About Mitsubishi Electric Cup™
The ASEAN Mitsubishi Electric Cup™, also known as the ASEAN Championship, is the region's top football event contested among the men's national teams in Southeast Asia.
Since its inception in 1996, the ASEAN Mitsubishi Electric Cup™ has grown from a two week-long centralised tournament into a competition that is currently played across every Southeast Asian country over a four-week period in front of sold-out stadiums in Hanoi, Bangkok, Manila, Jakarta and beyond.
ASEAN MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CUP™ COMPETITION FORMAT
The competition format includes a Qualifying Round Play-Off in which the two lowest ranking teams Brunei Darussalam and Timor Leste compete in home and away matches to secure a place with the nine other ASEAN national teams – Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam in the main group stage.
The ten qualifying teams are drawn into two groups of five for the round-robin group stage matches which will be played on a home or away basis. The top two finishers of each group advance to the double legged home-and-away semi-finals and subsequently, the two winners battle for the championship title at the finals.