Central Asian Football Federation (CAFF)

[Azeem98]

Nah! Your team belongs to SAFF they can just walk to India through the Wagah Border Crossing, although before that happens FIFA should remove the ban on your Football federation

The ban's been lifted

[Rooyintan]

Why was Pakistan banned anyway?

Third-party interference

http://www.fifa.com/governance/news/y=2017/m=10/news=fifa-suspends-the-pakistan-football-federation-2913299.html

[Kian Persepolis]

Nah! Your team belongs to SAFF they can just walk to India through the Wagah Border Crossing, although before that happens FIFA should remove the ban on your Football federation

Why was Pakistan banned anyway?

[Rooyintan]

We are only 20km away from Tajikistan at nearest point. So we should be in some pre-qualifying round or something like that

Nah! Your team belongs to SAFF they can just walk to India through the Wagah Border Crossing, although before that happens FIFA should remove the ban on your Football federation

[Azeem98]

We are only 20km away from Tajikistan at nearest point. So we should be in some pre-qualifying round or something like that

[PersianLegion]

If Georgia, Armenia, Iraq and Turkey would be included, it would be great!

Iraq won't be a part of this federation. Stop including them. Armenia, Georgia and Turkey are from UEFA. They can be occasional guests.

[Rooyintan]

For Senior Tournament, I think for starters any invitees from the following would be good:

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Albania, Kosovo, Cyprus, Turkey.

If want to make it a complete Central Asia tournament, then invite Kazakhstan & Mongolia the only two Central Asian nations who are not members, Kazakhstan due to being a UEFA member and Mongolia is still with EAFF.

No country who participate in tournaments that use an imaginary name instead of Persian Gulf should be invited. If Greece forces their national airline Olympic Airlines to redo their maps to show Persian Gulf instead of that bogus imaginary name that they currently use, then Greece can be invited as well

[Rooyintan]

I don't understand why there hasn't been such a tournament yet for the senior sides. They established this association 3 years ago, what's so hard in organizing a tournament?

It is a good practice for your younger players to get experience. Uzbekistan would probably challenge us the most in this Cup. Turkmenistan has also proven not to be an easy side to beat.

It seems they are really taking their time. So far there has been 4 Tournaments: Men's U-15 and Men's U-19, Women's U-15 and Women's U-19. Both U-15 events were hosted in Tajikistan and U-19 events in Uzbekistan. The Women's U-15 event is missing from wikipedia, it was won by Uzbekistan. These are some links for it:

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=uz&u=https://championat.asia/oz/news/ozbekiston-qizlar-terma-jamoasi-cafa-u-15-girls-xalqaro-musobaqasida-ishtirok-etadi&prev=search

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=uz&u=https://championat.asia/uz/uzb/news/cafa-u-15-girls-tojikiston-ozbekiston-28&prev=search

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=uz&u=https://www.sports.uz/news/view/CAFA-U-15-Girls-Ozbekiston-termasi-Qirgizistonni-ham-yirik-hisobda-taslim-qildi-&prev=search

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://fft.tj/v-gissare-startoval-zhenskij-turnir-cafa-u-15-girls-tournament-2017/&prev=search

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://sport.kg/main_news/41589-cafa-u-15-girls-futbolistki-kyrgyzstana-chetvertye.html&prev=search

There is also a thread from PFDC http://www.persianfootball.com/forum...2017&p=2481656

[sirvan]

If Georgia, Armenia, Iraq and Turkey would be included, it would be great!

[Kiarash]

We should have the CAFA Championship before the Asian Cup.

I don't understand why there hasn't been such a tournament yet for the senior sides. They established this association 3 years ago, what's so hard in organizing a tournament?

It is a good practice for your younger players to get experience. Uzbekistan would probably challenge us the most in this Cup. Turkmenistan has also proven not to be an easy side to beat.

[YeCheesi Tala]

We should have the CAFA Championship before the Asian Cup.

Totally its a few teams so shouldnt take long either. Four of the teams in CAFA are in AC.

[Team Melli Fan]

We should have the CAFA Championship before the Asian Cup.

[Abtin]

^ hope it happens. As many of those tournaments as possible. Just not on FIFA dates, we need them for friendlies like Sweden and Chile, negotiations with Italy is going on

[KhumoUzbek]

CAFF Tournament

UFF and CAFF President Usmanov 2day on CAFF: Work in on for establishing (1st) CAFF Tournament. There is a plan. Association Meeting is to be held in April where this topic will be discussed.
p.s. Previously it was already announced that CAFF Headquarters would be set up in Tashkent.

[khodam]

I dont see the need to invite Iraq. Its just a gateway to playing the teams we hate again. If we want to invite other teams besides the ones that are in the CAFF we can pick strong teams to make it an eight team tournament. Two groups of four. The top two of each group go to play in semifinals.
If we were to pick two from the following : Armenia,Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Turkey, we would have a tournament with much higher quality than WAFF, which could prepare us adequately for Asian qualifying.
It is not even selfish of us because countries like Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, get to play teams that will raise their level of play(Iran/Uzbek/and the others).

The mentioned teams are in EU. Uzb is the only team that could provide a half ass challenge for Iran. IMO, Iraq could bring a better balance and competition to the group as a whole. Otherwise, this will always be a one and half hours race between Iran and Uzb.

And to those who mentioned Pakistan and India, please get real.