2024–25 AFC Women's Champions League

The 2024–25 AFC Women's Champions League^[1] will be the 1st edition of the AFC Women's Champions League, Asia's premier club women's football tournament after four editions of pilot/invitational tournaments of AFC Women's Club Championship. It will be organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

2024–25 AFC Women's Champions League

Tournament details
Teams	Competition proper: 12 (from 12 associations)
← 2023 (AFC Women's Club Championship) 2025–26 →

Association team allocation

Key principles for the competition were released by the AFC on 20 August 2023.^[2]

From the first four seasons there will be one entry per participating member association, with allocation based on the FIFA ranking of participating member associations up to 2027–28. Clubs with top seeding as per the Member Association’s women’s world ranking will enjoy direct qualification to the Group Stage, subject to entries.^[3] Thereafter, an AFC women's club competition ranking will be used.

Twenty-two eligible member associations submitted an entry by the due date.^[4][5] These are:

•   Australia
•   Bhutan
•   China
•   Chinese Taipei
•   North Korea
•   Hong Kong
•   India
•   Myanmar
•   Iran
•   Japan
•   Jordan
•   South Korea
•   Laos
•   Malaysia
•     Nepal
•   Philippines
•   Saudi Arabia
•   Singapore
•   Thailand
•   United Arab Emirates
•   Uzbekistan
•   Vietnam

Format

The 2024–25 competition will comprise a preliminary stage (depending upon the number of entries), a main tournament with 12 teams featuring in the group stage, followed by a knockout stage.^[3]

Schedule

Stage	Round	Draw Date	Dates
Preliminary Stage	TBA	TBA	25–31 August 2024
Group Stage	Matchday 1	TBA	6–12 October 2024
	Matchday 2
	Matchday 3
Knockout stage	Quarter-Finals	TBA	22–23 March 2025
	Semi-Finals		21–24 May 2025
	Final

Teams

Teams confirmed to have entered include:

Team	Qualifying method	App. (last)	Ref.
Odisha	2023–24 Indian Women's League champions	1st	^[6]
Melbourne City	2023–24 A-League Women premiers	1st	^[7]
Al Nassr	2023–24 Saudi Women's Premier League champions	1st	^[8]

Preliminary stage

Group stage

The group stage will be played from 6 to 12 October 2024. Competing clubs will be divided in three groups of four. Teams in each group play one another in a centralised single round-robin format in each group.^[3] The top two finishers in each group, together with the two best third-placed teams, will advance to the knockout stage.

See also

• 2024–25 AFC Champions League Elite
• 2024–25 AFC Champions League 2
• 2024–25 AFC Challenge League

References

1. "AFC Executive Committee approves biggest prize purse in Asian club football history from 2024/25; announces AFC Women's Champions League". AFC. 14 August 2023.
2. "Key principles of landmark AFC Women's Champions League approved by AFC Women's Football Committee". AFC. 20 August 2023.
3. "AFC unveils key details for inaugural AFC Women's Champions League 2024/25". The AFC. 12 April 2024. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
4. https://twitter.com/TheAsianGame/status/1787819664334377349
5. "The 22 nations to submit an entry are". X. 7 May 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
6. "Odisha FC of India to play in inaugural AFC Women's Champions League". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
7. "Melbourne City to enter AFC Women's Champions League". Twitter.com. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
8. "«الآسيوي» يكشف عن «أبطال السيدات»... والنصر مرشح السعودية" [The Asian reveals the 'Women's Champions League'... and Al-Nassr is the Saudi nominee.]. aawsat.com (in Arabic). 13 April 2024. Retrieved 14 May 2024.