AFC President's Cup

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AFC President's Cup
Current season or competition: AFC President's Cup 2008
Sport	Football (soccer)
Founded	2005
No. of teams	8
Country(ies)	AFC member nations
Most recent champion(s)	Dordoi-Dynamo

The AFC President's Cup is an annual international association football competition between domestic clubs sides run by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

Contents 1 Competition format 2 Qualification 3 Participating countries 4 Participating Countries in 2009 5 Results 6 Performance by nation 7 See also 8 External links

[edit] Competition format

The eight teams are split into two groups, and each team in the group plays each other team in their group once. The winner in each group plays the runner up in the other group in the semi finals, and the winner of the semi finals play each other to determine the winner of the competition. There is no match for third place.

[edit] Qualification

Qualification to the competition is to clubs from AFC-affiliated countries which fall into the AFC's 'emerging nations' category as laid out in their 'Vision Asia' document. Countries which are 'mature' and 'developing' nations are entered into the AFC Champions League and the AFC Cup, respectively. For an 'emerging nation' to have a team representing it in the competition, however, the country must have an acceptable football league. The team that represents a country in one season of the competition is the defending champion of the top-level leagues of participating countries.

[edit] Participating countries

Country	2008 team	Best result (team, season)
Bangladesh	Abahani Ltd.	Did not play
Bhutan	Transport United	Group Stage (various)
Cambodia	Nagacorp	Semifinals (Khemara in 2006)
Chinese Taipei	Taipower	Semifinals (Tatung in 2006)
Kyrgyzstan	Dordoi-Dynamo	Champion (Dordoi-Dynamo in 2006 and 2007)
Myanmar	Kan Baw Za	Have not Played
Nepal	Mahendra Police Club	Runner-up (Mahendra Police Club in 2007)
Pakistan	WAPDA	Group Stage (various)
Sri Lanka	Ratnam Sports Club	Semifinals (various)
Tajikistan	Regar TadAZ	Champion (Regar TadAZ in 2005)
Turkmenistan	FC Asgabat	Did not Played

[edit] Participating Countries in 2009

•  Yemen
•  Maldives
•  Tajikistan
•  Turkmenistan
•  Kyrgyzstan
•  Pakistan
•  Sri Lanka
•  Bhutan
•  Brunei
•  Afghanistan
•  Laos
•  Philippines
•  Cambodia
•  Bangladesh
•  Guam
•  North Korea
•  Timor-Leste
•  Palestine
•  Myanmar
•  Nepal
•  Chinese Taipei
•  Macau
•  Mongolia

-Those 23 Nations Not all participate.

[edit] Results

Season	Host		Final				Semifinalists (No 3rd place match)
			Champions	Score	Runner-up
2008 Details	Chinese Taipei
2007 Details	Pakistan		Dordoi-Dynamo	2-1	Mahendra Police Club		Ratnam Sports Club	Regar TadAZ
2006 Details	Malaysia		Dordoi-Dynamo	2-1 (aet)	Vakhsh		Tatung	Khemara
2005 Details	Nepal		Regar TadAZ	3-0	Dordoi-Dynamo		Blue Star SC	Three Star Club

[edit] Performance by nation

#	Nation	Winners	Runners-up
1	Kyrgyzstan	2	1
2	Tajikistan	1	1
3	Nepal	0	1

[edit] See also

• International club competition records

[edit] External links

• AFC Website
• RSSSF - AFC President's Cup

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