The 2024–25 AFC Women's Champions League[1] will be the first edition of the AFC Women's Champions League, Asia's premier club women's football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
Key principles for the competition were released by the AFC on 20 August 2023.[2] There is one entry per participating member association, with allocation based on the FIFA Women's World Ranking as of 15 March 2024. Clubs from the top ranked associations qualified directly to the group stage, with the remaining clubs starting from the preliminary stage.[3][4]
Originally, 22 (out of 47) member associations applied to enter the competition.[4] However, Naegohyang from North Korea withdrew before the draw.[5]
Associations that did not enter a team
The competition comprises:[3][7]
Teams in the preliminary stage and the group stage are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:[7]
Clubs from the top eight member associations qualified directly to the group stage, while the remaining 13 clubs entered at the preliminary stage.[4][5]
Bhutan, Jordan, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia will be the hosts of each group in the Preliminary stage.[5]
(H) Hosts
The group stage will be played from 6 to 12 October 2024. Competing clubs will be divided in three groups of four. Teams in each group play one another in a centralised single round-robin format in each group.[3] The top two finishers in each group, together with the two best third-placed teams, will advance to the knockout stage. China, Thailand and Vietnam will be the hosts of each group in the Group stage.[5]
(H) Hosts † Winners of the preliminary stage, whose identity was not known at the time of draw
The knockout stage will be played in a single-leg knockout format.
For the quarter-finals draw, teams will be seeded based on their performance in the group stage. Three group winners and the best second-placed team will be seeded, and the remaining four teams will be unseeded. The seeded teams will be drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the quarter-final match. Teams from the same group cannot be drawn against each other.
The semi-finals and the final match will be played in centralised location.[7]
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