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 teams6 (total)
Current champions Beleza (1st title)
Most successful club(s) Beleza (1 title)
WebsiteOfficial website
2020 AFC Women's Club Championship

History

The idea of an Asian women's club competition was first proposed in 2018.[2] The first edition was held as a round-robin with four teams taking part in November 2019, which were the domestic league champions of Associations from Australia, China, Japan and South Korea.[3] It is proposed that there will be a maximum six invited clubs in 2020. In 2021 and 2022, there will be eight invited clubs and by 2023 and 2024, this will grow to a minimum of 12 which will be open to all Member Associations and in 2025, it will be consolidated to 16 teams. The expansion will allow the phased introduction of the tournament as the AFC Women's Champions League, as the female counterpart of the AFC Champions League.[4]

Records and statistics
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
2 2020 TBA TBD TBD TBD TBD 6
3 2021 8

Performances by

Clubs
Clubs Titles Runners-up Third Fourth Total
Beleza 1 0 0 0 1
Jiangsu 0 1 0 0 1
Incheon Red Angels 0 0 1 0 1
Melbourne Victory 0 0 0 1 1
Totals 1 1 1 1 4

Nations
Country Titles Runners-up Third Fourth Total
 Japan 1 0 0 0 1
 China 0 1 0 0 1
 South Korea 0 0 1 0 0
 Australia 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 1 1 1 1 4


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. "India recommended as host for AFC Women's Asian Cup 2022". AFC. 19 February 2020.


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