The stage is ready for the 16 remaining sides within the AFC Champions League Two™ (ACL Two) 2024/25 to find their Knockout Stage destiny on the draw ceremony on Thursday, December 12 at 3pm on the AFC Home in Kuala Lumpur.
Eight groups every from the West and East areas efficiently progressed from the Group Stage, which concluded on Thursday, to seal their Spherical of 16 berths within the twentieth version of the Continent’s second-tier males’s event and hold their hopes of glory alive.
Three sides have reached the Knockout Stage of an AFC membership competitors for the primary time: Al Khaldiya SC of Bahrain, Al Wakrah SC of Qatar, and Nam Dinh FC of Vietnam.
The draw, which can chart the pathway to the Last for the contenders, will see the eight groups of every area positioned into two pots – Pot 1 for the group winners and Pot 2 for the runners-up – as under:
West
Pot 1: Tractor FC (IRN), Al Taawoun FC (KSA), Sharjah FC (UAE), Shabab Al Ahli (UAE)
Pot 2: Al Wakrah SC (QAT), Al Khaldiya SC (BHR), Al Wehdat (JOR), Al Hussein (JOR)
East
Pot 1: Sanfrecce Hiroshima (JPN), Lion Metropolis Sailors FC (SGP), Bangkok United (THA),Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors FC (KOR)
Pot 2: Sydney FC (AUS), Port FC (THA), Nam Dinh SC (VIE), Muangthong United (THA)
Groups from the identical group is not going to be drawn in opposition to one another and this group safety precept shall be ensured by the draw software program, which can even forestall impasse conditions from occurring.
The Spherical of 16 is scheduled to be performed in February 2025, adopted by the Quarter-finals in March and Semi-finals in April, earlier than the event culminates in a single-leg Last on Might 17, 2025.