AFC Cup

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AFC Cup
Founded	2004
Region	Asia (AFC)
Number of teams	20
Current champions	Shabab Al Ordon
Most successful club	Al-Faisaly (2 time champions)
AFC Cup 2008

The AFC Cup is an annual international association football competition between domestic clubs sides run by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Qualification to the competition is to clubs from AFC-affiliated countries which fall into the AFC's 'developing nations' category as laid out in their 'Vision Asia' document ^[1]. Countries which are 'mature' nations are entered into the AFC Champions League, and countries which are 'emerging' nations are entered into the AFC President's Cup. The 'developing nations' are the fourteen 'next-best' countries which lie outside the top-14 countries in the AFC region which send their club sides to the more prestigious AFC Champions League. Thus the two competitions are not interlinked as the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup in Europe, and Champions League losers do not compete in the Cup.

1 Participating nations and regions
2 Competition format
3 Results
4 Performance by clubs
5 Performance by nations
- 5.1 By Clubs' Statistics
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Participating nations and regions

Clubs from the following 15 football associations take part in the competition. Italics are relagated or excluded.

West Asia

Central Asia

Uzbekistan*
Turkmenistan

South Asia

East Asia

Hong Kong
North Korea

Southeast Asia

* Vietnam and Thailand lose ration for Australia in AFC Champions League. Instead of sending two teams by each country to compete for AFC Champion League, the second representative team of Vietnam and Thailand is demoted to play in AFC Cup.

Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Uzbekistan, Qatar, Syria, Kuwait, Jordan all to One Team from 2009 AFC Cup, North Korea and Myanmar are excluded, and Turkmenistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Yemen, Lebanon are relagated to AFC President's Cup.

[edit] Competition format

The format of the AFC Cup is the same as that for the AFC Champions League. Each country sends two teams representing the domestic league winners and the cup winners. The participating teams are split into six groups of three or four, with each team playing the others in the group in a round robin format. The winners of each group and two best runner-up enter into the quarter finals. The quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals are played as a knockout competition.

[edit] Results

Season	Final			Semifinalists (No 3rd place match)
Season	Champions	Score	Runner-up	Semifinalists (No 3rd place match)
2008 Details		1st leg: - 2nd leg: -
2007 Details	Shabab Al Ordon Al Qadisiya	1st leg: 1-0 2nd leg: 1-1	Al-Faisaly Amman	Al Wihdat Amman	Al-Nejmeh Beirut
2006 Details	Al-Faisaly Amman	1st leg: 3-0 2nd leg: 2-4	Muharraq Club	Al Wihdat Amman	Al-Nejmeh Beirut
2005 Details	Al-Faisaly Amman	1st leg: 1-0 2nd leg: 3-2	Al-Nejmeh Beirut	New Radiant	Xiangxue Sun Hei
2004 Details	Al-Jaish Damascus	1st leg: 2-3 2nd leg: 1-0 (away goals win)	Al-Wahda Damascus	Geylang United	Home United

[edit] Performance by clubs

#	Clubs	Winners	Runners-up	Semifinalist
1	Al-Faisaly Amman	2	1	0
2	Shabab Al Ordon Al Qadisiya	1	0	0
2	Al-Jaish Damascus	1	0	0
4	Al-Nejmeh Beirut	0	1	2
	Muharraq Club	0	1	0
	Al-Wahda Damascus	0	1	0
7	Al Wihdat Amman	0	0	2
8	Geylang United FC	0	0	1
	Home United FC	0	0	1
	New Radiant	0	0	1
	Xiangxue Sun Hei	0	0	1