Asian Football Confederation

Asian Football Confederation
Abbreviation AFC
Motto One Asia One Goal
Formation 8 May 1954 (1954-05-08)
Founded at Manila, Philippines
Type Sport organisation
Headquarters Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Membership
47 member associations
Official language
English, Arabic[1]
Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa
Vice-president
General Secretary
Dato' Windsor John[2][3]
Parent organization
FIFA
Website www.the-afc.com

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is the governing body of association football in Asia and Australia. It has 47 member countries, mostly located on the Asian and Australian continent, but excludes the transcontinental countries with territory in both Europe and Asia – Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkey – which are instead members of UEFA. Three other states located geographically along the western fringe of Asia – Cyprus, Armenia and Israel – are also UEFA members. On the other hand, Australia, formerly in the OFC, joined the Asian Football Confederation in 2006, and the Oceanian island of Guam, a territory of the United States, is also a member of AFC, in addition to Northern Mariana Islands, one of the Two Commonwealths of the United States. Hong Kong and Macau, although not independent countries (both are Special administrative regions of China), are also members of the AFC.

One of FIFA's six continental confederations, the AFC was formed officially on 8 May 1954 in Manila, Philippines, on the sidelines of the second Asian Games. The main headquarters is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The current president is Sheikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa of Bahrain.

History

The Asian Football Confederation was founded on 8 May 1954. Afghanistan, Burma (Myanmar), Republic of China (Chinese Taipei), Hong Kong, Iran, India, Israel, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore and South Vietnam were founding members.[4][5]

The Asian Ladies Football Confederation (ALFC) is the section of the AFC who manage women's football in Asia. The group was independently founded in April 1968 in a meeting involving Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. In 1986 the ALFC merged with the AFC.[6] The Asian Ladies Football Confederation helped organise the AFC Women's Asian Cup, first held in 1975, as well as the AFC's AFC U-19 Women's Championship and the AFC U-17 Women's Championship.

Members

AFC regional federations

The AFC has 47 member associations split into 5 regions. Several nations proposed a South West Asian Federation but that will not interfere with AFC zones.[7][8][9]

CodeAssociationNational teamsFoundedFIFA
affiliation
AFC
affiliation
IOC
member
West Asian Football Federation (WAFF)(12)
BHRBahrain Bahrain(M, W)195719681969Yes
IRQIraq Iraq(M, W)194819501970Yes
JORJordan Jordan(M, W)194919561970Yes
KUWKuwait Kuwait(M, W)195219641964Yes
LIBLebanon Lebanon(M, W)193319361964Yes
OMAOman Oman(M, W)197819801980Yes
PLEState of Palestine Palestine(M, W)192819951995Yes
QATQatar Qatar(M, W)196019721974Yes
KSASaudi Arabia Saudi Arabia(M, W)195619561972Yes
SYRSyria Syria(M, W)193619371970Yes
UAEUnited Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates(M, W)197119741974Yes
YEMYemen Yemen(M, W)196219801980Yes
Central Asian Football Association (CAFA)(6)
AFGAfghanistan Afghanistan(M, W)193319481954Yes
IRNIran Iran(M, W)194619481954Yes
KGZKyrgyzstan Kyrgyz Republic(M, W)199219941993Yes
TJKTajikistan Tajikistan(M, W)193619941993Yes
TKMTurkmenistan Turkmenistan(M, W)199219941993Yes
UZBUzbekistan Uzbekistan(M, W)194619941993Yes
South Asian Football Federation (SAFF)(7)
BANBangladesh Bangladesh(M, W)197219761974Yes
BHUBhutan Bhutan(M, W)198320001993Yes
INDIndia India(M, W)193719481954Yes
MDVMaldives Maldives(M, W)198219861984Yes
NEPNepal Nepal(M, W)195119721954Yes
PAKPakistan Pakistan(M, W)194719481954Yes
SRISri Lanka Sri Lanka(M, W)193919521954Yes
East Asian Football Federation (EAFF)(10)
CHNChina China PR(M, W)192419311974Yes
GUMGuam Guam[m 1](M, W)197519961991Yes[m 2]
HKGHong Kong Hong Kong(M, W)191419541954Yes
JPNJapan Japan(M, W)192119211954Yes
PRKNorth Korea Korea DPR(M, W)194519581974Yes
KORSouth Korea Korea Republic(M, W)192819481954Yes
MACMacau Macau(M, W)193919781978No[m 3]
MNGMongolia Mongolia(M, W)195919981993Yes
NMINorthern Mariana Islands Northern Mariana Islands[m 1][m 4](M, W)2005N/A2009No[m 5]
TPEChinese Taipei Chinese Taipei[m 6](M, W)193619541954Yes
ASEAN Football Federation (AFF)(12)
AUSAustralia Australia[m 1][m 7](M, W)196119632006Yes[m 2]
BRUBrunei Brunei(M, W)195219721969Yes
CAMCambodia Cambodia(M, W)193319541954Yes
IDNIndonesia Indonesia(M, W)193019521954Yes
LAOLaos Laos(M, W)195119521968Yes
MASMalaysia Malaysia(M, W)193319541954Yes
MYAMyanmar Myanmar(M, W)194719481954Yes
PHIPhilippines Philippines(M, W)190719301954Yes
SINSingapore Singapore(M, W)189219521954Yes
THAThailand Thailand(M, W)191619251954Yes
TLSEast Timor Timor-Leste(M, W)200220052002Yes
VIEVietnam Vietnam(M, W)196019521954Yes

