East Asian Football Federation

The East Asian Football Federation (EAFF), founded on May 28, 2002, is an international governing body of association football in East Asia.

Member associations

EAFF has 10 member associations.^[1] All of them are members of the Asian Football Confederation except for the Northern Mariana Islands Football Association, which is an associate member of the AFC (previously an associated member of the Oceania Football Confederation). The Palau football federation was being considered as a possible future member of the association in 2009.^[2]

Association	Joining year	Men's team	Women's team	League
China PR	2002	China PR	China PR	Chinese Super League
Chinese Taipei	2002	Chinese Taipei	Chinese Taipei	Taiwan Football Premier League
Guam	2002	Guam	Guam	Guam Soccer League
Hong Kong	2002	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Premier League
Japan	2002	Japan	Japan	J1 League
Korea DPR	2002	Korea DPR	Korea DPR	DPR Korea League
Korea Republic	2002	Korea Republic	Korea Republic	K League 1
Macau	2002	Macau	Macau	Campeonato da 1ª Divisão do Futebol
Mongolia	2002	Mongolia	Mongolia	Mongolia Premier League
Northern Mariana Islands	2008 ¹	Northern Mariana Islands	Northern Mariana Islands	Northern Mariana Championship

¹ Provisional member from December 2006^[3] to September 2008^[4]

Rankings are calculated by FIFA.^[5]

AFC	FIFA	Country	Points	+/−
3	54	Japan	1398	+1
4	55	South Korea	1395	+1
7	76	China PR	1313	-1
18	109	North Korea	1196	-1
24	123	Chinese Taipei	1139	+2
28	143	Hong Kong	1076	-1
38	184	Macau	925	+1
39	186	Mongolia	922
43	193	Guam	907	-3

EAFF	Elo	Country	Rating
1	25	South Korea	1760
2	41	Japan	1707
3	70	China PR	1464
4	96	North Korea	1450
5	165	Hong Kong	1190
6	193	Chinese Taipei	976
7	201	Guam	833
8	222	Macau	678
9	224	Mongolia	654
10	237	Northern Mariana Islands	411

Rankings are calculated by FIFA.^[6]

AFC	FIFA	Country	Points	+/−
2	7	Japan	1981	-1
3	11	North Korea	1938	-1
4	14	South Korea	1880	+1
5	15	China PR	1876	+2
8	40	Chinese Taipei	1560	+2
15	77	Hong Kong	1323	-1
17	82	Guam	1282	+59
29	*	Mongolia	1536
40	*	Macau	813	-7

^* Provisionally listed due to not having played more than five matches against officially ranked teams
^** Inactive for more than 18 months and therefore not ranked

EAFF runs several competitions which cover men's, women's, youth and futsal.

Competition	Holders	Current event
EAFF E-1 Football Championship	South Korea	2019
EAFF Womens East Asian Cup	North Korea	2019
EAFF Futsal Championship	Japan	2017
EAFF U-18 Youth Tournament	Hong Kong	2013
EAFF U-15 Youth Festival	Hong Kong	2011
EAFF U-14 Youth Festival	South Korea	2010
East Asian Games Men	North Korea	2013
East Asian Games Women	North Korea	2013

Competition	Years
A3 Champions Cup	2002–2008

East Asian Football Federation official website (in English) (in Chinese) (in Japanese) (in Korean)

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