ASEAN Football Federation
The ASEAN Football Federation is a smaller organisation within the greater Asian Football Confederation, and centres on Southeast Asia, founded in 1984 by the nations of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. ASEAN stands for Association of Southeast Asian Nations, although the AFF also includes East Timor and Australia.
Other nations to join have been Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, East Timor in 2004, and Australia in 2013.
In 1996, the federation ran the first AFF Championship.
History
ASEAN Football Federation was founded on 31 January 1984 by the meeting in Jakarta of six founding member are Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Thailand. The idea of founding the federation came from the initial meeting of founding the sub-continential 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. The ASEAN Football Federation headquarter was located on Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.List of presidents
Member associations
AFF has 12 member associations, all of whom are members of the Asian Football Confederation.| FIFA country code| | Association | Joined in | National team | National league |
| AUS |  Australia | 2013 | ||
| BRU |  Brunei | 1984 | ||
| CAM |  Cambodia | 1996 | ||
| IDN |  Indonesia | 1984 | ||
| LAO |  Laos | 1996 | ||
| MAS |  Malaysia | 1984 | ||
| MYA |  Myanmar | 1996 | ||
| PHI |  Philippines | 1984 | ||
| SIN |  Singapore | 1984 | ||
| THA |  Thailand | 1984 | ||
| TLS |  Timor-Leste | 2004 | ||
| VIE |  Vietnam | 1996 |
Competitions
International
The AFF runs the AFF Championship and AFF Women's Championship - both competitions are held every two years and determine the Champions of Southeast Asia.The AFF also organises the AFF–EAFF Champions Trophy, AFF Futsal Championship, AFF Beach Soccer Championship, various age-level international youth football tournaments, the AFF U-16 Championship, AFF U-19 Youth Championship, AFF U-16 Women's Championship and AFF U-19 Women's Championship.
Club
The only AFF club competition is the Mekong Club Championship, which started in the 2014 season and includes the champions from 5 of the 6 countries through which the Mekong river flows.The AFF also runs an annual Southeast Asian futsal club competition, the AFF Futsal Club Championship.
Current title holders
Rankings
Men's national football teams
are calculated by FIFA.| AFC | FIFA | Country | Points | +/− |
| 4 | 42 | 1500 | ||
| 14 | 94 | 1258 | ||
| 20 | 113 | 1178 | ||
| 23 | 124 | 1136 | ||
| 25 | 136 | 1081 | ||
| 31 | 154 | 1040 | ||
| 33 | 157 | 1020 | ||
| 35 | 173 | 964 | ||
| 35 | 173 | 964 | ||
| 39 | 188 | 912 | ||
| 42 | 191 | 904 | ||
| 43 | 196 | 879 |
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Top Ranked Men's National Football Teams
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from:01/07/2005 till:01/09/2005 shift: text:"Indonesia" color:IDN
from:01/09/2005 till:01/10/2005 shift: text:"Thailand" color:THA
from:01/10/2005 till:01/01/2007 shift: text:"Singapore" color:SIN
from:01/01/2007 till:21/12/2011 shift: text:"Thailand" color:THA
from:21/12/2011 till:08/08/2012 shift: text:"Vietnam" color:VIE
from:08/08/2012 till:07/11/2012 shift: text:"Thailand" color:THA
from:07/11/2012 till:07/07/2013 shift: text:"Vietnam" color:VIE
from:07/07/2013 till:27/08/2013 shift: text:"Thailand" color:THA
from:27/08/2013 till: end shift: text:"Australia" color:AUS
Men's elo rankings
are calculated by Elo Ratings.| AFF | AFC | Elo | Country | Ratings | +/−* |
| 1 | 4 | 40 | 1712 | 2 | |
| 2 | 16 | 104 | 1408 | 24 | |
| 3 | 20 | 116 | 1358 | 5 | |
| 4 | 25 | 157 | 1201 | 18 | |
| 4 | 28 | 170 | 1142 | 11 | |
| 5 | 29 | 172 | 1152 | 5 | |
| 7 | 31 | 179 | 1118 | 16 | |
| 8 | 32 | 185 | 1047 | 1 | |
| 9 | 37 | 207 | 838 | 1 | |
| 10 | 42 | 221 | 690 | 1 | |
| 11 | 44 | 226 | 638 | 1 | |
| 12 | 45 | 228 | 619 | 1 |
Women's national teams
are calculated by FIFA.| AFC | FIFA | Country | Points | +/− |
| 1 | 7 | 1963 | 1 | |
| 6 | 32 | 1665 | 2 | |
| 7 | 38 | 1620 | 1 | |
| 10 | 47 | 1527 | 1 | |
| 13 | 67 | 1369 | 2 | |
| 18 | 88 | 1238 | 1 | |
| 19 | 92 | 1222 | 1 | |
| 25 | 124 | 1089 | 1 | |
| 32 | ** | 1273 | ||
| 32 | ** | 1069 | ||
| 32 | ** | 981 |
Top Ranked Women's National Football Teams
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from:26/12/2003 till:23/12/2005 shift: text:"Thailand" color:THA
from:23/12/2005 till:22/06/2007 shift: text:"Vietnam" color:VIE
from:22/06/2007 till:21/12/2007 shift: text:"Thailand" color:THA
from:21/12/2007 till:23/03/2008 shift: text:"Vietnam" color:VIE
from:23/03/2008 till:22/06/2008 shift: text:"Thailand" color:THA
from:22/06/2008 till:22/05/2010 shift: text:"Vietnam" color:VIE
from:22/05/2010 till:23/09/2011 shift: text:"Thailand" color:THA
from:23/09/2011 till:23/03/2012 shift: text:"Vietnam" color:VIE
from:23/03/2012 till:21/06/2013 shift: text:"Thailand" color:THA
from:21/06/2013 till:28/08/2013 shift: text:"Vietnam" color:VIE
from:28/08/2013 till:end shift: text:"Australia" color:AUS
Men's club
AFC Club Competitions ranking
The AFC Club Competitions Ranking ranks its member associations by results in the AFC competitions. Rankings are calculated by the AFC.| AFF | AFC | Country | Ratings |
| 1 | 7 | 37.200 | |
| 2 | 13 | 20.978 | |
| 3 | 15 | 18.033 | |
| 4 | 16 | 17.951 | |
| 5 | 18 | 16.355 | |
| 6 | 19 | 16.078 | |
| 7 | 23 | 11.046 | |
| 8 | 28 | 8.228 | |
| 9 | 30 | 6.233 | |
| 10 | 35 | 0.733 | |
| 11 | 42 | 0.100 | |
| 11 | 42 | 0.100 |
AFF Awards
AFF President His Royal Highness Sultan of Pahang HE Sultan 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 two years.
AFF Life Service Award : H. Kardono