East Asian Football Federation

The East Asian Football Federation (EAFF), founded on May 28, 2002, is an international governing body of association football in East Asia.

Member Associations

EAFF has 10 member associations.^[1] All of them are members of the Asian Football Confederation except for the Northern Mariana Islands Football Association which is currently an associate member of the AFC (previously an associated member of the Oceania Football Confederation). The Palau football federation was being considered as a possible future member of the association in 2009.^[2]

Association	Joining year	Men's team	Women's team	League
China PR	2002	China	China	Chinese Super League
Guam	2002	Guam	Guam	Guam League
Hong Kong	2002	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Hong Kong First Division League
Japan	2002	Japan	Japan	J. League Division 1
Korea DPR	2002	Korea DPR	Korea DPR	DPR Korea League
Korea Republic	2002	Korea Republic	Korea Republic	K League Classic
Macau	2002	Macau	Macau	Campeonato da 1ª Divisão do Futebol
Mongolia	2002	Mongolia	Mongolia	Mongolia Premier League
Northern Mariana Islands	2008 ¹	Northern Mariana Islands	Northern Mariana Islands	Northern Mariana Championship
Chinese Taipei	2002	Chinese Taipei	Chinese Taipei	Intercity Football League

¹ Provisional member from December 2006^[3] to September 2008^[4]

Rankings are calculated by FIFA.^[5]

EAFF	FIFA	Country	Points
1	50	Japan	614
2	57	South Korea	575
3	82	China PR	408
4	157	North Korea	137
5	167	Hong Kong	116
6	175	Guam	97
7	179	Chinese Taipei	86
8	184	Macau	66
9	200	Mongolia	19

EAFF	Elo	Country	Rating
1	29	Japan	1718
2	53	South Korea	1605
3	67	North Korea	1559
4	74	China PR	1531
5	165	Hong Kong	1163
6	204	Chinese Taipei	860
7	212	Mongolia	789
8	214	Guam	764
9	226	Macau	639
10	233	Northern Mariana Islands	496

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

Competition	Holders	Current event
East Asian Football Championship	Japan	2013
EAFF Women's Football Championship	North Korea	2013
EAFF Futsal Championship	China	2009
EAFF U-18 Youth Tournament	Hong Kong	2013
EAFF U-14 Youth Festival	South Korea	2010

Competition	Years
A3 Champions Cup	2002–2008

National football teams of Asia (AFC)

South East Asia (ASEAN)	Australia Brunei Cambodia Indonesia Laos Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand Timor-Leste Vietnam

Central Asia (CAFA)	Afghanistan Iran Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

East Asia (EAFF)	China PR Chinese Taipei Guam Hong Kong² Japan Korea DPR Korea Republic Macau² Mongolia Northern Mariana Islands¹

South Asia (SAFF)	Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka

West Asia (WAFF)	Bahrain Iraq Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Oman Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria United Arab Emirates Yemen

Defunct	North Vietnam South Vietnam South Yemen

Former	Israel (moved to UEFA in 1994) Kazakhstan (moved to UEFA in 2002) New Zealand (formed the OFC in 1966)

¹ Provisional Associate Member - Not a member of FIFA ²FIFA and AFC use Hong Kong and Macau; the EAFF uses Hong Kong, China and Macau, China.

National football teams of East Asia (EAFF)

Men's	China PR Chinese Taipei Guam Hong Kong Japan Korea DPR Korea Republic Macau Mongolia Northern Mariana Islands†

Women's	China PR Chinese Taipei Guam Hong Kong Japan Korea DPR Korea Republic Macau Mongolia Northern Mariana Islands†

^†AFC provisional Associate Member * FIFA and AFC use Hong Kong and Macau; the EAFF uses Hong Kong, China and Macau, China.

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