Wanderers arrive home after ACL glory Soccer Breaking News Sport Sport National November 3, 2014 - 11:58PM Their fans may have been thin on the ground for the actual match but Western Sydney Wanderers supporters gathered en masse at Sydney Airport to welcome home the new Asian Champions League winners late on Monday night. A crowd that looked to be in excess of 2000 lined the arrivals terminal as the Wanderers returned from Riyadh as the best club team in the region. The Wanderers held on for a gutsy 0-0 draw in the second leg of their ACL match in the Saudi capital after taking a 1-0 lead in their home match at Parramatta Stadium. They became the first Australian team to win the tournament. While there were some expats at the game, as few as 14 supporters made the trip to Saudi Arabia with complex visa requirements and travel costs proving prohibitive. But that seemed to matter little to the plucky Wanderers during the tense match, nor their fans who were in an unsurprisingly festive mood when their team returned. With the Asian Champions League trophy among their possessions, coach Tony Popovic and his players walked into an arrivals hall filled with the beat of drums. Goalkeeper Ante Covic, who produced a string of crucial saves to deny Al-Hilal in the second leg, said the reception was a special moment for the sport in Australia. "This is unbelievable," he said. You think back (and wonder) could this ever happen in Australian football? But to walk out to something like this is a credit to the game. It's the best feeling for a football player in Australia to have. This moment right now is brilliant. Go back ten years before the A-League and you never would've expected something like this to happen in football. You get overwhelmed when you walk through those doors and you see there's actually no room (left) in this airport. Football in Australia has come a long way. It can only grow and only get better.