The top-ranked AFC competition is the آسیا قهرمانلار لیگی, which started in the 2002–03 season (an amalgamation of the آسیا قهرمانلار لیگی and the Asian Cup Winners Cup) and gathers the top 1–4 teams of each country (the number of teams depend on that country's ranking and can be upgraded or downgraded); this competition only gathered teams from top country.