Tournament details | |
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Dates | 11 March – 7 November 2008 |
Teams | 20 (from 10 associations) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Al-Muharraq (1st title) |
Runners-up | Safa |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 74 |
Goals scored | 235 (3.18 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Rico (19 goals) |
The 2008 AFC Cup was the 5th edition of the AFC Cup, playing between clubs from nations who are members of the Asian Football Confederation.
20 clubs will be competing, including champions of the national leagues and champions of the primary knock-out competition from the following countries which are AFC-affiliated countries which fall into the AFC's 'developing nations' category. In that season, the club of Bangladesh, Turkmenistan, Indonesia not participated.
Kitchee (2006–07 Hong Kong First Division League runners-up)
East Bengal (2007 Indian Federation Cup winners)
New Radiant (2007 Maldives FA Cup winners)
Perak (2006–07 Super League Malaysia runners-up)
Home United (2007 S.League runners-up)
Al-Najma (2007 Bahraini King's Cup winners)
Shabab Al-Ordon (2007 AFC Cup winners & 2006–07 Jordan FA Cup winners)