2021 AFC Champions League Final Kick-off times: Al Hilal SFC vs Pohang Steelers, AFCCL Final in Numbers Stats.
After a thrilling campaign in the AFC Champions League, Al Hilal SFC vs Pohang Steelers will go head-to-head in the winner-takes-all single-leg battle at the King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh on Tuesday, November 23, at 7pm (local time; UTC+3) in front of what is expected to be a capacity crowd after the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) approved full spectator attendance strictly in line with health and safety protocols.
1 -- The Riyadh giants won the AFC Asian Club Championship three times in 1991, 2000 and 2019, while Pohang lifted the now defunct trophy back-to-back in 1997 1998, and a decade after Pohang won it in 2009.
2 -- While Pohang have never lost in the final of AFC Champions League, while Al Hilal lost out four times in AFCCL in the 1986, 1987, 2014 and 2017 Asian Club Championship final.
3 -- A trio of Al Hilal squad will make their fourth appearance alongwith Captain Salman Al Faraj, winger Salem Al Dawsari and Yasser Al Shahrani all appeared in the 2014, 2017, 2019 and now in 2021 Final.
4 -- In terms of appearances in the AFC Champions League final by nation, Korean step onto the pitch at King Fahd International Stadium, it will be the 10th time in 19 finals that a Korean side has been present, while the Saudi Arab has appeared in 14 Finals.
5 -- Al Hilal vs Pohang Steelers have never met in the AFC Champions League.
6 - Pohang head coach Kim Gi-dong could become the only person to win the AFC Champions League as both a player and a manager, having also been part of Pohang’s title-winning squad in 2009.
7 -- Al Hilal's Mohammed Al Burayk has four assists to his name, more than any other player who will take part in the final, while for Pohang Steelers midfielder Go Young-joon boasts three assists.
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