Soccer West Asian Championship

The Football West Asian Championship (English West Asian Football Federation Championship ) is a football contest of the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF West Asian Football Federation ), which has been held since 2000 in fact in every two years. The tournament was supposed to take place in Lebanon in 2006, but was canceled due to the Lebanon War .

The twelve member associations of the WAFF are entitled to participate. Other associations from the region are sometimes invited to the West Asian Championships. Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan have already taken part in the tournament. The record winner is the Iranian national soccer team , which has not participated since 2014 because Iran has merged with other Central Asian teams to form the new regional association CAFA .

Not to be confused, the West Asian Championships with the football tournament as part of the West Asian Games will be held (West Asian Games), just as with the Gulf Cup of Nations , although this is also a tournament west Asian Nations (namely the Arab countries bordering the Persian Gulf).

First participations

Below are all national teams that have taken part in this tournament so far.

• Teams in bold became West Asian champions when they first played.
• Teams in italics were hosts when they first participated.
• Teams in brackets participated for the first time under a different name.

Year (s)	First time participant
2000	Iraq	Iran	Jordan	Kazakhstan
	Kyrgyzstan	Lebanon	Palestine	Syria
2002	no first-time participants
2004	no first-time participants
2007	no first-time participants
2008	Qatar	Oman
2010	Bahrain	Yemen	Kuwait
2012	Saudi Arabia
2014-2019	no first-time participants

The tournaments at a glance

year	host		final				Game for 3rd place or semi-finalists / group runners-up 1st
			winner	Result	Second place		third place	Result	fourth place
2000 details	Jordan		Iran	1-0	Syria		Iraq	4: 1	Jordan
2002 details	Syria		Iraq	3: 2 a.d.	Jordan		Iran	2: 2 n.v. 4: 2 i. E.	Syria
2004 details	Iran		Iran	4: 1	Syria		Jordan	3: 1	Iraq
2007 details	Jordan		Iran	2: 1	Iraq		Jordan Syria
2008 details	Iran		Iran	2: 1	Jordan		Syria Qatar
2010 details	Jordan		Kuwait	2: 1	Iran		Yemen Iraq
2012 details	Kuwait		Syria	1-0	Iraq		Oman	1-0	Bahrain
2014 details	Qatar		Qatar	2-0	Jordan		Bahrain	0: 0 n.v. 3: 2 i. E.	Kuwait
2019 details	Iraq		Bahrain	1-0	Iraq		Jordan Palestine
2021 details	Ver. Arab. Emirates

¹In 2007, 2008 and 2010 there was no match for third place. Among the listed semi-finalists, the first named was defeated by the later West Asian champions, the second named to the other finalist. For 2019, the two runners-up in the group will be listed as there was no semi-finals.

Ranking list

rank	country	title	Year (s)	2nd place	3rd place	4th Place		final	Semifinals
1	Iran	4th	2000, 2004, 2007, 2008	1	1			5	6th
2	Iraq	1	2002	3	1	1		4th	7th
3	Syria	1	2012	2		1		3	6th
4th	Bahrain	1	2019		1	1		1	3
5	Kuwait	1	2010			1		1	2
6th	Qatar	1	2014					1	2
7th	Jordan			3	1	1		3	7th
8th	Oman				1				1
9	Yemen								1
	Palestine								1
Respective record

Web links

• Official website of the West Asian Football Association
• Tournament details on rsssf.com