1, Qualifying Tournament: East Asia and West Asia each have four places to advance directly to the group stage. The place in the Super League is won by the runner-up of the AFC Champions League, and the last one must participate in the AFC Champions League qualifiers.
2. Group stage: The team that has successfully advanced from the qualifiers plus two teams from East Asia and West Asia will directly advance to the group stage, and the last one must participate in the AFC Champions Cup qualifiers.
3. knockout: the 16 teams that advanced in the group stage played a single knockout, and finally the team won the AFC champions league.
4. Semi-final: The winners of two 1/4 finals in each district will face each other, and the order of home and away games will be determined by the promotion table determined when drawing lots for 1/4 finals.
5. Finals: The home and away two-turn system will be adopted, and the semi-final champions of each district will play against each other. The order of home and away games will be determined by the promotion table determined during the draw for the final of 1/4. The winner of the final is the champion of this season's Asian Champions League, who can participate in the FIFA Club World Cup that year.
Competition history and qualification
1, the history of the event
The first AFC Champions League was held in the 2002/03 season, and its predecessor was the Asian Champions Club Championship and the Asian Club Championship.
The first Asian Champions Club Championship was held in 1967, with 8 teams participating. The tournament of 197 1 was suspended until 1986 was reopened and renamed as the Asian Club Championship. Only local league champions can participate. The first Asian Cup Winners' Cup was held in 199 1, with the participation of world cup champions. The winners of the two events will compete for the Asian Super Cup.
2. Competition qualification
The 47 AFC member associations are ranked according to the results of Asian club competitions in the past four years (the results of national teams and teams are no longer included in the statistics).
Seats in each association will be allocated according to the competition manual. The criteria are as follows: all members of the association will be divided into "West Asia" and "East Asia", with 23 member associations in each region: West Asia will be composed of West Asia, Central Asia and South Asia, and East Asia will be composed of Southeast Asia and East Asia.