آسیا قهرمانلار لیگی ۲۰۱۲ آسیا فوتبالیندا، کولوبلار آراسینداکی ان یوخاری سطحده آسیا فوتبال کونفدراسیونو طرفیندن قورولان فوتبال اویونلاری دی و بو دووره ۱۳-جی دووری ساییلیر و آسیا قهرمانلار لیگی آدیله ۱۰-جی دووری دیر.
It was originally announced that the allocation for entry to the 2012 ACL would stay the same as the previous three seasons with the exception of Vietnam, who were disqualified, and their previous playoff slot was awarded to Qatar.[۸] However, following the AFC Executive Committee meeting in November 2011, it was decided that the number of slots for each association to be changed based on evaluation of the AFC Champions League criteria that took place in 2011.[۹]
A total of eleven member associations (see below) which participated in the 2011 AFC Champions League was evaluated for participating in the 2012 AFC Champions League.[۱۰]India, which played in the 2011 ACL play-off, was not evaluated and dropped to the AFC Cup. The other member associations which applied but did not meet the criteria for 2011 ACL was not evaluated at all for 2012.
A One of the group stage direct entrants from Uzbekistan was moved to the East Zone.[۹]
B One of the K-League clubs, Sangju Sangmu Phoenix, is unable to qualify for the ACL because the team is not a commercial entity and their players are not professionally contracted.[۸]
D This number was given in the 2012 ACL evaluation report (page 8).[۱۰] The 2010–11 Indonesia Super League, the season which qualified Indonesian clubs to the 2012 ACL, had 15 teams, and the 2011–12 Indonesian Premier League, the ongoing top division recognized by the Football Association of Indonesia, has 13 teams. There are two rival "top-division" leagues in Indonesia: the Indonesian Premier League and the Indonesia Super League (the ISL was by then not recognized by the Football Association of Indonesia).
E China was allocated a berth in the qualifying play-off, but لیائونینق فوتبال کولوبو, the 2011 Chinese Super League 3rd place, did not enter the competition.[۱۲] Therefore, only four teams entered the East Zone qualifying play-off.
A total of 37 teams participated in the 2012 AFC Champions League.[۱۰]
۲۸ تیم (۱۴ غرب منطقهسیندن، ۱۴ تیم شرق منطقهسیندن) قروپ مرحلهسینه یول تاپدی.
۹ تیم (۵ تیم غرب منطقهسیندن، ۴ تیم شرق منطقهسیندن) competed in the qualifying play-off, which was divided into two rounds. The 4 winners (2 in West Zone, 2 in East Zone) qualified for the group stage. Losers of the qualifying play-off final round entered the 2012 AFC Cup group stage. However, losers of the qualifying play-off semi-final round were eliminated from all AFC competitions, a change from previous seasons where they would also enter the AFC Cup.
Group stage direct entrants: West Zone (Groups A–D)
‡پرسیپورا جایاپورا فوتبال کولوبو were initially disqualified by the AFC from participating but on appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the CAS ruled on 1 February 2012 that they should be provisionally reinstated to the competition and were entitled to play in the qualifying play-off.[۱۳]
کووئیت ایدمان کولوبو (Kuwait), the 2011 AFC Cup runners-up, failed to fulfil the criteria set by AFC to compete in the 2012 AFC Champions League, and thus directly entered the 2012 AFC Cup. نسف قارشی فوتبال کولوبو (Uzbekistan), the 2011 AFC Cup winners, already directly qualified for the group stage based on their domestic performance.[۱۰]
^ ۱٫۰۱٫۱Brisbane Roar and Beijing Guoan are tied on their head-to-head record (2 pts, 0 GD, 2 GF), overall goal difference and overall goals scored, and so are ranked by their fair play record (Brisbane Roar: 12 pts; Beijing Guoan: 18 pts).
^ ۱٫۰۱٫۱Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma and Nagoya Grampus are tied on their head-to-head record (2 pts, 0 GD, 3 GF), and so are ranked by their overall goal difference.