| Event | 2014 AFC Champions League | ||||||
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| First leg | |||||||
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| Date | 25 October 2014 | ||||||
| Venue | Parramatta Stadium, Sydney | ||||||
| AFC Man of the Match | Salem Al-Dawsari (Al-Hilal)[1] | ||||||
| Fans' Man of the Match | Tomi Juric (Western Sydney Wanderers)[2] | ||||||
| Referee | Alireza Faghani (Iran) | ||||||
| Attendance | 20,053 | ||||||
| Weather | Partly cloudy 22 °C (72 °F) 42% humidity[1] | ||||||
| Second leg | |||||||
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| Date | 1 November 2014 | ||||||
| Venue | King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh | ||||||
| AFC Man of the Match | Ante Covic (Western Sydney Wanderers)[3] | ||||||
| Fans' Man of the Match | Nawaf Al Abed (Al-Hilal) | ||||||
| Referee | Yuichi Nishimura (Japan) | ||||||
| Attendance | 63,763 | ||||||
| Weather | Clear 27 °C (81 °F) 51% humidity[3] | ||||||
The 2014 AFC Champions League Final was the final of the 2014 AFC Champions League, the 33rd edition of the top-level Asian club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), and the 12th under the current AFC Champions League title.
The final was contested in two-legged home-and-away format between Australian team Western Sydney Wanderers and Saudi Arabian team Al-Hilal. The first leg was hosted by Western Sydney Wanderers at Parramatta Stadium in Sydney on 25 October 2014, while the second leg was hosted by Al-Hilal at the King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh on 1 November 2014. This was the first AFC Champions League final involving an Australian club since Adelaide United in 2008, as well as the first to not involve a South Korean representative since the said final.
Western Sydney Wanderers won the match 1–0 on aggregate to become the first Australian team to win the trophy. As champions, Wanderers also earned the right to represent the AFC at the 2014 FIFA Club World Cup in Morocco, entering at the quarter-finals.[4]
- ^ a b "AFC Champions League 2014 Match Summary: Western Sydney Wanderers v Al-Hilal". Retrieved 26 October 2014.
- ^ @TheAFCCL (25 October 2014). "AFC Champions League". Twitter.
- ^ a b "AFC Champions League 2014 Match Summary: Al-Hilal v Western Sydney Wanderers". Retrieved 1 November 2014.
- ^ "AFC Champions League 2014 Competition Regulations" (PDF). AFC.