AFC Cup

AFC Cup
Association	AFC
First edition	2004
Teams	36 (group stage)
Title holder	al Ahed (1st title)
Record winner	al Kuwait SC al-Quwa al-Jawiya (3 wins each)
Record scorer	Mahmoud Shelbaieh (34 goals)
Current season	2020
Website	www.the-afc.com

The AFC Cup is a competition for Asian football - club teams , that of the Asian Football Confederation is organized (AFC). As part of the annual Asian Cup, it is the second most important of the two competitions after the AFC Champions League . Similar to the Champions League, unlike the UEFA Europa League, not all AFC member associations are eligible to participate.

Record winners of this competition are the Kuwaiti representative al Kuwait SC and the Iraqi club al-Quwa al-Jawiya , each with three titles. With a total of four wins, Kuwait is also ahead in a national comparison. Iraq and Jordan (3 each) and Syria (2) follow in second and third place . The current defending champion in the 2020 season is the Lebanese club al Ahed .

history

season	winner
2004	Al Jaish
2005	al-Faisaly
2006	al-Faisaly
2007	Shabab al-Ordon
2008	Muharraq Club
2009	al Kuwait SC
2010	al-Ittihad
2011	Nasaf Karschi
2012	al Kuwait SC
2013	al Kuwait SC
2014	al Qadsia Kuwait
2015	Johor Darul Ta'zim FC
2016	al-Quwa al-Jawiya
2017	al-Quwa al-Jawiya
2018	al-Quwa al-Jawiya
2019	al Ahed
2020

With the restructuring of the Asian competitions in 2004, the clubs from the 14 strongest associations were allowed to play in the AFC Champions League . The AFC Cup has now been introduced for the teams in the “middle segment”; in this competition these associations could have their respective national champions and cup winners compete. According to the association, the background for this division is the big difference between the clubs of the weak and strong associations, which in the past has led to huge defeats for the "small" clubs. The field of participants in the AFC Cup should be more balanced through this mode. In 2008 there was a further restructuring of the Asian tournaments. Since the leagues from Kuwait, Syria and Iraq did not meet the new requirements for the Champions League, their two representatives will play in the AFC Cup from 2009. With the changes, the field of participants has been increased from 20 to 32 teams. The final has been played in one game since 2009. When the AFC President's Cup was played for the last time in 2014, the countries previously represented in this competition with their clubs will also be eligible to take part in the competition.

The two finalists will qualify for next year's AFC Champions League, provided they meet the economic requirements for participation.

Finances

In the 2015 season , every club that traveled to an away game received financial support. From the play-off round, this was constant at 20,000 US dollars . Unlike the Champions League , only the cup winners ($ 350,000) and the defeated finalists ($ 250,000) received prize money in the AFC Cup. There the fees were significantly higher at 1.5 million and 750,000 dollars, respectively.

For the 2016 season , new fees were introduced and the previous ones increased. For reaching the round of 16, $ 15,000 was paid out, for the quarterfinals $ 25,000 and for the semifinals $ 40,000. The prize money for the cup winners and the defeated finalists were increased to 1 and 0.5 million dollars, respectively. The total amount of possible rewards was $ 1.08 million.

statistics

Leaderboards

See also : List of AFC Cup finals

After clubs

In the history of the AFC Cup, eleven different clubs have won the title. The most successful were the al Kuwait SC and al-Quwa al-Jawiya , each with three titles. Six clubs triumphed in their first participation: al-Jaish (2004 at the first edition), al-Faisaly (2005), Shabab al-Ordon (2007), al Kuwait SC (2009), al-Ittihad (2010) and al- Quwa al-Jawiya (2016).

So far, al-Quwa al-Jawiya has been able to defend its title from the previous year twice in a row. Two other clubs ( al-Faisaly and al Kuwait SC) each managed to do this once.

rank	society	title	final	Quota
01	al Kuwait SC	3	4th	075%
02	al-Quwa al-Jawiya	3	3	100%
03	al-Faisaly	2	3	066%
04th	al Qadsia Kuwait	1	3	033%
05	Muharraq Club	1	2	050%
06th	al Ahed	1	1	100%
	Al Jaish	1	1	100%
	al-Ittihad	1	1	100%
	Johor Darul Ta'zim FC	1	1	100%
	Nasaf Karschi	1	1	100%
	Shabab al-Ordon	1	1	100%
12	Erbil SC		2	000%
	FC Istiklol		2	000%
14th	April 25 SC		1	000%
	Altyn Asyr FK		1	000%
	Bengaluru FC		1	000%
	al-Karama		1	000%
	Nejmeh Club		1	000%
	Safa SC Beirut		1	000%
	al-Wahda		1	000%

By country

So far, clubs from eight countries have won the competition. The clubs from Kuwait lead this ranking with a total of four successes, ahead of the Iraqi and Jordanian clubs in 2nd and 3rd place with three titles each. Fourth place are Syrian clubs with two titles, followed by clubs from Bahrain, Lebanon, Malaysia and Uzbekistan with one title each.

