The Asian Club Championship 1998-99 was the 18th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the AFC

Asian Football Confederation

The Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of association football in Asia. It has 46 member countries, mostly located on the Asian continent. However, due to the disputed boundary of Europe and Asia, nations such as Russia and Turkey which are located mostly in geographic Asia are...

 region (Asia). It determined that year's club champion of association football

Football (soccer)

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 in Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

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Jubilo Iwata

Júbilo Iwata

is a professional Japanese association football team currently playing in the J. League Division 1 . The team name Júbilo means 'joy' in Portuguese and Spanish. The team's home town is Iwata, Shizuoka prefecture and they play at Yamaha Stadium...

 of Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 won the final and became Asian champions for the first time, and becoming the third Japanese club to win the Asian championship.

West Asia

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¹ Both legs were played in Baghdad

Baghdad

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, Iraq

Iraq

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 by mutual agreement.

² FC Irtysh

FC Irtysh

FC Irtysh are a Kazakh football club based at the Central Stadium in Pavlodar. The most successful club in the country since independence, Irtysh won the Kazakhstan Premier league in 1993 , 1997, 1999, 2002 and 2003. They are also founding members of the top league and never relegated to lower...

 were ejected from the competition for using two ineligible players.

³ FK Neftchy Farg'ona withdrew.

East Asia

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¹ BEC Tero Sasana

BEC Tero Sasana

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 were entered after Sinthana, who had beaten them for the championship, withdrew due to excessive travel costs.

² The match was played over one leg by mutual agreement.

³ Allied Bank Limited FC withdrew.

⁴ Finance and Revenue had been drawn against the representatives of Indonesia, where the 1997/98 season was abandoned due to political and economic trouble in the country.

West Asia

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East Asia

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¹ The match was played over one leg by mutual agreement.

West Asia

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Team	|W	|L	|GA	|Pts
Al-Ain	3	2	0	1	7	2
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Esteghlal Esteghlal FC Esteghlal Cultural and Athletic Club is an Iranian sports club most widely known for its professional football team based in Tehran. It was founded as Taj , meaning 'Crown' in Persian and renamed after the Islamic Revoloution in 1979...	3	2	0	1	3	2
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Al-Hilal Al-Hilal Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club , also known simply as Al-Hilal, is a Saudi Arabian sports club based in the country's capital of Riyadh and best known for its professional football team, known as Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club...	3	1	0	2	5	5	0	3
Köpetdag Aşgabat Kopetdag Asgabat Köpetdag Aşgabat was a Turkmen football club based in Ashgabat. In 2008 they were disbanded due to financial crisis. Their home stadium was Köpetdag Stadium which can hold 26,000 people.-Honours:* Ýokary Liga...	3	1	0	2	4	10	−6	3

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East Asia

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Dalian Wanda	3	1	2	0	5	3
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Júbilo Iwata Júbilo Iwata is a professional Japanese association football team currently playing in the J. League Division 1 . The team name Júbilo means 'joy' in Portuguese and Spanish. The team's home town is Iwata, Shizuoka prefecture and they play at Yamaha Stadium...	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
Pohang Steelers Pohang Steelers Pohang Steelers are a South Korean professional football club based in Pohang, Gyeongsangbuk-do. They were originally called POSCO, after the Pohang Iron and Steel Company that owned it...	3	0	3	0	3	3	0	3
Busan Daewoo Royals	3	0	2	1	3	5	−2	2

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Semifinals

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Third place match

Final

Champions

Asian Club Championship 1998-99   Júbilo Iwata Júbilo Iwata is a professional Japanese association football team currently playing in the J. League Division 1 . The team name Júbilo means 'joy' in Portuguese and Spanish. The team's home town is Iwata, Shizuoka prefecture and they play at Yamaha Stadium... First Title