DateRHjemme v Borte-
05/05 16:00 1 [2] Al Ahed v Central Coast Mariners [1] 0-1
04/24 09:00 673 Central Coast Mariners v FC Abdish-Ata Kant 3-0
04/23 16:00 677 [1] Al-Nahda v Al Ahed [2] 2-2
04/17 12:00 673 FC Abdish-Ata Kant v Central Coast Mariners 1-1
04/16 16:00 677 [2] Al Ahed v Al-Nahda [1] 1-0
03/14 10:00 675 Odisha FC v Central Coast Mariners 0-0
03/13 08:00 675 Taichung Futuro v FC Abdish-Ata Kant 1-3
03/07 08:00 675 Central Coast Mariners v Odisha FC 4-0
03/06 12:00 675 FC Abdish-Ata Kant v Taichung Futuro 5-0
02/22 08:00 677 Macarthur FC v Central Coast Mariners 2-3
02/20 16:00 671 [1] Al Kahrabaa v Al Ahed [2] 2-5
02/19 16:00 671 Al-Nahda v Al-Riffa 3-1
02/13 16:00 671 [2] Al Ahed v Al Kahrabaa [1] 0-1
02/13 09:00 671 [1] Central Coast Mariners v Phnom Penh Crown [2] 4-0
02/13 07:00 671 Macarthur FC v Sabah FC 3-0
02/12 16:00 671 Al-Riffa v Al-Nahda 1-1
12/14 14:00 6 [3] FK Ravshan v Altyn Asyr FK [2] 0-1
12/14 12:00 6 [4] CPK v Tainan City [3] 4-1
12/14 12:00 6 [3] Dynamic Herb Cebu FC v Macarthur FC [1] 0-3
12/14 12:00 6 [1] Sabah FC v PSM Makassar [3] 1-3
12/14 12:00 6 [2] Hai Phong v Hougang United FC [4] 4-0
12/14 12:00 6 [4] Shan Utd v Phnom Penh Crown [2] 2-1
12/14 10:00 6 [1] FC Abdish-Ata Kant v FC Merw [3] 8-3
12/14 08:00 6 [1] Taichung Futuro v FC Ulaanbaatar [3] 1-2
12/13 12:00 6 [2] Terengganu v Bali United [3] 2-0
12/13 08:00 6 [4] Stallion Laguna FC v Central Coast Mariners [1] 0-3
12/12 16:00 6 Jabal Al Mukaber v Al-Nahda Cancelled
12/12 16:00 6 [2] Al Zawra'a v Al-Riffa [1] 2-1
12/12 16:00 6 [3] Al Ahed v Al Futowa [2] 2-1
12/12 16:00 6 [4] Al Nejmeh v Al Arabi SC [3] 1-2

Wikipedia - AFC Cup

The AFC Cup was an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The competition was played primarily among clubs from nations that did not receive direct qualifying slots to the top-tier AFC Champions League, based on the AFC Club Competitions Ranking.

Al-Kuwait SC and Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya were the most successful clubs in the competition's history, having won three titles each. Clubs from Kuwait won four titles, making them the most successful nation in the competition. The tournament was dominated by clubs from West Asia, with the only winners from outside that region being Uzbek side FC Nasaf in 2011, Malaysian side Johor Darul Ta'zim in 2015 and Australian side Central Coast Mariners in 2024.

Central Coast Mariners were the last champions, having defeated Al-Ahed in the 2024 final. From the 2021 season, the team winning the AFC Cup was granted qualification to the following season's AFC Champions League qualifying playoffs, had they not qualified through their domestic performance.

The AFC Cup was discontinued at the end of the 2023–24 season, with the AFC Champions League 2 and AFC Challenge League being introduced as Asia's new second and third-tier competitions.

History

The AFC Cup began in 2004 as a second-tier competition to relate back to the AFC Champions League as 14 countries that had developing status competed in the first competition with 18 teams being nominated. Group A, B, C had West and Central Asian teams while the other two groups had east and South East Asia. The winners and three runners-up would then head to the knock-out stage where it was a random draw in who was going to play. Al-Jaish took the first AFC Cup after they defeated fellow Syrian opponents Al-Wahda on away goals.

In 2005, 18 teams competed from nine nations with the nations still being allowed to choose from one or two teams entering. After Syrian teams left the AFC Cup to try at the AFC Champions League for four years, Al-Faisaly defeated Nejmeh in the final. With it, Jordanian teams would win the next two AFC Cup seasons with Bahrain joining the league while Bangladesh was relegated to the AFC President's Cup until the tournament's abolition in 2014.

Al-Muharraq would break the trend in 2008 as they competed in the last two-legged final before it headed back into a one-leg system, a rule that was never changed till the termination of this tournament.

On 23 December 2022, it was announced that the AFC competition structure would change from the established formats from the 2024–25 season. Under the new plans, the AFC Cup was discontinued, and a new second-tier tournament called the AFC Champions League 2 was introduced. Meanwhile, a new third-tier competition was also launched under the name AFC Challenge League.

**AFC Cup**

AFC Cup er en årlig fotballturnering for klubblag fra land som er medlemmer av Det asiatiske fotballforbundet (AFC). Turneringen ble etablert i 2004 som den tredje mest prestisjefulle klubbturneringen i Asia, etter AFC Champions League og AFC Cup Winners' Cup.

AFC Cup er åpen for klubblag som ikke kvalifiserer seg til AFC Champions League, og inkluderer lag fra land som Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, Kambodsja, Kina, Guam, Hongkong, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Laos, Libanon, Macao, Malaysia, Maldivene, Myanmar, Nord-Korea, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Palestina, Filippinene, Qatar, Saudi-Arabia, Singapore, Sør-Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tadsjikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Usbekistan, Vietnam og Yemen.

Turneringen spilles i to etapper: et gruppespill og en utslagsfase. I gruppespillet er lagene delt inn i åtte grupper med fire lag i hver. De to beste lagene i hver gruppe går videre til utslagsfasen, som består av åttedelsfinaler, kvartfinaler, semifinaler og finaler.

Finalen i AFC Cup spilles i en enkelt kamp på en forhåndsbestemt arena. Vinneren av AFC Cup kvalifiserer seg til AFC Champions League neste sesong.