2003 Arab Unified Club Championship

2003 Prince Faisal bin Fahd Tournament for Arab Clubs

بطولة الاندية العربية الموحدة 2003 بطولة الأمير فيصل بن فهد للأندية العربية 2003
Tournament details
Host country	Egypt
Dates	6 – 20 July 2003
Teams	10 (from 1 association)
Final positions
Champions	Zamalek (1st title)
Runners-up	Kuwait SC
Tournament statistics
Matches played	23
Goals scored	72 (3.13 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Somália (4 goals)
Best player(s)	Besheer El-Tabei
Best goalkeeper	Dhafer Al-Bishi
← 2002 2003–04 →

2003 Arab Unified Club Championship, officially named the 2003 Prince Faisal bin Fahd Tournament for Arab Clubs, was the 19th UAFA Club Cup, and the 2nd since the Arab Club Champions Cup and Arab Cup Winners' Cup were unified. The tournament began on 6 July and concluded on 20 July 2003, the matches took place in Cairo Stadium in Cairo, Egypt, Zamalek won the tournament and earning their first UAFA Club Cup title.

Preliminary stage

Main article: 2003 Arab Unified Club Championship preliminary stage

Group stage

The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. Each group was played on one leg basis. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the semi-finals.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al-Ettifaq	4	3	1	0	10	4	+6	10
Raja Casablanca	4	2	1	1	6	6	0	7
ENPPI	4	1	1	2	4	5	−1	4
Riffa	4	1	1	2	4	6	−2	4
Al-Faisaly	4	0	2	2	5	8	−3	2

Source:

7 July 2003

ENPPI	0 – 1	Riffa
		Al-Khuzami File:Soccerball shade.svg 54'

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7 July 2003

Al-Ettifaq	4 – 4	Al-Faisaly
Suarez File:Soccerball shade.svg 33' Al-Meghnam File:Soccerball shade.svg 48' Adelson File:Soccerball shade.svg 54', 85' (pen.)		Al-Sheikh File:Soccerball shade.svg 7', 79' Al-Shabool File:Soccerball shade.svg 12' Saleem File:Soccerball shade.svg 59'

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9 July 2003

Riffa	0 – 0	Al-Faisaly

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9 July 2003

ENPPI	1 – 1	Raja Casablanca
Zaki File:Soccerball shade.svg 13'		Kouni File:Soccerball shade.svg 77'

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11 July 2003

Al-Faisaly	0 – 1	Raja Casablanca
		Hirouach File:Soccerball shade.svg 42'

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11 July 2003

Al-Ettifaq	2 – 0	Riffa
Basheer File:Soccerball shade.svg 2' Al-Basha File:Soccerball shade.svg 82'

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14 July 2003

Al-Ettifaq	2 – 0	Raja Casablanca
Junior File:Soccerball shade.svg 4' Basheer File:Soccerball shade.svg 17'

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14 July 2003

ENPPI	3 – 1	Al-Faisaly
Hassan File:Soccerball shade.svg 20' Zaki File:Soccerball shade.svg 28' Thabet File:Soccerball shade.svg 45'		Al-Shabool File:Soccerball shade.svg 19'

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16 July 2003

Riffa	3 – 4	Raja Casablanca
Baba File:Soccerball shade.svg 4' Essa File:Soccerball shade.svg 42' Yousef File:Soccerball shade.svg 70'		Bidodan File:Soccerball shade.svg 9' Aboucherouane File:Soccerball shade.svg 45', 69' Aboucherouane File:Soccerball shade.svg 83'

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16 July 2003

ENPPI	0 – 2	Al-Ettifaq
		Al-Basha File:Soccerball shade.svg 6' Basheer File:Soccerball shade.svg 44'

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kuwait SC	4	2	2	0	9	5	+4	8	Advance to Semi-finals
2	Zamalek	4	2	1	1	5	5	0	7
3	USM Alger	4	1	3	0	7	4	+3	6
4	Al-Jaish	4	1	0	3	6	10	−4	3
5	Al-Shorta	4	0	2	2	6	9	−3	2

Source:
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

6 July 2003

Zamalek	1 – 0	Al-Jaish
El-Said File:Soccerball shade.svg 71'

