The 2025–26 ASEAN Club Championship group stage began on 20 August 2025 and ended on 5 February 2026. A total of 12 teams competed in the group stage to decide four places in the knockout stage of the 2025–26 ASEAN Club Championship.
Bangkok United, Thep Xanh Nam Dinh, Johor Darul Ta'zim and Selangor made their debut appearance in the group stage.
Draw The draw for the group stage was held on 4 July 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand. The 14 teams were drawn into two groups of seven.
Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group, with the exception of Thailand, where a maximum of two Thai teams (one being the title holder) could be placed in the same group.
A total of 6 national associations are represented in the group stage.
Teams and seeding Below were the participating teams, grouped by their seeding pot. They included: 10 teams which entered in this stage 2 winners of the play-off round.
Key to coloursGroup winners and runners-up advanced to semi-finals
+Pot 1Team1 Buriram United2 Bangkok United +Pot 2Team3 BG Pathum United4 Johor Darul Ta'zim+Pot 3Team5 Selangor6 Nam Định+Pot 4Team7 Công An Hà Nội8 Lion City Sailors+Pot 5Team9 Tampines Rovers10 PKR Svay Rieng+Pot 6Team11 Dynamic Herb Cebu12 Shan United Notes
Format The group stage is a single round-robin format.
Initially, the top four teams from each group advance to a quarter-final stage. However, following the withdrawal of Indonesian teams, the quarter-finals were removed; only the top two teams will qualify for the semi-finals.
Tiebreakers
The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order (Regulations Article 17.2): Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were 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 playing each other in the last round of the group are tied; Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points); Drawing of lots.
Groups Group A
Group B
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