The Asian Football Club Championship, AFC Champions League 2021, the representative team from Thailand has a quota of 2 + 2, plays in the automatic group stage for 2 teams and the play-off round of 2 teams, which results in the draws that are divided into Come out At the Asian Cup of the 2021 season
BG Pathum United, the first Thai League champion 2020-2021 season, is in Group F with Ulsan Hyundai (South Korea – 2020 old champion), Vietel (Vietnam) and the Play-off team (Beijing Guo). An (China) / Brisbane (Australia) -Kaya (Philippines)
Thai League First Leg Championship 2020-2021 in Group J with Shandong (China), Kit Qi (Hong Kong) and Play Off Team (Cerezo Osaka (Japan) / Melbourne ( Australia) – Shan United (Myanmar)
Ratchaburi FC will play a play-off with Pohang Steelers (South Korea), if they win, they will join Group G with Jiangsu Shuning (China), Nagoya (Japan), Johor Darul. Tasim (Malaysia)
Chiang Rai United will play a playoff with Daegu FC (South Korea), if they win, they will join Group I with Kawasaki Frontale (Japan), Guangzhou (China), United City (Philippines). – Original Ceres Negros)
The 2021 season marks the first time ever at the AFC Champions League. At the Asian Football Confederation, the final team increased from 32 teams to 40 teams by dividing the competition into 2 zones, like the original West Zone, from the original 4 groups, 16 teams to 5 groups, 20 teams, as well as the East Zone from the original 4 groups 16. The teams were 5 groups of 20 before the lottery. The North Korean representative club that had a quota of one automatic group stage, Epil-25 Club Licensing failed, was eliminated from the competition and moved Kit Qi (Hong Kong) up. Going to this position instead, according to the original coefficient, Kit Qi had to play in the play-off round, but by moving to replace North Korea’s Epil-25, two Thai teams were immediately entitled to the final play-off without. Played in the previous round
The addition of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) teams to the Big 40 Asian Cup teams has resulted in increased quotas across the continent in terms of teams to compete in the group stage, as well as a wider variety. In the corner of the country that competes But if you look at the details of the competition, the difficulty of going into the knockout stages (16 teams) according to the technical points is more difficult than having the teams in the 32 groups group stage like the past times.
Because both the West and East zones, the teams that will qualify for 16 teams from 5 groups each are guaranteed to qualify for the qualifying team are the Group AE Championship teams (West Zone) 5 teams and the FJ Group Championship (East Zone) 5 teams for a total of 10. The other six teams that will follow through will be divided into 2nd best from 3 teams each, with the top 3 teams being the best from each zone. 5 groups will measure the scores into the round by themselves Which is hard work that requires doing a fairly thorough homework, both on the subject of the competition results and having to understand how to qualify for the tournament format
For Thai clubs who have qualified for the previous knockout rounds, Kasikorn Bank clubs have passed until they have won two titles 1993-94,1994-95. When using the title of Asian Club Championships and BEC Tero, they passed through to win the runner-up in 2002-03, after which they left for 10 years, Buriram United in 2013, quarter-finals, in 2018. Qualified for the last 16 teams and the other team that qualified for the knockout round That is, SCG Muangthong United qualified for the final 16 teams in 2017.
AFC Cup The 2021 Champions League play-off round will be played 7,14 Apr ’64, while the group stage will play on the neutral ground. Between 21 Apr-7 May ’21
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