Tag Archives: Asia

Northern Mariana Island FA receives AFC Grassroots Charter Bronze membership!

Northern Mariana Island FA (NMIFA) has been awarded the AFC Grassroots Charter Bronze membership for its outstanding commitment to grassroots football development. The Grassroots Charter is a development tool for Member Associations to raise the quality of their grassroots programmes. It identifies 20 performance categories, such as grassroots competitions, fairplay, …

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Highly-acclaimed VAR Course to strengthen AFC’s capabilities!

The Asian Football Confederation’s (AFC) commitment to embrace the AFC Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system was demonstrated when the Continent’s top 40 match officials completed the second edition of the VAR course on Monday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Led by International Football Association Board (IFAB) Technical Director, David Elleray, and …

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India face tricky Group E in 2022 FIFA World Cup / 2023 AFC Asian Cup qualifiers!

The draw for the joint 2022 FIFA World Cup / 2023 AFC Asian Cup Preliminary Asian Round 2 qualifiers on Wednesday, July 17 at AFC House in Kuala Lumpur has brought up eight interesting groups for the 40 Asian nations still left in the qualifiers. For India it is Group …

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Joint 2022 FIFA World Cup & 2023 AFC Asian Cup – Round 2 qualifiers: India in interesting, but tricky group!

The draw of the Joint 2022 FIFA World Cup & 2023 AFC Asian Cup – Preliminary Asian Round 2 qualifiers was held earlier today, July 17 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur. The draw has brought-up a number of interesting qualification groups. Team India is set to face in …

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LIVESTREAM – Joint 2022 FIFA World Cup & 2023 AFC Asian Cup – Round 2 qualifiers!

The draw of the Joint 2022 FIFA World Cup & 2023 AFC Asian Cup – Round 2 qualifiers is being held on at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, July 17. The 40 member associations will be drawn into eight groups of five teams and compete in a …

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204 member associations in contention for 2022 FIFA World Cup – Qatar berths!

With 204 member associations still in the race for a berth at the 2022 FIFA World Cup – Qatar, AFC House in Kuala Lumpur is set to take centre stage on July 17, 2019, when 40 Asian member associations will learn their fate during the draw for the second round of …

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DSPORT to live broadcast the draw for the joint 2022 FIFA World Cup & 2023 AFC Asian Cup – Asian qualifiers!

Discovery-owned DSPORT will broadcast the Round 2 draw for joint 2022 FIFA World Cup & 2023 AFC Asian Cup – Asian qualifiers on Wednesday, July 17 from 2.30pm IST. Team India is in pot 3 of the draw in which they are certain to face one of the biggies of …

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AFC Football Emergency Medicine and Anti-Doping Course launched in Bishkek!

Doctors and sports physiotherapist graced the launch of The Asian Football Confederation Emergency Medicine and Anti-Doping Course at Golden Dragon Hotel and Kyrgyz Republic Football Federation (FFKR) training field in the Kyrgyz Republic on Monday, July 15. The three-day course will run from July 15-17 and will see the 26 …

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Football Administration Certificate (FAC) educates Asia’s future football leaders!

The Football Administration Certificate (FAC) programme continues to nurture future leaders of tomorrow with 58 more students joining the nine-month cutting-edge course in the sixth and seventh editions. Since its inauguration three years ago, more than 100 aspiring leaders from the AFC Member Associations (MAs) have graduated from the course, …

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