The ASEAN Club Championship or ACC is an international club
football
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competition organised by the
ASEAN Football Federation
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between domestic champion clubs.
The competition is backed by
AFC and
FIFA
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. The first edition was sponsored by
LG Electronics
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, which was also known as LG Cup Asean Club Football Championship. Qualification to the competition was for champions clubs from
AFF #REDIRECT AFF
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-affiliated countries only, plus the champions from
India
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in 2003.
History
The ASEAN Club Championship was first held as biannual tournament in 2003 and 2005,
but failed to gain traction due to lack of sponsors and conflict with the main calendar of the
Asian Football Confederation
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. Plans to revive the tournament started as early as 2012.
The tournament was to return in 2020,
but the tournament was postponed to 2021 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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, but later postponed to 2022 and later cancelled.
Competition format
The format of the ASEAN Club Championship was the same as that for the
AFC Cup
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, each national football associations in
Southeast Asia
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sending their champion club representing the domestic league winners. The participating teams were split into groups of several 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 advanced to quarter-finals or semi-finals, depending on the number of groups. These finals were played as a knockout competition in the host country.
Results
General performances
By club
By nation
All-time ranking table
All-time top scorers
See also
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ASEAN Super League
The ASEAN Super League was a proposed international association football competition between domestic club sides run by the ASEAN Football Federation. It was initially scheduled to commence in 2017. In January 2017 it was announced there could be ...
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AFC Champions League
The AFC Champions League (abbreviated as ACL) is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation, and contested by Asia's top-division football clubs. It is the most prestigious club competition ...
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AFC Cup
The AFC Cup is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Under its current rules, the competition is played primarily between clubs from nations that did not receive direct qualifying s ...
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AFC President's Cup
The AFC President's Cup was an annual international association football competition between domestic clubs sides run by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) held between 2005 and 2014.
The competition targeted emerging football nations, and wa ...
References
External links
RSSSF.com: ASEAN Club Championship 2003AFC (Asia) Official Web SiteAFF (ASEAN) Official Web Site
International club association football competitions in Asia
AFF competitions
Recurring sporting events established in 2003
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2005
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