2026–27 ASEAN Club Championship group stage
International football club competition in Southeast Asia
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The 2026–27 ASEAN Club Championship group stage will begin in 7 October 2026 and end in 1 April 2027.[1] 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.[2] 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.
Teams and seeding
Below were the participating teams, grouped by their seeding pot.[3][4] They included:
- 12 teams which entered in this stage
- 2 winners of the play-off round.
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Notes
- ^ Title Holders (TH): ASEAN Club Championship title holders, automatically placed into Pot 1 as top seed.
Format
The group stage is a single round-robin format.[5]
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):[5]
- 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
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | BRU | RBM | KUC | BGT | CHC | BOR | MDF | |
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| 1 |  Buriram United |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 3 Mar | — | 31 Mar | — | 7 Oct | — | |
| 2 | Ratchaburi |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 31 Mar | — | 7 Oct | — | 9 Dec | ||
| 3 |  Kuching City |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 Feb | — | — | 7 Oct | — | 9 Dec | — | ||
| 4 |  BG Tampines Rovers |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 18 Nov | — | — | 9 Dec | — | 24 Feb | ||
| 5 |  Công An Hồ Chí Minh City |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 Nov | — | 16 Dec | — | — | 24 Feb | — | ||
| 6 |  Borneo |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 16 Dec | — | 3 Mar | — | — | 18 Nov | ||
| 7 |  Manila Digger |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 Dec | — | 3 Mar | — | 31 Mar | — | — |
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | POR | JDT | LCS | CAH | SIB | PKR | PO2 | |
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| 1 | Port |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 4 Mar | — | 1 Apr | 8 Oct | — | — | |
| 2 | Johor Darul Ta'zim |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 Apr | — | — | 8 Oct | 10 Dec | ||
| 3 | Lion City Sailors |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 Feb | — | — | 8 Oct | 10 Dec | — | — | ||
| 4 | Công An Hà Nội |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 19 Nov | — | — | — | 10 Dec | 25 Feb | ||
| 5 | Persib |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 17 Dec | — | 4 Mar | — | — | 19 Nov | ||
| 6 |  PKR Svay Rieng |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 Nov | — | 17 Dec | — | 25 Feb | — | — | ||
| 7 |  Play-off winner 2 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 Dec | — | 4 Mar | — | — | 1 Apr | — |
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
| Johor Darul Ta'zim | – |  Shan United /  Ezra |
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| Công An Hà Nội | – | Shan United / Ezra |
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| Shan United / Ezra | – | Lion City Sailors |
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| Shan United / Ezra | – | PKR Svay Rieng |
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Notes
- Identity of the two play-off winners was unknown at the time of the draw.