Asian Football Confederation
| Asian Football Confederation | |
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| Founded | May 8, 1954 |
| Association headquarters |
Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
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| president |
 Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa
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| Secretary General |
 Dato 'Windsor John
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| Members | 47 national associations |
| Homepage | the-afc.com |
The Asian Football Confederation ( German : Asian Football Confederation ), also AFC , is the Asian football association . It is one of the six continental associations of the world football association FIFA and comprises a total of 47 national associations from individual countries and regions. Australia has also been a member of the AFC since 2006.
The AFC was founded on May 8, 1954 in the Philippine capital Manila , when the representatives of twelve Asian football associations met for the 1954 Asian Games . The founding members of the AFC were Afghanistan , Burma , the Republic of China (Taiwan) , Hong Kong , India , Indonesia , Japan , the Republic of Korea , Pakistan , the Philippines , Singapore, and South Vietnam . The first president of the association was Man Kam-loh from Hong Kong, the general secretary Lee Wai-thong was also from Hong Kong, where the association also had its first seat. The FIFA recognized the union still on June 21 of that year.
Two years after the association was founded, the first Asian Championship took place in Hong Kong.
Member associations
The AFC currently has 47 regional associations.
* Also members of the Union of Arab Football Associations .
** Not a member of FIFA , but an associate member of the AFC.
Israel joined the AFC in 1956 but was expelled in 1974. In 1991, Israel was accepted as a full member by UEFA after it temporarily played qualifying matches in the Oceania group . Kazakhstan joined UEFA in 2002.
World Cup participant
- 1930 - none
- 1934 - none
- 1938 - Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia) 1
- 1950 - None ( India withdrew after qualifying as FIFA did not allow players to play barefoot )
- 1954 - South Korea
- 1958 - none
- 1962 - none
- 1966 - North Korea 2
- 1970 - Israel ( Israel left the AFC and joined UEFA in 1991 )
- 1974 - none
- 1978 - Iran
- 1982 - Kuwait
- 1986 - South Korea, Iraq
- 1990 - South Korea, United Arab Emirates
- 1994 - South Korea, Saudi Arabia 1
- 1998 - South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Japan , Iran
- 2002 - South Korea 3.6 , Saudi Arabia, Japan 1.6 , PR China
- 2006 - South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Iran ( Australia was still an OFC member at the time of qualifying for the 1974 World Cup and 2006)
- 2010 - South Korea 1 , North Korea, Japan 1 , Australia
- 2014 - South Korea, Japan, Australia, Iran
- 2018 - Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Japan 1 , Australia, Iran
- 1991 - China 2.6 , Japan , Taiwan 2
- 1995 - China 3 , Japan 2
- 1999 - China 4 , Japan, North Korea
- 2003 - China 2 , Japan, North Korea, South Korea
- 2007 - China 2.6 , Japan, North Korea 2 , Australia 2
- 2011 - Japan 5 , North Korea, Australia 2
- 2015 - China 2 , Japan 4 , South Korea 1 , Australia 2 , Thailand
- 2019 - China 1 , Japan 1 , South Korea, Australia 1 , Thailand
- 2023 - Australia 6
1 Round of 16 2 Quarter-finals 3 Semi-finals 4 Finals 5 Winners 6 (Co-) hosts
Competitions
The AFC organizes numerous competitions in which the national teams or club teams of its member associations take part. The competitions in detail:
National teams
- AFC Asian Cup - men's soccer Asian Cup
- AFC Women's Asian Cup - Women's Asian Football Championship
- AFC Challenge Cup - competition for national teams from the " soccer developing countries " of Asia (discontinued)
- AFC U-23 Championship - Men's U-23 Asian Football Championship. Held for the first time in 2014, it also serves as a qualification for the Olympic football competition .
- AFC U-19 Championship - Men's U-19 Asian Football Championship
- AFC U-16 Championship - Men's U-16 Asian Football Championship
- AFC U-19 Women's Championship - Women's U-19 Asian Football Championship
- AFC U-16 Women's Championship - Women's U-16 / U17 Asian Football Championship
- AFC Futsal Championship - Futsal -Asienmeisterschaft
In addition, there is the qualification for the soccer world championship .
