When will the 2023 AFC Champions League draw be held?

The draw for the 2023 AFC Champions League is on August 24th.

The lottery results of the AFC Champions League group stage in 2023-2024 season were announced at AFC headquarters in Kuala Lumpur on the 24th. The 2023-2024 season is the first time that the AFC Champions adopted the New Year's Games system. Wuhan strikeouts, Shandong Taishan and Zhejiang Super League teams entered Group J, Group G and Group H respectively. Last season, Super League champion Wuhan three towns signed poorly and were divided into the "death group" where two strong teams in Japan and South Korea were located. As a new army participating in the AFC Champions League for the first time.

The three towns in Wuhan are in the same group as the defending champion of AFC Champions League, Japan's Urawa Red Diamond, South Korea's traditional K-League team Posco Iron Man and Vietnam's Hanoi FC, and the qualifying situation is grim. In Group G, where Mount Tai in Shandong is located, there are sailors from Yokohama in Japan, Kaya in the Philippines and Incheon United in South Korea. After 12, Zhejiang team, which returned to AFC Champions League, signed a relatively ideal contract. Their opponents were Buruli Nanlian Union in Thailand, Jiafu LAM Raymond in Japan and Melbourne City in Australia.

The AFC Champions League qualifying rules were issued;

First, prepare for the work.

1. The qualifiers are divided into the West Zone and the East Zone. The number of teams in each group is different, but it takes several rounds to advance to the play-offs.

2. Western qualifiers usually consist of 3 to 4 teams, each with 5 to 6 teams. Among them, the team leader will directly advance to the play-offs, and the team leader will enter the play-offs to compete with other teams for the remaining places.

3. The East Division qualifiers are usually composed of two or three teams, and each team has four or five teams. Different from the Western Division qualifiers, in the Eastern Division qualifiers, the first and second place in the small group will directly advance to the play-offs.

Second, the play-offs

1, the play-off is the last stage of AFC Champions League qualifying tournament, and it is also the key competition to determine AFC Champions League qualification. The play-off consists of four teams in the east and four teams in the west, with a total of eight teams.

2. The play-offs adopt the single elimination system, and the top two teams in each group advance to the AFC Champions Group. The four teams that have advanced will join the ranks of 32 participating teams in the AFC Champions League.