Saudi Arabian football will be well represented in the quarter-finals of the AFC Champions League. Following this week's Round of 16 matches three sides from Saudi Arabia made it through to the last eight with another five teams, all hailing from different nations, to join them in the business end of the tournament.

Saudi Arabian football will be well represented in the quarter-finals of the AFC Champions League. Following this week's Round of 16 matches three sides from Saudi Arabia made it through to the last eight with another five teams, all hailing from different nations, to join them in the business end of the tournament.

Asian football's two major continental tournaments have reached the knockout stages following the conclusion of the group stages this week.

The AFC Champions League is usually dominated by South Korean clubs but only two of this year's four representatives have made it through the group stage.

Asian football's two major continental tournaments have reached the knockout stages following the conclusion of the group stages this week.

The AFC Champions League is usually dominated by South Korean clubs but only two of this year's four representatives have made it through the group stage.

Chinese club Ghangzhou Evergrande have made a statement of intent for the year ahead by appointing former FIFA World Cup winning coach Marcello Lippi to take charge of the team.

Lippi takes over a club who are in fine health having won their maiden Chinese Super League last season and leading ten games into the current campaign with 22 out of 30 points (seven wins, one draw, two defeats), one more than nearest challengers Ghangzhou R&F.

Chinese club Ghangzhou Evergrande have made a statement of intent for the year ahead by appointing former FIFA World Cup winning coach Marcello Lippi to take charge of the team.

Lippi takes over a club who are in fine health having won their maiden Chinese Super League last season and leading ten games into the current campaign with 22 out of 30 points (seven wins, one draw, two defeats), one more than nearest challengers Ghangzhou R&F.

Not looked at the Newin Chidchob Appreciation Society League for a while. For good reason; it's a joke. The big news from there is apparently there have been no fixture changes for all of 27 minutes.
Tonight has champions and all round fantastically good eggs Buriram United playing Wuachon United.

Se está disputando la edición 2012 del máximo certamen africano de clubes, que se disputó por primera vez en 1964 como "Copa Africana de Clubes Campeones". Participan todos los campeones de las ligas nacionales en dos rondas previas a la fase final de grupos. En la primera compiten 32 equipos que pasan en una segunda de 16: en esta instancia los 8 mejores disputan una liguilla de dos grupos cada uno.

A recap of Chelsea's win over Barcelona, Sporting KC remains perfect, and more lead today's top stories. Links for all stories below will open in a new window.

A recap of Chelsea 1-0 FC Barcelona (ESPNSoccernet.com)

Sporting Kansas City beats Vancouver to remain perfect (MLSSoccer.

Former champions Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors and Gamba Osaka both registered timely first wins of the AFC Champions League this week as the Group Stage of the 2012 edition reached the halfway point with Al Jazira and Al Ittihad maintaining the only 100% records.

Last year's beaten finalists Jeonbuk ended Buriram United's perfect record in Group H as first half goals from Lee Dong-gook and substitute Seo Sang-min ensured the K-League champions bounced back from beginning the new continental campaign with back-to-back 5-1 defeats.

Japanese J. League J1 team FC Tokyo qualified for the 2012 AFC Champions League courtesy of their 2011 Emperor's Cup win. The club is pooled Ulsan Hyundai (Australia), Brisbane Roar...

Defending Australian A-League champions Brisbane Roar FC have unveiled PUMA home and away kits for their 2012 AFC Champions League campaign. Both kits feature the PUMA King shirt design used...

ASIAN soccer officials are tonight expected to deliver a verdict on whether Adelaide United was in breach of the regulations after fielding Cassio last week.

Asian Football Confederation officials tonight told AdelaideNow a decision will handed down tonight .

The Brazilian featured in the club's AFC Champions League qualifier against Indonesia's Persipura last Thursday but there was a question mark hanging over his appearance.

2011 Korean K-League champions Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors Football Club are gearing up for the 2012 domestic and AFC Champions League seasons following their second league championship in the last three...

AFC Champions League Qualifier
Adelaide United v Persipura 3-0
Game arranged at last minute after Persipura's expulsion from competition overruled they were never really in the game. Did ok but that was never gonna be good enough.
Indonesia Super League
Arema v PSPS 2-0 (Dicky Firasat, Arif Ariyanto) 5,021PSAP v Sriwijaya 1-1 (Sayuti; Thierry Gathussi) 6,567PSMS v Persiram 1-0 (Zulkarnain) 7,521
Divisi Utama (LI)
Persitara v Persitema 4-2 (Suhariyanto, Muhamed, Adlofo Souza 2; Andriyanto, Sumaryanto) 3,271PS Bengkulu v Persip 1-0 (Abdu Rahman Aziz) 2,314Persid v Persigo 1-2 (Iswanto; Yus Abay, Iksan Abubakar) 4,963 (LI)
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Home United v Gombak United 1-1 (Mustaquim Munzar; Franklin Anzite) 1,304Balestier Khalsa v Tampines Rovers 1-0 (Ruhaizad Ismail) 1,309
Unlikely leaders at this early stage with Balestier Khalsa blocking out title favourites for the second successive game.

