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of India East Bengal FC will hope to put their outstanding domestic form behind them at the start AFC Challenge League 2024-25 campaign against Paro FC on Saturday at Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu, Bhutan.

East Bengal AFC Challenge League Football matches will be available via live streaming in India.

EBFC entered the AFC Challenge League after losing 3-2 to Turkmen side Altyn Asyr in the 2024-25 AFC Champions League Two (ACL Two) playoffs at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata in August.

The third continental league football The AFC Challenge League was a competition for Asian clubs after the AFC Champions League Elite and ACL Two and was known as the President’s Cup until the previous season.

The campaign will also see East Bengalis the return to the main draw of a continental competition since the 2015 AFC Cup. The Red and Golds were also the semi-finalists of the AFC Cup in 2013.

The 2024-25 AFC Challenge League is an 18-team tournament involving twelve clubs from West Asia and six from East Asia.

Twelve West Asian teams were drawn into three groups of four (Group AC), while the six from the eastern part of the continent were divided into two groups of three (Group DE).

After round-robin games in the group phase, eight teams reach the quarter-finals. The winners of Groups A to C and the best runners-up from these three West Asian groups advance to the last eight. The winners and runners-up of Groups D and E also qualify.

East Bengal are in Group A with Bhutanese champions Paro FC, Bangladeshi giants Bashundhara Kings and Lebanese champions Nejmeh.

All Group A matches of the 2024-25 AFC Challenge League will be played at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu, Bhutan.

Local club Paro FC will be East Bengal’s first opponents in the competition. The Red and Gold Brigade are in the midst of a torrid domestic season and have lost all six matches in the current Indian Super League (ISL) season.

The string of poor results has already resulted in former coach Carles Cuadrat being given the job. Oscar Bruzon was brought on board to turn around the team’s fortunes, but the Spaniard’s tenure began with a 2-1 defeat against Odisha FC earlier this week.

The Red and Gold faithful are hoping a change of venue and competition can stop the team’s poor run this season.

Bruzon has named a 26-man squad for the 2024-25 AFC Challenge League group stage.

Where to watch AFC Challenge League 2024-25 live in India?

Live streaming of East Bengal Group A matches of AFC Challenge League 2024-25 will be available on Bhutan Broadcasting Service YouTube channel.

There will be no live telecast of AFC Challenge League 2024-25 on any TV channel in India.

East Bengal AFC Challenge League 2024-25 Schedule

According to Indian Standard Time (IST)