- AFC President's Cup
Infobox sports league
current_season=AFC President's Cup 2008
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sport=Football (soccer)
founded=2005
teams=8
country=AFC member nations
champion=flagicon|Tajikistan Regar TadAZ (2008)The AFC President's Cup is an annual international association football competition between domestic clubs sides run by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).Competition format
The eleven teams are split into three groups, and each team in the group plays each other team in their group once. The winner in each group plays the best runner-up in the semi finals, and the winner of the semi finals play each other to determine the winner of the competition. There is no match for third place.
Qualification
Qualification to the competition is to clubs from AFC-affiliated countries which fall into the AFC's 'emerging nations' category as laid out in their 'Vision Asia' document. Countries which are 'mature' and 'developing' nations are entered into the
AFC Champions League and theAFC Cup , respectively. For an 'emerging nation' to have a team representing it in the competition, however, the country must have an acceptable football league. The team that represents a country in one season of the competition is the defending champion of the top-level leagues of participating countries.Participating countries
ee also
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International club competition records External links
* [http://www.the-afc.com AFC Website]
* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesa/as3.html#excl RSSSF - AFC President's Cup]
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