Ho Chi Minh City Women's FC face Hwacheon KSPO, East Bengal and 4.25 SC in AFC Women's Champions League Group B

Ho Chi Minh City Women's FC will play the group stage of the 2026-2027 AFC Women's Champions League in Group B, alongside South Korea's Hwacheon KSPO WFC, India's East Bengal FC and North Korea's 4.25 SC. According to SGGP, the competition starts on 1 November, and the whole of Group B will be played at a single venue in Kolkata, India, from 1 November to 7 November 2026.

It is the third season in a row that the Ho Chi Minh City club have represented Vietnamese women's football in Asia's top club competition. They qualify as the reigning champions of Vietnam's national women's league.

A group of champions

All four teams in Group B arrive as national champions. KBVN+ has compiled their credentials from the SGGP report:

That means the Vietnamese side must deal with the title holders from both South and North Korea, while East Bengal FC will be playing in their own country.

How the group stage works

SGGP reports that 12 clubs take part in the group stage of the 2026-2027 edition, split into three groups of four. Each group is staged at one venue rather than on a home-and-away basis. Group B in Kolkata is also the first time India has hosted a group in the competition's group stage.

What it means for Vietnamese football

Repeated qualification gives Vietnamese women's football another season of continental club competition. According to SGGP, Huỳnh Như and her teammates got through the group stage in each of the previous two seasons. Doing so again will mean getting past the champions of South Korea, North Korea and India, on Indian soil.

The team head into the Asian campaign as domestic champions; see our report on Ho Chi Minh City I lifting the national women's trophy.

What comes next

Group B will be played in Kolkata from 1 November to 7 November 2026. Ho Chi Minh City Women's FC's campaign and the rest of the domestic game are covered in our Vietnam football news section.