ASEAN Club Championship

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ASEAN Club Championship
Founded2003; 19 years ago (2003)
RegionSoutheast Asia (AFF)
Number of teams12
Current championsSingapore Tampines Rovers (1st title)
Most successful club(s)India East Bengal (1 title)
Singapore Tampines Rovers (1 title)
2022 ASEAN Club Championship (Cancelled)

The ASEAN Club Championship or ACC is a friendly international association football competition between domestic champion clubs sides run by the ASEAN Football Federation.[1] Formerly known as the LG Cup, sponsored by LG Electronics. LG described the competition as a "social marketing experiment". Qualification to the competition was for champions clubs from AFF-affiliated countries only, plus the champions from India in 2003.[2][3][1]

History[]

The ASEAN Club Championship was first held as biannual tournament in 2003 and 2005,[4] but failed to gain traction due to lack of sponsors and conflict with the main calendar of the Asian Football Confederation. Plans to revive the tournament started as early as 2012 .[5]

The tournament was to return in 2020,[1] but the tournament was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but later postponed to 2022 and later cancelled.[6]

Competition format[]

The format of the ASEAN Club Championship was the same as that for the AFC Cup, each national football associations in Southeast Asia sending their champion club representing the domestic league winners. The participating teams were split into groups of several teams (depending on the actual number of participating teams in each group), with each team playing the others in the group in a round-robin format. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to quarter-finals or semi-finals, depending on the number of groups. These finals were played as a knockout competition in the host country.

Results[]

List of ASEAN Club Championship finals
Season Winners Score Runners-up Venue
Nation Team Nation Team
2003  IND East Bengal FC 3–1  THA BEC Tero Sasana Indonesia Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta
2005  SIN Tampines Rovers 4–2  MAS Pahang FA Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium, Bandar Seri Begawan
2022 Cancelled

General performances[]

By club[]

# Nation Winners Runners-up 3rd Place 4th Place
1 India Kingfisher East Bengal 1 0 0 0
2 Singapore Tampines Rovers 1 0 0 0
3 Thailand BEC Tero Sasana 0 1 0 0
4 Malaysia Pahang FA 0 1 0 0
5 Brunei DPMM FC 0 0 1 0
6 Vietnam Hoang Anh Gia Lai 0 0 1 0
7 Indonesia Petrokimia Putra 0 0 1 0
8 Malaysia Perak FA 0 0 0 1

By nation[]

Country Winners Runners-up 3rd place 4th place
 India 1 0 0 0
 Singapore 1 0 0 0
 Malaysia 0 1 0 1
 Thailand 0 1 0 0
 Indonesia 0 0 1 0
 Brunei 0 0 1 0
 Vietnam 0 0 1 0

All-time ranking table[]

Rank Club Years Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts FW F SF
1 Singapore Tampines Rovers 1 5 4 1 0 10 4 +6 13 1 1 1
2 Malaysia Pahang 1 5 4 0 1 18 4 +14 12 0 1 1
3 Thailand BEC Tero Sasana 1 5 4 0 1 10 5 +5 12 0 1 1
4 Vietnam Hoàng Anh Gia Lai 2 7 3 1 3 23 11 +12 10 0 0 1
5 India Kingfisher East Bengal 1 5 3 1 1 12 4 +8 10 1 1 1
6 Malaysia Perak 1 5 3 0 2 8 6 +2 9 0 0 1
7 Indonesia Petrokimia Putra 1 3 2 1 0 6 3 +3 7 0 0 1
8 Indonesia Persita Tangerang 1 3 2 0 1 8 4 +4 6 0 0 0
9 Brunei DPMM FC 2 6 1 2 3 6 10 –4 5 0 0 1
10 Myanmar Finance and Revenue 1 3 1 0 2 4 5 –1 3 0 0 0
11 East Timor FC Zebra 1 3 1 0 2 4 22 –18 3 0 0 0
12 Singapore Singapore Armed Forces 1 3 0 1 2 4 7 –3 1 0 0 0
13 Thailand Thailand Tobacco Monopoly 1 3 0 1 2 4 7 –3 1 0 0 0
14 Cambodia Samart United 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 –2 0 0 0 0
15 Laos MCTPC 1 2 0 0 2 2 5 –3 0 0 0 0
16 Philippines Philippine Army 1 2 0 0 2 0 9 –9 0 0 0 0
17 Cambodia Nagacorp 1 2 0 0 2 1 11 –10 0 0 0 0

All-Time top scorers[]

Player Club Year of Championship Goals
India Baichung Bhutia India Kingfisher East Bengal 2003 9
Cameroon Bernard Tchoutang Malaysia Pahang FA 2005 7
Vietnam Vietnam Hoang Anh Gia Lai 2005 7
Liberia Frank Seator Malaysia Perak FA 2003 5
Malaysia Indra Putra Mahayuddin Malaysia Perak FA
Malaysia Pahang FA 		2003
2005 		4
Thailand Kiatisuk Senamuang Vietnam Hoang Anh Gia Lai 2003
2005 		4
Indonesia Zaenal Arif Indonesia Persita Tangerang 2003 4
Thailand Therdsak Chaiman Thailand BEC Tero Sasana 2003 4
Singapore Mirko Grabovac Singapore Tampines Rovers 2005 4
Myanmar Myanmar Finance and Revenue 2005 4
Brazil Rivaldo Costa Indonesia Petrokimia Putra 2003 3
Indonesia Jaenal Ichwan Indonesia Petrokimia Putra 2003 3
Vietnam Vietnam Hoang Anh Gia Lai 2005 3
Brazil Anderson Thailand Thailand Tobacco Monopoly 2005 3

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Asean Club Championship to launch after getting AFC and Fifa backing". SportBusiness. November 6, 2019.
  2. ^ "AFC Statement on the Asean Club Championship | Football News |". the-AFC.
  3. ^ https://www.foxsportsasia.com/football/asian-football/1195231/aff-to-launch-asean-club-championship-in-2020-featuring-top-clubs-from-southeast-asia/
  4. ^ "AFF to launch ASEAN Club Championship in 2020 featuring top clubs from Southeast Asia". Fox Sports Asia. 5 November 2019. Archived from the original on 6 November 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  5. ^ Noveanto, Eric (8 February 2012). "South-East Asia nations to organise Asean Club Championship | Goal.com". Goal. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  6. ^ "Asean Club Championship postponed to next year". The New Paper. 26 March 2020. Retrieved 30 March 2020.

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