The draw for the 2012 Asian Football Confederations Champions League has taken place in 

Kuala Lumpur. 

Eight groups of four teams will battle it out to be crowned Asian club football 

champions with the competition set to kick-off on Tuesday March 6, 2012. 

A-League champions Brisbane Roar have drawn favourably in Group F alongside Ulsan 

Hyundai, Beijing Guoan and the winner of Japan’s Emperor’s Cup which is yet to be 

determined. 

Runners-up Central Coast Mariners are in Group G with Korean FA Cup champions Seongnam 

Ilhwa who have Australian international Sasa Ognenovski in tow, as well as Josh 

Kennedy’s Nagoya Grampus and Chinese FA Cup winners Tianjin Teda whilst Adelaide United 

have drawn Group E with Japan’s Gamba Osaka, Uzbekistan’s Bunyodkor and the winner of 

the play-off between third-placed K-League outfit Pohang Steelers and the Thai FA Cup 

champions. 

Group A

Al Rayyan (QAT)

Al Jazira (UAE)

Nasaf (UZB)

Play-Off Winner West 2 (Esteghlal/Zob Ahan v Al Ettifaq) 

Group B

Al Ittihad (KSA)

Al Arabi (QAT)

Baniyas (UAE)

Pakhtakor (UZB) 

Group C

Sepahan (IRN)

Al Ahli (KSA)

Lakhwiya (QAT)

Al Nasr (UAE) 

Group D

Play-Off Winner West 1 (Al Shabab v Neftchi Farg’ona)

Piroozi (IRN)

Al Hilal (KSA)

Al Gharafa (QAT) 

Group E

Gamba Osaka (JPN)

Adelaide United (AUS)

Bunyodkor (UZB)

Play-Off Winner East (Pohang Steelers v Thai FA Cup winner) 

Group F

Ulsan Hyundai Horang-I (KOR)

Emperor’s Cup Winner (JPN)

Brisbane Roar (AUS)

Beijing Guoan (CHN) 

Group G

Tianjin Teda (CHN)

Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma (KOR)

Nagoya Grampus (JPN)

Central Coast Mariners (AUS) 

Group H

League Champion (THA)

Guangzhou Evergrande (CHN)

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors (KOR)

Kashiwa Reysol (JPN)

(source: AFC)