Afc confederation

The AFC was formed in It has 47 afc confederation. Some nations have proposed splitting the confederation, forming a separate South West Asian Federation. The top-ranked AFC tournament for association football clubs is the AFC Champions League which started in the —03 season an amalgamation of the Asian Club Championship and the Asian Cup Winners' Cup and gathers the top 1—4 teams of each country the number of teams depend on that country's ranking and can be upgraded or downgraded ; this tournament only gathered teams from top country.

However, since the Summer Olympic Games and the European Football Championship were also scheduled in the same year as the Asian Cup, the AFC decided to move their championship to a less crowded cycle. After , the tournament was next held in , when it was co-hosted by four countries in Southeast Asia : Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. Thereafter, it has again been held every four years. The Asian Cup has generally been dominated by a small number of top teams. The other teams which have achieved success are Australia , Iraq and Kuwait Israel won in but was later expelled and has since joined UEFA.

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It is the most prestigious club competition in Asian football, played by the national league champions and, for some nations, one or more runners-up of their national associations. A total of 40 clubs compete in the round-robin group stage of the competition. Clubs from Asia's strongest national leagues receive automatic berths, with clubs from lower-ranked nations eligible to qualify via the qualifying playoffs, and they are also eligible to participate in the AFC Cup. The most successful club in the competition is Al-Hilal with a total of four titles. Urawa Red Diamonds are the current champions, having beaten Al-Hilal in the final. While Israeli clubs dominated the first four editions of the competition, this was partly due to the refusal of Arab clubs to play them :. After the edition had to be cancelled by the AFC for various reasons, including two Arab clubs being excluded for refusing to commit to playing against Israeli club Maccabi Netanya , the AFC suspended the competition for 14 years, while Israel would be expelled from the AFC in Asia's premier club tournament made its return in as the Asian Club Championship. League champions and cup winners would qualify for the qualifying playoffs with the best eight clubs from East Asia and the eight best clubs from West Asia progressing to the group stage.

Afc confederation

However, since the Summer Olympic Games and the European Football Championship were also scheduled in the same year as the Asian Cup, the AFC decided to move their championship to a less crowded cycle. After , the tournament was next held in , when it was co-hosted by four countries in Southeast Asia : Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. Thereafter, it has again been held every four years. The Asian Cup has generally been dominated by a small number of top teams. The other teams which have achieved success are Australia , Iraq and Kuwait Israel won in but was later expelled and has since joined UEFA. Australia joined the Asian confederation in and hosted the Asian Cup finals in , winning the competition in the final against South Korea.

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Today's print edition. The Asian Football Confederation will revamp its continental club competitions next year with an increased prize fund and will also launch an Asian Women's Champions League, the regional body announced on Monday. That sum is a threefold increase in the maximum amount available to previous winners of the competition.

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