ASEAN Club Championship

ASEAN Club Championship

Organising body	AFF
Founded	2003;22 years ago (2003)
Region	Southeast Asia
Number of teams	12
Current champions	Tampines Rovers (1st title)
Most successful club(s)	East Bengal Tampines Rovers (1 title each)
2024–25 ASEAN Club Championship

The ASEAN Club Championship or ACC, also known as the Shopee Cup for sponsorship reasons, is an international club football competition organised by the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) between domestic champion clubs. ^[1] The competition is backed by AFC and FIFA.

Qualification to the competition is for champions clubs from countries affiliated with the AFF. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

History

The ASEAN Club Championship was first held as biannual tournament in 2003 and 2005. ^[5] The first edition was sponsored by LG Electronics, which was also known as LG Cup Asean Club Football Championship. ^[6] However, the tournament failed to gain traction due to lack of sponsors and conflict with the main calendar of the Asian Football Confederation. Plans to revive the tournament started as early as 2012. ^[7]

The tournament's revival was first proposed in 2019 ^[1] but was hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[8] The tournament was revived in April 2024 for the 2024–25 edition with a new title sponsor, Shopee. ^[9]

Competition format

The format of the ASEAN Club Championship was the same as that for the AFC Cup, each national football associations in Southeast Asia sending their champion club representing the domestic league winners. The participating teams were split into groups of several teams (depending on the actual number of participating teams in each group), with each team playing the others in the group in a round-robin format. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to quarter-finals or semi-finals, depending on the number of groups. These finals were played as a knockout competition in the host country.

Results

List of ASEAN Club Championship finals

Season	Winners		Score	Runners-up		Venue
	Nation	Team		Nation	Team
2003	IND	East Bengal	3–1	THA	BEC Tero Sasana	Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta
2005	SIN	Tampines Rovers	4–2	MAS	Pahang	Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium, Bandar Seri Begawan
2022	Cancelled
2024–25

Awards

Top scorers

Year	Footballer	Club	Goals
2003	Baichung Bhutia	East Bengal	9
2005	Bernard Tchoutang	Pahang	7

Statistics

By club

#	Nation	Winners	Runners-up	3rd Place	4th Place
1	East Bengal	1	0	0	0
2	Tampines Rovers	1	0	0	0
3	BEC Tero Sasana	0	1	0	0
4	Pahang	0	1	0	0
5	DPMM	0	0	1	0
6	Hoang Anh Gia Lai	0	0	1	0
7	Petrokimia Putra	0	0	1	0
8	Perak	0	0	0	1

By nation

Country	Winners	Runners-up	3rd place	4th place
India	1	0	0	0
Singapore	1	0	0	0
Malaysia	0	1	0	1
Thailand	0	1	0	0
Indonesia	0	0	1	0
Brunei	0	0	1	0
Vietnam	0	0	1	0

All-time ranking table

Rank	Club	Years	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	FW	F	SF
1	Tampines Rovers	1	5	4	1	0	10	4	+6	13	1	1	1
2	Pahang	1	5	4	0	1	18	4	+14	12	0	1	1
3	BEC Tero Sasana	1	5	4	0	1	10	5	+5	12	0	1	1
4	Hoàng Anh Gia Lai	2	7	3	1	3	23	11	+12	10	0	0	1
5	East Bengal	1	5	3	1	1	12	4	+8	10	1	1	1
6	Perak	1	5	3	0	2	8	6	+2	9	0	0	1
7	Petrokimia Putra	1	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	7	0	0	1
8	Persita Tangerang	1	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	6	0	0	0
9	DPMM	2	6	1	2	3	6	10	–4	5	0	0	1
10	Finance and Revenue	1	3	1	0	2	4	5	–1	3	0	0	0
11	FC Zebra	1	3	1	0	2	4	22	–18	3	0	0	0
12	Singapore Armed Forces	1	3	0	1	2	4	7	–3	1	0	0	0
13	Thailand Tobacco Monopoly	1	3	0	1	2	4	7	–3	1	0	0	0
14	Samart United	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	–2	0	0	0	0
15	MCTPC	1	2	0	0	2	2	5	–3	0	0	0	0
16	Philippine Army	1	2	0	0	2	0	9	–9	0	0	0	0
17	Nagacorp	1	2	0	0	2	1	11	–10	0	0	0	0

See also

• Mekong Club Championship
• ASEAN Super League
• SAFF Club Championship
• Marianas Club Championship

References

1. McCullagh, Kevin (6 November 2019). "Asean Club Championship to launch after getting AFC and Fifa backing". SportBusiness. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
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3. "Fox Sports". Archived from the original on 2019-11-06. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
4. Ninan, Susan (1 November 2016). "Before BFC in 2016, there was East Bengal's ASEAN win in 2003". ESPN. Archived from the original on 4 August 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
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6. Krishnan, Raghu (3 August 2003). "Corporate sponsorships made East Bengal champions". The Economic Times. Archived from the original on 31 August 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
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9. Chia, Han Keong (4 April 2024). "New ASEAN Club Championship launched with 14 top regional football clubs set to vie for annual honours". Yahoo News . Archived from the original on 4 April 2024. Retrieved 5 April 2024.

External links

• RSSSF.com: ASEAN Club Championship 2003
• RSSSF.com: ASEAN Club Championship 2005
• AFC (Asia) Official Web Site
• AFF (ASEAN) Official Web Site
• S-LeagueFootball.Blogspot.Com website