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La Confederación Asiática de Fútbol (en inglés: Asian Football Confederation ), también conocida por sus siglas AFC, es la confederación de asociaciones nacionales de fútbol en la mayor parte de Asia, Australia, Guam e Islas Marianas del Norte.
- AFC
- Fútbol
- 8 de mayo de 1954 (69 años)
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is the governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal in most countries/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.
- 7 May 1954; 69 years ago
- Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa
- History
- Format
- Trophy
- Awards
- Controversies
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Beginning
A pan-Asian competition was first proposed after the end of World War II, but it was not implemented until the 1950s. Two years after the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) came into being in 1954, the first ever AFC Asian Cup was staged in Hong Kong with seven of the twelve founding members taking part, making the tournament the second oldest continental competition in the world. The qualifying process involved the hosts plus the winners of the various zones (Central, Eastern and Western). I...
West Asian domination
After Hong Kong and South Korea hosted the two first editions, Israel was chosen as host of the 1964 AFC Asian Cup. Using the same format of the two previous editions, this tournament only had four teams and played in one single group to determine the champions. Israel eventually topped the tournament ahead of India with three wins.The format was updated to five teams in 1968 before it was expanded to six teams in 1972 and 1976. The tournament became the preserve of Iran who won three consecu...
Japan's rise and modernization of Asian Cup
Until the 1990s, Japan was mostly a small name in Asian football, and the country only qualified for the 1988 edition, the first time Japan took part in a continental football tournament. However, as Japan started to make a concrete move inroad to professional football, the country's fortunes increased. Japan hosted the 1992 AFC Asian Cup, which was reduced to eight teams and two groups, where it emerged victorious after beating Saudi Arabia, then-defending champions, 1–0, to win the country'...
Final tournament
Since 1972, the final tournament has been played in two stages: the group stage and the knockout stage. Since 2019, each team plays three games in a group of four, with the winners and runners-up from each group advancing to the knockout stage along with four best third-placed teams. In the knockout stage, the sixteen teams compete in a single-elimination tournament, beginning with the round of 16 and ending with the final match of the tournament.
There have been two Asian Cup trophies; the first one used between 1956 and 2015, and the second one in use since 2019. The first trophy came in the form of a bowl with circular base. It was 42 centimeters tall and weighed 15 kilograms. Until the 2000 tournament, the black base contained plaques engraved with names of every winning country, as well...
There are currently five post-tournament awards: 1. the Most Valuable Playerfor best player; 2. the Top Goalscorerfor most prolific goal scorer; 3. the Best Goalkeeper for most outstanding goalkeeper; 4. the Team of the Tournamentfor best combined team of players at the tournament; 5. the Fair Play Awardfor the team with the best record of fair pla...
Despite being the second oldest continental football tournament, the AFC Asian Cup has suffered numerous criticisms.Criticisms over the inability of the AFC Asian Cup to attract large attendances, political interference, high costs of traveling between AFC member states and different cultures were highlighted over the Asian Cup.
The AFC Champions League (abbreviated as ACL) is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation, and contested by Asia's top-division football clubs. It is the most prestigious club competition in Asian football, played by the national league champions (and, for some nations, one or more ...
- 1967; 56 years ago, (rebranded in 2002)
- Urawa Red Diamonds (3rd title)
- 40 (group stage)
- FIFA Club World Cup
The 2023 AFC Asian Cup was the 18th edition of the AFC Asian Cup, the quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It involved 24 national teams after its expansion in 2019, with the host Qatar the defending champions.
- 12 January – 10 February 2024
- 24 (from 1 confederation)
- Qatar
- 9 (in 5 host cities)
19 de mar. de 2021 · The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is the governing body of Asian football and one of the six Confederations making up FIFA. Formed in 1954 in Manila on the sidelines of the second Asian Games, the AFC was sanctioned by FIFA in Berne, Switzerland on June 21 of that year. The AFC is now headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and ...
La Confederación Asiática de Fútbol, también conocida por sus siglas AFC, es la confederación de asociaciones nacionales de fútbol en la mayor parte de Asia, Australia, Guam e Islas Marianas del Norte. Es el máximo ente de este deporte en el continente, y una de las seis confederaciones pertenecientes a la FIFA.
