2025–26 AFC Women's Champions League

The 2025–26 AFC Women's Champions League will be the second edition of the AFC Women's Champions League, Asia's premier club women's football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

Wuhan Jiangda defeated Melbourne City in the final, becoming the first AFC Women's Champions League winners.^[1] As winners, they also qualified for the 2026 FIFA Women's Champions Cup and 2028 FIFA Women's Club World Cup.^[1][2]

There is one entry per participating member association, with allocation based on the FIFA Women's World Ranking. Clubs from the top seven ranked associations qualified directly to the group stage, with the remaining clubs starting from the preliminary stage.^[3][4] Ranking for AFC Women’s Club Competition are made with 70% of AFC club points and 30% of national team points as per FIFA rankings.^[5]

Associations that did not enter a team:

The competition comprises:^[3][6]

• a preliminary stage (one group of four and three groups of three teams) in centralised venues
• a main tournament with 12 teams (three groups of four teams) in centralised venues
• quarter-finals hosted by the group winners and the best second-placed team
• semi-finals and final in a centralised venue

Teams in the preliminary stage and the group stage are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:^[6]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Penalty shoot-out, if only two teams are tied, and the teams in question have played their last group match against each other;
8. Lower disciplinary score (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point);^[7]
9. Drawing of lots.

Clubs from the top seven member associations qualified directly to the group stage, while the clubs from remaining 19 lowered ranked member associations entered at the preliminary stage. Ranking AFC Women’s Club Competition are made with 70% club points and 30& FIFA ranking of national team.^[5]

(H) Hosts

• 2025–26 AFC Champions League Elite
• 2025–26 AFC Champions League Two
• 2025–26 AFC Challenge League

• Official website