1969 Asian Champion Club Tournament

1969 Asian Champion Club Tournament
Giora Spiegel of Maccabi Tel Aviv lifting the trophy
Tournament details
Host countryThailand
Dates15 – 30 January 1969
Teams10
Venue(s)National Stadium (in Bangkok host cities)
Final positions
ChampionsIsrael Maccabi Tel Aviv (1st title)
Runners-upSouth Korea Yangzee
Third placeJapan Toyo Kogyo
Fourth placeIndia Mysore State[1]
Tournament statistics
Matches played24
Goals scored85 (3.54 per match)
1967
1970

The 1969 Asian Champion Club Tournament was the 2nd edition of the annual Asian club football competition hosted by Asian Football Confederation.[2] Ten domestic league champions from ten countries competed in the tournament. The tournament was held in Bangkok, Thailand and ten clubs were split in two groups of five. The group winners and the runners up advanced to semifinals.

Maccabi Tel Aviv (ISR) defeated Korean club Yangzee FC (KOR) and became the second Israeli club to win the competition.

  1. ^ Mukherjee, Soham (1 April 2020). "How have Indian clubs fared in AFC Champions League and AFC Cup?". Goal.com. Archived from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  2. ^ "History of the Asian Club Championship". Asian Football. 9 April 1997. Archived from the original on 9 April 1997. Retrieved 3 February 2021.