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Oceania country or territory, but AFC member.
  2. 1 2 Oceania country or territory is a member of the Oceania National Olympic Committees rather than the Olympic Council of Asia.
  3. Macau's Olympic Committee is an OCA member, but not an IOC member.
  4. Associate AFC member, not a FIFA member.
  5. Part of the United States Olympic Committee.
  6. Former member of the Oceania Football Confederation (1976–1982), joined AFC.
  7. Former member of the Oceania Football Confederation (1966–1972, 1978–2006), joined AFC.

Former members

Competitions

International

The AFC runs the AFC Asian Cup and AFC Women's Asian Cup, which determine the Champions of Asia, as well as the AFC Solidarity Cup. All three competitions are held every four years. The AFC also organises the AFC Futsal Championship, AFC Beach Soccer Championship, various age-level international youth football tournaments and the Asian qualifying tournament for the FIFA World Cup, FIFA Women's World Cup and for football at the Summer Olympics.

In addition to the AFC run international tournaments, each AFC regional federation organises its own tournament for national teams: EAFF East Asian Cup, SAFF Championship, AFF Championship, CAFA Championship and WAFF Championship.

Club

The top-ranked AFC competition is the AFC Champions League, which started in the 2002–03 season (an amalgamation of the Asian Champions Cup and the Asian Cup Winners Cup) and gathers the top 1–4 teams of each country (the number of teams depend on that country's ranking and can be upgraded or downgraded); this competition only gathered teams from top country.

A second, lower-ranked competition is the AFC Cup. This competition was launched by AFC in 2004. A third competition, the AFC President's Cup, which had started in 2005, was absorbed into the AFC Cup in 2015.[12]

The AFC also runs an annual Asian futsal club competition, the AFC Futsal Club Championship.

Current title holders

Competitions Champion Title Runner-Up Next edition
Clubs (Men)
AFC Champions League Urawa Red Diamonds 2nd Al-Hilal 2018
AFC Cup Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 2nd FC Istiklol 2018
AFC Futsal Club Championship Iran Mes Sungun 1st Vietnam Thái Sơn Nam 2019
National Teams (Men)
AFC Asian Cup  Australia 1st  South Korea 2019
AFC U-23 Championship  Uzbekistan 1st  Vietnam 2020
AFC U-19 Championship  Japan 1st  Saudi Arabia 2018
AFC U-16 Championship  Japan 3rd  Tajikistan 2020
AFC U-14 Championship  Iraq 1st  North Korea TBD
AFC Solidarity Cup    Nepal 1st  Macau 2020
AFC Futsal Championship  Iran 12th  Japan 2020
AFC U-20 Futsal Championship  Iran 1st  Iraq 2019
AFC Beach Soccer Championship  Iran 2nd  United Arab Emirates 2019
National Teams (Women)
AFC Women's Asian Cup  Japan 2nd  Australia 2022
AFC U-19 Women's Championship  Japan 5th  North Korea 2019
AFC U-16 Women's Championship  North Korea 3rd  South Korea 2019
AFC Women's Futsal Championship  Iran 2nd  Japan 2020

AFC Competitions

Sponsors

The following are the sponsors of AFC (named "AFC Partners"):

Rankings

Beach soccer national teams

Rankings are calculated by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW). The table shows the current top ten, last updated 12 March 2018.

