ASEAN Football Federation
The ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) is an organisation within the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It consists of the federations of Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Members. It has 12 member associations, all of whom are members of the Asian Football Confederation. (*) Founding member It was founded on 31 January 1984 by the meeting in Jakarta of 6 founding member are Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Thailand. The idea of founding the federation came from the initial meeting of founding the sub-continental football association in Bangkok  in 1982 that was attended by Hamzah Abu Samah, Peter Velappan, Hans Pandelaki, Fernando G. Alvarez, Pisit Ngampanich, Teo Chong Tee and Yap Boon Chuan. Other nations that have joined the federation since have been Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (all in 1996), East Timor in 2004, and Australia in 2013. Tournaments. Club. The Mekong Club Championship started in the 2014 season and includes the champions from 5 of the 6 countries through which the Mekong river flows (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam). The ASEAN Club Championship which has stopped rolling since 2005 is planned to be held again  in 2022. Titles by nation. Note: (*) Champion as invitation teams. Rankings. National football team. AFF Men's National Football Team Ranking by FIFA Update: 10 February 2022 Top Ranked Men's National Football Teams Women's national football team. AFF Women's National Football Team Ranking by FIFA Update: 10 December 2021 <nowiki>*</nowiki> Inactive for more than 18 months and therefore not ranked. Top Ranked Women's National Football Teams U23 national football team. AFF U23 Men's National Football Team Ranking by FootyRankings Update: 9 July 2021 National futsal team. AFF Men's National Futsal Team Ranking  by Futsal World Ranking Update: April 2022 Women's national futsal team. AFF Women's National Futsal Team Ranking by The Roon Ba Update: January 2022 National beach soccer team. AFF Men's National Beach Soccer Team Ranking by BSWW Update: December 2021 Women's national beach soccer team. AFF Women's National Beach Soccer Team Ranking by BSWW Update: December 2021 National football league. AFF Men's National Football League Ranking by AFC AFF Men's National Football League Ranking by FootyRankings Update: December 2021 Awards. AFF President Sultan of Pahang, Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah said that: Sultan Haji  Ahmad Shah, who is also chairman of the Awards Selection Committee, said that as football in the region continued to develop and mature, the commitment demonstrated by ASEAN’s finest needed to be acknowledged. The AFF Awards is held every 2 year, start from 2013.