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Governing Body Information
Full Name
SAFF-South Asian Football Federation
Type
Sports Governing Body
Sport
Football
About
South Asian Football Federation (SAFF), founded in 1997, is an association of the football playing nations in South Asia and is part of the larger Asian Football Confederation. Its founding members are Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Bhutan joined the federation in 2000 and Afghanistan in 2005.[1] In February 2015, captain Haroon Amiri announced that Afghanistan had officially left the SAFF for the new Central Asian Football Association. The current champion of SAFF is India which they won over Afghanistan 2-1 in SAFF championship 2015-16.
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