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Asian Karate Federation

Jurisdiction	Asian Continental countries/regions
Membership	39 Affiliated Countries
Abbreviation	AKF
Founded	1973
Headquarters	Headquarters of the AKF is situated in the country/region the elected President resides.
Location	Asia
President	Major Gen Nasser Al Sayed Abdulrazak Alrazooqi of United Arab Emirates
Official website
asiankaratefederation.net

The Asian Karate Federation (AKF) is the governing body of sport karate of about 44 countries of karatedo federation in Asia. The AKF is a non-profit organization and performs its activities on an amateur basis in compliance with the principles set forth in the Olympic Charter, duly recognized by the World Karate Federation, the largest international governing body of sport karate with over 198 member countries. It is the only karate organization recognised by the International Olympic Committee and has more than fifty million members. The AKF organizes the Asian Karatedo Championships, the Junior and Senior AKF Championships in every two years in between the Olympic and Asian Games and participates in WKF World Karate Championships. The current president of the Asian Karate Federation (AKF) is Major Gen Nasser Al Sayed Abdulrazak Alrazooqi of UAE and Mr. Kuong Im Che of Macau, China, serves as the secretary general.

History of AKF

Asian Karatedo Federation founded as APUKO (Asian Pacific Union of Karatedo Organizations) in the year 1973.

It changed to AUKO (Asian Union of Karatedo Organizations) in 1992 after WUKO was admitted to IOC.

The name was changed again in 1999 to AKF (Asian Karatedo Federation) in line with World Union of Karate-Do Organizations (WUKO) changed to World Karate Federation (WKF).

AKF Country Member's Federations

• Asian Karate Federation (AKF) Affiliated Countries:

• Afghanistan
• Bangladesh
• Bahrain
• Bhutan
• Brunei
• Cambodia
• China
• Hong Kong
• Indonesia
• India
• Iraq
• Iran
• Jordan
• Japan
• Kazakhstan
• Korea
• Kuwait
• Kyrgyzstan
• Lao PDR
• Lebanon
• Macau
• Malaysia
• Mongolia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Philippines
• Palestine
• DPR Korea
• Qatar
• Saudi Arabia
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Syria
• Thailand
• Tajikistan
• Timor-Leste
• Chinese Taipei
• Turkmenistan
• United Arab Emirates
• Uzbekistan
• Vietnam
• Yemen

References

1. "Black Belt July 1973". July 1973. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
2. "Structure of Asian Karate Federation". WKF. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
3. "CONSTITUTION OF ASIAN KARATE FEDERATION" (PDF). AKF. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
4. "Structure of the Asian Karate Federation | WKF". www.wkf.net. Retrieved 2024-04-24.

External links

• Official website

v t e National members of the World Karate Federation
Countries, teams, association and federation actively joining WKF World Championships.
	Europe (EKF)	ALB AND ARM AUT AZE BEL BGR BIH BLR CHE CYP CZE DEU DNK England ESP EST FIN FRA GBR GEO GRE HRV HUN IRL ISL ISR ITA KOS LIE LTU LUX LVA MCO MDA MKD MLT MNE Northern Ireland NLD NOR POL PRT ROU RUS Scotland SMR SRB SVK SVN SWE TUR UKR Wales
	Asian (AKF)	South-East BRU CAM INA LAO MAS MYA PHI SIN THA TLS VIE West BRH IRQ JOR KUW LIB OMA PLE QAT KSA SYR UAE YEM East CHN PRK KOR JPN TPE HKG MAC MGL Central KAZ KGZ TJK TKM UZB South AFG BAN BHU IND MDV NEP PAK SRI
	African (UFAK)	50 Affiliated countries
	Pan America (PKF)	ANT ARG ARU BAH BAR BIZ BER BOL BRA CAN CAY CHI COL CRC CUB DOM ECU ESA VEN GRN GUA GUY HAI HON MEX CUR NCA PAN PAR PER PUR LCA VIN SUR TRI USA URU
	Oceania (OKF)	AUS FIJ GUA NZL New Caledonia PNG Tahiti VAN SOL Wallis et Futuna

• Sports organizations established in 1973
• Karate organizations
• Sports governing bodies in Asia