Asian Football Confederation
Abbreviation | AFC |
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Motto | The Future is Asia |
Formation | 8 May 1954 |
Type | Sport organization |
Headquarters | Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
Region served
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Asia and Australia |
Membership
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47 member associations |
Official language
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English and Arabic |
Salman Al-Khalifa | |
Vice-president
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Praful Patel[1] |
General Secretary
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Dato' Windsor Paul John[2] |
Parent organization
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FIFA |
Website | www |
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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.
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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
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
1: Associate AFC member, non-FIFA member.
Former members
- Israel Football Association 1954–1974; joined UEFA in 1994 because they were excluded from AFC competitions, as a result of a proposal by Kuwait which was adopted by a vote of 17 to 13 with 6 abstentions.
- New Zealand Football 1964;[6] founding member of OFC in 1966
- Football Federation of Kazakhstan 1992–2002; joined UEFA in 2002
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 |
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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 |
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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"):
- Malaysia Airlines
- Nike
- Nikon Corporation
- ING
- Playstation 4
- Tsingtao
- Hilton Hotel
- Qatar Petroleum
- QNB Group
- BMW
- Qantas
- China Mobile
- Garuda Indonesia
Rankings
Men's national teamsRankings are calculated by FIFA.[8]
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Top ranked men's national teams |
Women's national teamsRankings are calculated by FIFA.[9]
* Provisionally listed due to not having played more than five matches against officially ranked teams |
Top ranked Women's national teams |
National leaguesRankings are calculated by IFFHS .
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ClubsRankings are calculated by the IFFHS.[10]
ClubsRankings are calculated by the AFC.[11]
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Hall of Fame
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- Harry Kewell[12]
- Baichung Bhutia
- Homayoun Behzadi[13]
- Ali Daei
- Yasuhiko Okudera[14]
- Hong Myung-bo
- Soh Chin Aun
- Sami Al Jaber
- Sun Wen
- Homare Sawa
- Mokhtar Dahari
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 | 1930 |
1934 |
1938 |
1950 |
1954 |
1958 |
1962 |
1966 |
1970 |
1974 |
1978 |
1982 |
1986 |
1990 |
1994 |
1998 |
2002 |
2006 |
2010 |
2014 |
2018 |
Total | inclusive WC Qual. |
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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 | 1991 |
1995 |
1999 |
2003 |
2007 |
2011 |
2015 |
Total | inclusive WC Qual. |
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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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Prior to independence in 1945 competed as Dutch East Indies, including their only World Cup finals appearance in 1938.
- ↑ 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 |
1995 |
1997 |
1999 |
2001 |
2003 |
2005 |
2009 |
2013 |
2017 |
Total |
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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 |
1992 |
1996 |
2000 |
2004 |
2008 |
2012 |
2016 |
Years |
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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
- AFC Annual Awards
- List of Presidents of AFC
- Sport in Asia
- Stadium attendances of Asian Football Leagues
References
- ↑ http://www.the-afc.com/afc-executive-committee
- ↑ 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/
- ↑ 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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- ↑ http://www.asiansportsnet.com/football-soccer/
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- ↑ http://boxscorenews.com/asian-football-confederation-announces-hall-of-fame-inductees-p106949-279.htm
- ↑ http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/11/21/soccer-asia-halloffame-idINKCN0J50YG20141121
- ↑ http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2014/11/21/soccer/international-soccer/okudera-sawa-inducted-into-afc-hall-of-fame/#.VHCsy4uUeSo
- ↑ 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
- Official AFC website (English) (Arabic)
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