Between them, the teams have won eight of the past 12 V.League titles (four each) and over the years there have been numerous classic encounters that have featured goals galore.

To whet the appetite ahead of the first leg in Thu Dau Mot City on Wednesday, the-AFC.com has picked out three matches which will live long in the memory.

The two-legged final will kick off on July 31 at Binh Duong Stadium with the return meeting at Hanoi's Hang Day Stadium the following week. The victors will progress to the Inter-Zone semi-finals and a meeting with the Central Zone champions, Altyn Asyr of Turkmenistan.

We look at six players – three from each of the finalists – who could prove to be the difference-makers.

In just over a week’s time, the 2019 edition will return to action with Vietnamese teams Hanoi FC and Becamex Binh going head-to-head in the ASEAN Zonal final, with both a place in the Inter-Zone semi-finals and bragging rights on the line.

To whet the appetite ahead of the encounter, the-AFC.com looks back on five standout moments from the AFC Cup ASEAN Zonal knockout rounds over the past three years.

The-AFC.com highlights the ins and outs across the Continent.

Elsewhere, the league in Thailand is looking extremely congested at the top and the two-way battle at the V.League summit continues to thrill. Here’s the-AFC.com’s round-up of that and much more from the ASEAN region.

Kitchee, three-time Hong Kong Premier League champions, finished fourth last season and are determined to regain their position at the top.

Sliskovic, who arrived in Hong Kong on Wednesday, was unveiled as the new head coach on Thursday.

The 69-year-old Serbian, affectionately known as ‘Raddy’, was famously coach of the Singapore national team from 2003 to 2012; a golden period for Singaporean football.

In his nine-year stint at the helm, Avramovic won three AFF Cups (2004, 2007 and 2012) with the Singapore Lions and was named the AFF Coach of the Year in 2013.