Mauritania
- USMA and Raja qualified, presumably Club Africain withdrew

Zone 4 (East Region)

- Representatives: Al-Nijmeh (Lebanon), Al-Aqsa (Jerusalem, Palestine), 
                   Al-Faysali (Jordan), Al-Jaish (Syria)
- Will be played in Jordan, May 21-25
- Al-Shurta (Iraq) admitted without playing qualification
- Two teams qualify

[May 21]
Jaish            2-0 Nijmeh
Faysali          3-0 Aqsa
[May 23]
Aqsa             3-3 Nijmeh
Faysali          2-0 Jaish
[May 25]
Jaish            2-1 Aqsa
Faysali          2-0 Nijmeh

 1.Al-Faysali           3  3  0  0  7- 0  9  Qualified
 2.Al-Jaish             3  2  0  1  4- 3  6  Qualified 
 3.Al-Aqsa              3  0  1  2  4- 8  1
 4.Al-Nijmeh            3  0  1  2  3- 7  1


Final Stage (Cairo, Egypt)

Scheduled for July 6-20, 2003.

Qualified as holders: Al-Ahly (Jeddah) [did not enter]
Qualified as hosts: Zamalek and ENPPI (Egypt)
Qualified from Zone 1: Kuwait SC (Kuwait), Riffa (Bahrain)
Qualified from Zone 2: Al-Ittifaq (Saudi Arabia)
Qualified from Zone 3: USM Alger (Algeria), Raja Casablanca (Morocco)
Qualified from Zone 4: Al-Faysali (Jordan), Al-Jaish (Syria), Al-Shurta (Iraq) 

Group A
[Jul 7]
ENPPI            0-1 Riffa
  [Hamad Al-Khuzami 54]
Ittifaq          4-4 Faysali
  [José Suarez 33, Ibrahim Al-Meghnam 48, Adelson 54, 85pen;
   Hasoona Al-Sheikh 7, 79, Haitham Al-Shabool 12, Muayad Saleem 59]
[Jul 9]
Riffa            0-0 Faysali
ENPPI            1-1 Raja
  [Amr Zaki 13; Yousif Kouni 77]
[Jul 11]
Faysali          0-1 Raja
  [Noureddine Hirouach 42]
Ittifaq          2-0 Riffa
  [Saleh Basheer 2, Yosri Al-Basha 82]
[Jul 14]
Ittifaq          2-0 Raja
  [Oril Junior 4, Saleh Basheer 17]
ENPPI            3-1 Faysali
  [Osama Hassan 20, Amr Zaki 28, Mohammed Thabet 45; Haitham Al-Shabool 19]
[Jul 16]
Riffa            3-4 Raja
  [Hussain Baba 4, Salman Essa 42, Talal Yousef 70; Mostafa Bidodan 9,
   Hicham Birchoudan 45, 69, Hicham Boufarouan 83]
ENPPI            0-2 Ittifaq
  [Yosri Al-Basha 6, Saleh Basheer 44]

 1.Al-Ittifaq           4  3  1  0 10- 4 10
 2.Raja Casablanca      4  2  1  1  6- 6  7
 3.ENPPI                4  1  1  2  4- 5  4
 4.Riffa                4  1  1  2  4- 6  4
 5.Al-Faysali           4  0  2  2  5- 8  2

Group B
[Jul 6]
Zamalek          1-0 Jaish
  [Tareq Al-Saeed 71]
Shurta           2-2 Kuwait
  [Mazen Abdulsattar 18, Ahmed Manajed 60; Somalia 13,
   Anderson de Paulo 'Sabinho' 87]
[Jul 8]
Jaish            4-2 Shurta
  [Ahmed Al-Omair 32, 71, 75, Zeyad Shaabo 90; Ahmed Manajed 3,
   Abbas Raheem 26]
Zamalek          1-1 USMA
  [Tareq Al-Saeed 42pen; Hossein Ichou 15]
[Jul 10]
Shurta           1-1 USMA
  [Adel Qassem 82; Bilal Dziri 51]
Jaish            1-3 Kuwait
  [Zeyad Shaabo 74; Somalia 18, 54, Anderson de Paulo 'Sabinho' 68]
[Jul 13]
USMA             1-1 Kuwait
  [Hosien Achou 56; Adel Aqla 53pen]
Zamalek          2-1 Shurta
  [Hosam Hassan 76, Sameh Yousef 78; Ammar Abdulhussein 86]
[Jul 15]
USMA             4-1 Jaish
  [Mounsif Ouichaoui 34pen, Omar Amour 40, Rafik Dgheich 84, 90;
   Tareq Jabban 60]
Zamalek          1-3 Kuwait
  [Sameh Yousef 45; Adel Aqla 6pen, ?pen, Jarrah Al-Etaiqi 47]

 1.Kuwait SC            4  2  2  0  9- 5  8
 2.Zamalek              4  2  1  1  5- 5  7
 3.USM Alger            4  1  3  0  7- 4  6
 4.Al-Jaish             4  1  0  3  6-10  3
 5.Al-Shurta            4  0  2  2  6- 9  2


Semifinals [Jul 18]
Al-Ittifaq       1-3 Zamalek           [aet]
  [Junior Masambe 45; Sameh Youssouf 77, Abdulhalim Ali 105, 114]
Kuwait SC        3-0 Raja Casablanca
  [Ya’aqoub Al-Taher 28, Fabiano Cabral 2-0, Somalia 90+2pen]

Final [Jul 20]
Zamalek          2-1 Kuwait SC
  [Ahmed Saleh 23, Mahmoud Mahmoud 68; Anderson de Paulo 'Sabinho' 88]
  [Zamalek: Abdel Wahed El-Sayed, Ibrahim Hassan, Mohamed Sedeek,
            Wael El-Quabbani (Mahmoud Mahmoud), Besheer El-Tabei,
            Tarek El-Sayed, Ahmed Saleh (Abdel Halim Ali), Tamer Abdel Hamid,
            Tarek El-Said, Hossam Hassan (Sameh Youssef), Hazem Emam]

overview file

2003 (1st tournament)

2003/04 (Arab Champions League)


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