Would they be join regardless of any annexations by china , lol

If this did happen, which it won't, I'd want us to use it as the trigger to split Asia East and West. Bring Oceania in with us, it's a nonsense confederation that isn't moving forward on its own.

Let the corruption of the Middle East, Central Asia and Russia fight it out in the bank vaults for supremecy.

Wonder if we could snag India?

best post maxxie on this fake news

Turkey is on the borderline with Europe and asia are they?

Israel would be another interesting one.

Australia fighting Russia, Turkey, Israel, South Korea, Japan, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, etc for those 4 or 4 and  1/2 or 5 Asian Spots in the world cup

That would be nuts.....

Start in the A-league as a teenager as a 16 or 17 or 18 year old.

Next step, Head to Either Russia or Turkey as a 20 or 21 or 22 year old, Stay there for 2 or 3 years.

Next step as a 21 or 22 or 23 or 24 year old, head to  the big 5  of either England or Germany or Italy or France or Spain. Or head to the other solid european leagues of Holland or Portugal or Ukraine

Now is not the time for discussions about Russia, wait until the war ends and hopefully Putin is removed and then these kind of things could be discussed. 

"Russian chiefs will 'discuss plans to leave UEFA and join Asia's governing body' amid their ongoing suspension from football... 'with a final decision set be made by an executive committee on Friday'"

"The Russian Football Union (RFU) is reportedly keen to exit the governing body of European football in an effort to join the Asian Football Confederation (AFC)."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11582999/Russian-chiefs-discuss-plans-leave-UEFA-join-Asias-governing-body.html?

At the minute, you'd have to have shit for brains to want anything to do with Russia.

Man i never thought my April Fool's joke on here would become reality but here we are...

Why stop at Russia? Why not add Turkey, Israel, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Oceania while we're at it ...

So typical of Russia that they think it's their decision.

The important details here are 1) FIFA hasn't responded at all and 2) Russia is banned by both UEFA and FIFA so this doesn't fix the football bit and 3) Russia can go fuck itself

Not that outlandish really.  Considering the geographic location and reach and ethnic composition of Russia itself it actually makes sense.  

Russia has been 'buffering' itself against Europe in a geopolitical sense for several hundred years now so why not play football against them.   

Russia names deadline for withdrawal from UEFA
"Russia is ready to withdraw from the European Football Union (UEFA) within two years and move to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The deadline for such a decision in the aggressor country is December 2025, when the draw for the qualifying tournament for Euro-2028 will take place"

Russia names deadline for withdrawal from UEFA
Note - This is from a Ukrainian source hence the pejorative nature of the quote.

They should try to join Oceania.  Would be great to see them getting smashed by "minnows".

Israel will never be part of AFC again because of the tensions. That's the reason why they're in UEFA.

I would assume it would be done (if it's ever done - and this is something I've wanted done for a while as well), is that it would be split among sub-confederations (with Oceania considered it's own sub-confederation) but so that the two outcomes are equal. In terms of full FIFA nations in each sub-con:

• Oceania - 11
• ASEAN (AFF) - 12
• Central Asia - 6
• East Asia - 9
• South Asia - 7
• West Asia - 12 (13 if you include Russia - considering population mostly in the West as stated earlier, is just above Iran)

That comes to 58 countries (57 without Russia), so the best 'split' would unfortunately mean splitting up East Asia, or East Asia goes to Asia-Pacific, but that would mean a 25-32/33 split (South, West, Central and possibly parts of East Asia to form West Asian Football Confederation, Oceania, ASEAN and either all of, or whatever is left of East Asia to form the Asia-Pacific Football Confederation).

If East Asia gets split, evenly and geographically, Taiwan/Chinese Taipei most likely the split line, so it would probably be Japan, Guam, Korea Republic and Korea DPR on one side, and China, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Macau on the other, and Chinese Taipei to be put on one side or the other (lets assume they stay with China and go to the West).
Confederation split would then be (Only FIFA recognised nations, and I'm going to do it including Russia, since that's the initial discussion here):
West Asian Football Confederation

• Bahrain
• Iraq
• Jordan
• Kuwait
• Lebanon
• Oman
• Palestine
• Qatar
• Saudi Arabia
• Syria
• United Arab Emirates
• Yemen
• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• India
• Maldives
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Sri Lanka
• Afghanistan
• Iran
• Kyrgyz Republic
• Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan
• Uzbekistan
• Russia
• China
• Hong Kong
• Macau
• Mongolia

Asia-Pacific Football Confederation

• Chinese Taipei
• DPR Korea
• Guam
• Japan
• Korea Republic
• Australia
• Brunei
• Cambodia
• Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Timor-Leste
• Vietnam
• American Samoa
• Cook Islands
• Fiji
• New Caledonia
• New Zealand
• Papua New Guinea
• Samoa
• Solomon Islands
• Tahiti
• Tonga
• Vanuatu

CURRENT NON-FIFA MEMBERS

• Kiribati (OFC)
• Tuvalu (OFC)
• Northern Mariana Islands (EAFF)

Note, somewhere along the maths I stuffed up and added an extra country to the West, meaning equal geographic split, Hong Kong probably comes across to Asia-Pacific as well

See above re: Israel. Kazakhstan also was part of AFC until 2002.


Remember the limbo period when Israel was part of AFC, but everyone refused to play them so they got bounced around by FIFA into UEFA, OFC or Sth America qualifiers, until UEFA gave them membership