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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is the governing body of football in Asia. It runs the Asian Cup, a competition for the national football teams of Asia held every four years, as well as the Asian World Cup Qualifying Tournament.

The AFC also runs three levels of annual international club competitions. The most prestigious (and oldest of the current AFC club competitions) is the AFC Champions League tournament, based on the UEFA Champions League, formed in 2002/03 with the amalgamation of the Asian Champions Cup and the Asian Cup Winners Cup. (An Asian Super Cup competition between the winners of these two major tournaments ended with the birth of the AFC Champions League.) The other competitions branched of this in 2004 when the 'Vision Asia' blueprint for development was launched. This led to the top fourteen AFC nations, the 'mature nations', sending their best teams to the AFC Champions League. The next 14 nations, the 'developing nations' qualify to send their teams to the AFC Cup. The rest of the AFC-affiliated countries, the 'emerging nations' send their teams to the AFC President's Cup. The teams which qualify from each country are usually the champions and the cup winners . Currently there is no promotion and relegation between the different levels of nations.

The Asian Ladies Football Confederation is a sub-group of the AFC who manage women's football in Asia. The group was founded in April 1968 in a meeting involving Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. In 1986 the ALFC was merged into the AFC . The Asian Ladies Football Confederation helped organise the AFC Women's Championship, first held in 1975, as well as the AFC's women's under-19 and the women's under-17 championships.

From January 1 2006 Australia will become the 46th member of the AFC.

World Cup Qualifiers

• 1930 - None
• 1934 - None
• 1938 - Dutch East Indies
• 1950 - None (Although India declined to go, even though they qualified)
• 1954 - South Korea
• 1958 - None
• 1962 - None
• 1966 - North Korea
• 1970 - None
• 1974 - None
• 1978 - Iran
• 1982 - None
• 1986 - Iraq, South Korea
• 1990 - South Korea, United Arab Emirates
• 1994 - Saudi Arabia, South Korea
• 1998 - South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Iran
• 2002 - (Japan and South Korea qualified as hosts). Saudi Arabia, PR China
• 2006 - Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Japan, Iran, more TBD

TOTAL

• South Korea - 7
• Saudi Arabia - 4
• Iran, Japan - 3
• Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), North Korea, Iraq, PR China, UAE - 1

Competitions

National competition

• Asian Cup
• AFC Youth Championship
• AFC U-17 Championship
• AFC Women's Championship
• AFC Women's U19 Championship
• AFC Women's U17 Championship

Club competition

• AFC Champions League
• AFC Cup
• AFC President's Cup

External links

• Official Website
• Asian Champions League Website
• Asian women's football history
• FootballAsia.com - article on ranking systems for AFC club competitions

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