The East Asian Football Federation (EAFF), founded on 28 May 2002, is an international governing body of

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

East Asia East Asia is the eastern region of Asia, which is defined in both Geography, geographical and culture, ethno-cultural terms. The modern State (polity), states of East Asia include China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan. ...

History

Competitions

Current title holders

Presidents

Member associations

EAFF has 10 member associations. All of them are members of the

Asian Football Confederation The Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal in some countries/territories in Asia and Oceania. It has 47 member countries most of which are located in Asia. Australia, formerly i ...

, including the

Northern Mariana Islands Football Association The Northern Mariana Islands Football Association (NMIFA) is the governing body of football in the Northern Mariana Islands. It was founded in 2005 by US-Attorney Peter Coleman to replace the now-defunct NMISF, who had aministered the sport on th ...

, which is an associate member of the AFC (previously an associated member of the Oceania Football Confederation) until its full membership was approved in December 2020. The

Palau Football Association The Palau Football Association is the governing body for association football in Palau. The association is based in the town of Koror. Palau currently is not a member of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), the Asian Football Federation (AFC), ...

was being considered as a possible future member of the association in 2009.

Northern Mariana Islands national football team The Northern Mariana Islands national football team represents the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in international men's football. The team is controlled by the governing body for football in the Northern Mariana Islands, the North ...

was a provisional member from December 2006 to September 2008.Regarding the agenda and decisions from the East Asian Football Federation 4th General Meeting and 25th and 26th Board of Director's meeting
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FIFA World Rankings

Men's national teams

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South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...

" color: KOR from: 15/03/1994 till: 19/04/1994 shift: (20,-3) text: " Japan" color: JPN from: 19/04/1994 till: 19/04/1995 shift: (20,-3) text: "

" color: KOR from: 19/04/1995 till: 19/09/1995 shift: (20,-3) text: " Japan" color:JPN from: 19/09/1995 till: 17/10/1995 shift: (20,-3) text: "

" color: KOR from: 17/10/1995 till: 15/07/1998 shift: (20,-3) text: " Japan" color:JPN from: 15/07/1998 till: 27/01/1999 shift: (20,-3) text: "

" color: KOR from: 27/01/1999 till: 24/02/1999 shift: (20,-3) text: " Japan" color:JPN from: 24/02/1999 till: 15/11/2000 shift: (20,-3) text: "

" color:KOR from: 15/11/2000 till: 14/03/2001 shift: (20,-3) text: " Japan" color:JPN from: 14/03/2001 till: 20/06/2001 shift: (20,-3) text: "

" color: KOR from: 20/06/2001 till: 03/07/2002 shift: (20,-3) text: " Japan" color:JPN from: 03/07/2002 till: 25/06/2003 shift: (20,-3) text: "

" color: KOR from: 25/06/2003 till: 22/10/2003 shift: (20,-3) text: " Japan" color:JPN from: 22/10/2003 till: 04/08/2004 shift: (20,-3) text: "

" color: KOR from: 04/08/2004 till: 07/03/2012 shift: (20,-3) text: " Japan" color:JPN from: 07/03/2012 till: 11/04/2012 shift: (20,-3) text: "

" color: KOR from: 11/04/2012 till: 12/02/2015 shift: (20,-3) text: " Japan" color:JPN from: 12/02/2015 till: 12/03/2015 shift: (20,-4) text: "

" color: KOR from: 12/03/2015 till: 07/02/2015 shift: (20,-4) text: " Japan" color:JPN from: 06/08/2015 till: 03/03/2016 shift: (20,-4) text: "

" color: KOR from: 03/03/2016 till: 07/04/2016 shift: (20,-4) text: " Japan" color:JPN from: 07/04/2016 till: 06/07/2017 shift: (20,-4) text: "

" color: KOR from: 06/07/2017 till: 07/06/2018 shift: (20,-4) text: " Japan" color:JPN from: 07/06/2018 till: 01/07/2018 shift: (20,-4) text: "

" color: KOR from: 01/07/2018 till: end shift:(20,-4) text: " Japan" color:JPN

Rankings A ranking is a relationship between a set of items such that, for any two items, the first is either "ranked higher than", "ranked lower than" or "ranked equal to" the second. In mathematics, this is known as a weak order or total preorder of ...

are calculated by FIFA.

Women's national teams