Stadiums across the region will come to life with two encounters on Monday and four on Tuesday as seven teams from Groups A, B and C go into the final matchday of the group stage with dreams of joining Jordan's Al Jazeera in the West Asia Zonal Semi-Finals.

Kuwait SC came into the match on the back of a 1-0 loss to Jahra last week, and needed a win to lift the title and it didn’t take long for Mohammad Ali’s side to take the lead.

Faisal Alharbi opened the scoring in the eighth minute when the Salmiya goalkeeper failed to cleanly punch the ball to safety as Al Harbi sent the ball into an unguarded goalmouth from 35 yards out.

The title triumph completed Tai Po’s fairy-tale rise as they became the first district team to win the Hong Kong Premier League.

Tai Po were one of the district teams introduced by the Hong Kong Football Association with the help of the government in 2002 and they started their journey in the Third Division.

The 64-year-old Dutchman replaces Montenegrin Miljan Radović at the helm before the domestic season starts on May 15.

Radović’s last match for Persib was their 2018-19 Piala Indonesia 2-1 quarter-finals first-leg defeat to Borneo FC. Alberts' team will face Mario Gomez’s side at home in the return leg on Saturday.

The former Nigerian youth international has now found the back of the net eight times in this campaign, just one behind top scorer Bienvenido Marañon from Ceres Negros, with a match at home against Tampines Rovers in two weeks still to come.

The Vietnamese champions traveled to the Cambodian capital knowing a win was needed to keep alive their hopes of progressing from the group stage, but it took the side time to settle.

In a close match, the Indian Super League side earned three points thanks to a late own goal from Wellington Priori, who deflected Thapa’s low cross in at the near post.

It took until the 79th minute for the home side to make the breakthrough and Thapa paid tribute to the resolute defending that provided the foundation for a vital win.