Cairo Stadium

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6 July 2003

Al-Shorta	2 – 2	Kuwait SC
Abdulsattar File:Soccerball shade.svg 18' Manajed File:Soccerball shade.svg 60'		Somália File:Soccerball shade.svg 13' Sabinho File:Soccerball shade.svg 87'

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8 July 2003

Al-Jaish	4 – 2	Al-Shorta
Al-Omair File:Soccerball shade.svg 32', 71', 75' Shaabo File:Soccerball shade.svg 90'		Manajed File:Soccerball shade.svg 3' Raheem File:Soccerball shade.svg 26'

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8 July 2003

21:00 UTC+3

Zamalek	1 – 1	USM Alger
El-Said File:Soccerball shade.svg 42' (pen.)		Achiou File:Soccerball shade.svg 15'

El Sekka El Hadid Stadium, Cairo

Referee: Farid Ali (United Arab Emirates)

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10 July 2003

Al-Shorta	1 – 1	USM Alger
Qassem File:Soccerball shade.svg 82'		Dziri File:Soccerball shade.svg 51'

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10 July 2003

Al-Jaish	1 – 3	Kuwait SC
Shaabo File:Soccerball shade.svg 74'		Somália File:Soccerball shade.svg 18', 54' Sabinho File:Soccerball shade.svg 68'

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13 July 2003

USM Alger	1 – 1	Kuwait SC
Achiou File:Soccerball shade.svg 56'		Aqla File:Soccerball shade.svg 53' (pen.)

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13 July 2003

Zamalek	2 – 1	Al-Shorta
Hassan File:Soccerball shade.svg 76' Youssef File:Soccerball shade.svg 78'		Hussein File:Soccerball shade.svg 86'

Cairo Stadium

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15 July 2003

USM Alger	4 – 1	Al-Jaish
Ouichaoui File:Soccerball shade.svg 34' (pen.) Ammour File:Soccerball shade.svg 40' Deghiche File:Soccerball shade.svg 84', 90'		Jabban File:Soccerball shade.svg 60'

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15 July 2003

Zamalek	1 – 3	Kuwait SC
Youssef File:Soccerball shade.svg 45'		Aqla File:Soccerball shade.svg 6' (pen.), ?' (pen.) Al-Etaiqi File:Soccerball shade.svg 47'

Cairo Stadium

Knock-out stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	18 July 2003 - Cairo
	Al-Ettifaq	1
					20 July 2003 - Cairo
	Zamalek	3
					Zamalek	2
	18 July 2003 - Cairo
					Kuwait SC	1
	Kuwait SC	3
	Raja Casablanca	0

Semi-finals

18 July 2003

Al-Ettifaq	1 – 3 (a.e.t.)	Zamalek
Masambe File:Soccerball shade.svg 45'		Youssef File:Soccerball shade.svg 77' Ali File:Soccerball shade.svg 105', 114'

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18 July 2003

Kuwait SC	3 – 0	Raja Casablanca
Al-Taher File:Soccerball shade.svg 28' Cabral File:Soccerball shade.svg ?' Somália File:Soccerball shade.svg 90+2' (pen.)

Final

Main article: 2003 Arab Unified Club Championship Final

20 July 2003

20:00 UTC+2

Zamalek	2 – 1	Kuwait SC
Saleh File:Soccerball shade.svg 23' Mahmoud File:Soccerball shade.svg 58'		Oliveira File:Soccerball shade.svg 88'

Cairo Stadium

Referee: Jasem Al-Hail (Qatar)

Winners

2003 Prince Faisal bin Fahd Tournament for Arab Clubs
Zamalek First title

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Somália	Kuwait SC	4
2	Sameh Youssef	Zamalek	3
	Ahmed Al-Omair	Al-Jaish	3
	Adel Aqla	Kuwait SC	3
	Alessandro Oliveira	Kuwait SC	3
	Hicham Aboucherouane	Raja Casablanca	3
	Saleh Basheer	Al-Ettifaq	3

Prize money

Competition stage	Final position	Prize money (US dollars)
Final	Winner	$50,000
	runner-up	$30,000
semi-final	Semi-finalists	$20,000

References

• Prince Faysal bin Fahad Tournament for Arab Clubs 2003 (2nd tournament) - rsssf.com