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The inaugural AFC Women’s Champions League™ season will mark another milestone on Wednesday, January 8 when the official draw ceremony for the Knockout Stage takes place at 3pm at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur.

Eight teams are still standing in the 2024/25 campaign, which kicked off last August with the Preliminary Stage and subsequently concluded the Group Stage in October.
 
The cast, which comprises the top two finishers from each of the three groups in the Group Stage and the two best third-placed teams, will continue their journey to glory in the single-leg Quarter-finals.
 
The three group winners and the best-ranked runner-up have been allocated to Pot 1 for the draw, with the remaining quartet in Pot 2, as below:
 
Pot 1: Hyundai Steel Red Angels Women’s FC (KOR), Melbourne City FC (AUS), Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies (JPN), Ho Chi Minh City Women’s FC (VIE)
Pot 2: Abu Dhabi Country Club (UAE), Bam Khatoon FC (IRN), Wuhan Jiangda Women’s FC (CHN), Taichung Blue Whale Women’s Football Team (TPE)
 
In accordance with the Group Protection Principle, teams that advanced from the same Group will not be paired with each other. This will be ensured by the draw software, which will also prevent deadlock situations.
 
Teams from Pot 1 will serve as the home side for the Quarter-finals, which are scheduled to be played on March 22 and 23, 2025.
 
This will be followed by a centralised Finals, which will see the Semi-finals and Final – all single-leg ties – being played out from May 21 to 24, 2025, with an attractive prize purse of at least USD1.3 million for the eventual champions of the prestigious tournament.
 
Watch the draw ceremony of the AFC Women’s Champions League™ 2024/25 Knockout Stage on Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 3pm here!

Courtesy AFC