Most of the finals, namely seven, have Kuwaiti clubs.

rank	country	title	Clubs (italics: only finalists)	final	Quota
1	Kuwait	4th	al Kuwait SC, al Qadsia Kuwait	7th	057%
2	Iraq	3	al-Quwa al-Jawiya Erbil SC	5	060%
3	Jordan	3	al-Faisaly, Shabab al-Ordon	4th	075%
4th	Syria	2	Al-Jaish, al-Ittihad al-Karama, al-Wahda	4th	050%
5	Lebanon	1	al Ahed Nejmeh Club, Safa SC Beirut	3	033%
6th	Bahrain	1	Muharraq Club	2	050%
7th	Malaysia	1	Johor Darul Ta'zim FC	1	100%
	Uzbekistan	1	Nasaf Karschi	1	100%
9	Tajikistan		FC Istiklol	2	000%
10	India		Bengaluru FC	1	000%
	North Korea		April 25 SC	1	000%
	Turkmenistan		Altyn Asyr FK	1	000%

Record goal scorers

The top goal scorer is Jordanian Mahmoud Shelbaieh with 34 goals. Behind him are the Singaporean striker Aleksandar Đurić , the Iraqi Amjad Radhi and the Brazilian Rico with 32 each and the Maldivian Ali Ashfaq , the Kuwait Bader al-Mutawa and the Brazilian Rogerinho with 28 goals each. Since the lists from 2004 to 2008 have not been adequately documented, details of the deployments are not given.

The following table lists all players with at least 20 goals.

rank	Nat	player	Gates	from	to
01		Mahmoud Shelbaieh	34	2006	2016
02		Aleksandar Đurić	32	2004	2014
		Amjad Radhi	32	2011	-active-
		Rico	32	2006	2015
05		Ali Ashfaq	28	2004	-active-
		Bader al-Mutawa	28	2010	2015
		Rogerinho	28	2009	2015
08th		Hammadi Ahmad	26th	2016	-active-
09		Mohammed Ghaddar	25th	2005	2016
10		Peres	23	2004	2009
		Jordi Tarrés	23	2012	2016
12		Hassan Abdel-Fattah	22nd	2006	2017
		Issam Jemâa	22nd	2012	2014
		Ranti Martins	22nd	2006	2015
15th		Bienvenido Marañón	20th	2016	-active-
		Ali Nasseredine	20th	2004	2014
Status: end of the 2018 season

Top scorer

The first top scorer of the AFC Cup were the Singaporeans Indra Sahdan Bin Daud and Egmar Gonçalves with seven goals each in the 2004 season. The Brazilian Rico (2013) holds the record of 19 goals in one season . Altogether there are four Jordanians and three Syrians among the 22 top scorer so far. As the only player to date, the Jordanian Mahmoud Shelbaieh was twice top scorer (2006-2007).

The top scorer came from the winning team seven times and once in the same season the top scorer was named “best player” in the competition.

year	Nat	player	society	Gates
2004		Indra Sahdan Bin Daud	Home United	07th
		Egmar Gonçalves	Home United	07th
2005		Mo'ayyad Salim	al-Faisaly	09
2006		Mahmoud Shelbaieh	al-Wihdat	08th
2007		Odai al-Saify	Shabab al-Ordon	05
		Mohammed Ghaddar	Nejmeh Club	05
		Mahmoud Shelbaieh	al-Wihdat	05
2008		Rico	Muharraq Club	19th
2009		Robert Akaruye	Busaiteen Club	08th
		Huỳnh Kesley Alves	Becamex Bình Dương	08th
		Mohammad al-Hamwi	al-Karama	08th
		Jehad al-Hussain	al Kuwait SC	08th
2010		Afonso Alves	al-Rayyan SC	09
2011		Ivan Bošković	Nasaf Karschi	10
2012		Amjad Radhi	Erbil SC	09
		Raja Rafe	al Shorta	09
2013		Issam Jemâa	al Kuwait SC	16
2014		Juan Belencoso	Kitchee SC	11
2015		Daniel McBreen	South China AA	08th
		Riste Naumov	Ayeyawady United	08th
2016		Hammadi Ahmad	al-Quwa al-Jawiya	16
2017		Kim Yu song	April 25 SC	09
2018		To Il-bom	April 25 SC	12
2019		Bienvenido Marañón	Ceres-Negros FC	10
Winner of the MVP award   winning team record mark  

Best player and fair play award

Since the 2008 season, the MVP Award has been given to the “best player” in the competition at the end of each season . The Iraqi Hammadi Ahmad was the only player to receive two awards. With the exception of the 2013 and 2017 seasons, the MVP player always came from the winning team.

