AFC Champions League: Starting with the 2024–25 season, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has eliminated India from the AFC Champions League. Mumbai City FC will now be the last Indian side to compete in the league for a while to come. India won’t be participating in the AFC Champions League, it was confirmed as part of the latest announcement of the AFC Club Competition slot distribution. Due to the nation’s poor coefficient standing among the Asian football nations, this is the case. India ranks 19 in the AFC rankings. Follow AFC Champions League 2023-24 and AFC Cup 2023 -24 LIVE Updates on InsideSport.IN
The AFC announced significant modifications to their club competition seedings as well as the allocation of three group stage places to Saudi Arabia beginning with the 2024–25 season. exclusively two berths will be available for India, and exclusively in the AFC Cup.
The top division’s league stage champions in the ISL will gain automatic entrance into the AFC Cup group rounds. The Super Cup champions will also receive a spot in the qualifying round, which if they win would allow them to advance to the group stages.
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Unfortunately, starting with the 2024–25 season, there won’t be three seats available for Indian clubs. The underperformance of Indian clubs in Asian competitions is another factor in India losing a berth and their ACL position.
The Indian clubs’ coefficient was altered, albeit it didn’t truly change as much as was required to place them among the top 14 AFC club nations. As a result, starting with the 2024–25 season, just two Indian clubs would be eligible to compete in Asia’s second-tier league.
Despite failing to advance past the group stages, neither FC Goa nor Mumbai City have disappointed in the AFC Champions League in recent years. Even though ATK Mohun Bagan played rather well in the AFC Cup, they were defeated in the inter-zonal semifinals.
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The country’s overall coefficient position has suffered as a result of the Indian Clubs’ recent failures in continental tournaments. In reality, the AFC just announced the top 14 AFC countries with the greatest club competition rankings from 2014 to 2022.
Saudi Arabia has the most points (92.795), mostly as a result of the domination of their teams in AFC competitions. Even 14th-ranked Vietnam (29.469) on the club competition ladder has a higher coefficient ranking than India has.
Champions of the 2023 Hero Super Cup In a playoff for a berth in the AFC Cup group stages, Odisha FC met the 2021–2022 I-League champions Gokulam Kerala; the ISL team triumphed. ATK Mohun Bagan defeated Hyderabad FC, the ISL playoff champion from the previous season, to claim the “third” slot.
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