With Al Hilal having successfully got their title defence underway in the previous round of fixtures, this week sees AFC Champions League football played across six countries, with Kuwait featuring as an alternative home for Al Ahli Saudi FC.

Having sat out last week's fixtures, Korea Republic duo FC Seoul and Suwon Samsung Bluewings, Australian pair Perth Glory and Sydney FC and China PR's Beijing FC all make their first starts in this year's competition.

Both teams started the campaign with a 1-1 draw at home; Al Shorta coming from behind to hold Esteghlal FC and Al Wahda leaving it late to snatch a point against Al Ahli Saudi FC.

The two sides had picked up their first points on the road last week, with Al Ahli settling for a draw at Al Wahda FSCC, having led until the 90th minute.

Esteghlal, meanwhile, walked away from Al Shorta’s den with their first point of the campaign in another 1-1 draw.

The two sides had famously clashed in the 2015 AFC Champions League semi-finals, with a 1-1 draw in Riyadh followed by a dramatic 3-2 victory for Shabab Al Ahli (then known as Al Ahli) who advanced to the final.

The task ahead for coach Mojtaba Sarasiaei’s men is a daunting one against a Pakhtakor FC side that have won each of their nine home encounters against Iranian opponents in the AFC Champions League, keeping five clean sheets in the process. The Uzbek side had previously defeated another IR Iran side - Naft Tehran - in their debut campaign in 2015, and Shahr Khodro will hope to avoid the same fate.

The Mashhad-based side reached the group stage after edging Bahrain’s Riffa SC 2-1 in the Preliminary Round 2 then holding Qatar’s Al Sailiyah to a goalless draw before emerging victorious on penalties in the Play-off.

With 32 goals in 12 games, including a resounding win for a tournament debutant and a heavy loss for a side on a miserable run, join the-AFC.com as we take a look at the facts and figures that caught the eye in the first week in numbers of the new campaign.