# 2010 AFC Champions League final

The 2010 AFC Champions League Final was a football match which was played on Saturday, 13 November 2010. It was the 29th final of the AFC Champions League, Asia's premier club football tournament. The match was played at the National Stadium in Tokyo and was contested by Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma of South Korea and Zob Ahan from Iran. For Seongnam this was the fourth appearance in the final of the main AFC tournament, after two consecutive Asian Club Championship finals in 1996 and 1997 and AFC Champions League final in 2004, with one trophy been won in 1996. Zob Ahan was a debutant of the final stage.
The winners entered the quarterfinals of the 2010 FIFA Club World Cup.
Seongnam won 3–1 to clinch the title.

## Qualified teams

| Team | Previous finals appearances (bold indicates winners) |
| Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma | 1995, 1997, 2004 |
| Zob Ahan | None |

## Road to Tokyo

| Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma | Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma | Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma | Round | Zob Ahan | Zob Ahan | Zob Ahan |
| Main article: 2010 AFC Champions League group stage: Group E Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 6501116+515 Beijing Guoan 631275+210 Kawasaki Frontale 62048806 Melbourne Victory 6114310−74 | Main article: 2010 AFC Champions League group stage: Group E Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 6501116+515 Beijing Guoan 631275+210 Kawasaki Frontale 62048806 Melbourne Victory 6114310−74 | Main article: 2010 AFC Champions League group stage: Group E Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 6501116+515 Beijing Guoan 631275+210 Kawasaki Frontale 62048806 Melbourne Victory 6114310−74 | Group stage | Main article: 2010 AFC Champions League group stage: Group B Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Zob Ahan 641183+513 Bunyodkor 6312107+310 Al-Ittihad 622297+28 Al-Wahda 6105313−103 | Main article: 2010 AFC Champions League group stage: Group B Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Zob Ahan 641183+513 Bunyodkor 6312107+310 Al-Ittihad 622297+28 Al-Wahda 6105313−103 | Main article: 2010 AFC Champions League group stage: Group B Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Zob Ahan 641183+513 Bunyodkor 6312107+310 Al-Ittihad 622297+28 Al-Wahda 6105313−103 |
| Opponent | Result | Legs | Knockout stage | Opponent | Result | Legs |
| Gamba Osaka | 3–0 | One-leg match played | Round of 16 | Mes Kerman | 1–0 | One-leg match played |
| Suwon Samsung Bluewings | 4–3 | 4–1 home; 0–2 away | Quarterfinals | Pohang Steelers | 3–2 | 2–1 home; 1–1 away |
| Al-Shabab | 4–4 (a) | 1–0 home; 3–4 away | Semifinals | Al-Hilal | 2–0 | 1–0 home; 1–0 away |

## Match details

| Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma | Zob Ahan |
| GK | 1 | Jung Sung-ryong |
| CB | 24 | Kim Tae-yoon |
| CB | 5 | Cho Byung-kuk |
| CB | 4 | Saša Ognenovski (c) |
| RM | 2 | Ko Jae-sung |
| CM | 16 | Kim Sung-hwan |
| CM | 17 | Kim Cheol-ho |
| LM | 14 | Song Ho-young | | 80' |
| AM | 30 | Jo Jae-cheol | 71' |
| AM | 11 | Mauricio Molina |
| CF | 9 | Cho Dong-geon | | 88' |
| Substitutes ||
| DF | 3 | Yun Young-sun |
| DF | 13 | Jeong Ho-jeong |
| FW | 18 | Namkung Do | | 88' |
| FW | 20 | Kim Jin-yong | | 80' |
| FW | 28 | Moon Dae-seong |
| DF | 38 | Yong Hyun-jin |
| GK | 41 | Kang Sung-kwan |
| Manager ||
| Shin Tae-yong ||
| GK | 1 | Shahab Gordan |
| RB | 2 | Mohammad Hosseini |
| CB | 3 | Mohamad Ali Ahmadi | 81' |
| CB | 4 | Farshid Talebi |
| LB | 25 | Hossein Mahini | 69' |
| CM | 14 | Ghasem Hadadifar (c) |
| CM | 19 | Mohammad Ghazi | 90' |
| CM | 15 | Igor Castro | | 87' |
| RF | 31 | Shahin Kheiri | | 56' |
| CF | 30 | Mehdi Rajabzadeh | | 69' |
| LF | 9 | Mohammad Reza Khalatbari |
| Substitutes ||
| DF | 5 | Mohammad Salsali | | 87' |
| FW | 10 | Esmail Farhadi | | 69' |
| GK | 12 | Abbas Ghasemi |
| MF | 17 | Sina Ashouri | 86' | 56' |
| DF | 23 | Ahmad Mohammadpour |
| MF | 24 | Alireza Hadadifar |
| FW | 32 | Jalal Rafkhaei |
| Manager ||
| Mansour Ebrahimzadeh ||
* AFC Man of the Match:
* Saša Ognenovski (Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma)
* Association referees:
* Toru Sagara (Japan)
* Toshiyuki Nagi (Japan)
* Fourth official:
* Hiroyoshi Takayama (Japan)