West Asian Football Federation


The West Asian Football Federation , founded in 2001, is an association of the football playing nations in Western Asia. Its founding members are Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. In 2009, three more associations joined the federation: Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. Four other nations of Western Asia: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Saudi Arabia joined in 2010. Iran left the federation on 10 June 2014 with the creation of Central Asian Football Federation.
They organize the West Asian Football Federation Championship. Some nations were invited to participate in the competition from outside the region. Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, which are not members, were invited to participate in the first edition of the tournament in 2000. The Secretary General is the Jordanian Khalil Al Salem.

History

Presidents

Prince Ali has in fact founded the WAFF.
PresidentYears
Prince Ali bin Al Hussein2001 – present

Vice-Presidents

Vice-PresidentYears
Hassan Ghaffari2001 – 2011
Ali Kafashian2011 – 2014
Jibril Al Rajoub2014 – present

General Secretary

Member associations

WAFF has 12 member associations. All of them are members of the Asian Football Confederation.
AssociationJoining yearMen's teamWomen's team
Bahrain2010BahrainBahrain
Iraq2001 IraqIraq
Jordan2001 JordanJordan
Kuwait2010KuwaitKuwait
Lebanon2001 LebanonLebanon
Oman2010Oman–
Palestine2001 PalestinePalestine
Qatar2009QatarQatar
Saudi Arabia2010Saudi Arabia–
Syria2001 SyriaSyria
United Arab Emirates2009United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates
Yemen2009Yemen–

Former members

WAFF competitions

WAFF runs several competitions which cover men's, women's, youth and futsal.

Current title holders

Major tournaments

FIFA World Cup

Team
1930
1934
1938
1950
1954
1958
1962
1966
1970
1974
1978
1982
1986
1990
1994
1998
2002
2006
2010
2014
2018
2022


2026		Totalinclusive
WC Qual.
••••R16GSGSGS••GS510
•GS•••••••18
••GS••••••••19
••GS••••••••110
•••••••••••q110
Total0000000000011111110011837

;Legend

Team
1956
1960
1964
1968
1972
1976
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004



2007
2011
2015
2019

2023		Total appearances
GS2nd1st3rdGS4thQFGSGSGS10
1st1st2nd1st2ndGS2ndGSGSR1610
GSGSGS4th2ndGSGSGS3rdSF10
GSGSGSGSQFGSGSQFGS1st10
GS4thQFQFQF1stQF4thR169
GSGSGSGSGSGS6
GS4thGSGSGSR166
GSGSGSR164
QFQFGSR164
GSGS2
GSGS2
GS1
Total00002245635586891163

;Legend

Summer Olympics

;Legend
For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament are shown.
Team
1900 to
1976
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
2012
2016
2020		Total
•QFGSGS•••4th••GS•5
••GS••GS•••••q3
•QF••GS•GS•••••3
••GS•QF•••••••2
•••••••••GS••1
•GS••••••••••1
Total03312111011114

Rankings

Men's national teams

Rankings are calculated by FIFA.
AFCFIFACountryPoints+/−
5551398 2
6671351 2
7701340 4
8711338 4
10791314 4
11811304 3
13891269 2
16971238 1
171001219 1
181061199 6
281441072 3
291471059 9

Last updated 5 December 2019.
Leading Men's team:

ImageSize = width:150 height:500
PlotArea = left:40 right:0 bottom:5 top:10
DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy
Period = from:15/05/2001 till:24/10/2019
ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:1 start:2002
TimeAxis = orientation:vertical format:yyyy
Colors =
id:UAE value:white
id:IRN value:red
id:JOR value:black
id:KSA value:green
id:QAT value:yellow
PlotData=
bar:Leaders width:25 mark: align:left fontsize:S
from:15/05/2001 till:05/06/2014 shift: text:"Iran" color:IRN
from:05/06/2014 till:23/10/2014 shift: text:"Jordan" color:JOR
from:23/10/2014 till:04/02/2016 shift: text:"UAE" color:UAE
from:04/02/2016 till:07/02/2019 shift: text:"Saudi Arabia" color:KSA
from:07/02/2019 till:end shift: text:"Qatar" color:QAT

Women's national teams

Rankings are calculated by FIFA.
AFCFIFACountryPoints+/−
12591419 1
17831274 1
20961201 3
221141131 2
26-921 -7
28-873 -8
36—949 -7
38—870 -7
39—864 -7

Last updated December 13, 2018
Leading Women's team:

ImageSize = width:150 height:300
PlotArea = left:40 right:0 bottom:5 top:10
DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy
Period = from:01/01/2010 till:28/09/2018
ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:1 start:2010
TimeAxis = orientation:vertical format:yyyy
Colors =
id:IRN value:red
id:JOR value:black
id:BAH value:white
PlotData=
bar:Leaders width:25 mark: align:left fontsize:S
from:01/01/2010 till:12/03/2010 shift: text:"Iran" color:IRN
from:12/03/2010 till:18/03/2011 shift: text:"Jordan" color:JOR
from:18/03/2011 till:21/06/2013 shift: text:"Iran" color:IRN
from:21/06/2013 till:24/03/2017 shift: text:"Jordan" color:JOR
from:24/03/2017 till:23/06/2017 shift: text:"Bahrain" color:BAH
from:23/06/2017 till:end shift: text:"Jordan" color:JOR

Controversy

On 29 January 2015, after the defeat of Iraq and the United Arab Emirates during the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, West Asian Football Federation members reportedly sought to remove Australia from the AFC primarily due to "Australia benefiting hugely from Asian involvement without giving much in return".