The best runners-up team from among the three pools qualify for the semi-finals. Because group C consists of only three teams, matches against fourth-placed sides in the other groups are excluded from the following comparison.
^As there was no league held in 2009, the top team after the first half of the 2010 season was named as the Nepalese representative by the All Nepal Football Association for the 2010 AFC President's Cup.[2][3]