Asian Football Confederation

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Asian Football Confederation
Asian Football Confederation (logo).svg
AFC.svg
Abbreviation AFC
Motto The Future is Asia
Formation 8 May 1954; 69 years ago (1954-05-08)
Type Sport organization
Headquarters Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Region served
 Asia and Australia
Membership
 47 member associations
Official language
 English and Arabic
Salman Al-Khalifa
Vice-president
 Praful Patel[1]
General Secretary
 Dato' Windsor Paul John[2]
Parent organization
 FIFA
Website www.the-afc.com

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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 excluding all the transcontinental countries with territory in both Europe and Asia, which are members of UEFA (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkey). Israel is also a UEFA member even though it lies entirely in Asia. 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 are 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 Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The current president is 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, India, Israel, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore and South Vietnam were founding members.[3][4]

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.[5] 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 five regions.

  • 12 from West Asia
  • 6 from Central Asia
  • 7 from South Asia
  • 10 from East Asia
  • 12 from South East Asia
Code Association National teams
West Asian Football Federation (WAFF)
BHR Bahrain Bahrain (M, W)
IRQ Iraq Iraq (M, W)
JOR Jordan Jordan (M, W)
KUW Kuwait Kuwait (M, W)
LIB Lebanon Lebanon (M, W)
OMA Oman Oman (M, W)
PLE State of Palestine Palestine (M, W)
QAT Qatar Qatar (M, W)
KSA Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (M, W)
SYR Syria Syria (M, W)
UAE United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates (M, W)
YEM Yemen Yemen (M, W)
Central Asian Football Association (CAFA)
AFG Afghanistan Afghanistan (M, W)
IRN Iran Iran (M, W)
KGZ Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan (M, W)
TJK Tajikistan Tajikistan (M, W)
TKM Turkmenistan Turkmenistan (M, W)
UZB Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (M, W)
South Asian Football Federation (SAFF)
BAN Bangladesh Bangladesh (M, W)
BHU Bhutan Bhutan (M, W)
IND India India (M, W)
MDV Maldives Maldives (M, W)
NEP Nepal Nepal (M, W)
PAK Pakistan Pakistan (M, W)
SRI Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (M, W)
East Asian Football Federation (EAFF)
CHN China China PR (M, W)
GUM Guam Guam (M, W)
HKG Hong Kong Hong Kong (M, W)
JPN Japan Japan (M, W)
PRK North Korea Korea DPR (M, W)
KOR South Korea Korea Republic (M, W)
MAC Macau Macau (M, W)
MNG Mongolia Mongolia (M, W)
NMI Northern Mariana Islands Northern Mariana Islands1 (M, W)
TPE Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei (M, W)
ASEAN Football Federation (AFF)
AUS Australia Australia (M, W)
BRU Brunei Brunei (M, W)
CAM Cambodia Cambodia (M, W)
IDN Indonesia Indonesia (M, W)
LAO Laos Laos (M, W)
MAS Malaysia Malaysia (M, W)
MYA Myanmar Myanmar (M, W)
PHI Philippines Philippines (M, W)
SIN Singapore Singapore (M, W)
THA Thailand Thailand (M, W)
TLS East Timor Timor-Leste (M, W)
VIE Vietnam Vietnam (M, W)

1: Associate AFC member, non-FIFA member.

Former members

Competitions

International

The AFC runs the AFC Asian Cup and AFC Women's Asian Cup - both competitions are held every four years and determine the Champions of Asia. 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 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.[7]

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
AFC Asian Cup  Australia 1st  South Korea 2019
AFC U-23 Championship  Iraq 1st  Saudi Arabia 2016
AFC U-19 Championship  Qatar 1st  North Korea 2016
AFC U-16 Championship  North Korea 2nd  South Korea 2016
AFC Futsal Championship  Japan 3rd  Iran 2016
AFC Women's Futsal Championship  Iran 1st  Japan
AFC Beach Soccer Championship  Oman 1st  Japan 2017
AFC Champions League Guangzhou Evergrande 2nd Al-Ahli 2016
AFC Cup Johor Darul Ta'zim 1st Istiklol 2016
AFC Futsal Club Championship Tasisat Daryaei 1st Al-Qadsia 2016
AFC Women's Asian Cup  Japan 1st  Australia 2018
AFC U-19 Women's Championship  Japan 4th  North Korea 2017
AFC U-16 Women's Championship  North Korea 2nd  Japan 2017

Defunct competitions

Competitions Last edition Last champions Title
AFC Challenge Cup 2014  Palestine 1st
AFC President's Cup 2014 HTTU Asgabat 1st
Asian Cup Winners' Cup 2001–02 Al-Hilal 2nd
Asian Super Cup 2002 Suwon Samsung Bluewings 2nd

Sponsors

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

Rankings

Hall of Fame

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Main article: Asian Football Hall of Fame

