Asian Football Confederation (AFC)

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The Asian Football Confederation has announced the AFC Champions League and AFC Cup, the premier club football competitions in Asia, will revert to an autumn-spring calendar from the 2023-24 season
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The Asian Football Confederation has unveiled cities in Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia as the first of its centralised locations for the group stage of the 2022 AFC Champions League
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Licensing & Merchandising

The Asian Football Confederation has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) as it seeks a master licensee for next year’s Asian Cup, which will be held in China from June 16 to July 16.
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Host nation India has been forced to withdraw from the Women’s AFC Asian Cup after a Covid-19 outbreak within its squad meant it could not field a team against Chinese Taipei on Sunday.
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Industry Moves

The Football Marketing Asia agency has made changes to its senior management structure and hired two SVP-level salespeople as it prepares to work on the second half of its commercial rights sales project…
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Media

Discovery-owned pay-television broadcaster Eurosport India and Reliance-owned OTT platform Jio TV have acquired media rights for the Asian Football Confederation's Women’s Asian Cup 2022, which India i…
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Media

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has secured a two-year agreement, covering 2021 and 2022, for exclusive media rights to the Asian Football Confederation's major national team and club competitions
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Events

The final round of qualifiers for the 2023 Asian Cup national team football tournament has been switched from the traditional format of home-and-away fixtures to single round-robin ties, to be played in…
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Industry Moves

The English Premier League’s head of media sales for Asia-Pacific, Michael Edelston, is leaving the organisation to take up a senior media-rights role at Formula E.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Vietnamese property developer Hung Thinh Land has become an Official Global Supporter of the Asian Football Confederation's Asian Qualifiers for the 2022 Fifa World Cup
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Media

Aser Ventures' international sports broadcaster Eleven is launching a new subscription service in seven Asia-Pacific markets
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Japanese telco KDDI has agreed a regional sponsorship deal for Asian Football Confederation national team competitions during the 2021-24 period. KDDI's regional rights cover the territory of Japan
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The Asian Football Confederation has announced international sports broadcaster ESPN as its new rights-holder in Latin America, Central America, and non-exclusively in the Caribbean, for AFC competitions…
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Online streaming broadcaster M Plus has acquired rights in Macau to competitions organised by the Asian Football Confederation
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State-backed broadcaster Oman Sport Channel has picked up the media rights to the Asian zone qualifiers for the 2022 Fifa World Cup
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Sponsorship & Marketing

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has renewed its sponsorship deal with Japanese financial services group Credit Saison for the 2021 to 2024 rights cycle
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Asian Football Confederation has agreed a sponsorship deal with Vietnamese instant coffee brand PhinDeli for the Fifa 2022 Qatar World Cup Asian qualifiers
Football
Media

Vietnamese state broadcaster VTV has acquired rights for Vietnam's upcoming qualifying matches for the 2022 Fifa World Cup in a sublicensing deal with telco FPT