AFC President's Cup

AFC President's Cup
Association	AFC
First edition	2005
Teams	12
Game mode	Round-robin tournament (3 groups of 4 teams) / Round-robin tournament (2 groups of 3 teams) final
Title holder	FK HTTU (1st title)
Record winner	Regar TadAZ (3 wins)
Website	www.the-afc.com

The AFC President's Cup ( interpreting. : AFC President's Cup) was after the AFC Champions League and the AFC Cup 's third largest Asian club football competition , which by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) organized and was first held of 2005.

The President's Cup was the third tier in the Asian team competition system, below the AFC Champions League and the AFC Cup. These three competitions were founded as a consequence of the Vision Asia action plan suggested by AFC President Mohamed bin Hammam , with which the aim was to respond to the very inconsistent development status of the national associations in Asia.

The qualification for the Asian continental competitions was different than in Europe, where theoretically every country has the chance to take part in the UEFA Champions League with at least one team (after qualifying) . In Asia, the 14 most mature soccer nations (among them the great powers Saudi Arabia , Japan , South Korea and Iran ) with up to four teams per nation make up the Champions League, the next countries ( soccer central powers ) compete with one to two each Representatives in the AFC Cup.

After all, the President's Cup was intended as a comparison for footballing developing countries that are financially and organizationally not up to a larger tournament. That is why the competition, to which eleven nations sent their champions, took place within a few days at a fixed location and not spread over the year with home and away games. Up to and including 2007, the tournament took place with eight, then with twelve teams. In 2015 the competition and its participants were integrated into the AFC Cup.

The finals and winners

year	winner	Results	finalist
2005	Regar TadAZ	3-0	FK Dordoi Dynamo
2006	FK Dordoi Dynamo	2: 1 a.d.	Wachsch Qurghonteppa
2007	FK Dordoi Dynamo	2: 1	Mahendra Police Club
2008	Regar TadAZ	1: 1 n.V. , 4: 3 i. E.	FK Dordoi Dynamo
2009	Regar TadAZ	2-0	FK Dordoi Dynamo
2010	Yadanarbon FC	1-0	FK Dordoi Dynamo
2011	Taiwan Power Company FC	3: 2	Phnom Penh Crown
2012	Istiqlol Dushanbe	2: 1	Markaz Shabab Al-Amari
2013	Balkan FK	1-0	KRL FC
2014	FK HTTU	2: 1	Rimyongsu SG

Leaderboards

by clubs rank club title Year (s) 1 Regar TadAZ 3 2005, 2008, 2009 2 FK Dordoi Dynamo 2 2006, 2007 3 Yadanarbon FC 1 2010 Taiwan Power Company FC 1 2011 Istiqlol Dushanbe 1 2012 Balkan FK 1 2013 FK HTTU 1 2014

by country rank country title 1  Tajikistan 4th 2  Kyrgyzstan 2  Turkmenistan 2 4th  Myanmar 1  Chinese Taipei 1