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.

Members
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Member associations
The AFC has 47 member associations split into 5 regions (West, Central, South, East, and South-east (ASEAN nations)). Afghanistan, Burma (Myanmar), Republic of China, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam were the founding members.

Some nations have proposed splitting the confederation, forming a separate South West Asian Federation.

AFC competitions
National teams: Esports
 * Men
 * AFC Asian Cup
 * AFC U-23 Asian Cup
 * AFC U-20 Asian Cup
 * AFC U-17 Asian Cup
 * Asian Games Men's football
 * Asian Youth Games boys' football
 * AFC Futsal Asian Cup
 * AFC U-20 Futsal Asian Cup
 * Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games men's futsal
 * AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup
 * Asian Beach Games men's beach soccer
 * Women
 * AFC Women's Asian Cup
 * AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup
 * AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup
 * Asian Games women's football
 * AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup
 * Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games women's futsal
 * AFC eAsian Cup

Clubs:
 * Men
 * AFC Champions League Elite
 * AFC Champions League Two
 * AFC Challenge League
 * AFC Futsal Club Championship
 * Women
 * AFC Women's Champions League

Defunct

National teams: Clubs:
 * Men
 * AFC Solidarity Cup
 * AFC Challenge Cup
 * Afro-Asian Cup of Nations
 * AFC–OFC Challenge Cup
 * AFC U-14 Championship
 * Women
 * AFC U-14 Girls' Regional Championship
 * Men
 * Asian Cup Winners' Cup
 * Asian Super Cup
 * Afro-Asian Club Championship
 * Women
 * AFC Women's Club Championship

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.

Historical leaders

 * Men's


 * Women's

Men
FIFA Men's World Ranking

Women
FIFA Women's World Ranking

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
a number between brackets is the rank of the previous week. (*)= Provisional ranking (played at least 10 matches).

Tournament record

 * Legend
 * – Champion
 * – Runner-up
 * – Third place
 * – Fourth place
 * QF – Quarter-finals (1934–1938, 1954–1970, and 1986–present: knockout round of 8)
 * R2 — Round 2 (1974–1978, second group stage, top 8; 1982: second group stage, top 12; 1986–2022: knockout round of 16)
 * 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
 * — Did not qualify
 * — Did not enter / withdrawn / banned / disqualified
 * — 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
* Australia qualified for FIFA WC for six times, two as OFC member and four as AFC member.

AFC Women's Asian Cup
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