Football fans in southern Sydney will have to wait until May to see the tantalising match up between Sydney FC and Ange Postecoglou's Yokohama F Marinos at Kogarah's Netstrata Stadium.
Sydney FC have been drawn alongside Postecoglou's newly crowned Japanese champions Yokohama in their 2020 Asian Champions League group.
A tough draw did defending A-League champions and current season ladder leaders Sydney no favours, as they will face the reigning Japanese and South Korean title holders.
Former Socceroos coach Postecoglou steered his club to the-League title last weekend.
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Sky Blues coach Steve Corica said Sydney were now ACL regulars, though they failed to advance beyond the group stage in the past two seasons.
"This is the fourth time in five seasons we've qualified for the AFC Champions League so we've got a lot of great experience in the competition," Corica said.
"We were extremely unfortunate not to qualify from the group stage last season against three of the top teams in the competition, and I think we'll take an even stronger squad into this year's campaign.
"As always it will be tough but whoever we play once the rest of the group is known, we have a group of quality players who have a strong belief in each other and we are confident of doing well."
Last season's Premiers Plate winners and losing grand finalists Perth Glory have been drawn in a group alongside South Korea's Ulsan Hyundai and China's Shanghai Shenhua and another playoff winner.
Both Sydney and Perth could find themselves up against a former player in Bernie Ibini and Jason Davidson respectively.
The Sky Blues have also been drawn alongside Ibini's South Korean club, Jeonbuk Motors and the winners of a play-off between sides from China, Thailand and Vietnam.
Sydney confirmed they would play all their AFC Champions League home matches at Jubilee Stadium in Kogarah.
AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP H
Sydney FC vs Winner Playoff 2 - Wednesday, February 12
Yokohama F. Marinos vs Sydney FC - Wednesday, February 19
Sydney FC vs Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors FC - Wednesday, March 4
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors FC vs Sydney FC - Tuesday, April 7
Winner Playoff 2 vs Sydney FC - Tuesday, April 21
Sydney FC vs Yokohama F. Marinos - Tuesday, May 5
- with AAP
