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The 2007 AFC Asian Cup was the debut of Australia, which had abandoned the Oceania Football Confederation in 2006 (coincidentally the first team to qualify for the tournament), as well as being the first football competition in the world to be hosted by more than two nations, with four countries in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia ...
First four edition of competition only had four or five teams and played in one single group. Since 1972, the final tournament has introduced the knockout stage.Since 2019, no third place play-off has been played; from 2023, losing semi-finalists are ranked by the AFC based on goal difference in the semi-finals.
It is open to the league champions and cup winners of Asian Football Confederation member associations, as well as to the clubs finishing in second and third position in the stronger leagues of each zone. Prior to the 2002–03 season, the tournament was named the Asian Club Championship. [1]
The Asian Cup final is the last match of the competition and the result determines which country's team is declared Asian champion. As of the 2023 tournament, if after 90 minutes of regular play the score is a draw , an additional 30-minute period of play, called extra time, is added.
The 2021 AFC Cup was the 18th edition of the AFC Cup, Asia's secondary club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). [3]The winners of the tournament automatically qualified for the 2022 AFC Champions League, entering the qualifying play-offs, if they had not qualified through their domestic performance.
The AFC U-20 Asian Cup, formerly known as the AFC Youth Championship and AFC U-19 Championship, is a biennial international association football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's under-20 national teams of Asia that also serves as a qualification tournament for the FIFA U-20 World Cup.
The 2016 AFC Cup was the 13th edition of the AFC Cup, Asia's secondary club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). [1]Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya from Iraq defeated India's Bengaluru FC in the final to win their first AFC Cup title, becoming the first Iraqi team to win the competition. [2]
[1] [2] [3] In 2016 the tournament was also renamed from the "AFC U-22 Championship" to the "AFC U-23 Championship". [4] The tournament was rebranded as the "AFC U-23 Asian Cup" in 2021. [5] In July 2023, the AFC announced that each non-Olympic edition of the tournament would be hosted by the same association hosting the next AFC Asian Cup. [6]