The 2025 AFC Champions League Elite final was the final match of the 2024–25 AFC Champions League Elite, the 43rd season of Asia's premier club football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), and the first since it was rebranded as the AFC Champions League Elite. It was played at King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on 3 May 2025.
This was the first final since 2018 that neither team had won an Asian Club Championship before, and the first since 2012 to be one-legged.
Al-Ahli defeated Kawasaki Frontale 2–0, winning a first Champions League title.
Teams In the following table, the finals until 2002 were in the Asian Club Championship era, and from 2003 to 2024 were in the AFC Champions League era. TeamPrevious finals appearances (bold indicates winners) Al-AhliWest (WAFF)2 (1985–86, 2012)East (EAFF)None
Match details
GK 16 Édouard Mendy RB 27 Ali MajrashiCB 28 Merih Demiral CB 3 Roger IbañezLB 77 Ezgjan AlioskiCM 79 Franck KessiéCM 30 Ziyad Al-Johani RW 7 Riyad Mahrez AM 10 Roberto Firmino (c) LW 13 Galeno CF 99 Ivan ToneySubstitutes:GK 1 Abdulrahman Al-SanbiGK 62 Abdullah AbdohDF 5 Mohammed BakorDF 31 Saad BalobaidDF 32 Matteo DamsDF 46 Rayan HamedMF 8 Sumayhan Al-NabitMF 11 Alexsander MF 14 Eid Al-MuwalladMF 19 Fahad Al-Rashidi MF 24 Gabri Veiga FW 9 Firas Al-Buraikan Manager: Matthias Jaissle GK 98 Louis YamaguchiRB 5 Asahi SasakiCB 2 Kōta TakaiCB 35 Yuichi MaruyamaLB 13 Sota Miura CM 77 Yuki Yamamoto CM 19 So Kawahara RW 41 Akihiro Ienaga AM 14 Yasuto Wakizaka (c)LW 23 MarcinhoCF 9 Erison Substitutes:GK 1 Jung Sung-ryongGK 21 Shunsuke AndōDF 15 Shuto TanabeDF 31 Sai van Wermeskerken DF 44 César HaydarMF 8 Kento TachibanadaMF 16 Yuto Ozeki MF 26 Hinata Yamauchi MF 30 Yusuke SegawaFW 20 Shin Yamada FW 32 Soma KandaFW 37 Tatsuya Ito Manager: Shigetoshi Hasebe
Assistant referees: Taleb Al-Marri (Qatar) Ramzan Al-Naemi (Qatar) Fourth official: Ahmad Al-Ali (Kuwait) Fifth official: Abdulhadi Al-Anezi (Kuwait) Video assistant referee: Khamis Al-Marri (Qatar) : Fu Ming (China)Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if tied. Penalty shoot-out if still tied after extra time. Twelve named substitutes, of which up to five may be used, with a sixth allowed in extra time.
Notes
See also 2025 AFC Champions League Two final (2nd Tier) 2025 AFC Challenge League final (3rd Tier) 2025 AFC Women's Champions League final (Women's)
References
External links , the-AFC.com