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Opponents of «Altyn Asyr» and «Kopetdag» in 2022 AFC Cup are known

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Opponents of «Altyn Asyr» and «Kopetdag» in 2022 AFC Cup are known

During the draw, which was held in the AFC Head-quarter in Malaysia, the opponents of the Turkmen teams were in 2022 AFC Cup were determined.

As a result of the draw, Ashgabat’s «Altyn Asyr» will play in Group «Е» with the teams CSKA (Dushanbe, Tajikistan), «Neftchi» (Kochkor-Ata, Kyrgyzstan) and one of the Uzbek clubs– «Nasaf» from Karshi or «Sogdiana» from Jizak. And the capital’s «Kopetdag» will play in Group «F» with Bishkek’s «Dordoi» from Kyrgyzstan and «Khujand» from the Tajik city of the same name.

Both groups formed the Central zone of tournament, the matches of which will be held from 24 to 30 June, 2022.

The best teams of these groups will play in the zonal final of 2022 AFC Cup, the winner will be advanced to the next round of tournament and awarded a money prize in amount of 100 thousand US dollars.

AFC Cup - the second most important club tournament, held since 2004 by AFC among winners and prize-winners of championships and cup holders of countries whose level of football development is not high enough to participate in the AFC Champions League.

Eight-time current champion of Turkmenistan «Altyn Asyr» has been playing in AFC Cup since 2005. The team of «Turkmenaragatnashyk» Agency achieved the best result in 2018, having reached the final, where it lost to the Iraqi «Air Force Club» – 0:2.

And six-time champion of Turkmenistan «Kopetdag» will compete for the AFC Cup for the first time. The team of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkmenistan, which took fourth place in the last national championship, achieved this right due to the fact that it successfully passed the licensing of the AFC.

Earlier, «Kopetdag» five times participated in Asian Champions Cup (1994/95, 1995/96, 1996/97, 1998/99, 2001/02) and only once in the Asian Cup Winners' Cup, in which it achieved the highest result in the 1997/98 season, entering the top four teams in the tournament.