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 2025 in Korea.
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 Chinese Taipei, 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.
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". In December 2015, the new competition name "EAFF East Asian Championship" was approved, but later changed to "EAFF E-1 Football Championship".
Results EditionsYearsHostsChampionsRunners-upThird placeFourth placeEast Asian Football Championship 1 2003 2 2005 3 2008 4 2010 EAFF East Asian Cup 5 2013 6 2015 EAFF E-1 Football Championship 7 2017 8 2019 9 2022 10 2025 11 2028 TBD 12 2030 TBD
Teams reaching the top four Team Titles Runners-up Third place Fourth place Total 5 (2003, 2008, 2015, 2017, 2019) 3 (2010, 2022, 2025) 1 (2013) 1 (2005) 10 3 (2013, 2022, 2025) 5 (2003, 2005, 2008, 2017, 2019) 1 (2010) 1 (2015) 10 2 (2005, 2010) 2 (2013, 2015) 6 (2003, 2008, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2025)– 10 –– 2 (2005, 2015) 2 (2008, 2017) 4 ––– 5 (2003, 2010, 2019, 2022, 2025) 5 ––– 1 (2013) 1
Overall team records In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws. Teams are ranked by total points, then by goal difference, then by goals scored.
Final
RankTeam1103016955326+275721030151054421+2355310301091137370394412255713–61151301257–2165150015345–420
Preliminary RankTeam1930204611421+936427231940919+82613932134157357+164348391152352171–11938582894155070–2031682275103845–726714310191+1810861611141275–634
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 2025Years 3 1 3 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 10 2 2 2 3 1 4 2 2 1 1 10 1 4 1 2 3 1 1 1 2 2 10 3 4 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 1 Total nations 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Awards Year Most Valuable Player Top goalscorer(s) Goals Best Goalkeeper Best Defender 2003 Yoo Sang-chul Tatsuhiko Kubo2Not awardedNot awarded 2005 Ji MingyiNot awarded Lee Woon-jae Zhang Yaokun 2008 Kim Nam-il Yeom Ki-hun Park Chu-young Koji Yamase Jong Tae-se2 Ri Myong-guk Yuji Nakazawa 2010 Du Wei Qu Bo Lee Dong-gook Lee Seung-yeoul Keiji Tamada2 Yang Zhi Cho Yong-hyung 2013 Hotaru Yamaguchi Yoichiro Kakitani3Not awardedNot awarded 2015 Jang Hyun-soo Yuki Muto2 Ri Myong-guk Kim Young-gwon 2017 Lee Jae-sung Kim Shin-wook3 Jo Hyeon-woo Jang Hyun-soo 2019 Hwang In-beom Kōki Ogawa3 Kim Seung-gyu Kim Min-jae 2022 Yūki Sōma Shūto Machino Yūki Sōma3 Kim Dong-jun Shōgo Taniguchi 2025 Ryo Germain Ryo Germain5 Keisuke Ōsako Kim Moon-hwan
YearWinning coach Fair Play Award Best Referee 2003 Humberto Coelho Not awardedNot awarded 2005 Zhu Guanghu 2008 Huh Jung-moo 2010 Gao Hongbo 2013 Alberto ZaccheroniNot awarded 2015 Uli Stielike 2017 Shin Tae-yong 2019 Paulo Bento 2022 Hajime Moriyasu Akhrol Riskullaev 2025 Hajime MoriyasuNot awarded
See also EAFF E-1 Football Championship (women) ASEAN Championship CAFA Championship SAFF Championship WAFF Championship AFC Asian Cup East Asian Football Federation
References
External links EAFF E-1 Football Championship 2022 EAFF E-1 Football Championship 2019 EAFF East Asian Cup 2017 RSSSF Dynasty Cup statistics