ANFA president Pankaj Bikram Nembang has filed candidacy for the AFC Executive Committee member post for the upcoming AFC elections to be held at the 33rd AFC Congress in Manama, Bahrain, on February 1 and 2, 2023. 

The AFC member associations had until October 1, 2022, to submit the nomination of their candidates for election to the AFC Executive Committee, as per the requirements set out in the AFC Statutes (Edition 2022) and the AFC Electoral Code (Edition 2022).

Nine AFC Executive Committee Member positions will be up for grabs in the elections.

• Nine AFC Executive Committee Member nominations:

West Zone
Mr. Adnan Darjal Motar (Iraq)
Mr. Louie Oumeish Yousef Oumeish (Jordan)
Mr. Abdullah Ahmed Alshaheen Alrabeea (Kuwait)
Mr. Salem Said Salem Al Wahaibi (Oman)
Mr. Abdullah Nasser Aljneibi (United Arab Emirates)

Central Zone
Mr. Arslan Aynazarov (Turkmenistan)
Mr. Irmatov Ravshan (Uzbekistan)

South Zone
Dr. Shaji Prabhakaran (India)
Mr. Bassam Adeel Jaleel (Maldives)
Mr. Pankaj Bikram Nembang (Nepal)

ASEAN Zone
Mr. Chris Nikou (Australia)
Pol. Gen. Somyot Poompanmoung (Thailand)
Dr. Tran Quoc Tuan (Vietnam)

East Zone
Mr. Fok, Kai Shan Eric (Hong Kong)