Al Ahed FC will begin the defence of their AFC Cup title in Group A following the completion of the draw for the 2020 edition at AFC House in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Al Ahed will have Bahrain’s Manama Club, Al Jaish of Syria and the winner of the West Zone Play-off for the company as the Lebanese side will seek to make it back-to-back AFC titles after defeating DPR Korea’s 4.25 SC in 2019 final.<\/p>\n
A total 48 teams will be vying for the 2020 AFC Cup, with the group stage divided into five zones.<\/p>\n
The 2020 season kicks off with the preliminary stage on January 22 with the final scheduled for November 7.<\/p>\n
The stakes for the upcoming edition have been raised even higher after the AFC Executive Committee\u2019s decision to allocate the 2020 AFC Cup winners with a guaranteed spot in the play-off stage of the 2021 AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE OFFICIAL MATCH SCHEDULE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n GROUP STAGE DRAW<\/strong><\/p>\n WEST ZONE<\/strong><\/p>\n Group A<\/p>\n Al Ahed FC (LIB) Group B<\/p>\n Al Faisaly \/ Al Wehdat (JOR) Group C<\/p>\n Riffa \/ Muharraq Club (BHR) CENTRAL ZONE<\/strong><\/p>\n Group D<\/p>\n FC Istiklol \/ FC Regar-Tadaz (TJK) SOUTH ZONE<\/strong><\/p>\n Group E<\/p>\n Chennai City FC \/ FC Goa (IND) ASEAN ZONE<\/strong><\/p>\n Group F<\/p>\n Ho Chi Minh FC (VIE) Group G<\/p>\n Ceres Negros FC (PHI) Group H<\/p>\n Tampines Rovers FC \/ Geylang Int. FC (SIN) EAST ZONE<\/strong><\/p>\n Group I<\/p>\n Wofoo Tai Po FC (HKG) Al Ahed FC will begin the defence of their AFC Cup title in Group A following the completion of the draw for the 2020 edition at AFC House in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. Al Ahed will have Bahrain’s Manama Club, Al Jaish of Syria and the winner of the West Zone Play-off for the company as the Lebanese side will seek to make it back-to-back AFC titles after defeating DPR Korea’s 4.25 SC in 2019 final. A total 48 teams will be vying for the 2020 AFC Cup, with the group stage divided into five zones. The 2020 season kicks off with the preliminary stage on January 22 with the … Continue reading “AFC CUP 2020:Teams learn 2020 group stage challenge”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":1525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nManama Club (BHR)
\nAl Jaish (SYR)
\nPlay-off winner (OMA\/PLE)<\/p>\n
\nAl Ansar (LIB)
\nKuwait SC \/ Al Salmiya SC(KUW)
\nAl Wathba (SYR)<\/p>\n
\nAl Jazeera (JOR)
\nDhofar Club (OMA)
\nQadsia SC (KUW)<\/p>\n
\nAltyn Asyr FC (TKM)
\nDordoi FC (KGZ)
\nPlay-off winner (TJK\/TKM\/KGZ)<\/p>\n
\nTC Sports Club (MDV)
\nBashundhara Kings (BAN)
\nPlay-off winner (IND\/MDV\/BAN\/BHU\/SRI)<\/p>\n
\nHougang United FC (SIN)
\nLao Toyota FC (LAO)
\nPlay-off winner (MYA\/BRU)<\/p>\n
\nThan Quang Ninh (VIE)
\nBali United FC \/ IDN Third Club (IDN)
\nPlay-off winner (LAO\/CAM)<\/p>\n
\nKaya FC-Iloilo (PHI)
\nShan United \/ Ayeyawady United FC (MYA)
\nPlay-off winner (IDN\/TLS)<\/p>\n
\nTatung FC (TPE)
\nMUST CPK (MAC)
\nPlay-off winner (HKG\/TPE\/MNG)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"