EAFF E-1 Football Championship

Organising body	EAFF
Founded	2003; 21 years ago (2003)
Region	East Asia
Number of teams	Preliminary: 10 Finals: 4
Current champions	Japan (2nd title)
Most successful team(s)	South Korea (5 titles)
Website	eaff.com
2024 EAFF E-1 Football Championship

EAFF E-1 Football Championship, known as the East Asian Football Championship from 2003 to 2010, and the EAFF East Asian Cup for the 2013 and 2015 editions, is a men's international football competition in East Asia for member nations of the East Asian Football Federation (EAFF). Before the EAFF was founded in 2002, the Dynasty Cup was held between the East Asian top four teams, and was regarded as the East Asian Championship. There is a separate competition for men (first held in 2003) and women (first held in 2005).

The most recent edition was held in 2022 in Japan.^[1]

History

The Dynasty Cup is a defunct international association football competition that is regarded as the predecessor to East Asian Football Championship. It was held four times from 1990 to 1998. The purpose of the competition was to improve the quality of football in the East Asia and the national teams in the area participated in the tournament. After the East Asian Football Federation was formed in 2002, the East Asian Football Championship replaced this tournament.

In the tournament, China, South Korea, and Japan have the right to automatically enter the competition, while other participants have to go through a qualifying round. Other participants that take part are Taiwan, North Korea, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Hong Kong, Mongolia, and Macau. Australia, being a non-member of the EAFF, was invited to take part in the 2013 tournament.^[2]

In 2005 there was also a combined points competition in 2005, where the results of the men's and women's teams were added together (not including qualifiers). In April 2012, the competition was renamed to the "EAFF East Asian Cup".^[3] In December 2015, the new competition name "EAFF East Asian Championship" was approved,^[4] but later changed to "EAFF E-1 Football Championship".^[5]

Results

Editions	Years	Hosts	Champions	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place
East Asian Football Championship
1	2003	Japan	South Korea	Japan	China	Hong Kong
2	2005	South Korea	China	Japan	North Korea	South Korea
3	2008	China	South Korea	Japan	China	North Korea
4	2010	Japan	China	South Korea	Japan	Hong Kong
5	2013	South Korea	Japan	China	South Korea	Australia
6	2015	China	South Korea	China	North Korea	Japan
7	2017	Japan	South Korea	Japan	China	North Korea
8	2019	South Korea	South Korea	Japan	China	Hong Kong
9	2022	Japan	Japan	South Korea	China	Hong Kong
10	2024	South Korea	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

Tournament winners

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Total
South Korea	5 (2003, 2008, 2015, 2017, 2019)	2 (2010, 2022)	1 (2013)	1 (2005)	9
Japan	2 (2013, 2022)	5 (2003, 2005, 2008, 2017, 2019)	1 (2010)	1 (2015)	9
China	2 (2005, 2010)	2 (2013, 2015)	5 (2003, 2008, 2017, 2019, 2022)	–	9
North Korea	–	–	2 (2005, 2015)	2 (2008, 2017)	4
Hong Kong	–	–	–	4 (2003, 2010, 2019, 2022)	4
Australia	–	–	–	1 (2013)	1

Summary

Final (2003–2022)

Rank	Team	Part	M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
1	South Korea	9	27	13	10	4	39	20	+19	49
2	Japan	9	27	13	9	5	44	25	+19	48
3	China	9	27	9	9	9	36	32	+4	36
4	North Korea	4	12	2	5	5	7	13	–6	11
5	Australia	1	3	0	1	2	5	7	–2	1
6	Hong Kong	4	12	0	0	12	2	36	–34	0

Preliminary (2003–2019)

Rank	Team	Part	M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
1	North Korea	7	23	19	4	0	91	9	+82	61
2	Hong Kong	8	27	17	4	6	104	20	+84	55
3	Chinese Taipei	8	30	12	4	14	68	55	+13	40
4	Guam	8	35	8	5	22	38	163	–125	29
5	Mongolia	7	25	8	4	13	45	61	–16	28
6	Macau	7	21	7	5	9	37	43	–6	26
7	Australia	1	4	3	1	0	19	1	+18	10
8	Northern Mariana Islands	6	16	1	1	14	12	75	–63	4

Awards

Year	Most valuable player (MVP)	Top goalscorer(s)	Goals	Best goalkeeper	Best defender	Fair play Award	Best referee
2003	Yoo Sang-chul	Tatsuhiko Kubo	2	No award	No award	No award
2005	Ji Mingyi	No award		Lee Woon-jae	Zhang Yaokun	Japan
2008	Kim Nam-il	Yeom Ki-hun Park Chu-young Koji Yamase Jong Tae-se	2	Ri Myong-guk	Yuji Nakazawa	South Korea
2010	Du Wei	Qu Bo Lee Dong-gook Lee Seung-ryul Keiji Tamada	2	Yang Zhi	Cho Yong-hyung	Hong Kong
2013	Hotaru Yamaguchi	Yoichiro Kakitani	3	No award	No award	No award
2015	Jang Hyun-soo	Yuki Muto	2	Ri Myong-guk	Kim Young-gwon
2017	Lee Jae-sung	Kim Shin-wook	3	Jo Hyeon-woo	Jang Hyun-soo
2019	Hwang In-beom	Koki Ogawa	3	Kim Seung-gyu	Kim Min-jae
2022	Yuki Soma	Shuto Machino Yuki Soma	3	Kim Dong-jun	Shogo Taniguchi		Akhrol Riskullaev

Winning coaches

Year	Team	Coach
2003	South Korea	Humberto Coelho
2005	China	Zhu Guanghu
2008	South Korea	Huh Jung-moo
2010	China	Gao Hongbo
2013	Japan	Alberto Zaccheroni
2015	South Korea	Uli Stielike
2017	South Korea	Shin Tae-yong
2019	South Korea	Paulo Bento
2022	Japan	Hajime Moriyasu

Comprehensive team results by tournaments

Numbers refer to the final placing of each team at the respective games.

Nations	2003	2005	2008	2010	2013	2015	2017	2019	2022	Years
China	3	1	3	1	2	2	3	3	3	09
Japan	2	2	2	3	1	4	2	2	1	09
South Korea	1	4	1	2	3	1	1	1	2	09
North Korea		3	4			3	4			04
Hong Kong	4			4				4	4	04
Australia					4					01
Total nations	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4