On September 30, the AFC Competition Committee held its 5th annual working meeting at its headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. At the meeting, the Chairman of the Competition Committee, Tran Khuoc Thuyen from Vietnam, recognized that the
China Super League (soccer league)
Changchun Yatai (soccer team)
Team,
Shanghai harbor
Despite the team's withdrawal from this season's AFC Champions League, the AFC will not penalize the two teams because the reason for their withdrawal has been determined to be "force majeure".
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Salon to impose retroactive penalties.
Since the other two
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salon (loanword)
Shandong Taishan prefecture level city in Shandong
Guangzhou team
Both competed and ended up in the group stage of this season's AFC Champions League with very poor records, thus
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The league's overall skill points have been shaved off quite a bit, the
China Super League (soccer league)
The league's position in the AFC's league skill rankings for each member association has plummeted.
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The number of places in the AFC Champions League in the 2024 season will be drastically reduced from 2+2 in the last two seasons to one. In this way, compared to organizing a "second team" to cope with the competition, the
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The loss caused by teams retreating is even smaller.
At the meeting of the AFC Competition Committee on the 30th, the chairman of the committee, Mr. Tuan, acknowledged and thanked the member associations for their participation in AFC-sponsored tournaments in spite of various difficulties during the epidemic, and at the same time expressed his understanding of the resolution of some member associations to withdraw from the tournaments due to the influence of objective factors. The AFC Competitions Committee said: "The Committee recognizes that
China Super League (soccer league)
Changchun Yatai (soccer team)
Team,
Shanghai harbor
The team's withdrawal from the 2022 AFC Champions League season was the result of force majeure." And subject to similar force majeure reasons for withdrawal are also withdrawing from the U20
Asian cup (e.g. soccer)
Asian cup (e.g. soccer)
The Macau team and the two Myanmar salon teams that withdrew from the AFC Cup will not be subject to additional sanctions. None of these teams and their respective member associations will be subject to additional sanctions for "withdrawal".
It is worth noting that before the start of this season's AFC Champions League, the relevant
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Comments on whether the 4 teams should withdraw from the event as a group opened up in the domestic football world. It is understood that
Shandong Taishan prefecture level city in Shandong
Team,
Guangzhou team
Much of the reason for sticking with the race after all was also due to the fear that withdrawing from the race might give a bad name to this salon and the
China Super League (soccer league)
The league invites the pursuit of punishment. However, judging from the statement of the AFC Competition Committee, this concern may be residual, or perhaps the judgment of the side in favor of withdrawing from the competition regarding this issue is wrong.
due to
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The team last season, this season are affected by objective factors, and sent young reserves or team players as the basis of the "second team, third team" to participate in the AFC Champions League, and therefore in the elimination of the group before the knockout rounds of the "total collapse" is inevitable. What is more worrying is that it is due to the lack of personnel strength.
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The teams have no wins in the group stage of the AFC Champions League in the last two seasons and have been won by Malaysia and Hong Kong's salon teams respectively, thus
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The league was docked a lot of skill ranking points due to the team's poor record.
In accordance with the routine, the AFC will release the results of the 2024 season AFC Champions League quota allocation at the end of this year. As of the end of this season's AFC Champions League group stage 8 matches.
China Super League (soccer league)
Temporarily ranked 16th in the AFC League Skill Points Ranking List of Member Associations, the ranking in the East Asia Region has dropped from the first place to the 7th place. Now ranked in the East Asia Region, the top two are Japan J-League, South Korea K-League, and China's Hong Kong League by virtue of the FA (member associations) saloon team this season AFC Champions League group stage outstanding performance, the ranking has temporarily risen to No. 3. Similarly, the ranking of Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand league also improved and then temporarily ranked 4th to 6th in the East Asia Region. According to the AFC's method of allocating the AFC Champions League quota, no matter which team is the winner of this season's AFC Champions League, the AFC Champions League will be the first to win the title.
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None of the rankings are likely to be among the AFC's top 6, meaning the
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The team was awarded only one AFC Champions League regular season spot for the 2024 season. It would appear that the
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The two teams have more to lose than to gain by sending their respective "second teams" to participate in the group stage of the AFC Champions League.
