SAFF Club Championship
The SAFF Club Championship is an premier club football competition of South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) region countries. Top teams of their professional leagues will compete in the tournament. The tournament will be played from the middle of 2024 on a home and away basis. Format
A total of 16 clubs will participate in the first edition, four clubs each from India, Bangladesh, three clubs from Maldives, two clubs from Nepal, as well as one club each from Bhutan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, will participate in the competition. History
In April 2011, the South Asian Football Federation announced that they had decided to start a new tournament for association football club sides, the SAFF Club Championship, with the inaugural edition to be held in Bangladesh from 1–15 September of the same year. However, the competition was postponed and desires to revive the competition were again announced in July 2013, but the competition has still not started with accusations that India, the prime nation in the competition, are not altogether interested in participating. Sri Lanka was supposed to host first edition in August 2014. That however did not happen. A new possible start was set for December 2016 but later announced that 2017 would see the first edition. This again was changed and announced that 2018 would be the start of the tournament. References

External links
 South Asia Football – Complete SAFF website

International club association football competitions in Asia