Club teams
- AFC Champions League - competition for club teams from the strongest associations
- AFC Cup - competition for club teams from medium-sized associations
- AFC President's Cup - competition for club teams from the " football developing countries " (discontinued)
- AFC Futsal Club Championship - competition for futsal club teams
Regional competitions
The following competitions are organized by the regional associations:
- ASEAN Football Championship
- EAFF Championship
- South Asian Football Federation Cup (SAFF)
- WAFF Championship , golf trophy
States in foreign continental associations
Some countries that are wholly or mostly in Asia are members of other associations. Israel , Kazakhstan , Russia , the Republic of Cyprus , Turkey and the Caucasus Republics of Armenia , Azerbaijan and Georgia are members of UEFA .
Indonesia, which is partly on the Australian continent , was a founding member of the AFC. In 2006 Australia, until then a member of the Oceanic Federation OFC , joined the AFC to increase the chance of a World Cup starting place. In the oceanic qualification the competition was weaker, but the winner of the Oceania qualification had to play against a representative of another continental federation (1966 to 1982, 1998 and 2010 Asia; 1986 Europe; 1990, 2002 and 2006 South America, 2014 North America) compete - at the 1994 World Cup even against two representatives (first North America, then South America).
Web links
- Official website of the Asian Football Confederation (English, Arabic)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 46 + 1 member associations the-afc.com, accessed on May 12, 2015.
National teams of current associations of the AFC:
Afghanistan |
Australia |
Bahrain |
Bangladesh |
Bhutan |
Brunei |
China |
Guam |
Hong Kong |
India |
Indonesia |
Iraq |
Iran |
Japan |
Yemen |
Jordan |
Cambodia |
Qatar |
Kyrgyzstan |
Kuwait |
Laos |
Lebanon |
Macau |
Malaysia |
Maldives |
Mongolia |
Myanmar |
Nepal |
North Korea |
Northern Mariana Islands † |
Oman |
East Timor |
Pakistan |
Palestine |
Philippines |
Saudi Arabia |
Singapore |
Sri Lanka |
South Korea |
Syria |
Tajikistan |
Taiwan |
Thailand |
Turkmenistan |
Uzbekistan |
United Arab Emirates |
Vietnam
National teams of former AFC associations:
Federation of Malaya |
Israel |
Kazakhstan |
North Yemen |
North Vietnam |
South Yemen |
South Vietnam
Other national and national teams in Asia:
Armenia |
Azerbaijan |
Georgia |
Russia |
Soviet Union |
Turkey |
United Arab Republic |
Cyprus
National teams of the associations of the other confederations of FIFA :
CAF (Africa) |
CONCACAF (North and Central America, Caribbean) |
CONMEBOL (South America) |
OFC (Oceania) |
UEFA (Europe)
† Associate AFC member but not a FIFA member.
Afghanistan | Australia | Bahrain | Bangladesh | Bhutan | China, People's Republic | Guam | Hong Kong | India | Indonesia | Iraq | Iran | Japan | Jordan | Cambodia | Qatar | Kyrgyzstan | Kuwait | Laos | Lebanon | Macau | Malaysia | Maldives | Mongolia | Myanmar | Nepal | North Korea | Northern Mariana Islands | East Timor | Pakistan | Palestine | Philippines | Singapore | Sri Lanka | South Korea | Syria | Tajikistan | Taiwan | Thailand | Turkmenistan | Uzbekistan | United Arab Emirates | Vietnam
UEFA Asian women's national teams :
Armenia |
Azerbaijan |
Georgia |
Israel |
Kazakhstan * |
Russia |
Turkey |
Cyprus, Republic of
* Former AFC member
National football teams of: CAF (Africa) | UEFA (Europe) | CONCACAF (North and Central American and Caribbean) | CONMEBOL (South America) | OFC (Oceania)