The CAFA Junior Championship, is an international association football competition contested by the junior (U-18 to U-20) national teams of the members of the
Central Asian Football Association
The Central Asian Football Association (CAFA) is an association of the football playing nations in Central Asia.
In June 2014, the association was in principle approved by the Asian Football Confederation and approved at the Extraordinary Congr ...
(CAFA), the governing body of football in
Central Asia
Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a subregion, region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes t ...
.
Results
Under-20 Men
The CAFA U-20 Championship is an international
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
competition contested by the Central Asian men's under-20 national teams of the
CAFA CAFA or Cafa may refer to:
CAFA
* Caithness Amateur Football Association
* Canadian Airborne Forces Association
* Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards
* Central Academy of Fine Arts, China
* Central Asian Football Association
* Class Action Fairnes ...
member associations. The competition began in
2023
Events
Predicted and scheduled events
* January 1
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, with
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...
winning the inaugural competition.
:
* = ''hosts''
Under-19 Men
The CAFA U-19 Championship is an international
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
competition contested by the Central Asian men's under-19 national teams of the
CAFA CAFA or Cafa may refer to:
CAFA
* Caithness Amateur Football Association
* Canadian Airborne Forces Association
* Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards
* Central Academy of Fine Arts, China
* Central Asian Football Association
* Class Action Fairnes ...
member associations. The competition began in
2016
File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...
, with
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...
winning the inaugural competition.
:
* = ''hosts''
Under-20 Women
The CAFA U-20 Women's Championship is an international
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
competition contested by the Central Asian women's under-20 national teams of the
CAFA CAFA or Cafa may refer to:
CAFA
* Caithness Amateur Football Association
* Canadian Airborne Forces Association
* Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards
* Central Academy of Fine Arts, China
* Central Asian Football Association
* Class Action Fairnes ...
member associations. The competition began in
2021
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, with
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...
winning the inaugural competition.
:
* = ''hosts''
Under-19 Women
The CAFA U-19 Women's Championship is an international
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
competition contested by the Central Asian women's under-19 national teams of the
CAFA CAFA or Cafa may refer to:
CAFA
* Caithness Amateur Football Association
* Canadian Airborne Forces Association
* Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards
* Central Academy of Fine Arts, China
* Central Asian Football Association
* Class Action Fairnes ...
member associations. The competition began in
2016
File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...
, with
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...
winning the inaugural competition.
:
* = ''hosts''
Under-18 Women
The CAFA U-18 Women's Championship is an international
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
competition contested by the Central Asian women's under-18 national teams of the
CAFA CAFA or Cafa may refer to:
CAFA
* Caithness Amateur Football Association
* Canadian Airborne Forces Association
* Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards
* Central Academy of Fine Arts, China
* Central Asian Football Association
* Class Action Fairnes ...
member associations. The competition began in
2022
File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretari ...
, with
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
winning the inaugural competition.
:
* = ''hosts''
Matches
References
External links
CAFA*https://www.goalzz.com/main.aspx?gr=2 - Results
*https://www.goalzz.com/main.aspx?c=16567
CAFA competitions
Recurring sporting events established in 2016
2016 establishments in Asia
Asian youth sports competitions
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