The 2024–25 AFC Women's Champions League was the first 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. As winners, they also qualified for the 2026 FIFA Women's Champions Cup and 2028 FIFA Women's Club World Cup.
Association team allocation Key principles for the competition were released by the AFC on 20 August 2023. There is one entry per participating member association, with allocation based on the FIFA Women's World Ranking as of 15 March 2024. Clubs from the top ranked associations qualified directly to the group stage, with the remaining clubs starting from the preliminary stage.
Originally, 22 (out of 47) member associations applied to enter the competition. However, Naegohyang from North Korea withdrew before the draw.
RankMemberassociationSlotsGroupstagePlay-inqualifierAFCWorld 1 710 31210 41910 52010 63710 73910 84010 9471010480111540112610113660114740115790117930118960119100012211401281370138173014017501TotalParticipating associations: 2181321 Associations that did not enter a team:
(W)
Legend W withdrew before the draw
Format The competition comprises: 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
Tiebreakers 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: Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams; 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; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Penalty shootout, if only two teams are tied, and the teams in question have played their last group match against each other; Lower disciplinary score (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point); Drawing of lots.
Schedule StageRoundDraw date DatesPreliminary stageMatchday 118 July 202425 August 2024Matchday 228 August 2024Matchday 331 August 2024Group stageMatchday 13–12 October 2024Matchday 2Matchday 3Knockout stageQuarter-finals8 January 202522–23 March 2025Semi-finals21 May 2025Final24 May 2025
Teams
Clubs from the top eight member associations qualified directly to the group stage, while the remaining 13 clubs entered at the preliminary stage. +Group stage direct entrantsTeamQualifying method Urawa Red Diamonds2023–24 WE League champions Melbourne City2023–24 A-League Women premiers Wuhan Jiangda2023 Chinese Women's Super League champions Incheon Red Angels2023 WK League champions Hồ Chí Minh City2023 Vietnamese Women's National League champions Kaya–Iloilo2023 PFF Women's League champions Taichung Blue Whale2023 Taiwan Mulan Football League champions2024 Thai Women's League 1 champions +Preliminary stage participantsTeamQualifying method Nasaf2024 Uzbekistan Women's League champions Myawady2023 Myanmar Women's League champions Bam Khatoon2023–24 Kowsar Women Football League champions Odisha2023–24 Indian Women's League champions Etihad2023 Jordan Women's Pro League champions Kitchee2023–24 Hong Kong Women League champions Young Elephants2023 Lao Women's League champions Sabah2023 Malaysia National Women's League champions APF2022 Nepalese National Women's League champions2023–24 UAE Women's Football League champions Lion City Sailors2023 Women's Premier League champions Royal Thimphu College2023 Women's National League champions Al-Nassr2023–24 Saudi Women's Premier League champions
Preliminary stage Bhutan, Jordan, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia were the hosts of the four groups in the preliminary stage.
Seedings Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4 Bold indicates teams qualified for the final tournament (H) Hosts
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group stage The group stage was played from 6 to 12 October 2024. The four teams in each of the three groups played one another in a centralised single round-robin format. The top two finishers in each group, together with the two best third-placed teams, advanced to the knockout stage. China, Thailand and Vietnam were the hosts of the three groups.
Seedings Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4 (H) Hosts
Group A
Group B
Group C
Ranking of second-placed teams
Ranking of third-placed teams
Knockout stage Draw The draw was held on 8 January 2025. For the quarter-finals, teams were seeded based on their performance in the group stage. The three group winners and the best second-placed team were seeded and will be the hosts for the match. Teams from the same group were not drawn against each other.
SeededUnseeded
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Top scorers
Goals scored in the preliminary stage and matches voided by AFC are not counted when determining top scorer. RankPlayerTeamTotal1 Terry Engesha Incheon Red Angels/ Wuhan Jiangda221 5 Miki Ito Urawa Red Diamonds5 3 Yuzuho Shiokoshi Urawa Red Diamonds31 4 Mariana Speckmaier Melbourne City1111 5 Lourdes Bosch Melbourne City 12 3 Deng Mengye Wuhan Jiangda 3 Huỳnh Như Hồ Chí Minh City21 Eugenia Tetteh Abu Dhabi Country Club 129 Song Duan Wuhan Jiangda 1 1 2 Ngô Thị Hồng Nhung Hồ Chí Minh City 1 1 Zahra Ghanbari Bam Khatoon 11 Chen Jin-wen Taichung Blue Whale 2 Naeema Juma Abu Dhabi Country Club2 Shelby McMahon Melbourne City 1 1 Kabange Mupopo Wuhan Jiangda11 Mei Shimada Urawa Red Diamonds2 Wang Shuang Wuhan Jiangda 11 Ririka Tanno Urawa Red Diamonds11 Fuka Tsunoda Urawa Red Diamonds1 1
See also 2024–25 AFC Champions League Elite 2024–25 AFC Champions League Two 2024–25 AFC Challenge League
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