Al Nasr FC in Asian football

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Al Nasr FC is an Emirati football club from the UAE Pro League, based in Dubai the country's largest city, it has contested in multiple Asian competitions, making it as far as the quarter-finals in the AFC Champions League.

Al Nasr, despite being one of the earliest teams in the country, would only make its first real appearance in an Asian competition in 1987 Asian Club Championship where they played in the gulf group, they would finish second last only winning once and drawing once. The club would not qualify for another Asian competition until 1993–94 Asian Cup Winners' Cup however, they withdrew from the tournament. After a decade without continental football, The club finally qualified for the AFC Champions League for the first time in the 2012 edition after finishing third in the league. However, the club would fail to get past the group stage in 2012 finishing third in the group only beating the Qatari side Lekhwiya SC twice. Al Nasr made their second consecutive appearance in the AFC Champions League in 2013 but finished bottom of the group with only one point. In 2016 Al Nasr qualified for the third time after winning the president's cup, the club would pull a surprise 2–1 victory against Saudi giants Al-Ittihad to qualify for the Round of 16 of the AFC Champions League for the first time, they later faced Iranian team Tractor Sazi who topped their group. Al Nasr pulled an upset as they won 4–1^[1] against the Iranians in the first leg, and only losing 1–3 in the second, the team qualified for the quarter-finals for the first time. The team would later face Qatari side, El Jaish, they won 3–0 on the first leg however unfortunate events hit the club as they fielded the player Wanderley, who was found to be registered using a fake Indonesian passport. the team were forced to forfeit and award the 3–0 win to El Jaish by the AFC Disciplinary Committee.^[2] The club later lost 0–1 on the second leg and the team were knocked out. They qualified again in 2019 after finishing fourth in the league but were defeated in the playoff game to the Uzbek side Pakhtakor.

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1987	Group 1	Al-Hilal	0–0		4th
		Al-Muharraq	1–0
		Kazma	0–1
		Fanja	2–3

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2012[3]	Group C	Al-Ahli	1–2	1–3	3rd
		Sepahan	0–3	0–1
		Lekhwiya	2–1	2–1
2013[4]	Play-off round	Lokomotiv Tashkent	3–2
	Group C	Al-Ahli	1–2	2–2	4th
		Sepahan	1–2	0–3
		Al-Gharafa	2–4	1–3
2016[5]	Group A	Sepahan	2–0	0–2	2nd
		Al-Ittihad	0–0	2–1
		Lokomotiv Tashkent	1–1	0–0
	Round of 16	Tractor Sazi	4–1	1–3	5–4
	Quarter-Finals	El Jaish	0–1	0–3 (awd.)	0–4
2019[6]	Play-off round	Pakhtakor	1–2

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1991[7]	Group 1
		Al Ansar	1–0		3rd
		Al Mokawloon Al Arab	0–0
		Al-Nassr	1–1
		Kazma	0–0
1993[8]	Group 2
		CO Casablanca	0–4		5th
		ASO Chlef	0–1
		Haifa	0–2
		Al Qadsiah	0–0
1995[9]	Group 2
		Club Africain	1–2		5th
		Al Ahly	1–3
		Al-Ittihad	0–3
		Al-Riyadh	0–2

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2014[10]	Group C
		Busaiteen	0–0	1–0	1st
		Al-Khor	5–0	2–2
	Quarter-Finals	Al Jahra	2–2 (p) (3–1)
	Semi-Finals	Al-Nahda	2–1	1–1	3–2
	Final	Saham	2–1
2015[11]	Group C
		Manama	2–1	1–2	1st
		Kazma	2–1	2–1
	Quarter-Finals	Al-Taawoun	1–1 (p) (4–2)
	Semi-Finals	Al Shabab	1–1	0–2	1–3
2024–25	Group A
		Duhok
		Dhofar
		Al Ahli Sanaa

Country	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win%
Algeria	1	0	0	1	0	1	−1	000.00
Bahrain	5	3	1	1	6	3	+3	060.00
Egypt	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	000.00
Kuwait	5	2	2	1	6	5	+1	040.00
Lebanon	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1	100.00
Morocco	1	0	0	1	0	4	−4	000.00
Oman	4	2	1	1	7	6	+1	050.00
Palestine	1	0	0	1	0	2	−2	000.00
Qatar	8	3	1	4	14	15	−1	037.50
Saudi Arabia	11	1	6	4	9	14	−5	009.09
Syria	1	0	0	1	0	3	−3	000.00
Tunisia	1	0	0	1	1	2	−1	000.00
United Arab Emirates	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	000.00
Uzbekistan	4	1	2	1	5	5	+0	025.00