2023 Arab Club Champions Cup final

2023 Arab Club Champions Cup Final
Event	2023 Arab Club Champions Cup
	After extra time
Date	12 August 2023
Venue	King Fahd Stadium, Taif
Man of the Match	Sergej Milinković-Savić (Al-Hilal)
Referee	Redouane Jiyed (Morocco)
Weather	Partly cloudy; 33 °C (91 °F)
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The 2023 Arab Club Champions Cup Final was the final match of the 2023 Arab Club Champions Cup, the 30th season of the Arab League's main club football tournament organised by UAFA, and the 3rd season since it was renamed from the Arab Club Championship to the Arab Club Champions Cup. It was played at the King Fahd Stadium in Taif. ^[1] Al-Nassr beat Al-Hilal 2–1 after extra time to earn their first Arab Club Champions Cup title.^[2]

Teams

Team	Previous finals appearances (bold indicates winners)
Al-Hilal	4 (1989, 1994, 1995, 2018–19)
Al-Nassr	None

Route to the final

Both clubs entered the Arab Club Champions Cup at the group stage of the competition with the draw made on 6 March 2023. Al-Hilal was drawn in group B while Al-Nassr was drawn in group C.

Al-Hilal		Round	Al-Nassr
Opponent	Agg.		Opponent	Agg.
Al Ahli Tripoli	0–0	Group stage	Al-Shabab	0–0
Al-Sadd	2–3		US Monastir	4–1
Wydad AC	2–1		Zamalek	1–1
Ittihad Jeddah	3–1	Quarter-finals	Raja CA	3–1
Al-Shabab	3–1	Semi-finals	Al-Shorta	1–0

Match

Details

12 August 2023

18:00 AST (UTC+3)

Al-Hilal	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Al-Nassr
Michael 51'	Report	Ronaldo 74', 98'

King Fahd Stadium, Taif

Referee: Redouane Jiyed (Morocco)

Al-Hilal

Al-Nassr


GK	21	Mohammed Al-Owais
RB	66	Saud Abdulhamid
CB	3	Kalidou Koulibaly	43'	83'
CB	5	Ali Al-Bulaihi	43'
LB	12	Yasser Al-Shahrani		83'
DM	8	Rúben Neves		105+1'
CM	28	Mohamed Kanno		105+2'
CM	22	Sergej Milinković-Savić
RW	77	Malcom		105+1'
LW	29	Salem Al-Dawsari (c)
CF	96	Michael		90'
Substitutes:
GK	31	Habib Al-Wotayan
DF	2	Mohammed Al-Breik		83'
DF	67	Mohammed Al-Khaibari
DF	70	Mohammed Jahfali		83'
DF	88	Hamad Al-Yami
MF	16	Nasser Al-Dawsari
MF	19	André Carrillo		105+1'
MF	43	Musab Al-Juwayr		105+2'
MF	44	Saad Al-Nasser
MF	56	Mohammed Al-Qahtani
FW	14	Abdullah Al-Hamdan		90'
FW	49	Abdullah Radif		105+1'
Manager:
Jorge Jesus


GK	44	Nawaf Al-Aqidi
RB	2	Sultan Al-Ghannam	43'
CB	78	Ali Lajami		79'
CB	5	Abdulelah Al-Amri	71'
LB	15	Alex Telles
DM	77	Marcelo Brozović	32'	120+2'
DM	17	Abdullah Al-Khaibari		80'
CM	6	Seko Fofana
RF	94	Talisca		90'
CF	7	Cristiano Ronaldo (c)		115'
LF	10	Sadio Mané	48'	120'
Substitutes:
GK	1	Amin Bukhari
DF	4	Mohammed Al-Fatil		79'
DF	12	Nawaf Boushal	78'
DF	13	Ghislain Konan	110'	80'
MF	8	Abdulmajeed Al-Sulaiheem	118'	120+2'
MF	11	Khalid Al-Ghannam
MF	14	Sami Al-Najei
MF	19	Ali Al-Hassan		115'
MF	21	Mukhtar Ali
MF	29	Abdulrahman Ghareeb		90'
MF	46	Abdulaziz Al-Elewai		120'
FW	18	Abdulfattah Adam
Manager:
Luís Castro			77' 102'

Assistant referees:
Lahcen Azgaou (Morocco)
Mustapha Akerkad (Morocco)
Fourth official:
Mahmoud El Banna (Egypt)
Video assistant referee:
Samir Guezzaz (Morocco)
Assistant video assistant referee:
Mokrane Gourari (Algeria)

Match rules

90 minutes
30 minutes of extra time if necessary.
Penalty shoot-out if scores still level
Twelve named substitutes
Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time.^{[note 1]}

Notes

^ Each team was given only three opportunities to make substitutions, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time.

References

^ "أنظار الجميع تتجه صوب محافظة الطائف.. غداً ..النصر والهلال السعوديان يلتقيان في نهائي كأس الملك سلمان للأندية" [Everyone's attention is directed towards Taif Governorate .. Tomorrow .. Al-Nasr and Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia will meet in the final of the King Salman Club Cup]. uafa-ac.com (in Arabic). UAFA. 11 August 2023. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
^ "Cristiano Ronaldo at the double as Al Nassr beat Al Hilal in King Salman Club Cup final". thenationalnews.com. The National News. 12 August 2023. Retrieved 13 August 2023.

External links

Official website (in Arabic)

[3] Each team was given only three opportunities to make substitutions, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time.

[venue-1] "أنظار الجميع تتجه صوب محافظة الطائف.. غداً ..النصر والهلال السعوديان يلتقيان في نهائي كأس الملك سلمان للأندية" [Everyone's attention is directed towards Taif Governorate .. Tomorrow .. Al-Nasr and Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia will meet in the final of the King Salman Club Cup]. uafa-ac.com (in Arabic). UAFA. 11 August 2023. Retrieved 12 August 2023.

[2] "Cristiano Ronaldo at the double as Al Nassr beat Al Hilal in King Salman Club Cup final". thenationalnews.com. The National News. 12 August 2023. Retrieved 13 August 2023.