AFC BSWW Country Points
1 3  Iran 3073
2 9  Japan 1419
3 10  United Arab Emirates 1304
4 16  Oman 895
5 21  Lebanon 648
6 38  Thailand 347
7 44  Bahrain 281
8 45  China 271
9 51  Vietnam 202
10 52  Afghanistan 199

Hall of Fame

Major tournaments

Legend
  •  1st  – Champion
  •  2nd  – Runner-up
  •  3rd  – Third place
  •  4th  – Fourth place
  • QF – Quarterfinals
  • R16 – Round of 16 (since 1986: knockout round of 16)
  • GS – Group stage (in the 1950, 1974, 1978, and 1982 tournaments, which had two group stages, this refers to the first group stage)
  • 1S – First knockout stage (1934–1938 Single-elimination tournament)
  •    Did not qualify
  •  ×  Did not enter / withdrawn / banned / disqualified
  •      Hosts

FIFA World Cup

Team Uruguay
1930
Italy
1934
France
1938
Brazil
1950
Switzerland
1954
Sweden
1958
Chile
1962
England
1966
Mexico
1970
West Germany
1974
Argentina
1978
Spain
1982
Mexico
1986
Italy
1990
United States
1994
France
1998
South Korea
Japan
2002
Germany
2006
South Africa
2010
Brazil
2014
Russia
2018
Qatar
2022
Total
 South Korea × × × × GS × × GS GS GS GS 4th GS R16 GS GS 10
 Japan × × × × × × GS R16 GS R16 GS R16 6
 Iran × × × × × × × × × GS × × GS GS GS GS 5
 Saudi Arabia Did not exist × × × × × R16 GS GS GS GS 5
 Australia Part of OFC GS GS GS 3
 North Korea Did not exist × × × × QF × × × × GS 2
 Iraq Did not exist × × × × × × × GS 1
 United Arab Emirates Did not exist × × GS 1
 China PR × × × × × × × × × × GS 1
 Kuwait Did not exist × × × × × × GS 1
 Indonesia[21] × × 1S × × × × × × 1
 Israel Did not exist GS Not a member of AFC 1
 Qatar Did not exist × × q 1
Total00101001101122244444537

AFC Asian Cup

Team Hong Kong
1956
South Korea
1960
Israel
1964
Iran
1968
Thailand
1972
Iran
1976
Kuwait
1980
Singapore
1984
Qatar
1988
Japan
1992
United Arab Emirates
1996
Lebanon
2000
China
2004
Indonesia
Malaysia
Thailand
Vietnam
2007
Qatar
2011
Australia
2015
United Arab Emirates
2019
Years
 Australia QF 2nd 1st q 4
 Bahrain GS 4th GS GS GS q 6
 Bangladesh GS 1
 Cambodia 4th 1
 China PR 3rd GS 2nd 4th 3rd QF 4th 2nd GS GS QF q 12
 Chinese Taipei 3rd 4th 2
 Hong Kong 3rd 4th 5th 3
 India 2nd GS GS q 4
 Indonesia GS GS GS GS 4
 Iran 1st 1st 1st 3rd 4th 3rd GS 3rd QF 3rd QF QF QF q 14
 Iraq GS 4th QF QF QF 1st QF 4th q 9
 Israel 2nd 2nd 1st 3rd 4
 Japan GS 1st QF 1st 1st 4th 1st QF q 9
 Jordan QF QF GS q 4
 Kuwait GS 2nd 1st 3rd GS 4th QF GS GS GS 10
 Kyrgyzstan q 1
 Lebanon GS q 2
 Malaysia GS GS GS 3
 Myanmar 2nd 1
 North Korea 4th GS GS GS q 5
 Oman GS GS GS q 4
 Palestine GS q 2
 Philippines q 1
 Qatar GS GS GS GS QF GS GS QF GS q 10
 Saudi Arabia 1st 1st 2nd 1st 2nd GS 2nd GS GS q 10
 Singapore GS 1
 South Korea 1st 1st 3rd 2nd 2nd GS 2nd QF 3rd QF 3rd 3rd 2nd q 14
 South Yemen GS 1
 Syria GS GS GS GS GS q 6
 Thailand 3rd GS GS GS GS GS q 7
 Turkmenistan GS q 2
 United Arab Emirates GS GS GS 4th 2nd GS GS GS 3rd q 10
 Uzbekistan GS GS QF QF 4th QF q 7
 Vietnam 4th 4th QF q 4
 Yemen q 1
Total444566101010812121616161624

