| Tourney Name: | AFC Women's Champions League |
| Year: | 2024–25 |
| Num Teams: | Competition proper: 12 Total: 21 |
| Associations: | 21 |
| Nextseason: | 2025–26 |
The 2024–25 AFC Women's Champions League[1] will be the first edition of the AFC Women's Champions League, Asia's premier club women's football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
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.
Originally, 22 (out of 47) Member Associations applied to enter the competition.[4] However, Naegohyang from North Korea withdrew before the draw.[5]
| Rank | Member association | Slots | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group stage | Play-off | |||
| AFC | World | |||
| 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | |
| 3 | 12 | 1 | 0 | |
| 4 | 19 | 1 | 0 | |
| 5 | 20 | 1 | 0 | |
| 6 | 37 | 1 | 0 | |
| 7 | 39 | 1 | 0 | |
| 8 | 41 | 1 | 0 | |
| 9 | 46 | 1 | 0 | |
| 10 | 47 | 0 | 1 | |
| 11 | 54 | 0 | 1 | |
| 12 | 63 | 0 | 1 | |
| 13 | 67 | 0 | 1 | |
| 14 | 74 | 0 | 1 | |
| 15 | 79 | 0 | 1 | |
| 17 | 93 | 0 | 1 | |
| 18 | 96 | 0 | 1 | |
| 19 | 98 | 0 | 1 | |
| 22 | 114 | 0 | 1 | |
| 28 | 138 | 0 | 1 | |
| 38 | 173 | 0 | 1 | |
| 40 | 175 | 0 | 1 | |
| Total | Participating associations: 21 | 8 | 13 | |
| 21 | ||||
The competition comprises:[3] [6]
Teams in the preliminary stage and the group stage are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:[6]
| Stage | Round | Draw date | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preliminary stage | Matchday 1 | 18 July 2024 | 25–31 August 2024 |
| Matchday 2 | |||
| Matchday 3 | |||
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 6–12 October 2024 | |
| Matchday 2 | |||
| Matchday 3 | |||
| Knockout stage | Quarterfinals | TBD | 22–23 March 2025 |
| Semifinals | 21–24 May 2025 | ||
| Final |
Clubs from the top eight member associations qualified directly to the group stage, while the remaining 13 clubs entered at the preliminary stage.[4] [5]
| Team | Qualifying method | |
|---|---|---|
| Urawa Red Diamonds | 2023–24 WE League champions | |
| Melbourne City | 2023–24 A-League Women premiers | |
| Wuhan Jiangda | 2023 Chinese Women's Super League champions | |
| Incheon Red Angels | 2023 WK League champions | |
| Hồ Chí Minh City | 2023 Vietnamese Women's National League champions | |
| Kaya–Iloilo | 2023 PFF Women's League champions | |
| Taichung Blue Whale | 2023 Taiwan Mulan Football League champions | |
| College of Asian Scholars | 2024 Thai Women's League 1 champions |
| Team | Qualifying method | |
|---|---|---|
| Nasaf | 2024 Uzbekistan Women's League champions | |
| Myawady | 2023 Myanmar Women's League champions | |
| Bam Khatoon | 2023–24 Kowsar Women Football League champions | |
| Odisha | 2023–24 Indian Women's League champions | |
| Etihad | 2023 Jordan Women's Pro League champions | |
| Kitchee | 2023–24 Hong Kong Women League champions | |
| Young Elephants | 2023 Lao Women League champions | |
| Sabah | 2023 Malaysia National Women's League champions | |
| APF | 2023 Nepalese National Women's League champions | |
| Abu Dhabi Country Club | 2023–24 UAE Women's Football League champions | |
| Lion City Sailors | 2023 Women's Premier League champions | |
| Royal Thimphu College | 2023–24 Women's National League champions | |
| Al Nassr | 2023–24 Saudi Women's Premier League champions |
Bhutan, Jordan, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia will be the hosts of each group in the Preliminary stage.[5]
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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. China, Thailand and Vietnam will be the hosts of each group in the Group stage.[5]
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The knockout stage will be played in a single-leg knockout format.
For the quarter-finals draw, teams will be seeded based on their performance in the group stage. Three group winners and the best second-placed team will be seeded, and the remaining four teams will be unseeded. The seeded teams will be drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the quarter-final match. Teams from the same group cannot be drawn against each other.
The semi-finals and the final match will be played in centralised location.[6]