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2024–25 AFC Champions League Elite

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The 2024–25 AFC Champions League Elite will be the 43rd edition of Asia's premier club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), and the first since it was rebranded as the AFC Champions League Elite and first season under a new format featuring 24 teams, where in the league phase each team plays eight games against different opponents.[1]

2024–25 AFC Champions League Elite
Tournament details
TeamsCompetition proper: 24 (from 12 associations)
← 2023–24 (AFC CL)
2025–26 →

The final stage will be played in Saudi Arabia from 25 April 2025. The tournament winner will qualify for the 2025 FIFA Intercontinental Cup and 2029 FIFA Club World Cup (this is yet to be determined). Additionally, the winner will enter either the qualifying play-off stage or the League stage of the 2025–26 AFC Champions League Elite if they have not already qualified through their domestic performance.[2]

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Association team allocation edit

The associations are allocated slots according to their club competitions ranking which was published after the 2022 competitions were completed.[4]

Participation for 2024–25 AFC Champions League Elite
Participating
Not participating

Teams edit

The following teams will also qualify to the West region unless they had already qualified based on their domestic performance.

Possible West Region League stage direct entrants
Team Qualifying method App. (last)
2023–24 AFC Champions League winners
Notes
  1. ^
    South Korea (KOR): Pohang Steelers had already qualified as the 2023 K League 1 runners-up when they won the 2023 Korean FA Cup, so third-placed Gwangju FC qualified for the Champions League Elite qualifying play-off. Since both East region finalists in the AFC Champions League and the AFC Cup (Yokohama F. Marinos and Central Coast Mariners) had already qualified through their domestic performance, Gwangju were later confirmed for the league stage[5] based on their association's higher ranking, leaving only two teams left in the East region qualifying play-off for the remaining league stage slot.

Schedule edit

The schedule of the competition is as follows.[6]

Stage Round Draw date First leg Second leg
Preliminary stage Preliminary round 1 TBD 30 July 2024
Preliminary round 2 6 August 2024
Preliminary round 3 13 August 2024
League stage Matchday 1 TBD 16–18 September 2024
Matchday 2 30 September – 2 October 2024
Matchday 3 21–23 October 2024
Matchday 4 4–6 November 2024
Matchday 5 25–27 November 2024
Matchday 6 2–4 December 2024
Matchday 7 3–4 & 11–12 February 2025
Matchday 8 17–19 February 2025
Round of 16 TBD 3–5 March 2025 10–12 March 2025
Final stage Quarter-finals TBD 25–26 April 2025
Semi-finals 29–30 April 2025
Final 4 May 2025

Qualifying play-offs edit

Losers of the play-off rounds will enter the group stage of the 2024–25 AFC Champions League 2.

Team 1  Score  Team 2
East Region
Shandong Taishan   —   TBD

League stage edit

West Region edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Al-Hilal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage
2   Al-Nassr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3   TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4   Al-Sadd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5   TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6   TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7   TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8   TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9   Pakhtakor 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10   TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11   TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12   TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 16 September 2024. Source: Asian Football Confederation
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored; 7) fair play ranking; 8) drawing of lots

East Region edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Vissel Kobe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage
2   Kawasaki Frontale 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3   Yokohama F. Marinos 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4   Ulsan HD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5   Pohang Steelers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6   Gwangju FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7   Shanghai Port 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8   Shanghai Shenhua 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9   TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10   Central Coast Mariners 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11   Johor Darul Ta'zim 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12   TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 17 September 2024. Source: Asian Football Confederation
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored; 7) fair play ranking; 8) drawing of lots

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "AFC Executive Committee approves biggest prize purse in Asian club football history from 2024/25; announces AFC Women's Champions League". AFC. 14 August 2023.
  2. ^ "More Member Associations to benefit from inclusive AFC Champions League". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 23 November 2019. Archived from the original on 27 November 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Saudi Arabia to host AFC Champions League Elite – Final Stage". the-AFC. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  4. ^ "AFC Club Competitions Ranking". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. Archived from the original on 2022-01-07. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
  5. ^ "광주FC - GWANGJU FOOTBALL CLUB". www.gwangjufc.com (in Korean). Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  6. ^ "AFC Competitions Committee approves key decisions on reformatted competitions". AFC. 1 July 2023.
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