| Organization name | : | Asian Football Confederation |
| Abbreviation | : | AFC |
| Type | : | Sports federation |
| Purpose | : | Sport governance |
| Founded | : | 7 May 1954 |
| Headquarters | : | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Membership | : | 47 member associations |
| Region served | : | Asia and Australia |
| Website | : | https://www.the-afc.com/ |
The FIFA World Ranking is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football. The teams of the member nations of FIFA, football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest. A points system is used, with points being awarded based on the results of all FIFA-recognised full international matches. The ranking system has been revamped on several occasions, generally responding to criticism that the preceding calculation method did not effectively reflect the relative strengths of the national teams. Since 16 August 2018, the ranking system has adopted the Elo rating system used in chess and Go.
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Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is the governing body of association football in Asia and Australia. It has 47 member countries, mostly located on the Asian and Australian continent, but excludes the transcontinental countries with territory in both Europe and Asia – Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkey – which are instead members of UEFA. Three other states located along the western fringe of Asia – Cyprus, Armenia and Israel – are also UEFA members. On the other hand, Australia, formerly in the OFC, joined the Asian Football Confederation in 2006, and the Oceanian island of Guam, a territory of the United States, is also a member of AFC, in addition to Northern Mariana Islands, one of the Two Commonwealths of the United States. Hong Kong and Macau, although not independent countries (both are Special administrative regions of China), are also members of the AFC.
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| FIFA World Ranking |
| Europe | : | UEFA |
| South America | : | CONMEBOL |
| North, Central America and Caribbean | : | CONCACAF (CFU, NAFU, UNCAF) |
| Asia | : | AFC (AFF, CAFA, EAFF, SAFF, WAFF) |
| Africa | : | CAF (CECAFA, COSAFA, UNAF, UNIFFAC, WAFU-UFOA) |
| Oceania | : | OFC |
