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2007 AFC Champions League final

The 2007 AFC Champions League final was a two-legged association football tie to determine the 2007 champions of Asian club football. Urawa Red Diamonds from Japan defeated Iran's Sepahan 3-1 on aggregate to take the title. The first leg took place on 7 November 2007 at 16:00 local time (UTC+3:30) at Foolad Shahr Stadium in Fooladshahr, Isfahan in Iran and the second leg took place on 14 November 2007 at 19:20 local time (UTC+9) at Saitama Stadium, Saitama, Japan.

This was the first final to feature clubs from Iran and Japan. This was the first AFC Champions League final involving an Iranian club, and the first in an Asian top club football competition since PAS Tehran in the 1992–93 Asian Club Championship. The winners, Urawa Red Diamonds, received US$600,000 prize money and qualified to represent Asia in the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup. Although they were defeated, Sepahan still competed in the FIFA Club World Cup by replacing the normal host country berth, which is reserved for the J. League champions.

Format

The rules for the final were exactly the same as for the previous knockout rounds. The tie was contested over two legs with away goals deciding the winner if the two teams were level on goals after the second leg. If the teams could still not be separated at that stage then extra time would have been played with a penalty shootout taking place if the teams were still level after that.

Route to the final

Sepahan

Opponents	Round	H/A	Score1	Sepahan goalscorers
SYR Al Ittihad	Group Stage	H	2–1	Mehdi Seyed-Salehi(2)
KSA Al Shabab	Group Stage	A	1–0	Mehdi Seyed-Salehi
UAE Al Ain	Group Stage	A	2–3	Mehdi Seyed-Salehi, Emad Mohammed
UAE Al Ain	Group Stage	H	1–1	Hossein Papi
SYR Al Ittihad	Group Stage	A	5–0	Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail, Mohammad Nouri(2), Emad Mohammed(2)
KSA Al Shabab	Group Stage	H	1–0	Mehdi Seyed-Salehi
JPN Kawasaki Frontale	Quarter Final, Leg 1	H	0–0
JPN Kawasaki Frontale	Quarter Final, Leg 2	A	0–0(p5–4)
UAE Al Wahda	Semi Final, Leg 1	H	3–1	Mahmoud Karimi(2), Moharram Navidkia
UAE Al Wahda	Semi Final, Leg 2	A	0–0

1Sepahan's goals always recorded first.

Urawa Red Diamonds

Opponents	Round	H/A	Score1	Urawa Reds goalscorers
IDN Persik Kediri	Group Stage	H	3–0	Yamada, Nagai, Ono
AUS Sydney FC	Group Stage	A	2–2	Ponte, Nagai
CHN Shanghai Shenhua	Group Stage	H	1–0	Abe
CHN Shanghai Shenhua	Group Stage	A	0–0
IDN Persik Kediri	Group Stage	A	3–3	Ono, Ponte, Abe
AUS Sydney FC	Group Stage	H	0–0
KOR Jeonbuk Motors	Quarter Final, Leg 1	H	2–1	Hasebe, Tatsuya Tanaka
KOR Jeonbuk Motors	Quarter Final, Leg 2	A	2–0	Tatsuya Tanaka, Own Goal
KOR Seongnam Ilhwa	Semi Final, Leg 1	A	2–2	Tatsuya Tanaka, Ponte
KOR Seongnam Ilhwa	Semi Final, Leg 2	H	2–2(p5–3)	Washington, Hasebe

1Urawa Red Diamonds' goals always recorded first.

Final summary

First leg

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CRO Luka Bonačić

GER Holger Osieck

Second leg

Yuki Abe

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GER Holger Osieck

CRO Luka Bonačić

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