The Fair Play Award has also been presented since 2011 .

Best Player (MVP Award) year Nat player society 2008 Mahmood Abdulrahman Muharraq Club 2011 Artur Geworkýan Nasaf Karschi 2012 Rogerinho al Kuwait SC 2013 Bader al-Mutawa al Qadsia Kuwait 2014 Saif al-Hashan al Qadsia Kuwait 2015 Mohd Safiq Rahim Johor Darul Ta'zim FC 2016 Hammadi Ahmad al-Quwa al-Jawiya 2017 Manuchekhr Dzhalilov FC Istiklol 2018 Hammadi Ahmad al-Quwa al-Jawiya 2019 Mehdi Khalil al Ahed

Fair Play Award year society 2011 Nasaf Karschi 2016 Bengaluru FC 2017 Ceres-Negros FC 2018 2019 al Ahed

Eternal table

→ Main article : Eternal table of the AFC Cup

The column Ø points shows the average number of points gained per game. The following two name the number of titles won or finals. The third column shows the national association in which the club is currently playing. The fourth column shows how many seasons the club has played in the AFC Cup.

Pl.	society	country	Years	Sp.	S.	U	N	T +	T-	Diff.	Points	Ø pt.	title	final	first participation	last participation
1.	al Kuwait SC		07th	73	44	17th	12	161	72	+89	149	2.04	3	4th	2009	2015
2.	al-Faisaly		09	79	39	22nd	18th	129	87	+42	139	1.76	2	3	2005	2018
3.	al-Wihdat		10	76	38	20th	18th	146	92	+54	134	1.76	0	0	2006	2017
4th	Home United		09	72	38	10	24	143	114	+29	124	1.72	0	0	2004	2018
5.	al Qadsia Kuwait		06th	59	33	16	10	117	53	+64	115	1.95	1	3	2010	2015
6th	Erbil SC		06th	55	32	13	10	115	52	+63	109	1.98	0	2	2009	2015
7th	Nejmeh Club		08th	61	28	13	20th	89	70	+19	97	1.59	0	1	2004	2017
8th.	Muharraq Club		06th	51	28	11	12	90	60	+30	95	1.86	1	2	2006	2017
9.	Tampines Rovers		10	70	26th	10	34	103	118	−15	88	1.26	0	0	2005	2018
10.	Al Jaish		08th	56	23	18th	15th	58	47	+11	87	1.55	1	1	2004	2018
11.	South China AA		07th	54	26th	8th	20th	98	78	+20	86	1.59	0	0	2008	2016
12.	Johor Darul Ta'zim FC		05	43	25th	6th	12	88	49	+39	81	1.88	1	1	2009	2018
13.	al Ahed		08th	56	23	9	24	98	99	−1	78	1.39	0	0	2005	2018
14th	al-Quwa al-Jawiya		03	34	22nd	10	2	60	28	+32	76	2.24	3	3	2016	2018
15th	Kitchee SC		06th	47	22nd	9	16	79	54	+25	75	1.6	0	0	2008	2016
16.	Safa SC Beirut		06th	44	21st	7th	16	58	54	+4	70	1.59	0	1	2008	2017
17th	Bengaluru FC		04th	37	20th	4th	13	53	42	+11	64	1.73	0	1	2015	2018
18th	New radians		09	61	18th	10	33	68	104	−36	64	1.05	0	0	2005	2018
19th	al-Wahda		06th	44	16	11	17th	61	56	+5	59	1.34	0	1	2004	2018
20th	Chonburi FC		03	29	18th	4th	7th	63	34	+29	58	2	0	0	2009	2012
Status: After the final of the 2018 season

Web links

• Official website
• Overview of the seasons at RSSSF .com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} AFC Cup 2015 Competition Regulations (PDF) In: The-AFC.com . P. 75. Archived from the original on December 11, 2014. Retrieved October 18, 2015.
2. ↑ AFC Champions League 2015 Competition Regulations (PDF) In: The-AFC.com . P. 72. Archived from the original on December 15, 2014. Retrieved October 18, 2015.
3. ↑ AFC reveals details of increased club competition prize money . In: The-AFC.com . December 10, 2015. Accessed December 10, 2015.
4. ↑ Goalscorer lists at RSSSF .com and Soccerway.com