MUSCAT : Al-Seeb Club, which reached the final of the tournament after a series of positive results from the group stage to the playoffs – where it succeeded in reaching the final beating Bahrain’s Riffa 4-0 – is conducting its first training session this evening, in preparation of the final confrontation, led by the national coach Rashid Jaber.

The AFC Cup is the second tournament at the club level in the continent after the AFC Champions League. It was launched in 1990 under the name of the Asian Cup Winners’ Cup. The competition lasted for 12 consecutive seasons from 1990 to 2002, and the tournament stopped in 2003 after the Asian Confederation made extensive changes to club competitions, suspending old tournaments and introduced two new tournaments – the AFC Champions League and the AFC Cup.