The ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) is an organisation within the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and is an international governing body of association football, futsal, and beach soccer in Southeast Asia and Australia. It consists of the federations of Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The AFF was founded by the member states of, and is officially associated with, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), even though it also includes Australia, a non-ASEAN member state, after it left the Oceania Football Confederation in 2006, as well as Timor-Leste, who did not become a full ASEAN member until late 2025.
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History
The AFF was established in Jakarta on 31 January 1984 during an informal meeting of representatives of six ASEAN member states; Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Thailand. 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 are Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (all in 1996), East Timor in 2004, and Australia in 2013.
Members
ASEAN has 12 member associations, all of whom are members of the Asian Football Confederation.
Notes
(*) Founding member
Title holders
Titles by nation
As of 22 July 2026
Notes
(*) Champion as an invited team.
Tournament record
Asian Games men's football tournament
Football at the Asian Games was a senior tournament until 1998.
Football at the Asian Games has been an under-23 tournament since 2002.
Rankings
National football team
AFF Men's National Football Team Ranking By FIFA Update: 1 April 2026.
Next update: 9 July 2026.
Women's national football team
AFF Women's National Football Team Ranking by FIFAUpdate: 21 April 2026Next Update: 15 June 2026
National futsal team
AFF Men's National Futsal Team Ranking by FIFAUpdate: 12 December 2025
Note: (*) Inactive
Women's national futsal team
AFF Women's National Futsal Team Ranking by FIFAUpdate: 11 December 2025
Note: (*) Inactive
National beach soccer team
AFF Men's National Beach Soccer Team Ranking by BSWWUpdate: 19 January 2026
Note: (*) Inactive
Women's national beach soccer team
AFF Women's National Beach Soccer Team Ranking by BSWWUpdate: 19 January 2026
Note: (*) Inactive
National football league
AFF Men's National Football League Ranking by AFC
AFC Club Competitions Ranking 2025 - footyrankings
Update: 27 April 2026
Awards
AFF President Sultan of Pahang, Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah said that:
"In recent years, ASEAN football has cultivated some serious talent, and the region is growing as a football powerhouse. We are gaining traction at a global level, and the time is right to honour the men and women who have dedicated their lives to the evolution and honour of the world’s most popular sport."
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 ASEAN’s finest needed to be acknowledged.
The AFF Awards is held every 2 years, starting from 2013.