The ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) is an

organisation An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution, or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose. The word is derived fr ...

within the

Asian Football Confederation The Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal in some countries/territories in Asia and Oceania. It has 47 member countries most of which are located in Asia. Australia, formerly in ...

(AFC) and is an international governing body of

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is t ...

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...

. It consists of the federations of Australia,

Brunei Brunei ( , ), formally Brunei Darussalam ( ms, Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jawi alphabet, Jawi: , ), is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Apart from its South China Sea coast, it is completely sur ...

Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailan ...

East Timor East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-we ...

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

, Laos,

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...

and

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making it ...

. Despite using "

ASEAN ASEAN ( , ), officially the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, is a Political union, political and economic union of 10 member Sovereign state, states in Southeast Asia, which promotes intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental coo ...

" in its name, the AFF is not affiliated with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

History

AFF was founded on 31 January 1984 by the meeting in Jakarta of 6 founding member are

Brunei Darussalam Brunei ( , ), formally Brunei Darussalam ( ms, Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jawi: , ), is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Apart from its South China Sea coast, it is completely surrounded by the ...

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

and

. The idea of founding the federation came from the initial meeting of founding the sub-continental football association in Bangkok in 1982 that was attended by Hamzah Abu Samah, Peter Velappan, Hans Pandelaki, Fernando G. Alvarez, Pisit Ngampanich, Teo Chong Tee and Yap Boon Chuan. Other nations that have joined the federation since have been

, Laos,

and

(all in 1996),

in 2004, and Australia in 2013.

President

Members

It has 12 member associations, all of whom are members of the Asian Football Confederation. (*) Founding member

Tournaments

National team

AFF Championship The ASEAN Football Federation Championship (less formally the AFF Championship or AFF Cup), currently known as the AFF Mitsubishi Electric Cup for sponsorship reason, is the primary association football tournament organized by the ASEAN Footbal ...

AFF U-23 Championship The AFF U-23 Championship is an international football competition contested by the national under-23 teams of the member nations of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF). The inaugural edition was held in 2005. Background In 2005, the first ...

* AFF U-19 Youth Championship * AFF U-16 Youth Championship * AFF Women's Championship *

AFF U-19 Women's Championship The AFF U-19 Women's Championship is association football tournament for women's national teams under the age of 19. It is organised by the ASEAN Football Federation every two years. The official tournament started in 2014, hosted by Thailand and ...

AFF U-16 Women's Championship The AFF U-16 Women's Championship is association football tournament for women's national teams under the age of 15. It was first conducted in 2009 as the AFF U-16 Women's Championship with an upper age limit of 16. It is organised by the ASEAN ...

* AFF Futsal Championship * AFF Beach Soccer Championship

Club

* ASEAN Club Championship * ASEAN Super League ''(proposed)'' *

AFF Futsal Cup The AFF Futsal Cup (Formerly the AFF Futsal Club Championship) is the annual Southeast Asian futsal club competition hosted by the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF). In May 2019, the AFF decided to change the name of the competition from AFF Futs ...

* AFF Women's Futsal Cup The Mekong Club Championship started in the 2014 season and includes the champions from 5 of the 6 countries through which the

Mekong The Mekong or Mekong River is a trans-boundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is the world's twelfth longest river and the third longest in Asia. Its estimated length is , and it drains an area of , discharging of water annuall ...

river flows (

, Laos,

and

). The ASEAN Club Championship has stopped rolling since

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Current title holders

Titles by nation

Note: (*) Champion as invitation teams.

Rankings

National football team

AFF Men's National Football Team Ranking by FIFA
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" color:THA from:01/07/2005 till:01/09/2005 shift:(20,-12) text:"

" color:IDN from:01/09/2005 till:01/10/2005 shift:(20,-4) text:"

" color:THA from:01/10/2005 till:01/01/2007 shift:(20,-4) text:"

" color:SIN from:01/01/2007 till:21/12/2011 shift:(20,-4) text:"

" color:THA from:21/12/2011 till:08/08/2012 shift:(20,-11) text:"

" color:VIE from:08/08/2012 till:07/11/2012 shift:(20,-11) text:"

" color:THA from:07/11/2012 till:07/07/2013 shift:(20,-11) text:"

" color:VIE from:07/07/2013 till:27/08/2013 shift:(20,-11) text:"

" color:THA from:27/08/2013 till: end shift:(20,-4) text:" Australia" color:AUS

Women's national football team

AFF Women's National Football Team Ranking by FIFA
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" color:THA from:23/12/2005 till:22/06/2007 shift:(20,-5) text:"

" color:VIE from:22/06/2007 till:21/12/2007 shift:(20,-5) text:"

" color:THA from:21/12/2007 till:23/03/2008 shift:(20,-5) text:"

" color:VIE from:23/03/2008 till:22/06/2008 shift:(20,-5) text:"

" color:THA from:22/06/2008 till:22/05/2010 shift:(20,-5) text:"

" color:VIE from:22/05/2010 till:23/09/2011 shift:(20,-5) text:"

" color:THA from:23/09/2011 till:23/03/2012 shift:(20,-5) text:"

" color:VIE from:23/03/2012 till:21/06/2013 shift:(20,-5) text:"

" color:THA from:21/06/2013 till:28/08/2013 shift:(20,-5) text:"

" color:VIE from:28/08/2013 till:end shift:(20,-5) text:" Australia" color:AUS

National futsal team

AFF Men's National Futsal Team Ranking by Futsal World Ranking
br>Update: October 2022 *Note: (*) Inactive

Women's national futsal team

br>Update: January 2022 *Note: (*) Inactive

National beach soccer team

AFF Men's National Beach Soccer Team Ranking by BSWW
br>Update: December 2021

Women's national beach soccer team

AFF Women's National Beach Soccer Team Ranking by BSWW
br>Update: December 2021

National football league

AFF Men's National Football League Ranking by AFCAFF Men's National Football League Ranking by FootyRankings
Update: 25 August 2022

Awards

AFF President

Sultan of Pahang Sultan of Pahang () is the title of the hereditary constitutional head of Pahang, Malaysia. The current sultan is Al-Sultan Abdullah ibni Sultan Ahmad Shah. He is the Head of Islam in the state and the source of all titles, honours and digniti ...

Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta’in Billah ibni Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mu’azzam Shah ( Jawi: ; 24 October 1930 – 22 May 2019) was the fifth modern Sultan of Pahang, and also served as the seventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong ...

said that: Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah, who is also chairman of the Awards Selection Committee, said that as football in the region continued to develop and mature, the commitment demonstrated by

’s finest needed to be acknowledged. The AFF Awards is held every 2 years, starting from 2013.

History

President

Members

Tournaments

National team

Club

Current title holders

Titles by nation

Rankings

National football team

Women's national football team

National futsal team

Women's national futsal team

National beach soccer team

Women's national beach soccer team

National football league

Awards

ASEAN Goodwill Award

AFF Life Service Award

AFF Association of the Year

AFF National Team of the Year

AFF Player of the Year (Men's)

AFF Player of the Year (Women's)

AFF Youth Player of the Year (Men's)

AFF Futsal Team of the Year

AFF Futsal Player of the Year (Men's)

AFF Coach of the Year

AFF Referee of the Year

AFF Assistant Referee of the Year

Best Goal in the AFF Suzuki Cup

AFF Best XI

References

External links