ATK Mohun Bagan clubbed with Bangladesh and Maldives sides in AFC Cup group stage

Indian Super League workforce ATK Mohun Bagan was on Wednesday clubbed with Bangladesh’s Basundhara Kings, Maldives’ Maziya S&RC and one yet-to-qualify facet within the Group D of this season’s AFC Cup.
The group stage draw of the continent’s second-tier membership competitors involving 39 groups — a rise of three from 2019 — was held on-line right here.
The Group D (South Zone) matches of the AFC Cup will start on May 14 at a yet-to-be-decided centralised venue.
The winner of the group after a single round-robin league will advance to the knock-out stage.
Fellow ISL facet Bengaluru FC may very well be the yet-to-qualify facet as they face the winner of the play-off preliminary spherical one conflict between Nepal Army Club and Sri Lanka Police within the preliminary spherical two on April 14.

In the opposite preliminary spherical two conflict, Bangladesh’s Abahani Dhaka will face the winner of Maldives’ Club Eagles and Bhutan’s Thimphu City.
The winners of the 2 preliminary spherical two matches will sq. off in a play-off conflict on April 21 and the winner of that recreation will be part of the opposite three golf equipment in Group D.
ATK Mohun Bagan took Mohun Bagan’s AFC Cup group stage slot which they earned as I-League winners final season.
As a consequence the qualifying preliminary spherical two slot which was saved for the champions of ISL champions — that’s ATK — went to Bengaluru FC, the third-place finishers within the league part of the ISL 2019-20 season.
The AFC Cup play-offs slot ought to have gone to the runners-up of the league part of ISL 2019-20 season. But since ATK had completed runners-up, Bengaluru FC acquired the prospect to be within the play-offs stage of the AFC Cup.