According to Xinhua News Agency, the draw ceremony for the Afc Champions League group match in 20 16 season was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on February 15. Guangzhou Evergrande, the champion of Chinese Super League, and Sydney FC, the Australian Super League runner-up, were placed in Group H to start the defending tour.
On that day, the lottery did not completely determine the teams of the four groups in East Asia, because some places in the group stage had to be decided through the qualifying round, and the Japanese Emperor Cup was still in progress. The champion of this season's Japanese League is Hiroshima Sanjian, and Osaka Gamba and Urawa Red Diamond, which won the second and third place respectively, qualified for the AFC Champions League, but the signing positions of these two teams and the fourth Japanese team will be decided according to the results of the Imperial Cup.
In Group H, in addition to Sydney fc and Guangzhou Evergrande, the other two teams include a Japanese league team and the champion of 1, among which the most likely team is South Korea's Posco.
Jiangsu Shuntian, champion of the Chinese Football Association Cup, Jeonbuk Hyundai, champion of the Korean League, and Pingyang, champion of the Vietnamese League, will be divided into Group E, and the same group will also include a qualifying team, most likely from Japan.
The runner-up of the Super League will play the third round of qualifiers in Hong Kong, and the opponent will be the winner between Montonglian in Thailand and dt in Johor, Malaysia. The winner of Shanghai will enter Group G, which also includes Australian Super League champion Melbourne Victory Team, Japanese Emperor Cup champion and South Korea's Suwon Samsung Team.
Shandong Luneng, another Super League team, needs to play from the second round of qualifying. If it wins, it will play the third qualifying match with Australian powerhouse Adelaide United. If it successfully passes the qualifying round, Luneng will enter the Afc Champions Group F, along with Japanese league champion Hiroshima Sanjian, South Korea's Seoul FC and Thailand's champion Burinan United.
The second and third qualifying rounds of AFC Champions League will be held on February 2 and 9, 20 16 respectively. The group match will officially start on February 23, 20 16.