Last year it was like this: The THAI teams relegated were moved from THAI LEAGUE to
others ASIA, but were hopefully kept fully licensed!!! (THIS WAS AWESOME MOVE)
On the other hand the 2 Chinese Clubs that were relegated , were reverted to generic teams HG REDYellow & QA Green, in the same state that is Beerschot and Palermo this year, generic players and roster bonded to Live Update.
The AFC CL is like [MENTION=242042]sobakus[/MENTION] said. It never changes during the year, neither teams are removed/added nor are their rosters updated. They are frozen in the same state from September until forever.