The knock-out stage of the 2014 AFC Champions League was played from 6 May to 1 November 2014. A total of 16 teams competed in the knock-out stage.
Qualified teams The winners and runners-up of each of the eight groups in the group stage qualified for the knock-out stage. Both West Zone and East Zone had eight teams qualified.
ZoneGroupWinnersRunners-upWest Zone(Groups A–D)A Al-Shabab Al-JaziraB Foolad BunyodkorC Al-Ain Al-IttihadD Al-Hilal Al-SaddEast Zone(Groups E–H)E Pohang Steelers Cerezo OsakaF FC Seoul Sanfrecce HiroshimaG Guangzhou Evergrande Jeonbuk Hyundai MotorsH Western Sydney Wanderers Kawasaki Frontale
Format In the knock-out stage, the 16 teams played a single-elimination tournament, with the teams split between the two zones until the final. Each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. The away goals rule, extra time (away goals do not apply in extra time) and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary.
Schedule The schedule of each round was as follows.
RoundFirst legSecond legRound of 166–7 May 201413–14 May 2014Quarter-finals19–20 August 201426–27 August 2014Semi-finals16–17 September 201430 September–1 October 2014Final25 October 20141 November 2014
Bracket In the round of 16, the winners of one group played the runners-up of another group in the same zone, with the group winners hosting the second leg. The matchups were determined as follows:
West Zone Winner Group A vs. Runner-up Group C Winner Group C vs. Runner-up Group A Winner Group B vs. Runner-up Group D Winner Group D vs. Runner-up Group B
East Zone Winner Group E vs. Runner-up Group G Winner Group G vs. Runner-up Group E Winner Group F vs. Runner-up Group H Winner Group H vs. Runner-up Group F
The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 28 May 2014, 16:00 UTC+8, at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The "country protection" rule was not applied, so teams from the same association could be drawn into the same tie.
There was no draw for the semi-finals, with the matchups determined by the quarter-final draw: Winner QF1 vs. Winner QF2 (West Zone) and Winner QF3 vs. Winner QF4 (East Zone), with winners QF2 and QF4 hosting the second leg.
The draw to decide the order of two legs of the final was held after the quarter-final draw.
Round of 16
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|+East Zone
First leg
Second leg
Pohang Steelers won 3–1 on aggregate.
Guangzhou Evergrande won 5–2 on aggregate.
Al-Ain won 4–2 on aggregate.
Al-Ittihad won 4–1 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate. Western Sydney Wanderers won on away goals.
4–4 on aggregate. FC Seoul won on away goals.
2–2 on aggregate. Al-Sadd won on away goals.
Al-Hilal won 4–0 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
|+West Zone
|+East Zone
First leg
Second leg
Al-Hilal won 1–0 on aggregate.
Al-Ain won 5–1 on aggregate.
0–0 on aggregate. FC Seoul won 3–0 on penalties.
2–2 on aggregate. Western Sydney Wanderers won on away goals.
Notes
Semi-finals
|+West Zone
|+East Zone
First leg
Second leg
Al-Hilal won 4–2 on aggregate.
Western Sydney Wanderers won 2–0 on aggregate.
Final
Western Sydney Wanderers won 1–0 on aggregate.
References
External links AFC Champions League, the-AFC.com