2023 WAFF Championship

2025 WAFF Championship
Tournament details
Host country	United Arab Emirates
Dates	2025
Teams	12
	← 2019

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The 2023 West Asian Football Federation Championship is the 10th edition of the WAFF Championship, an international tournament for member nations of the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF).

The tournament was set to take place from 2 to 15 January 2021, but was initially postponed to a later date that year. On 29 July 2021, the WAFF announced that the tournament will take place between 20 March and 2 April 2023 in the United Arab Emirates. However, on 6 February 2023, the WAFF announced that the UAE had withdrawn from hosting the tournament. On 26 February 2023, the WAFF announced that the tournament would be postponed to a later date. Later on Kuwait became the front runner to host the 10th edition moving it to 2025.

In addition to 11 teams from the WAFF, Thailand from the ASEAN Football Federation were invited as guests.

Teams[]

Participants[]

All 12 WAFF nations agreed to participate, for the first time in the competition's history.

Team	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Bahrain	5th	2019	Champions (2019)
Iraq	9th	2019	Champions (2002)
Jordan	10th	2019	Runners-up (2002, 2008, 2014)
Kuwait	5th	2019	Champions (2010)
Lebanon	8th	2019	Group stage (2000, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2012, 2014, 2019)
Oman	5th	2014	Third place (2012)
Palestine	10th	2019	Group stage (2000, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2019)
Qatar	3rd	2014	Champions (2014)
Saudi Arabia	4th	2019	Group stage (2012, 2014, 2019)
Syria	9th	2019	Champions (2012)
United Arab Emirates	1st	N/A	N/A
Yemen	4th	2019	Semi-finals (2010)