The
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 excluding all the transcontinental countries with territory in both Europe and Asia, which are members of
UEFA (
Azerbaijan,
Armenia,
Georgia,
Kazakhstan,
Russia, and
Turkey).
Israel is also a UEFA member even though it lies entirely in Asia. 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.