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Asian Champions League

he AFC Champions League is working to a new schedule this season, and the group stage ends during the first two weeks of December. In the western side of the draw, Saudi Arabia’s biggest-spending sides have, unsurprisingly, been dominant so far, while the eastern side of the draw has been far’s Asian football expert John Duerden will have a full round-up of the group-stage action in February’s issue.

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