2021_AFC_Women's_Club_Championship Knowpia

2021 AFC Women's Club Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Jordan
City	Amman
Dates	7–13 November
Teams	4 (from 4 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Amman SC (1st title)
Runners-up	Shahrdari Sirjan
Third place	Gokulam Kerala
Fourth place	Bunyodkor
Tournament statistics
Matches played	6
Goals scored	15 (2.5 per match)
Attendance	1,681 (280 per match)
Top scorer(s)	4 players (2 goals)
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The 2021 AFC Women's Club Championship (also known as the AFC Women's Club Championship 2021 Pilot Tournament (West))^[1] was the second edition of AFC's premier women's club football competition, held between 7 and 13 November.^[2]^[3] Four clubs from four associations competed.^[4]

Teams edit

The following teams played in the West Zone tournament.^[2]

Team	Qualifying method	App. (last)
FC Bunyodkor	2020 Uzbek women's football championship champions	1st
Gokulam Kerala FC	2019–20 Indian Women's League champions^{[note 1]}	1st
Shahrdari Sirjan FC	2020–21 Kowsar League champions	1st
Amman SC	2021 Jordan Women's Football League champions	1st

Initially, an East Zone tournament including teams from Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and Taiwan, was also announced. In late July, it was announced that due to COVID-19 restrictions, there was no interest from the clubs in the East to host the tournament,^[3] and it was subsequently cancelled.

Format edit

Teams played in a single round-robin.

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:

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 are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are 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 are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
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.

Schedule
Matchday	Dates
Matchday 1	7 November 2021
Matchday 2	10 November 2021
Matchday 3	13 November 2021

Standings edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Amman (H, C)	3	2	1	4	3	+1	6^[a]
2	Shahrdari Sirjan	3	2	1	4	3	+1	6^[a]
3	Gokulam Kerala	3	1	2	4	4	0	3
4	Bunyodkor	3	1	2	3	5	−2	3

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(C) Champions; (H) Hosts
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head points: Amman 3, Shahrdari Sirjan 0.

Matches edit

All times were in EET (UTC+2).

7 November 2021

16:00

Bunyodkor	1–2	Shahrdari Sirjan
Nozimova 77' (pen.)	Report	Jalal Nasab 6' Alizadeh 65'