On September 30, the AFC Competition Committee held its fifth annual working meeting at its headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Vietnamese chairman Tran Khouk Thuy Anh revealed that the
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Changchun Yatai and Shanghai Harbor withdrew from this season's AFC Champions League, but in view of their withdrawal on the grounds of "force majeure", the AFC decided not to penalize the two teams.
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Clubs are penalized.
Despite the participation of Shandong Taishan and Guangzhou, poor results led to their early exits in the group stage of the AFC Champions League, making the
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The league's overall technical scores have plummeted, as has its position in the AFC Member Association League Technical Rankings table.For the 2024 season, the
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The league's quota for the AFC Champions League will be reduced from "2+2" to one, which seems to be less of a loss in terms of sending young players to the tournament.
At the day's meeting, President Tuan expressed his gratitude to the member associations for overcoming the difficulties of competing during the outbreak and showed his understanding of the fact that some member associations had withdrawn from the competition due to objective factors. The AFC Competitions Committee stated, "The Committee recognizes that the
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The withdrawal of Changchun Yatai and Shanghai Harbour from the 2022 AFC Champions League season is the result of force majeure." Similarly, Macau, China, which withdrew from the U20 Asian Cup and U17 Asian Cup, and the two Myanmar clubs that withdrew from the AFC Cup will not be subject to additional penalties for withdrawing from the tournament.
It is worth mentioning that before the start of the AFC Champions League, the issue of
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The discussion of whether the four teams withdrew en masse has sparked heated debate in the domestic soccer world. It was reported that Shandong Taishan and Guangzhou insisted on participating in the tournament largely because of the fear of incurring penalties for withdrawing from the tournament. However, the AFC Competition Committee's statement seems to indicate that this concern may be redundant, and even that the judgment of the side supporting the withdrawal may be wrong.
due to
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The team was affected by objective factors both last season and this season, and it was almost inevitable that the reserve team, which fielded young players, or the "second and third teams", which were based on first team players, would be wiped out before the knockout rounds. What is even more worrying is that, due to the lack of personnel strength.
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The teams have been winless in the group stage of the AFC Champions League in the last two seasons, and have even been beaten by club teams from Malaysia and Hong Kong, China, resulting in the
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The league's technical ranking points have been drastically reduced.
As usual, the AFC will release the results of the AFC Champions League quota allocation for the 2024 season at the end of the year. As of the end of this season's AFC Champions League group stage round of 8, the
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The AFC Member Associations League Technical Points Ranking List temporarily ranked 16th, and slipped from the first place to the 7th place in the East Asia Region. Currently, the J-League of Japan and the K-League of South Korea are in the top two positions in the East Asia Region, while the Hong Kong League of China has risen to the 3rd position with its outstanding performance. The Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand leagues have also improved their rankings accordingly, ranking 4th to 6th respectively. According to the AFC's AFC Champions League quota allocation methodology, no matter which team is the champion of this season's AFC Champions League.
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None of the rankings are likely to be in the top 6, which means the 2024 season
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The number of AFC Champions League regular season spots earned by the team will be only one. Therefore.
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It doesn't seem cost-effective for both teams to send their "second teams" to the AFC Champions League group stage.
