Sunil Chhetri-led Bengaluru FC will hope to begin their season on a positive note when they face Club Eagles of Maldives in a play-off match of the AFC Cup here on Sunday.

The winners of the playoff will advance to Group D of the 2021 AFC Cup. Bengaluru had scored an emphatic 5-0 victory over Nepal’s Tribhuvan Army in the preliminary round in April while Club Eagles had beaten Bhutan’s Thimphu FC 2-0. Bengaluru have thrived in the AFC Cup, having finished runners-up in 2016 and making the Inter-Zonal final in 2017 and the semi-finals a year later.