ASEAN Club Championship

:"This article is about the current tournament involving the champion clubs of national football associations in Southeast Asia, for the trophy called the ASEAN Club Championship.

The ASEAN Club Championship is a biennial international association football competition between domestic champions clubs sides run by the ASEAN Football Federation. Qualification to the competition is to champions clubs from AFF-affiliated countries (including the invitee countries's champions clubs from India, Maldives and Australia).

Participating national football associations

Clubs from the following 13 football associations take part in the competition.

*flagicon|Brunei Brunei
*flagicon|Cambodia Cambodia
*flagicon|Indonesia Indonesia
*flagicon|Laos Laos
*flagicon|Malaysia Malaysia
*flagicon|Myanmar Myanmar
*flagicon|Philippines Philippines
*flagicon|Singapore Singapore
*flagicon|Thailand Thailand
*flagicon|Timor-Leste Timor-Leste
*flagicon|Vietnam Vietnam

Invitee Countries

*flagicon|India India
*flagicon|Maldives Maldives
*flagicon|Australia Australia

Competition format

The format of the ASEAN Club Championship is the same as that for the AFC Cup. Each national footbal associations in Southeast Asia sends their champions club representing the domestic league winners. The participating teams are split into two groups of four teams (depending on the actual number of participating teams in each group), with each team playing the others in the group in a round-robin format. The winners and runners-up of each group enter into the semi-finals. The semi-finals and final are played as a knockout competition in the host country.

Results

ee also

*AFC Champions League
*AFC Cup
*AFC President's Cup

External links

* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesa/aseanclub03.html]
* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesa/aseanclub05.html]
* [http://www.the-afc.com/english/index.asp AFC Official Web Site]
* [http://www.aseanfootball.org/]