The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Executive Committee decided to maintain the current home and away format as per normal practice and to follow the competition regulations in the AFC Champions League 2018 for matches between clubs from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Following the recommendation from the …
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FIFA President Gianni Infantino praised the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the AFC President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa on the progress of Asian football and the Continent’s contribution to the world game. Attending the AFC Executive Committee meeting in Bangkok, the FIFA President said, “I feel it is …
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The Organising Committee for Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup UAE 2019 today launched the vision and mission for the competition which will run between January 5 and February 1, 2019. The Committee, meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, agreed that the vision for the tournament, which will be extended to 24 …
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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Competitions Committee has requested that the Member Associations affected by travel bans approach their Governments to allow football teams to be exempt from such restrictions. The AFC regulations state that visas should be issued and safety and security should be guaranteed by the host nation …
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The first regional AFC workshop in Central Asia, with participants from the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, concluded today in Bishkek, the capital of the Kyrgyz Republic. The aim of the workshop was to learn to use different marketing and communications strategies and tools to make football a profitable …
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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has introduced a new AFC integrity mobile application, which will enable fans, players and officials to report possible suspicious activities or provide information concerning match-fixing or corruption to the AFC Integrity Unit. As part of efforts to expand the fight against match-fixing, the new mobile …
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The AFC elite referees and assistant referees have begun preparing for AFC Competitions in 2018 by attending a seminar which began on Monday in Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates. 144 participants are gathered in Kuala Lumpur and 139 in Dubai for the five-day seminar. The participants are divided into …
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The AFC Futsal Development Department, in cooperation with the Chinese Football Association (CFA), is holding a Futsal Planning workshop in Jining, Shandong Province. The planning workshop is intended to introduce Futsal Club Licensing System in the Chinese Futsal Super League. The AFC delegation is led by the Head of AFC …
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Experts in tournament delivery will discuss ‘Tournaments for All: Understanding & accounting for stakeholder needs in major event preparations’ at the Soccerex Asian Forum on December 4/5, 2017 in Qatar. Major sporting events are the culmination of years of meticulous planning preparation, bringing together every part of the sporting eco-system …
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Soccerex has announced the first selection of attendees for the Soccerex Asian Forum that will be held in Doha, Qatar, on December 4/5, 2017. In just over a month, the football business community will get together at the Soccerex Asian Forum — Doha, on December 4/5 — for two days …
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