The 2024 AFC Cup final was the final match of the 2023–24 AFC Cup, the 19th edition of the AFC Cup, Asia's secondary club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), and the final edition under the AFC Cup title, as the competition was revamped under the name AFC Champions League Two starting in 2024–25.^[1] The final was contested as a single match between Al-Ahed from Lebanon and Central Coast Mariners from Australia. The match was played at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex in Muscat on 5 May 2024.

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2024 AFC Cup final

Event	2023–24 AFC Cup
Al-Ahed Central Coast Mariners 0 1
Date	5 May 2024 (2024-05-05)
Venue	Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat
Referee	Omar Al-Ali (United Arab Emirates)
Attendance	1,930
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Central Coast Mariners won the final 1–0 to crown their maiden title and become the first Australian club to win the competition. By also winning the competition, Australia became the first and only nation in the AFC to have had clubs winning both the AFC Champions League and AFC Cup, after Western Sydney Wanderers' win of the 2014 AFC Champions League. It was also the third, and final time, that a club from outside West Asia had won the competition.

The match was originally scheduled to be hosted by Al-Ahed at the Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon; however, due to the ongoing Lebanese liquidity crisis, combined with the ongoing fears of spillover from the Israel–Hamas war, the match was instead played in a neutral ground, which resulted in the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex being selected as the home stadium of the Lebanese side.^[2]

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).

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Al-Ahed				Round	Central Coast Mariners
Opponent	Result			Group stage	Opponent	Result
Al-Nahda	2–1 (H)			Matchday 1	Terengganu	0–1 (A)
Al-Fotuwa	0–1 (A)			Matchday 2	Stallion Laguna	9–1 (H)
Jabal Al-Mukaber	Cancelled (H)			Matchday 3	Bali United	6–3 (H)
Jabal Al-Mukaber	Cancelled (A)			Matchday 4	Bali United	2–1 (A)
Al-Nahda	1–2 (A)			Matchday 5	Terengganu	1–1 (H)
Al-Fotuwa	2–1 (H)			Matchday 6	Stallion Laguna	3–0 (A)
Group A runners-up Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1 Al-Nahda 4 9 2 Al-Ahed 4 6 3 Al-Fotuwa 4 3 4 Jabal Al-Mukaber 0 0 Source: AFC				Final standings	Group G winners Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1 Central Coast Mariners 6 13 2 Terengganu 6 12 3 Bali United 6 7 4 Stallion Laguna 6 1 Source: AFC
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg	Knockout stage	Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Kahrabaa	1–1 (a.e.t.) (4–2 p)	0–1 (H)	1–0 (A)	Zonal semi-finals	Phnom Penh Crown	4–0 (H)	—
Al-Nahda	3–2	1–0 (H)	2–2 (A)	Zonal finals	Macarthur	3–2 (a.e.t.) (A)
—				Inter-zone play-off semi-finals	Odisha	4–0	4–0 (H)	0–0 (A)
				Inter-zone play-off finals	Abdysh-Ata Kant	4–1	1–1 (A)	3–0 (H)

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The final was played as a single match, with the host team (winners of the West Asia Zonal final) alternated from the previous season's final.

If the game would be tied after regulation time, the winning team would be decided by extra time and, if necessary, a penalty shoot-out.