The 2005 AFC President's Cup was the inaugural season of the AFC President's Cup, a competition for football clubs in countries categorized as "emerging nations" by the Asian Football Confederation. The eight teams that competed were split into two groups and played each other team in their group once. The winner of each group then played the runner-up in the other group in the semifinals, and the winners of the semifinal matches played in the final match to determine the winner. There was no third-place match. The games were played in May 2005 and were held in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Qualified teams AssociationTeamQualifying method BhutanTransport United2004 A-Division champions CambodiaHello Unitedmost likely as 2002 Cambodian League champions Chinese TaipeiTaipower2004 Chinese Taipei National Football League champions KyrgyzstanDordoi-Dynamo2004 Kyrgyzstan League champions NepalThree Star Club2004 Martyr's Memorial A-Division League champions PakistanWAPDA2004-05 Pakistan Premier League champions Sri LankaBlue Star SC2003–04 Sri Lanka Football Premier League champions TajikistanRegar-TadAZ2004 Tajik League champions
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Venues Kathmandu Dasarath Rangasala Stadium Halchowk Stadium Capacity: 17,800 Capacity: 3,500 Group stage Group A
Group B
Semi-finals
Final
References
External links 2005 AFC President's Cup 2005 AFC President's Cup Results 2005 AFC President's Cup on Kantipur Online