Mohun Bagan SG certified for the second tier males’s AFC membership competitors by successful ISL defend.© Twitter
Indian membership Mohun Bagan Super Giant have been on Friday drawn alongside Al-Wakrah SC of Qatar, Iran’s Tractor FC and FC Ravshan of Tajikistan in Group A of the 2024-25 AFC Champions League Two. The draw was carried out on the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur. Mohun Bagan SG certified for the newly-rebranded second tier males’s AFC membership competitors by advantage of successful the 2023-24 Indian Super League Shield. The Mariners completed third within the 2023-24 AFC Cup Group Stage and did not qualify for the knockout stage.
Al-Wakrah SC certified for the Champions League Two by ending fourth within the 2023-24 Qatar Stars League. This would be the Qatari facet’s first look in Asia because the 2001-02 Asian Club Championship.
Iranian facet Tractor FC additionally certified with a fourth-place end within the 2023-24 Persian Gulf Pro League. They have twice reached the Round of 16 of the erstwhile AFC Champions League in 2021 and 2016.
FC Ravshan booked their spot within the match because the runners-up of the 2023 Tajikistan Higher League. The facet from Kulob has made 4 appearances within the AFC Cup however by no means managed to progress from the group stage.
The Champions League Two options 32 golf equipment divided into eight teams – 4 West, 4 East – of 4 groups every for the group stage, which can be performed in a home-and-away round-robin format from September 17 to December 5.
The high two finishers from every group will advance to the Round of 16, to be performed in February 2025. This can be adopted by the quarter-finals in March and semi-finals in April, earlier than the match culminates in a single-leg last on May 17 subsequent yr.
East Bengal FC, the opposite membership representing India within the 2024-25 AFC membership competitions by advantage of being the 2024 Kalinga Super Cup champions, misplaced their Champions League Two qualifying spherical match to FC Altyn Asyr on Wednesday.
They will characteristic within the 2024-25 AFC Challenge League (third-tier) Group Stage, the draw for which can be carried out on August 22.
