Asian Club Championship and AFC Champions League Elite records and statistics

This page details statistics of the AFC Champions League Elite (previously known as the Asian Club Championship and the AFC Champions League).

Titles by club
A total of 24 clubs have won the tournament since its 1967 inception, with Al-Hilal being the only team to win it four times. Clubs from ten countries have provided tournament winners. South Korean clubs have been the most successful, winning a total of twelve titles.

All-time top 25 AFC Champions League rankings
This table includes results beyond group stage of the AFC Champions League through 2002/03 season, therefore:
 * It does not include the old Asian Club Championship
 * It does not include qualifying rounds

All-time table by leagues
This table includes results beyond group stage of the AFC Champions League through 2002/03 season (2002–03 AFC Champions League); qualifying rounds are not included.

Number of participating clubs of the Champions League era (from 2002–2024)
The following table is a list of clubs that have participated in the AFC Champions League (group stage).

Year(s) in Bold : Team advanced to the knockout stage.

Attendance record
The following table lists 20 matches with the most attendances at AFC Champions League era (more than 70,000 attendances). All 20 matches with the highest attendances in the history of the AFC Champions League took place in Iran at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran.

Persepolis has the records of the most attendances (11 matches among 20 matches with the most attendances) and five matches with the most attendances.

Asian Club Championship and AFC Champions League
The following table is a list of clubs that have participated in the Asian Club Championship and AFC Champions League. Excluding semifinalists from 1987 to 1989–90 seasons. In these seasons, there were no semi-finals as the finalists qualified via a group stage. Year(s) in Bold: Team was finalist

AFC Champions League era
Year(s) in Bold: Team was finalist

Unbeaten sides
Four sides have been undefeated in multiple seasons:
 * Al-Hilal (1991–92 and 1999–2000)
 * Esteghlal (1970 and 1990–91)
 * Maccabi Tel Aviv (1969 and 1971)
 * Ulsan Hyundai: (2012 and 2020)

Ten other teams have been undefeated in a single season:
 * Al-Ittihad (2005)
 * Daewoo Royals (1985)
 * Furukawa Electric (1986–87)
 * Gamba Osaka (2008)
 * Hapoel Tel Aviv (1967)
 * Ilhwa Chunma (1995)
 * Liaoning (1989–90)
 * Suwon Samsung Bluewings (2001–02)
 * Thai Farmers Bank (1993–94)
 * Urawa Red Diamonds (2007)

Consecutive participations

 * Al-Hilal have the record number of consecutive participations in the AFC Champions League with 12 Times since 2009.

Biggest wins

 * The following teams won a single match with goal difference of 8 or more in the AFC Champions League era:

Biggest two-legged wins
The following teams won two-legged matches with goal difference of 5 or more in the knock-out rounds of AFC Champions League era:

Goalscoring and conceding

 * Most goals scored in a group stage: 28
 * Kashima Antlers (2008)
 * Fewest goals scored in a group stage: 0
 * Tokyo Verdy (2006)
 * Shahr Khodro (2020)
 * Ratchaburi Mitr Phol (2021)
 * Guangzhou (2022)
 * Fewest goals conceded in a group stage: 0
 * Pakhtakor (2002–03)
 * Al-Wahda (2004)
 * Busan IPark (2005)
 * Ulsan Hyundai (2006)
 * Most goals conceded in a group stage: 29
 * Persipura Jayapura (2010)
 * Highest goal difference in a group stage: +25
 * Busan IPark (2005)
 * Kashima Antlers (2008)
 * Lowest goal difference in a group stage: –26
 * Da Nang (2006)
 * Tampines Rovers (2021)

Advancing past the group stage

 * Al-Hilal holds the record for the most consecutive seasons advancing past the group stage with 9 from 2009 to 2017.

All-time appearances
From 2005 season and excluding qualifying games & appearances

All-time top goalscorers
From the 2003 season onwards only; qualifying games are not included.

Top scorer awards
The top scorer award is for the player who amassed the most goals in the tournament, excluding the qualifying rounds. Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma, Gamba Osaka, Guangzhou Evergrande and Al-Hilal are the clubs to have received the most awards with 2 each:
 * Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
 * Kim Do-hoon in 2004
 * Mota in 2007
 * Gamba Osaka
 * Magno Alves in 2006
 * Leandro in 2009
 * Guangzhou Evergrande
 * Muriqui in 2013
 * Ricardo Goulart in 2015
 * Al-Hilal
 * Omar Kharbin in 2017
 * Bafétimbi Gomis in 2019

Hat-tricks
The first hat-trick of the AFC Champions League era was scored by Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma's Kim Do-hoon against Osotsapa on 9 March 2003. Both Adriano and Ricardo Goulart have scored three hat-tricks in the competition.

List of hat-tricks

 * 4 Player scored 4 goals