Lausanne, 1 February 2012 The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has decided to grant the provisional measures requested by the Indonesian Football Club Persipura Jayapura and to order the reinstatement of the club in the AFC Champions League 2012.

Persipura was supposed to play the 2012 AFC Champions League Playoffs (East-Zone) on 11 February 2012 against Adelaïde United FC (Australia).

El Auckland City de Nueva Zelanda venció 1-0 al Tefana de Tahití y conquistó la O-League, máximo torneo de clubes de Oceanía, por cuarta vez en su historia. El conjunto neozelandés con la ventaja del partido de ida (2-1) y confirmó su triunfo logrando también el triunfo de visitante, con un solitario gol del delantero español Manel Expósito, surgido de la cantera del Barcelona.

First of all I should start this piece by wishing everybody a happy new year! I've been enjoying myself over the Christmas holiday and have neglected the blog over the last few days so I need to rectify this, starting off with a piece regarding the new Emperor's Cup winners in Japan.

FC Tokyo have done an unlikely league and cup double in Japan following their 4-2 triumph over Kyoto Sanga in last Sunday's Emperor's Cup final.

First of all I should start this piece by wishing everybody a happy new year! I've been enjoying myself over the Christmas holiday and have neglected the blog over the last few days so I need to rectify this, starting off with a piece regarding the new Emperor's Cup winners in Japan.

FC Tokyo have done an unlikely league and cup double in Japan following their 4-2 triumph over Kyoto Sanga in last Sunday's Emperor's Cup final.

Welcome to the fifty-second annual WCR Top 25 rankings. For years, we have been describing how this list is compiled. In brief, the rankings are based on (a) the domestic results for each club's most recent completed season (either 2011 or 2010-11) and (b) performances in the continental championship tournaments through the use of bonus points.

Por PABLO ARO GERALDES
Se está disputando la 53ra edición de la Copa Libertadores de América.
El campeón ganará un lugar en el Mundial de Clubes de la FIFA, junto a los campeones de la UEFA Champions League, la O-League de Oceanía, la AFC Champions League de Asia, la CAF Champions League africana, la Concacaf Champions League y el campeón japonés, ya que el certamen volverá a jugarse en tierras niponas antes de pasar a Marruecos.

Indonesia Super League'Gresik United v Arema 2-0 (Warwan Mustafa, James Koko Lomell) 21,000Persidadon v Persib 2-2 (Rasmovo, Eduard Ivakdalam; Miljan Radovic, M Ilham) 875Mitra Kukar v Persipura 1-2
Arema's woeful start to the season continued, their defeat away to Gresik in the East Java derby was their third straight and they remain in 17th, one place behind Persiram.

Villa lost for season during Club World Cup victory of Al-Saad (Photo: AP Photo)

When is a victory considered a loss?

Barcelona's 4-0 demolition of Qatar's Al-Sadd Sports Club advanced Barcelona to the Club World Cup Championship against Santos, but the victory came at one hell of a price.

Indonesia Super League
Gresik United v Persela 3-2 (James Koko Lommel 2, Gaston Castano; Rudi Widodo, Mario Costas) 20,000Persiba v Arema 2-1 (Kenji Adichihara, Rachmat Latif; Marcio Souza) 4,837Persiram v Persija 0-6 (Robertinho, Bambang Pamungkas, Ramdani Lestalahu, Johan Juanshyah, Ismed Sofyan, Rachmat Affandi) 600Sriwijaya v PSPS 2-1 (Keith Kayamba, Hilton Moreira; Herman Dzumafo) 15,234
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Barcelona consiguió su segundo título el Mundial de Clubes de la FIFA, goleando en la final 4-0 al Santos brasileño. El argentino Lionel Messi fue elegido mejor jugador del certamen.
Aquí podrás repasar cómo llegaron Barcelona (UEFA Champions League), Santos (Copa Libertadores de América), Espérance Sp.

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors are South Korean champions for the second time in three years following their play-off triumph over Ulsan Hyundai.

