Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Kuala Lumpur: The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has today agreed that multi-media pioneer ELTA TV will be their new media partner in Chinese Taipei from 2021 to 2024.
ELTA’s exclusive deal includes the AFC’s major national team and club competitions, including but not limited to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Asian Qualifiers Final Round, the AFC Cup and AFC Champions League from the 2021 season, the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 and the AFC U23 Championship Finals in 2022 and 2024.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Kuala Lumpur: Park Ji-sung’s place in the pantheon of Asian football is unquestioned but, while the midfielder made his name at the FIFA World Cup and winning titles in Europe, it was with Kyoto Purple Sanga that he took his first steps as a professional.
German coach Gert Engels handed Park his debut with the J.League club and tells the-AFC.com about the formative years of one of Asia’s greatest ever players.
When Gert Engels talks about Park Ji-sung, the same characteristic is mentioned time and again: stability. From the moment he first set eyes on footage of Park playing for Myongji University, it was the youngster’s unerring approach that stood out for the former Yokohama Flugels and Kyoto Purple Sanga coach.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Kuala Lumpur: Following the withdrawal of Hong Kong’s Wofoo Tai Po from the AFC Cup 2020, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has confirmed today that Kitchee SC (HKG) has been awarded a direct slot into the AFC Cup Group Stage as the highest ranked club in the Play-off Stage (EAST) based on the draw mechanism established before the start of the Competition.
The Hong Kong side will join Tatung FC from Chinese Taipei and Macau’s MUST CPK in Group I with the final slot to be contested in the Play-off Stage between Ulaanbaatar City FC from Mongolia and Chinese Taipei’s Taipower FC and the Preliminary Stage (East) cancelled.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Kuala Lumpur: With international football on hiatus until later in 2020, the-AFC.com looks back at some of Asia's greatest performers at the FIFA World Cup and asks you, the fans, to vote for the Best XI.
To select the candidates for each position, we have reflected on match data from FIFA World Cups dating all the way back to 1966 and presented a statistics-based approach to highlight the players who have shone brightest on the biggest stage of all.
We start our series of articles with the three candidates in contention for the all-important number one jersey. With a combined 11 FIFA World Cup editions between them, the trio boast a wealth of experience at the global showpiece. So, review the nominees and then choose your favourite goalkeeper to helm the rearguard for this all-star XI in the poll below.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Kuala Lumpur: For over a decade, striker Younis Mahmoud headlined a generation of Iraqi players that has performed beyond expectation at the highest level in Asia, climaxing in 2007 with country's first ever AFC Asian Cup triumph.
There are few images more iconic in Asian football: with his mouth wide open in a celebratory roar, Younis Mahmoud hoisting the AFC Asian Cup trophy high into the Jakarta night sky as Iraq completed a remarkable triumph over Saudi Arabia in the final of the 2007 championship.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Kuala Lumpur: The Asian Football Confederation (AFC), in consultation with FIFA, has today announced the proposed match dates for the remaining matches of Round 2 in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Asian Qualifiers, which were originally scheduled to take place in March and June 2020.
Matchdays 7 and 8 are now scheduled to take place on October 8 and 13, 2020 respectively while Matchdays 9 and 10 are due to kick off on November 12 and 17, 2020.
The latest decision has been taken with a view to completing the Preliminary Joint Qualification Round 2 by November 2020 and to commence the subsequent FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Asian Qualifiers Final Round as well as the play-off matches for the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Round 3 Qualifiers by the March 2021 match dates in the FIFA International Calendar.
The AFC will continue to monitor the situation closely to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all teams, officials, fans and stakeholders as well as Government travel and medical restrictions and will notify all parties should there be a need to reassess the match schedules due to the ever-evolving impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Kuala Lumpur: Competing Member Associations (MA) all agreed the central principle of finding the best way to complete the remaining AFC Champions League season in 2020 in two online meetings held today by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
The MAs representing Australia, China PR, Japan, Korea Republic, Malaysia and Thailand in the East Zone and Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan in the West Zone also committed to agreeing a format and timetable for the 99 remaining games as soon as possible.
Recognising the travel and medical restrictions, which differ across the Continent, the AFC proposed a series of options for concluding the AFC Champions League before the start of the scheduled FIFA Club World Cup to be held in Qatar in December.
Following comments by the representatives in the meetings, the AFC will present the format and the dates of the club competitions for the final review, after which the proposal will be submitted to the AFC Competitions Committee for their approval.