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The former President of FIFA, for the year 1998–2005, Sepp Blatter asserted his confidence that the future of football must lie in Asia because half of the world's population is in Asia. The official slogan of the Asian Football Confederation is ‘The Future is Asia’, and the AFC aims to develop football in Asia even more in the coming years.
EAFF E-1 Football Championship: 2022: Japan RR South Korea: 2025: EAFF U15 Men's Championship: 2023: China Final Japan: TBC East Asian Youth Games Men's Football Tournament: 2023: Chinese Taipei RR Hong Kong: 2027: EAFF Futsal Championship: 2022 Japan South Korea: 2024: Women's national teams EAFF E-1 Football Championship (women) 2022: Japan ...
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is the governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal in most countries and territories in Asia. [a] 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 football associations in this section represent fully and partially recognized sovereign states, dependent territories, and stateless nations that are not members of FIFA or a FIFA confederation. Several of these non-FIFA associations are included in the World Football Elo Ratings , which ranks all national association football teams from ...
Due to the geographical size of Asia, the AFC is subdivided into five sub-federations: West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) – represents countries at the western extremity of the continent, except Israel. East Asian Football Federation (EAFF) – represents nations in East Asia, plus Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.
The List of top-division football clubs in Asian Football Confederation (AFC) countries.The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) includes all countries within the Asian territory as members, except Armenia, Azerbaijan, Chagos Islands, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkey, as most of them are affiliated with another confederation, or none ...
Category: Association football in Asia by country. 15 languages. ... Football in East Timor (9 C, 2 P) I. Football in India (24 C, 13 P) Football in Indonesia (13 C ...
Football quickly became extremely popular across the country. So much so, that by the 1920s, Burmese started to spread the sport across East Asia. U Kyaw Din, a Burmese born in 1900, wrote one of the earliest books about the sport and promoted it so successfully in Japan that he became a member of the Japanese Football hall of fame posthumously ...