Jeonbuk were huge favourites going into this year's final having finished top of the regular season standings whilst their opponents Ulsan had knocked out FC Seoul, Suwon Samsung Bluewings and Pohang Steelers en route to this year's showpiece.

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors are South Korean champions for the second time in three years following their play-off triumph over Ulsan Hyundai.

Jeonbuk were huge favourites going into this year's final having finished top of the regular season standings whilst their opponents Ulsan had knocked out FC Seoul, Suwon Samsung Bluewings and Pohang Steelers en route to this year's showpiece.

AFC Champions League title holders Al-Sadd were the surprise winners of Asia's premier club competition and will feature in their first FIFA Club World Cup. Al Sadd, who hail from the Qatari capital city of Doha, have a quarter-final meeting with African champions Espérance and, should they emerge victorious, will look forward to a semi-final encounter against FC Barcelona.

As I intimated Persipura will not be entering the 2012 AFC Champions League. At least automatically. The AFC are obviously so unimpressed by the internal dicking around in Indonesian football that the automatic spot has been given to Buriram PEA from the Thai Premier League. Assuming of course they win the TPL!

"I think I am not in the best condition to analyse it. At this moment, my feeling is stronger than my reason."
Those were the words of Jorge Fossati, the coach of newly-crowned Asian Champions Al Sadd, deep in the bowels of Jeonju World Cup Stadium on Saturday evening. The Uruguayan had just watched a fantastic final in which his team overcame favourites and host Jeonbuk Motors thanks to a penalty shootout.

The AFC Champions League, Asia's premier club competition has launched a channel on YouTube, the world's largest online video community.

The sight of Gamba Osaka running out at Expo '70 Stadium tonight is unlikely to fill their fans with hope. It's more likely to fill those in attendance with a sense of trepidation as the team currently leading the J. League standings does battle with defending Nabisco Cup champions Jubilo Iwata for a trophy no one genuinely wants to win.

Monterrey perdió 1-2 ante Santos Laguna en el Estadio Corona TSM, pero este resultado le alcanzó para refrendar el título de la Liga de Campeones de la Concacaf. El argentino Daniel Ludueña (45') y Oribe Peralta (51') le dieron esperanzas a los suyos, que perdieron en la ida de esta final 0-2 en el Tecnológico, sin embargo, Neri Cardozo se encargó de enmudecer a la Comarca al anotar a los 82' y dejar el global a favor de Monterrey por 3-2.

En la definición por penales, el Chelsea inglés se coronó campeón de la Liga de Campeones de la UEFA (nombre oficial en inglés: UEFA Champions League) al vencer al Bayern Munich.
Este el torneo internacional europeo de fútbol más importante a nivel de clubes organizado por la Unión Europea de Asociaciones de Fútbol (UEFA).

The 2011 AFC Asian Champions League has reached the quarter-final stages with the first legs taking place today. As has been the case in recent years South Korean clubs feature prominently in the last eight of the competition with FC Seoul, Suwon Samsung Bluewings and Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors involved this time.

Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club (Arabic: نادي الهلال‎), usually called Al-Hilal, is a Saudi Arabian soccer club based in the country's capital of Riyadh. The club won its 13th Saudi Premier League title last season and was a semi-finalist in the 2010 edition of the AFC Champions League. Manager by former German international and Hamburger SV [.

Saudi Arabia's domestic championship began this weekend with record champions Al-Hilal showing their mettle as they came from behind to defeat Hajer Club by two goals to one whilst Al-Ittihad warmed up for their forthcoming AFC Champions League clash with South Korean outfit FC Seoul with an exciting 5-3 triumph over Al Tawwun.

Brisbane Roar Football Club (formerly Queensland Roar Football Club) is a professional soccer club from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia competing in the Hyundai A-League. The Roar was the 2010/11 A-League regular season and playoff champions. As a result, the team is an automatic entrant into the 2012 AFC Champions League.

Bunyodkor (17 played, 45 points) took a huge step towards a fourth successive Uzbek championship title on Sunday when defeating arch rivals and nearest challengers Pakhtakor 2-1. The win took the league leaders a massive nine points of Pakhtakor with just nine matches to play.

With over an hour of the game played it seemed a real possibility that the earlier goalless score line in the first meeting of the two Tashkent rivals this season would be replicated.

With two-thirds of the K-League regular season completed the championship is reaching the business end in South Korea. Unlike most footballing top-flight divisions, the K-League determines its winners by a post-season play-off system in which the top six battle it out for the title. With 20 of the 30 regular season rounds played only league leaders Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors and second placed Pohang Steelers seem to be virtually assured of their play-off places.