World Cup participation

Legend
  •  1st  – Champion
  •  2nd  – Runner-up
  •  3rd  – Third place[15]
  •  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 / withdrew / banned
  •     — Hosts
  •     — Not AFC-member

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 KoreaJapan
2002		 Germany
2006		 South Africa
2010		 Brazil
2014		 Russia
2018		 Total inclusive
WC Qual.
 South Korea GS • • • • • GS GS GS GS 4th GS R16 GS 9 14
 Japan • • • • • • • • • GS R16 GS R16 GS 5 14
 Iran • GS • • GS • GS • GS 4 9
 Saudi Arabia • • • • R16 GS GS GS • • 4 10
 Australia[notes 1] • • GS • • • • • • • R16 GS GS 2 2
 North Korea QF • • • • • • GS • 2 9
 Iraq • • GS • • • • • • • 1 10
 United Arab Emirates • • GS • • • • • • 1 9
 China PR • • • • • • GS • • • 1 10
 Kuwait • • GS • • • • • • • • 1 11
 Indonesia[notes 2] 1S • • • • • • • • • • • • 1 13
 Israel[notes 3] • • • • • GS • • • • • • • • • • • 1 3
 India × • • • • • • • 0* 8
Total 0 0 1 1* 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 33

FIFA Women's World Cup

Team China
1991		 Sweden
1995		 United States
1999		 United States
2003		 China
2007		 Germany
2011		 Canada
2015		 Total inclusive
WC Qual.
 Japan GS QF GS GS GS 1st 2nd 7 7
 China PR QF 4th 2nd QF QF • QF 6 7
 North Korea • GS GS QF GS 4 5
 Australia GS GS GS QF QF QF 3 3
 South Korea • • • GS • • R16 2 7
 Chinese Taipei QF • • • • • • 1 7
 Thailand • • • • GS 1 5
Total 3 2 3 4 4 3 5 24

Notes

  1. ↑ Australia qualified for the 2006 World Cup as part of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) though they had joined the AFC by the time the competition started. From 1972 to 1978 they were not a member of any confederation.
  2. ↑ Prior to independence in 1945 competed as Netherlands Dutch East Indies, including their only World Cup finals appearance in 1938.
  3. ↑ Israel is now a member of UEFA, having been expelled from the AFC in 1974. For every World Cup other than 1958 and 1970, Israel entered into the European qualification tournament.

Other international tournaments

FIFA Confederations Cup

Team 1992
Saudi Arabia		 1995
Saudi Arabia		 1997
Saudi Arabia		 1999
Mexico		 2001
South Korea
Japan		 2003
France		 2005
Germany		 2009
South Africa		 2013
Brazil		 2017
Russia		 Total
 Japan • GS • • 2nd GS GS • GS • 5
 Saudi Arabia 2nd GS GS 4th • • • • • • 4
 Iraq × × • • • • • GS • • 1
 South Korea × • • • GS • • • • • 1
 United Arab Emirates • • GS • • • • • • • 1
 Australia × × 2nd • 3rd • GS • • Q 1
Total 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 13

FIFA Futsal World Cup

Nation 1989
Netherlands		 1992
Hong Kong		 1996
Spain		 2000
Guatemala		 2004
Chinese Taipei		 2008
Brazil		 2012
Thailand		 2016
Colombia		 Years
 Australia R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 6
 China R1 R1 R1 3
 Chinese Taipei R1 1
 Hong Kong R1 1
 Iran 4th R1 R1 R1 R2 R2 6
 Japan R1 R1 R1 R2 4
 Kazakhstan R1 1
 Kuwait R1 1
 Malaysia R1 1
 Saudi Arabia R1 1
 Thailand R1 R1 R1 R2 4
Nations 3 4 4 4 5 4 5

Notes

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.the-afc.com/afc-executive-committee
  2. ↑ http://www.thestar.com.my/metro/scoreboard/2015/12/03/prime-choice-to-lead-fifa-sheikh-salman-is-the-favourite-to-take-over-top-post-of-footballs-governin/
  3. ↑ 香港足球總會九十週年紀念特刊 (Hong Kong Football Association 90th Anniversary Booklet) 2004
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  5. ↑ http://www.asiansportsnet.com/football-soccer/
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  12. ↑ http://boxscorenews.com/asian-football-confederation-announces-hall-of-fame-inductees-p106949-279.htm
  13. ↑ http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/11/21/soccer-asia-halloffame-idINKCN0J50YG20141121
  14. ↑ http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2014/11/21/soccer/international-soccer/okudera-sawa-inducted-into-afc-hall-of-fame/#.VHCsy4uUeSo
  15. ↑ There was no Third Place match in 1930; The United States and Yugoslavia lost in the semifinals. FIFA recognizes the United States as the third-placed team and Yugoslavia as the fourth-placed team using the overall records of the teams in the 1930 FIFA World Cup.

External links

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