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Asian Football Confederation

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is the governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal in most countries and territories in Asia. The AFC was formed in 1954. It has 47 members. The Asian Ladies Football Confederation (ALFC) was the section of AFC that managed women's association football in Asia. The group was independently founded in April 1968 in a meeting involving Taiwan, British Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. In 1986, ALFC merged with AFC.

Executive Committee

Members

Member associations

The AFC has 47 member associations split into five subregions: Central (four former Soviet Central Asian countries plus Afghanistan and Iran), East (eight East Asian nations and two Micronesian territories: Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands), South (five countries on the Indian Subcontinent plus Maldives and Sri Lanka), South East (eleven ASEAN countries plus Australia), and West (twelve Arab countries). Afghanistan, Burma (Myanmar), the Republic of China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam were the founding members.

Former members

Competitions

AFC competitions

National teams:

Men
Women

Esports

Clubs:

Men
Women

Defunct

National teams:

Men
Women

Clubs:

Men
Women

AFC runs the AFC Asian Cup and the AFC Women's Asian Cup, which are held every 4 years. AFC organises the AFC Futsal Asian Cup, AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup, AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup, various age-level international association football, youth futsal tournaments and the Asian qualifying tournament for the FIFA World Cup and for football at the Summer Olympics.

The top-ranked AFC tournament for men's association football clubs is the AFC Champions League Elite. The competition is an amalgamation of the Asian Club Championship, the Asian Cup Winners' Cup and the Asian Super Cup and gathers the top teams from the highest-ranked nations in Asia (the number of teams depend on that country's ranking and can be upgraded or downgraded). The top-ranked AFC tournament for women's association football clubs is the AFC Women's Champions League which was launched in the 2024–25 season.

The second-tier men's tournament is the AFC Champions League Two, while the third-tier tournament is the AFC Challenge League, which were both revamped and rebranded in 2024.

AFC runs an annual Asian futsal club tournament, the AFC Futsal Club Championship for futsal club competition.

Current title holders

Esports

Defunct tournaments

Titles by nation

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Rankings

FIFA World Rankings

Historical leaders

Men's

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Women's

Team of the Year

Men
Performances by countries
Women
Performances by countries

Men's elo rankings

World Football Elo Ratings for AFC members:

Club Competitions Ranking

The AFC Club Competitions Ranking ranks its member associations by results in the AFC competitions. Rankings are calculated by AFC. Listed here are the top 30 countries.

Beach soccer national teams

Rankings are calculated by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW).

Men's futsal

Women's futsal

Tournament record

Legend
  • – Champion
  • – Runner-up
  • – Third place
  • – Fourth place
  • QF – Quarter-finals (1934–1938, 1954–1970, and 1986–present: knockout round of 8)
  • R3 — Round 3 (2026–present: knockout round of 16)
  • R2 — Round 2 (1974–1978: second group stage, top 8; 1982: second group stage, top 12; 1986–2022: knockout round of 16; 2026–present: knockout round of 32)
  • R1 — Round 1 (1930, 1950–1970 and 1986–present: group stage; 1934–1938: knockout round of 16; 1974–1982: first group stage)
  • — Qualified for upcoming tournament
  • — Qualified but withdrew
  • — Did not qualify
  • — Did not enter / withdrawn / banned / disqualified
  • &nbsp;— Hosts

For each tournament, the flag of the host country and the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.

FIFA World Cup

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AFC Asian Cup

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FIFA Women's World Cup

Olympic Games

Men's tournament

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Women's tournament

AFC Women's Asian Cup

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FIFA U-20 World Cup

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FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

FIFA U-17 World Cup

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FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

FIFA Futsal World Cup

FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

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FIFA Confederations Cup

See also

Notes

References

External links