2014 AFC Champions League
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 29 January – 1 November 2014 |
| Teams | 47 (from 19 associations) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |
 Western Sydney Wanderers (1st title)
|
| Runners-up |
 Al-Hilal
|
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 141 |
| Goals scored | 374 (2.65 per match) |
| Attendance | 1,975,439 (14,010 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
 Asamoah Gyan(12 goals) |
| Best player |
Ante Covic
|
The 2014 AFC Champions League was the 33rd edition of the top-level Asian club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), and the 12th under the current AFC Champions League title. Guangzhou Evergrande were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Western Sydney Wanderers in the quarter-finals. As in previous years, Nike provided the official ball for all matches with a new Nike Incyte model used throughout the season.
In the final, Western Sydney Wanderers of Australia defeated Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia 1–0 on aggregate, to become the first Australian team to win the title, and in doing so qualified for the 2014 FIFA Club World Cup. The Australian club were making their debut in the competition, having won entry to the competition by winning the 2012–13 A-League Premiership in their first year of existence.
The AFC laid out the procedure for deciding the participating associations and the allocation of slots, with inspection of the associations interested in participating in the AFC Champions League to be done in 2013, and the final decision to be made by the AFC on 26 November 2013.
The AFC Competitions Committee proposed the following participating criteria for the 2014–2016 editions of the AFC Champions League on 12 March 2013:
On 26 November 2013, the AFC Executive Committee approved the slots for the 2014 edition of the AFC Champions League.
The following teams entered the competition.
In the following table, the number of appearances and last appearance count only those since the 2002–03 season (including qualifying rounds), when the competition was rebranded as the AFC Champions League.
The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws held at AFC headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).
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