Soccer: AFC Champions League, Summary and Data

Information about the AFC Champions League with the last 10 winners of the competition, the teams with the most trophies won in the history of the tournment and an index to every final played.

The AFC Champions League is an annual international inter-club soccer competition between the champions and cup winners of the top 14 Asian leagues. It is run by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

The domestic champions of the 14 top Asian federations qualify automatically for the tournament, along with the respective cup winners of the same federations. The tournament holders receive a bye into the quarter-finals. The qualifying teams are split on a regional basis into seven groups of four teams. The teams play each other home and away, and the top team from each group qualifies for the quarter-finals, where they join the reigning holders. The quarter-finals, semi-finals and final are played on a home-and-away basis in the format of a knockout competition.

Originally known as the Asian Club Championship, the tournament began in 1967 with just eight clubs registered to take part. In 1972, with only two entrants able to take part, the tournament was cancelled. After 1972 the competition went into hiatus but was resurrected again in 1986 and reborn as the Asian Champions Cup. Entry was restricted to domestic champions only, with Cup winners playing in the Asian Cup Winners Cup tournament. The winners of the two major tournaments then played off for the Asian Super Cup. From 2002/03 the Asian Champions Cup and Asian Cup Winners Cup were merged into one competition and was rebranded the AFC Champions League.

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