2025–26 AFC Women's Champions League

| top_scorer = Holly McNamara Kim Kyong-yong(4 goals each) | player = Kim Kyong-yong | fair_play = Hồ Chí Minh City | prevseason = 2024–25 | nextseason = 2026–27

The 2025–26 AFC Women's Champions League was the second edition of the AFC Women's Champions League, Asia's premier club women's football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

Wuhan Jiangda were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Suwon in quarter finals.

Naegohyang became the champions for the first time in the competition's history, thus qualifying to the group stage of the next edition.

Association team allocation There was one entry per participating member association, with allocation based on AFC Women's Club ranking made with 70% of AFC club points and 30% of national team points as per FIFA Women's World Ranking. Teams from the top seven ranked associations qualified directly to the group stage, with the remaining teams starting from the preliminary stage.

Legend

W: withdrew before the draw

RankMemberassociationPointsSlotsGroupstagePlay-inqualifier 197.66210 275.85210 374.80010 474.58310 570.39310 650.7630 (1)0 750.38910 848.14901 937.175011033.771011130.737011230.443011329.136011424.634011523.653011622.008011721.376011819.960011919.831012218.077012317.618012417.245012516.541012616.425012916.343013314.38201TotalParticipating associations: 2561925

Associations that did not enter a team:

(W)

Format The competition consists of the following: A preliminary stage (one group of three and four groups of four teams) in centralised venues; A main tournament with 12 teams (three groups of four teams) in centralised venues; Quarter-finals hosted by the group winners and the best second-placed team; Semi-finals and final in a centralised venue.

Tiebreakers Teams in the preliminary stage and the group stage are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings: Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the 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; Penalty shoot-out, if only two teams are tied, and the teams in question have played their last group match against each other; Lower disciplinary score (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point); Drawing of lots.

Schedule StageRoundDraw date DatesPreliminary stageMatchday 13 July 202525 August 2025Matchday 228 August 2025Matchday 331 August 2025Group stageMatchday 111 September 202517 November 2025 (Group B)9 November 2025 (Group C)Matchday 216 November 2025 (Group A)20 November 2025 (Group B)12 November 2025 (Group C)Matchday 319 November 2025 (Group A)23 November 2025 (Group B)15 November 2025 (Group C)Knockout stage15 January 202628–29 March 2026Semi-finals20 May 2026Final23 May 2026

Teams Team locations

Entrants

+Group stage direct entrantsTeamQualifying method Melbourne City2024–25 A-League Women premiers2nd Suwon2024 WK League champions1st NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza2024–25 WE League champions1st Wuhan Jiangda2024 Chinese Women's Super League champions2nd 2024 Vietnamese Women's National League champions2nd Bam Khatoon2024–25 Kowsar Women Football League champions2nd +Preliminary stage participantsTeamQualifying method Kaohsiung Attackers2024 Taiwan Mulan Football League champions1st Stallion Laguna2024 PFF Women's Cup champions1st2025 Thai Women's League 1 champions2nd East Bengal2024–25 Indian Women's League champions1st Kelana United2024 Malaysia National Women's League champions1st Naegohyang2023–24 DPR Korea Women's Premier League champions1st Nasaf2024 Uzbekistan Women's League champions2nd ISPE2024 Myanmar Women's League champions1st Etihad2024 Jordan Women's Pro League champions2nd Kitchee2024–25 Hong Kong Women League champions2nd Master2024 Lao Women's League champions1st APF2024 ANFA Women's League champions2nd Strykers2025 Women's G League champions1st Lion City Sailors2024 Women's Premier League champions2nd Phnom Penh Crown2024–25 Cambodian Women's League champions1st Khovd Western2024 Women's National Football League champions1st Al-Nassr2024–25 Saudi Women's Premier League champions2nd Sdyushor SI–Asiagoal2024 Kyrgyzstan Women's League champions1st Royal Thimphu College2024 Women's National League champions2nd +Withdrawn teamTeamQualifying method2024–25 UAE Women's Football League champions

Preliminary stage Seedings Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4 Bold indicates teams qualified for the final tournament (H) Hosts

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Best runners-up ranking Since Group E only had three teams, the results against fourth-placed teams in other groups were omitted for this ranking.

Group stage The draw was conducted on September 11, 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, with matches to be played in three centralised venues. Seedings Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4 Melbourne City (1) Suwon (2) Bam Khatoon (7) East Bengal (11) Naegohyang (13) Nasaf (14) ISPE (15) (H)

(H) Hosts (TH) Title holders

Group A

Group B

Group C

Ranking of second-placed teams

Ranking of third-placed teams

Knockout stage

The knockout stage is being played in a single-leg knockout format. The semi-finals and the final match will be played in a centralised location.

Draw The draw was held on 15 January 2026. For the quarter-finals, teams were seeded based on their performance in the group stage. The three group winners and the best second-placed team were seeded, hosting the match. Teams from the same group could not be drawn against each other.

Seeded Unseeded Melbourne City Wuhan Jiangda NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza Naegohyang Hồ Chí Minh City Nasaf Suwon Stallion Laguna

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Top scorers

RankPlayerTeamTotal1 Holly McNamara Melbourne City2 11 4 Kim Kyong-yong Naegohyang 11112 Moka Hiwatari NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza2 1 3 Yuzuho Shiokoshi NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza1 25 Miharu Shinjo NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza1 12 Alexia Apostolakis Melbourne City1 1 Danella Butrus Melbourne City11 Leticia McKenna Melbourne City 2 Deven Jackson Melbourne City 2 Aideen Keane Melbourne City 1 1 Kim Hye-yong Naegohyang 11 Ri Su-jong Naegohyang 2 1 Haruhi Suzuki Suwon 11 Song Ji-yoon Suwon2 Chandler McDaniel Stallion Laguna 2 Tayla Christensen Stallion Laguna 2 Wang Shuang Wuhan Jiangda 2 Mavis Owusu Wuhan Jiangda 2 Diyorakhon Khabibullaeva Nasaf 2 Note

Goals scored in the preliminary stage and matches voided by AFC are not counted when determining top scorer.

See also 2025–26 AFC Champions League Elite 2025–26 AFC Champions League Two 2025–26 AFC Challenge League

Notes

References

External links

AFC Calendar 2025–26 (Updated on 15 May 2025) (Archived1, , Archive3) AFC Calendar 2025–26 (Updated on 4 Aug 2025) (Archive1, , Archive3)