Back اتحاد وسط آسيا لكرة القدم Arabic মধ্য এশীয় ফুটবল অ্যাসোসিয়েশন Bengali/Bangla Srednjoazijski nogometni savez BS Associació de Futbol de l'Àsia Central Catalan یەکێتیی تۆپی پێی ئاسیای ناوەندی CKB Central Asian Football Association German Ποδοσφαιρική Ομοσπονδία Κεντρικής Ασίας Greek Federación de Fútbol de Asia Central Spanish فدراسیون فوتبال آسیای مرکزی Persian Fédération de football d'Asie centrale French

Central Asian Football Association

Central Asian Football Association
AbbreviationCAFA
Formation9 January 2015 (2015-01-09)
TypeSports organization
HeadquartersDushanbe, Tajikistan
Membership
6 member associations
President
Tajikistan Rustam Emomali
Vice president
Afghanistan Mohammad Yousef Kargar
General secretary
Tajikistan Ulugbek Karimov
Websitewww.the-cafa.com

Central Asian Football Association (CAFA) is one of five regional bodies that govern association football in Asia.[1] It governs association football, futsal, and beach football in Central Asia. Headquartered in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, CAFA consists of six full national association members i.e Afghanistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan with India[2] & Oman[3] as invitational members.[4]

CAFA consists of the national football associations of Central Asia, and runs competitions between national teams, and also controls the prize money, regulations, as well as media rights to those competitions. CAFA aims to develop and strengthen the game of football throughout the region by raising the standards and creating more opportunities for the Member Associations for further growth.

In June 2014, the association was in principle approved by the Asian Football Confederation and approved at the Extraordinary Congress in January 2015 during the 2015 AFC Asian Cup.[5][6] As a result, CAFA will be able to have representative member(s) on the AFC executive committee.

The formation of CAFA was spearheaded by the Iranian Football Federation following disputes with West Asian Football Federation members. It was reported that AFC President Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa gained politically from the creation of the new zone.[7]

  1. ^ "اتحادیه فوتبال آسیای مرکزی ایجاد شد" (in Persian). BBC. 22 February 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
  2. ^ "AIFF-CAFA MoU paves the way for National Teams' participation in Central Asian tournaments". www.the-aiff.com. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  3. ^ "Oman draws with Tajikistan at Cafa Nations Cup". omanobserver. 2023-06-14. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  4. ^ "Central Asian Football Association and All India Football Federation paving the way for the start of Cooperation by signing a Memorandum of Understanding. — CENTRAL ASIAN FOOTBAL ASSOCIATION [CAFA]" (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  5. ^ "'Central Zone' gets thumbs up from Tajikistan". The AFC. 10 June 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  6. ^ "AFC adds a fifth zone as Extraordinary Congress approves amendments to AFC Statutes". The AFC. 12 January 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  7. ^ Warshaw, Andrew (10 June 2014). "Shaikh Salman flexes his political muscle to brush aside Prince Ali". InsideWorldFootball.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2014.

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