The 2022 ASEAN Club Championship (simply 2022 ACC) will be the third edition of the
ASEAN Club Championship, an international
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
competition between domestic champion clubs sides affiliated with the member associations of the
ASEAN Football Federation
The ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) is an organisation within the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and is an international governing body of association football in Southeast Asia. It consists of the federations of Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, ...
. It is the first ACC to commence since
2005
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.
Twelve clubs will feature in the competition proper. The final prize money for the winners will be about US$500,000.
The tournament was initially scheduled to take place in 2020 but was postponed due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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. The tournament was later postponed again to 2022 due to rescheduling competitions in 2021;
2022 Asian World Cup qualification,
2023 AFC Asian Cup qualification
The 2023 AFC Asian Cup qualification was the qualification process organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine the participating teams for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup, the 18th edition of the international men's football champion ...
, AFC competitions and the
2020 AFF Championship
The 2020 AFF Championship (officially AFF Suzuki Cup 2020 for sponsorship reasons) was the 13th edition of the AFF Championship, the football championship of nations affiliated to the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF), the 7th and the last edition ...
. The tournament was officially cancelled due to the ongoing pandemic.
Association team allocation
Clubs from the following 11 football associations are eligible to enter the competition:
Teams
The following 12 teams from 9 associations confirmed their participation in the competition. Malaysia had direct two berths to the group stage but is strongly considering not to enter a team. Reportedly only the first and second-placed teams in the first-tier domestic league and the winners of the national cup is eligible to enter.
However Brunei's Indera only placed fourth in the 2018–19 Brunei Super League but they are Brunei's representative at the
2020 AFC Cup
The 2020 AFC Cup was the 17th edition of the AFC Cup, Asia's secondary club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
The competition was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic after group stage matches on 11 March ...
being the only club in the league which fulfills the AFC Club License requirements.
Timor Leste also has not confirmed its participation.
Foreign players
A maximum of four foreigners are allowed per club which follows the
Asian Football Confederation
The Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal in some countries/territories in Asia and Oceania. It has 47 member countries most of which are located in Asia. Australia, formerly in ...
's (AFC) '3+1 rule'; three players of any nationality and a fourth coming from an AFC member nation. A player coming from an AFF member nation will not be considered as a foreign player.
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See also
* AFF Championship
References
External links
ASEAN Club Championship 2020
at Fox Sports Asia
Fox Sports (formerly ESPN Star Sports) was a pan-Asian pay television network broadcasting in Asia, operated by Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company (Southeast Asia) Pte. Ltd. It also oversaw a version of Sta ...
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