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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is the governing body of Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkey). Israel is also a UEFA member even though it lies entirely in Asia, as is arguably also the case for Cyprus. On the other hand, Australia, formerly in the OFC, has been in the AFC since 2006, and the Oceanian island of Guam, a territory of the United States, is also a member of 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 12 founder members were Afghanistan, Burma (Myanmar), Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam.[3] The main headquarters is located in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The current president is Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa of Bahrain.
The Asian Football Confederation was founded on 8 May 1954.
The Asian Ladies Football Confederation (ALFC) is the section of the AFC who manage 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.
The AFC has 47 member associations split into five regions.
1: Associate AFC member
The AFC runs the AFC Challenge Cup, 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.
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.[6]
The AFC also runs an annual Asian futsal club competition, the AFC Futsal Club Championship.
The following are the sponsors of AFC (named "AFC Partners"):
Rankings are calculated by FIFA.[7]
Rankings are calculated by FIFA.[8]
Rankings are calculated by IFFHS .
† Provisional Associate Member - Not a member of FIFA
Concacaf, Uefa, FIFA World Cup, Asian Football Confederation, Confederation of African Football
Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Vietnam
Qatar, Bahrain, Yemen, Arabic language, Kuwait
Seoul, Japan, Busan, North Korea, China
South Korea, Tokyo, Hokkaido, Australia, China
China, Asian Football Confederation, Uefa, Japan national football team, Iraq national football team
Asian Football Confederation, Uefa, Confederation of African Football, Conmebol, Concacaf
Sri Lanka, Asian Football Confederation, India, Bangladesh, Colombo
Asian Football Confederation, Confederation of African Football, Uefa, Yemen national football team, Algeria national football team
Asian Football Confederation, Confederation of African Football, Uefa, Russia, Soviet Union