AFC Women's Club Championship

The AFC Women's Club Championship is an international women's association football club competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).[1]

AFC Women's Club Championship
Founded2019 (2019)
RegionAsia (AFC)
Number of teams8 (total)
Current champions Beleza (1st title)
WebsiteOfficial website
2021 AFC Women's Club Championship

History

The concept of an Asian women's club competition was recommended in 2018.[2] This translated into the first edition, which was also known as the 2019 FIFA–AFC Pilot Women's Club Championship. This was held as a round-robin in November 2019, with four teams taking part: the domestic league champions of Associations from Australia, China, Japan and South Korea.[3]

A second edition of the FIFA–AFC Pilot Women's Club Championship, with a maximum of six invited clubs, was initially scheduled for 9–14 November 2020,[4] but along with many sporting events, plans were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and no tournament was held in 2020.

The proposal for expanding the tournament towards being an AFC Women's Champions League, as the female counterpart of the AFC Champions League, envisaged that there would be eight invited clubs in 2021 and 2022, a minimum of 12 clubs, open to all member associations, in 2023 and 2024, and consolidated to 16 teams by 2025, where an AFC Women's Club Competition ranking would also be devised.[5]

Results
Edition Year Hosts Final Third place match or losing semi-finalists Number of teams
Winners Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place
1 2019 South Korea Beleza round-robin Jiangsu Incheon Red Angels round-robin Melbourne Victory 4
— 2020 — Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic — —
2 2021 TBD Scheduled for 1–6 November 2021[6] TBD

Records and statistics

Performances by club
Club Winners Runners-up Years won Years runners-up
Beleza 1 0 2019 —
Jiangsu Suning 0 1 — 2019

Performances by nation
Nation Titles Runners-up Total
 Japan 1 0 1
 China 0 1 1

Performances by region
Federation (Region) Titles
EAFF (East Asia) 1
AFF (Southeast Asia) 0
WAFF (West Asia) 0
CAFA (Central Asia) 0
SAFF (South Asia) 0

See also

References
  1. "AFC Women's Football Committee approves AFC Women's Club Championship". AFC. 27 September 2019.
  2. "AFC Women's Football Committee recommends women's club competition". AFC. 20 April 2018.
  3. McCullagh, Kevin (30 September 2019). "AFC to pilot women's club championship in November". Sport Business. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  4. "Bumper 2020 beckons for Asian football". Asian Football Confederation. 1 January 2020.
  5. "India recommended as host for AFC Women's Asian Cup 2022". AFC. 19 February 2020.
  6. "AFC Competitions Calendar 2021". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 5 December 2019.
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