Maziya to playoff

Dec 10, 2014 - 02:52:44 | Shimaaz Ali
Asadhulla Abdulla playing against Hano in this year's AFC Cup. They will play in a play off this year.

Male', MALDIVES - Maldives FA Cup winners Maziya will play a play off game in this year's AFC Cup to enter into the group stage.

Maldives league champions New Radiant will directly enter into the group stage. The draw for AFC Cup 2015 will be held in Malaysia tomorrow.

New Radiant has the second most appearances in the tournament from the east region this time. East Bengal of India is appearing their 8th time in the competition while New Radiant is making their 7th.

New Radiant reached the semi final in 2005 and quarter finals in 2013 and is the only local club to have progressed beyond the group stage of AFC Cup.

The AFC’s Competitions Committee has ratified the slot allocation for the AFC Cup’s 2015 and 2016 editions and the decisions were made based on the AFC Member Associations Ranking 2014, the AFC Cup 2015 Qualifying Round for the play-offs (the AFC President's Cup 2014) and club entry for participation in the AFC Cup 2015.

This is Maziya's 3rd appearance in the competition.

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Hussey on Dec 10
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Why mazia has to play play off.. They are the best team in maldives..😜😜
Imma on Dec 11
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Actually New Radiant are the best team as they won the DDL. Maziya won the FA Cup, a tournament which consisted of only 3 matches for DDL clubs.
Boyko on Dec 10
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Before no playoff for our two clubs, now one of the clubs gets to play playoff, soon both the clubs will have to play the playoff. Those days are not far off. Our clubs are not making much of a headway in this tourament, the last time they made a meaningful progress was so ago in 2005, that was to the semi, apart from that there is nothing to talk about. Our second team (be it Maziya or Victory, of late it has always been Maziya) is so weak they barely make an impression, have never gone beyond the group stage. We have to be thankful to AFC  for they are still considering to give us the chance of a playoff for our weaker team.

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