The ASEAN Club Championship or ACC is an international club

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competition organised by the

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between domestic champion clubs. The competition is backed by

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and

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. The first edition was sponsored by

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, which was also known as LG Cup Asean Club Football Championship. Qualification to the competition was for champions clubs from

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-affiliated countries only, plus the champions from

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in 2003.

History

The ASEAN Club Championship was first held as biannual tournament in 2003 and 2005, but failed to gain traction due to lack of sponsors and conflict with the main calendar of the

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. Plans to revive the tournament started as early as 2012. The tournament was to return in 2020, but the tournament was postponed to 2021 due to the

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, but later postponed to 2022 and later cancelled.

Competition format

The format of the ASEAN Club Championship was the same as that for the

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, each national football associations in

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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

General performances

By club

By nation

All-time ranking table

All-time top scorers

References

External links

RSSSF.com: ASEAN Club Championship 2003AFC (Asia) Official Web SiteAFF (ASEAN) Official Web Site
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