The 2021

AFC Women's Club Championship The AFC Women's Club Championship was the women's football club competition in Asia. It involved the top clubs from countries affiliated with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It was designed as a pilot competition for the AFC Women's Cha ...

(also known as the AFC Women's Club Championship 2021 Pilot Tournament (West)) was the second edition of AFC's premier women's club

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competition, held between 7 and 13 November. Four clubs from four associations competed.

Teams

The following teams played in the West Zone tournament. Initially, an East Zone tournament including teams from Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and Taiwan, was also announced. In late July, it was announced that due to COVID-19 restrictions, there was no interest from the clubs in the East to host the tournament, and it was subsequently cancelled.

Format

Teams played in a single round-robin. ;Tiebreakers Teams were ranked according to

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(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings: #Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; #

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in head-to-head matches among tied teams; #Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; #If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; #Goal difference in all group matches; #Goals scored in all group matches; #

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if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group; #Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points); #Drawing of lots.

Standings

Matches

All times were in EET (UTC+2). ---- ----

Goalscorers

Notes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:AFC Women's Club Championship 2021

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