2024–25 AFC Champions League Elite

The 2024–25 AFC Champions League Elite (ACL Elite) will be the 43rd edition of Asia's premier club football tournament, organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), and the first since it was rebranded as the AFC Champions League Elite. The revamped format, along with the rebranding, sees 24 teams playing eight games against different opponents in the brand new league phase.

The final stage will be played in Saudi Arabia from 25 April to 4 May 2025. The tournament winner will qualify for the 2025 FIFA Intercontinental Cup and FIFA Club World Cup. Additionally, the winner will enter the league stage of the 2025–26 AFC Champions League Elite, if they have not already qualified through domestic performance.

Al Ain are the defending champions, as the AFC Champions League records and statistics are carried forward to the ACL Elite.

Association team allocation
The associations are allocated slots according to their club competitions ranking which was published after the 2022 competitions were completed.

Teams
In the following table, the number of appearances and last appearance count since the 2002–03 season, when the competition was rebranded as the AFC Champions League.


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Schedule
The schedule of the competition is as follows.

Qualifying play-offs
Losers of the qualifying play-offs will enter the group stage of the 2024–25 AFC Champions League Two.

Preliminary round

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Play-off round

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Knockout stage
A total of 16 teams will qualify for the knockout stage, with each region having 8 teams to qualify.