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“YELIMAY” (Semipalatinsk)
The Asian cup competitions
in some principal aspects differ from the similar European tournaments.
In both, the Asian Ñhampion's Ñup
(ACC) and the Asian Cup Winners Cup (CWC) the competition is divided
by the AFC into two zones: Eastern zone and Western & Central
zone. In the ACC only two initial stages, regarded as rounds, are
held on a "home - away" basis. Afterwards, four best teams of each
zone play each other once at the quarterfinal stage, held in a country,
one of the remaining teams represent. The best four survive to compete
in the semi-finals, hosted, as well as the final and 3rd
place game by a country, one of the semi-finalists represent. On
the semi-final stage Western zone quarterfinal group winner plays
Eastern & Central zone runner-up and vice-versa.
In the CWC three stages
are held on a "home - away" basis. The first and the second are
regarded as stages, and the third - as quarterfinals. The final
four matches are held in one country, likewise the ACC. Until the
final, teams play only teams of their zone. The ACC and the CWC
winners meet each other twice (home and away) for the Asian Super
Cup. Its winner takes part in the world club championships. Teams
of former USSR republics have been participating in the Asian cup
tournaments since 1994, the year of XIV ACC and V CWC. In the debut
season for the teams representing post-USSR, qualifying tournaments
for the teams of Kazakhstan and Middle Asia was organised by the
AFC. Only group winners proceeded to the second round. Since 1995
all teams of Kazakhstan and Middle Asia were allowed to advance
to the tournament without preliminary match ups, but were conditioned
to play each other in the first rounds.
In XV CAC season FC "Al-Nassr"
(Saudi Arabia) arrived to Semey for the second leg match versus
"ELIMAY". However, Al-Nassr refused to play. Moreover, "ELIMAY",
following FAIR PLAY motto, had no objections regarding the match,
despite 5 hour delay of the visiting team. 20000 spectators were
waiting for the match to start at the stadium for 5 hours. The air
temperature was -15. Disregarding all this Al-Nassr failed to appear
on the pitch, but proposed the match to be played the next day.
The AFC delegated the authority to decide the matter to the home
side. Taking into consideration the fact that till the moment "ELIMAY"
had twice agreed to delay match time scheduled, they denied the
latest proposal to play the next day. The match was not played.
0:3 technical defeat was to be imposed against a visiting team,
that had arrived to play the match, but refused to do so, pursuant
the CAC Regulations. Furthermore, one-year disqualification jointly
with $10000 fine was the disciplinary measure to be applied. The
AFC, however, contravened the provisions of its own Regulations,
and imposed no sanctions against Al-Nassr. In addition, the decision
was made to consider the match result 0-0. By doing so, the AFC
allowed Al-Nassr to advance to the next round, taking into consideration
its 1-0 first leg home win. The appeal of the home side was denied!
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5
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XVI
CAC
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Round 1
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19.08.96
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AIK
(Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)
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4:2
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Litvinenko
(2), Miroshnichenko,
Novichev -
Djumagulov,
Drobotov
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