Notes

    Other international tournaments

    FIFA Confederations Cup

    Team Saudi Arabia
    1992
    Saudi Arabia
    1995
    Saudi Arabia
    1997
    Mexico
    1999
    South Korea
    Japan
    2001
    France
    2003
    Germany
    2005
    South Africa
    2009
    Brazil
    2013
    Russia
    2017
    Qatar
    2021
    Total
     Japan GS 2nd GS GS GS 5
     Saudi Arabia 2nd GS GS 4th 4
     South Korea GS 1
     Australia Part of OFC GS 1
     Iraq GS 1
     United Arab Emirates GS 1
     Qatar q 1
    Total122121111113

    Summer Olympics

    Team
    1900 to
    1928
    Germany
    1936
    United Kingdom
    1948
    Finland
    1952
    Australia
    1956
    Italy
    1960
    Japan
    1964
    Mexico
    1968
    West Germany
    1972
    Canada
    1976
    Soviet Union
    1980
    United States
    1984
    South Korea
    1988
    Spain
    1992
    United States
    1996
    Australia
    2000
    Greece
    2004
    China
    2008
    United Kingdom
    2012
    Brazil
    2016
    Japan
    2020
    Total
     Japan QF GS QF 3rd GS QF GS GS 4th GS q 11
     South Korea QF GS GS GS GS GS QF GS 3rd QF 10
     Iraq not a member of AFC QF GS GS 4th GS 5
     India GS GS 4th GS 4
     China GS GS GS 3
     Kuwait QF GS GS 3
     Iran GS GS QF 3
     Qatar GS QF 2
     Saudi Arabia GS GS 2
     Chinese Taipei GS GS 2
     Thailand GS GS 2
     Israel QF QF not a member of AFC 2
     North Korea QF 1
     United Arab Emirates not a member of AFC GS 1
     Australia Part of OFC GS 1
     Afghanistan GS 1
     Indonesia QF 1
     Malaysia GS 1
     Myanmar GS 1
     Syria GS 1
    Total02414233333333333433-57

    FIFA U-20 World Cup

    Team Tunisia
    1977
    Japan
    1979
    Australia
    1981
    Mexico
    1983
    Soviet Union
    1985
    Chile
    1987
    Saudi Arabia
    1989
    Portugal
    1991
    Australia
    1993
    Qatar
    1995
    Malaysia
    1997
    Nigeria
    1999
    Argentina
    2001
    United Arab Emirates
    2003
    Netherlands
    2005
    Canada
    2007
    Egypt
    2009
    Colombia
    2011
    Turkey
    2013
    New Zealand
    2015
    South Korea
    2017
    Poland
    2019
    Total
     South Korea GS GS 4th QF GS GS GS R16 GS GS QF R16 QF R16 14
     Japan GS QF QF 2nd GS QF R16 R16 R16 9
     Saudi Arabia GS GS GS GS GS GS R16 R16 8
     China PR GS QF GS R16 R16 5
     Iraq GS QF GS 4th 4
     Syria GS QF GS R16 4
     Uzbekistan Part of USSR GS GS QF QF 4
     Qatar 2nd GS GS 3
     United Arab Emirates R16 QF QF 3
     North Korea GS GS GS 3
     Australia Part of OFC GS GS GS 3
     Iran GS GS GS 3
     Myanmar GS 1
     Jordan GS 1
     Kazakhstan Part of USSR GS Part of UEFA 1
     Malaysia GS 1
     Bahrain GS 1
     Indonesia GS 1
     Vietnam GS 1
    Total23222232235445444444571

