The 2026–27 ASEAN Club Championship group stage will begin in 7 October 2026 and end in 1 April 2027. A total of 14 teams competed in the group stage to decide eight places in the knockout stage of the 2026–27 ASEAN Club Championship.
Port, Kuching City, Persib, Công An Hồ Chí Minh City and Ratchaburi will make their debut appearance in the group stage.
Draw The draw for the group stage was held on 5 June 2026 in Jakarta, Indonesia. 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. Due to political tensions between Thailand and Cambodia, teams from Cambodia and Thailand cannot be drawn against each other; if not possible, the title holder from Thailand or Cambodia cannot be drawn against another team from Cambodia or Thailand, and a Thai v Khmer matchup between non-title holders must be played in neutral venue and/or behind closed doors.
Teams and seeding Below were the participating teams, grouped by their seeding pot. They included: 12 teams which entered in this stage 2 winners of the play-off round.
Key to coloursGroup winners and runners-up advanced to quarter-finals
+Pot 1Team1 Buriram United2 Port +Pot 2Team3 Ratchaburi4 Johor Darul Ta'zim+Pot 3Team5 Kuching City6 Lion City Sailors+Pot 4Team7 Tampines Rovers8 Công An Hà Nội+Pot 5Team9 Công An Hồ Chí Minh City10 PKR Svay Rieng+Pot 6Team11 Borneo12 Persib Bandung+Pot 7Team13 Manila Digger14 Shan United Notes
Format The group stage is a single round-robin format.
The top four teams from each group advance to the quarter-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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