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Sports streaming service DAZN has agreed an exclusive media rights deal for the AFC Champions League in Japan for the next eight years
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The Maldives' state broadcaster Public Service Media has picked up the rights to the Asian Football Confederation's club and national competitions for the 2021-24 cycle
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Sponsorship & Marketing

The Asian Football Confederation, through its appointed agency Football Marketing Asia, has issued an invitation to tender for sponsorship rights in the electronics category to its flagship national team…
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Chinese dairy products company Yili Group has agreed a sponsorship deal covering Asian Football Confederation national team competitions in the 2021-24 cycle
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Football Australia has withdrawn Sydney FC, Melbourne City FC and Brisbane Roar from the AFC Champions League, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has confirmed
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The CBS Sports division of the US network CBS has secured exclusive broadcast rights to Asian Football Confederation competitions in the United States for the next three years
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The United Arab Emirates will take over hosting responsibilities from China for the remaining Group A Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 Asian Qualifiers, the Asian Football Confederation has confirmed
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The Asian Football Confederation has appointed Ravi Kumar as its director of communications, taking over from Colin Gibson
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The Asian Football Confederation has confirmed that the Uzbekistan Football Association will host the remaining AFC Champions League (East) games after they were postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic
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The Asian Football Confederation has indefinitely postponed AFC Cup group matches set to take place in the Maldives after a new wave of Covid-19 cases in the region
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The pandemic continues to disrupt Asian national team and club football schedules, as North Korea pulled out of 2022 Fifa World Cup qualifying and AFC Cup East Zone matches were postponed by several weeks
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The Asian Football Confederation has rescheduled some group stage matches for the AFC Cup 2021, due to a potential fixture clash with the AFC Champions League East playoff
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Pay-television broadcaster StarTimes has announced a media-rights deal with the Asian Football Confederation to show coverage of its major national and club competitions across sub-Saharan Africa
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The first events of the Asian Football Confederation’s 2021-24 commercial cycle began last week with media rights coverage gaps in Japan and most of the Middle East and North Africa, and only a couple o…
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Sports streaming service Fanseat has acquired rights to show Asian Football Confederation major national and club team tournaments for 2021 and 2022
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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) will launch a women’s Champions League competition from 2023 in a bid to strengthen female football across the continent.
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LaLigaSportsTV, the OTT streaming platform of LaLiga, has acquired broadcast rights in Spain and Andorra to Asia’s AFC Champions League from 2021 to 2024.
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Saudi Arabian state-owned media company Saudi Sports Company has acquired media rights for Asian Football Confederation competitions in the 2021-24 cycle