2013 AFC Champions League group stage

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 6 December 2012, 16:00 UTC+8, at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four. Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.

The following 32 teams (16 from West Zone, 16 from East Zone) were entered into the group-stage draw, which included the 29 automatic qualifiers and the three qualifying play-off winners, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw: ;West Zone (Groups A–D)

• KSA Al-Shabab
• KSA Al-Ahli
• KSA Al-Hilal
• KSA Al-Ettifaq
• QAT Lekhwiya
• QAT Al-Gharafa
• QAT El Jaish
• QAT Al-Rayyan
• IRN Sepahan
• IRN Esteghlal
• IRN Tractor Sazi
• UAE Al-Ain
• UAE Al-Jazira
• UZB Pakhtakor
• Winner of play-off West 1: UAE Al-Shabab Al-Arabi
• Winner of play-off West 2: UAE Al-Nasr ;East Zone (Groups E–H)
• JPN Sanfrecce Hiroshima
• JPN Kashiwa Reysol
• JPN Vegalta Sendai
• JPN Urawa Red Diamonds
• KOR FC Seoul
• KOR Pohang Steelers
• KOR Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
• KOR Suwon Samsung Bluewings
• CHN Guangzhou Evergrande
• CHN Jiangsu Sainty
• CHN Beijing Guoan
• CHN Guizhou Renhe
• UZB Bunyodkor
• AUS Central Coast Mariners
• THA Muangthong United
• Winner of play-off East: THA Buriram United

Format

In the group stage, each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the round of 16.

Tiebreakers

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

1. Greater number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned
2. Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned
3. Greater number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned (away goals do not apply)
4. Goal difference in all the group matches
5. Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches
6. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are involved and they are both on the field of play
7. Fewer score calculated according to the number of yellow and red cards received in the group matches (1 point for a single yellow card, 3 points for a red card as a consequence of two yellow cards, 3 points for a direct red card, 4 points for a yellow card followed by a direct red card)
8. Drawing of lots

Groups

The matchdays were 26–27 February, 12–13 March, 2–3 April, 9–10 April, 23–24 April, and 30 April–1 May 2013.

Group A

Kazemian Ebrahimzadeh Al-Ghamdi

Adriano Seyed-Salehi Geílson

Yousef

Khater

Al-Sulaitin Bakur Go Seul-Ki

Group B

;Tiebreakers

• Al-Ettifaq are ranked ahead of Pakhtakor on head-to-head record.

Msakni

Soria

Traoré Msakni Al-Shehri Al-Salem

Ciel Edgar Al-Jamaan

Muftah Makharadze

Group C

Ebrahimi Victor Simões

Siddiq

Correa Shami Nenê Quaye Talebi Bruno César Al Hosni

Nenê Al Shammari Bruno César Al-Khamees

Cissé Palomino Gholami

Gholami Khalatbari Al-Jassim Malullah

Group D

Brosque Gyan Omranzadeh Nilmar Borhani Nekounam

Majidi Al-Shalhoub

Brosque Borhani

Al-Marri

Beikzadeh Borhani Wesley

Al-Harthi

Group E

;Tiebreakers

• Buriram United and Jiangsu Sainty are tied on head-to-head record, and so are ranked by overall goal difference. Yun Il-Lok Molina

Kim Jin-Kyu Sun Ke

Charyl

Yun Il-Lok

Kim Hyun-Sung Theeraton Salihi

Group F

;Tiebreakers

• Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors are ranked ahead of Urawa Red Diamonds on head-to-head record.

Muriqui Suzuki Kim Yoo-Jin Oris

Sekiguchi Haraguchi Thritthi

Lee Dong-Gook Eninho Muriqui Gao Lin

Seo Sang-Min Umesaki Zheng Zhi Feng Xiaoting

Park Hee-Do Abe Márcio Richardes Muriqui

Group G

Musaev

Piao Cheng Murzoev Lee Gwang-Hoon

Shao Jiayi

Group H

Kano

Sainsbury Ristić Kurisawa Kudo

Qu Bo

Cléo Leandro Domingues Zhang Chenglin Kwon Chang-Hoon

References

References

1. "AFC Champions League 2013 Competition Regulations". AFC.
2. (6 December 2012). "ACL 2013 – Group Stage Draw". AFC.
3. "AFC Calendar of Competitions 2013". AFC.