    FIFA U-17 World Cup

    Team China
    1985
    Canada
    1987
    Scotland
    1989
    Italy
    1991
    Japan
    1993
    Ecuador
    1995
    Egypt
    1997
    New Zealand
    1999
    Trinidad and Tobago
    2001
    Finland
    2003
    Peru
    2005
    South Korea
    2007
    Nigeria
    2009
    Mexico
    2011
    United Arab Emirates
    2013
    Chile
    2015
    India
    2017
    Peru
    2019
    Total
     Japan QF GS GS GS GS QF R16 R16 q 9
     Qatar GS QF 4th GS GS QF GS 7
     China PR QF GS GS GS GS QF 6
     North Korea QF R16 GS R16 GS 5
     South Korea QF GS GS QF R16 q 6
     Iran GS R16 R16 QF 4
     Saudi Arabia QF GS 1st 3
     United Arab Emirates GS R16 GS 3
     Oman 4th QF GS 3
     Bahrain 4th GS 2
     Iraq GS R16 2
     Thailand GS GS 2
     Syria R16 GS 2
     Uzbekistan Part of USSR QF R16 2
     Australia Part of OFC R16 R16 q 3
     India GS 1
     Tajikistan Part of USSR R16 q 2
     Yemen GS 1
    Total333333323335445454 63

    FIFA Futsal World Cup

    Nation Netherlands
    1989
    Hong Kong
    1992
    Spain
    1996
    Guatemala
    2000
    Chinese Taipei
    2004
    Brazil
    2008
    Thailand
    2012
    Colombia
    2016
    Years
     Iran4thGSGSGSQFR163rd7
     ThailandGSGSGSR16R165
     JapanGSGSGSR164
     ChinaGSGSGS3
     AustraliaPart of OFCGSGS2
     UzbekistanPart of USSRGS1
     VietnamR161
     KuwaitGS1
     Chinese TaipeiGS1
     MalaysiaGS1
     Hong KongGS1
     Saudi ArabiaGS1
     KazakhstanPart of USSRGSPart of UEFA1
    Total2333445529

    FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

    Nation Brazil
    1995
    Brazil
    1996
    Brazil
    1997
    Brazil
    1998
    Brazil
    1999
    Brazil
    2000
    Brazil
    2001
    Brazil
    2002
    Brazil
    2003
    Brazil
    2004
    Brazil
    2005
    Brazil
    2006
    Brazil
    2007
    France
    2008
    United Arab Emirates
    2009
    Italy
    2011
    French Polynesia
    2013
    Portugal
    2015
    The Bahamas
    2017
    Years
     JapanGSQF4thGS4thQFGSGSQFGSQFQFGS13
     IranGSGSGSGSQFQF3rd7
     United Arab EmiratesGSGSGSGSGS5
     BahrainQFGS2
     OmanGSGS2
     Thailand4thGS2
     MalaysiaGS1
    Total0010211100233333333

    FIFA Women's World Cup

    Team China
    1991
    Sweden
    1995
    United States
    1999
    United States
    2003
    China
    2007
    Germany
    2011
    Canada
    2015
    France
    2019
    Total
     Japan GS QF GS GS GS 1st 2nd q 8
     China PR QF 4th 2nd QF QF QF q 7
     North Korea × GS GS QF GS × 4
     Australia Part of OFC QF QF QF q 4
     South Korea GS R16 q 3
     Thailand GS q 2
     Chinese Taipei QF 1
    Total32344355 29

    AFC Executive Committee

    President
    Vice Presidents
    FIFA Council Members
    AFC Executive Committee Members
    Co-opted
    General Secretary
    • Malaysia Dato' Windsor John Pauln

    See also

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