KUALA LUMPUR – A women’s AFC Champions League will be launched in 2023, Asia’s football governing body has told AFP, with the new international club tournament aiming to increase the strength of the female game across the continent.
Japan won the Women’s World Cup in 2011 and Asia has other strong nations such as Australia and China, but at club level the popularity of women’s football in Asia lags far behind Europe and the United States.
At the last Women’s World Cup in France in 2019, no Asian team reached the quarter-finals for the first time since the tournament began in 1991.
But the Asian Football Confederation is now preparing to launch a female version of the…
