2021 AFC Champions League – Group Stage Draw Show<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Group B comprises UAE’s Sharjah, Iran’s Tractor FC, Pakhtakor of Uzbekistan and a playoff winner while Group C will see Qatar’s Al Duhail SC, Saudi Arabia’s Al Ahli Saudi, Esteghlal of Iran and Al Shorta of Iraq bidding to advance to the Round of 16.<\/p>\n
Qatar’s Al Sadd SC, Saudi Arabia’s Al Nassr, Al Wehdat of Jordan and a playoff winner were drawn in Group D.<\/p>\n
Group G comprises Jiangsu FC of China PR, Japan’s Nagoya Grampus, Malaysia’s Johor Darul Ta’zim and a playoff winner.<\/p>\n
<\/i> Two-time winners Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors of Korea Republic, Japan’s Gamba Osaka, Tampines Rovers of Singapore and Australia\u2019s Sydney FC were drawn in Group H with Japan’s Kawasaki Frontale, two-time champions Guangzhou FC of China, United City FC of Philippines and a playoff winner the teams in Group I.<\/p>\n China’s Shandong Luneng FC, Port FC of Thailand, Hong Kong’s Kitchee SC and a playoff winner were drawn in Group J to complete the East Zone section of the draw.<\/p>\n The 2021 AFC Champions League kicks off with the preliminary stage on April 7 with the group stage – which kicks off on April 14 – to be played in centralised venues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2021 AFC Champions League will see 40 teams in the group stage – an increase of eight – with one additional group each in the East and West Zones. Korea Republic’s Ulsan Hyundai, who defeated Islamic Republic of Iran’s Persepolis FC in 2020 final to lift the AFC Champions League trophy for the second time, will have Thailand’s BG Pathum United, Vietnam’s Viettel FC and a playoff winner for the company in Group F in the 2021 edition of the AFC Champions League. Persepolis, also runners-up in 2018, were drawn with Al Rayyan of Qatar, India’s FC Goa and a playoff winner in Group E. The draw conducted virtually … Continue reading “2021 AFC Champions League draw produces thrilling groups; FC Goa in Group E”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":1603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[769,738,745,748,751,747,749,756,754,746,752,740,760,763,750,758,768,767,765,759,744,757,743,766,741,739,762,761,742,753,764,755],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602"}],"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=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"AFC](\"https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/img\/image\/upload\/t_l7\/srzwwls1cg1mj938juib.jpg\")
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