| Tourney Name: | AFC Cup |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Num Teams: | 28+4 |
| Associations: | 15 |
| Champion Other: |  Nasaf Qarshi |
| Count: | 1 |
| Second Other: | Al-Kuwait |
| Matches: | 117 |
| Goals: | 363 |
| Top Scorer: |  Ivan Bošković (10 goals) |
| Player: |  Artur Gevorkyan |
| Prevseason: | 2010 |
| Nextseason: | 2012 |
The 2011 AFC Cup was the eighth edition of the AFC Cup, a football competition organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for clubs from "developing countries" in Asia.
Bahrain (withdrew and replaced by a team from Uzbekistan)
IndiaThe following is the list of participants confirmed by the AFC.[1] There were 28 direct entries while 4 teams joined as losers of the 2011 AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs.
| East Asia (Groups F–H) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Qualifying method | App | Last App | |
 South China | 2009–10 Hong Kong First Division League champions 2009–10 Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield winners | 4th | 2010 | |
| TSW Pegasus | 2010 Hong Kong FA Cup winners | 1st | none | |
| Kingfisher East Bengal | 2010 Indian Federation Cup winners | 5th | 2010 | |
 Persipura Jayapura1 | 2009–10 Indonesia Super League runners-up | 1st | none | |
 VB | 2010 Dhivehi League champions | 4th | 2010 | |
| Victory | 2010 Maldives FA Cup winners | 4th | 2010 | |
| Tampines Rovers1 | 2010 S.League runners-up | 4th | 2007 | |
 Chonburi | 2010 Thai FA Cup winners | 2nd | 2009 | |
| Ha Noi T&T | 2010 V-League champions | 1st | none | |
| Song Lam Nghe An | 2010 Vietnamese Cup winners | 1st | none | |
| Muangthong United | 2011 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off losers | 2nd | 2010 | |
| Sriwijaya | 2011 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off losers | 2nd | 2010 | |
1 Invited to play in the competition.
2 Al-Qadsia failed to fulfil the criteria set by AFC to compete in the 2011 AFC Champions League, and so directly enter the 2011 AFC Cup.
3 Replaced Al-Ahli (2009–10 Bahrain First Division League champions).
Schedule of dates for 2011 competition.[2]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 7 December 2010 | 1–2 March 2011 | |
| Matchday 2 | 15–16 March 2011 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 12–13 April 2011 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 26–27 April 2011 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 3–4 May 2011 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 10–11 May 2011 | |||
| Knockout phase | Round of 16 | 24–25 May 2011 | ||
| Quarter-finals | 7 June 2011 | 13 September 2011 | 27 September 2011 | |
| Semi-finals | 4 October 2011 | 18 October 2011 | ||
| Final | 29 October 2011 at home of one of the finalists | |||
See main article: 2011 AFC Cup group stage.
The draw for the group stage was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 7 December 2010.[3] [4] Clubs from the same country may not be drawn into the same group.[5] The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the knockout stage.[6]
See main article: 2011 AFC Cup knockout stage.
Based on the results from the group stage, the matchups of the round of 16 were decided as below.[7] Each tie was played in one match, hosted by the winners of each group (Team 1) against the runners-up of another group (Team 2).[5]
The draw for the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and final was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 7 June 2011.[8] In this draw, the "country protection" rule was applied: if there are exactly two clubs from the same country, they may not face each other in the quarter-finals; however, if there are more than two clubs from the same country, they may face each other in the quarter-finals.
See main article: 2011 AFC Cup Final.
The final of the 2011 AFC Cup was hosted by one of the finalists, decided by draw.[6]
| 2011 AFC Cup Nasaf Qarshi 1st Title |
The following awards were given for the 2011 AFC Cup:[9]
Artur Gevorkyan (Nasaf Qarshi) Ivan Bošković (Nasaf Qarshi) Nasaf Qarshi| Rank | Player | Club | --> | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ivan Bošković | Nasaf Qarshi | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | |||||||
| 2 |  Firas Al Khatib | Al-Qadsia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | |||||||
| 3 |  Leandro Carrijó | TSW Pegasus | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | |||||||||
| 4 |  Hassan Abdel-Fattah | Al-Kuwait &<br> Al-Wehdat | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Mahmoud Shelbaieh | Al-Wehdat | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Aleksandar Durić | Tampines Rovers | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||
| Pipob On-Mo | Chonburi | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 8 |  Muslim Mubarak | Arbil | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||
 Tolgay Ozbey | Kingfisher East Bengal | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||||
 Christian Kouakou | Muangthong United | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Boaz Solossa | Persipura Jayapura | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Hamad Al Enezi | Al-Qadsia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Nosirbek Otakuziyev | Nasaf Qarshi | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Amit Ghosh | Team | Against | Round | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group stage Matchday 1 | 1 March 2011 | ||||
| Group stage Matchday 3 | 13 April 2011 | ||||
| Group stage Matchday 4 | 27 April 2011 | ||||
| Group stage Matchday 5 | 4 May 2011 |
