AFC Cup - Wikipedia

annual second gear grade asian clubhouse football contest
not to be confused with AFC Asian Cup Football tournament
The AFC Cup is an annual continental club football rival organised by the AFC. Under its current rules, the competition is played chiefly between clubs from nations that did not receive steer qualifying slots in the top-tier AFC Champions League, based on the AFC Club Competitions Ranking.

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Al-Kuwait SC and Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya are the most successful club in the rival ‘s history, having won three titles each. Clubs from Kuwait have won four titles, making them the most successful nation in the contest. always since the inauguration of the rival in 2004, the finalists of each edition have been dominated by clubs from West Asia except for 2011 and 2015 when Uzbekistani team FC Nasaf from Central Asia and Malaysian team Johor Darul Ta’zim from Southeast Asia became champions that respective year. Al-Ahed are the stream champions after defeating April 25 Sports Club in the 2019 final examination. Since 2021 season the team who become AFC Cup champions are granted to participate in the AFC Champions League qualifying playoffs should they not qualify through domestic performance .

history [edit ]

The AFC Cup began in 2004 as a second-tier competition to relate back to the AFC Champions League as 14 countries that had developing status competed in the first rival with 18 teams being nominated. Group A, B, C had West and Central Asian teams while the early two groups had east and South East Asia. The winners and three runner-up would then head to the knock-out stage where it was a random draw in who was going to play. Al-Jaish took the beginning AFC Cup after they defeated companion syrian opponents Al-Wahda on away goals. In 2005, 18 teams competed from nine nations with the nations still being allowed to choose from one or two teams entering. After syrian teams left the AFC Cup to try at the Champions League for four years, Al-Faisaly defeated Nejmeh in the final. With it, jordanian teams would win the adjacent two AFC Cup seasons with Bahrain joining the league while Bangladesh was relegated to the AFC President ‘s Cup until the tournament ‘s abolition in 2014. Al-Muharraq would break the swerve in 2008 as they competed in the last two-legged final before it headed back into a one-leg system which silent runs to this day .

format [edit ]

Some changes were applied in terms of teams and format for the 2017 AFC Cup. A total of 36 teams participate in the group degree ( 12 each from West Asia and ASEAN, and 4 each from East Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia ). The final examination will be played as a one-off peer .

allotment [edit ]

Teams from 27 AFC countries have reached the group stage of the AFC Cup. The allotment of those teams by penis state is listed below ; asterisks represent occasions where at least one team was eliminated in reservation for the group phase. 34 AFC countries have had teams participate in qualification ( including Brunei and Timor-Leste who will make their debuts in 2020 ), those who have not reached the group phase but have only played in reservation are not bolded .

Associations	Spots
Associations	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
East
Chinese Taipei	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0*	1	1	1*	1
Guam	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0*	0	0	0	0
Hong Kong	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	0	0	2	1	2
Macau	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0*	0	1	0	1	0
Mongolia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0*	1	0*	0*	0*	1
North Korea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	1*	0	0
Total	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	4	4	4	4
ASEAN
Brunei	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0*	0*
Cambodia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1*	1	1	1	1
Indonesia	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	1	2	2	2	0	0	2	2	2	2
Laos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0*	0*	1	1*	1*
Malaysia	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	0	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	0	0	0
Myanmar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Philippines	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1*	2	2	2	2	2	2
Singapore	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Thailand	0	0	0±	1	0	2	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Timor-Leste	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0*	0*
Vietnam	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	2	2	2	2	0	0	2	2	2	2	2
Total	4	4	4	6	4	8	8	7	10	10	10	10	9	11	12	12	12	12
South
Bangladesh	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0*	1	1*	1*	1	1*	1*
Bhutan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0*	0*	0*	0*	0*	0*
India	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1*	2*
Maldives	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1*	2	2	2	2	1*	1*	0	2	1*
Nepal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0*	0	0*	0	1	0	0
Pakistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0*	0	0	0	0	0
Sri Lanka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0*	0	0*	0*	0*
Total	5	6	6	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4
Central
Afghanistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0*	0	0	0	0
Kyrgyzstan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0*	0*	2	1*	1*	1*	2
Tajikistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1*	1*	1*	1*	2	2	2
Turkmenistan	2	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1*	1*	1*	2	1*	1	2
Uzbekistan	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	2	2	2	2	0	1	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	4	4	4	4	7
West
Bahrain	0	0	1	1	2	2	1	0	0	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Iraq	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	0	0	0
Jordan	0	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Kuwait	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	3	3	2	2	2	0	0	0	2	2	1
Lebanon	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Oman	1	0	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1*	2	2	2	1*	1*	0
Palestine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0*	1*	2	0*	0*	1	1	2
Qatar	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saudi Arabia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Syria	2	0	0	0	0	2	3	3	2	1*	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Yemen	1	0	0	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	0*	0*	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	6	4	6	10	10	17	16	17	16	14	14	14	14	12	12	12	12	11
Total
Finals	18	18	20	24	20	32	31	32	32	32	32	32	32	34	36	36	36	37/38
Qualifying	18	18	20	24	20	32	31	32	33	33	34	41	40	50	44	43	48	43

Prize money [edit ]

The prize money for the 2021 AFC Cup : [ 1 ]

Phase	Purse (USD)	Travel subsidy (per match)
Preliminary stage	N/A	$30,000
Play-offs	N/A	$30,000
Group stage	N/A	$30,000
Knockout stage	Zonal champions: $100,000	$40,000
Final	Champions: $1.5 million Runners-up: $750,000	$40,000

market [edit ]

Like the AFC Champions League, the AFC Cup is sponsored by a group of multinational corporations, in contrast to the unmarried chief sponsor typically found in national top-flight leagues.

Results and statistics [edit ]

Finals [edit ]

performance by clubs [edit ]

performance by nations [edit ]

Nation	Titles	Runners-up	Total
Kuwait	4	3	7
Iraq	3	2	5
Jordan	3	1	4
Syria	2	2	4
Bahrain	2	1	3
Lebanon	1	2	3
Uzbekistan	1	1	2
Malaysia	1	0	1
Tajikistan	0	2	2
India	0	1	1
Turkmenistan	0	1	1
North Korea	0	1	1

all-time clear goalscorers [edit ]

As of 11 March 2020

AFC Cup – Wikipedia