Kuala Lumpur: The remaining contenders for the Continent’s ultimate club prize will discover their last-eight fate on Monday at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur.
The draw for the AFC Champions League Elite Finals Jeddah 2025 will chart the path from the Quarter Finals to the showpiece Final, with all seven highly-anticipated battles to take place in a unique centralised format between April 25 and May 3 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Each Quarter Final will be a cross-regional showdown, marking the first time that there will be no regional division of West and East teams in Asia’s top-tier men’s competition since the 2013 edition of the AFC Champions League .
Former Saudi Arabian international and two-time AFC Champions League winner Hamad Al Montashari, a key figure in Al Ittihad’s 2004 and 2005 triumphs, will add prestige to the ceremony by performing the Draw Assistant role.
The cast for the Finals draw was determined following the Round of 16’s conclusion last Wednesday, which saw Al Sadd SC, Al Hilal SFC, Al Ahli Saudi FC, and Al Nassr Club advance from the West and Yokohama F. Marinos FC, Kawasaki Frontale, Gwangju FC and Buriram United progress from the East.
Former champions Al Hilal (2019, 2021) and Al Sadd (1989, 2011) will aim to taste glory again, while the cast also comprises two former finalists in Al Ahli Saudi (2012) and Marinos (2023/24). Meanwhile, Gwangju are the first team to reach the last eight on their Continental debut since Vissel Kobe in 2020.
