During the 21st century, football is emerging as a prominent sport in the Asian countries, with Qatar hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup,[3] India introducing the Super League in 2013 and Qatar and the United Arab Emirates' huge investment in clubs overseas.

[4] Asia has the largest fan following of football than any other continent which is approximately 800 million and it also exhibits 32 percent of the viewership for the English Premier League.

[12] Heung-Min Son is currently the leading scorer in the South Korean national team and is on the rise in the English Premier League.

[15] Heung-Min Son is the captain of the South Korean National team and he plays for Tottenham Hotspurs in the English Premier League.

Son's presence in the English Premier League has brought people's attention to South Korean football.

Son also competed on the biggest stage of football, the UEFA Champions League Final with Tottenham Hotspurs against Liverpool FC on 2 June 2019.

Chhetri, one of the best players of India, with 84 goals from 129 appearances, was awarded the Padma Shri recently.

Besides winning the football tournament at the Asian games 1951[21] and 1962[22] against Iran and South Korea respectively, India has not had any significant post success, and has not managed to qualify for the FIFA world cup in over 60 years.

BFFS is now a 4-star rated academy which participates in all AIFF Youth Leagues and has 60 training centers at present.

[26] The FIFA committee and the Government of India are conceptualizing an ambitious plan called Mission Eleven Million.

[19] Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012, is a big football fan and one of the most powerful persons in the world.

At the top of the Iranian football league system, it is the country's primary competition for the sport.

Qatar is ranked at 55th in world football[34] and they are the Asian Champions of 2019 defeating Japan 3–1 in the tournament final.

[8] In 2012, Saudi Arabia sent female athletes to the Olympics for the first time in their history and the women who represented the nation were- Sarah Attar and Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani.

Despite this, women in Saudi Arabia are at a disadvantage as they do not possess proper sports equipment and some of the women grew up even without basic physical education and no access to the gyms which is supported by Rawh Abdullah, the captain of Challenge, which is a soccer club in Riyadh, in her statement in which she says that she wants to become a great athlete but she cannot do so without the basic equipment.

[40] Indonesia was the first-ever Asian team to qualify for the FIFA World cup when it was held in 1938.

Seven people who died in the last six years were the victims of supporters of two arch-rival clubs- Persija and Persib[43] Due to the violence, the Indonesian soccer club players are transported to and from the stadiums in armored personnel carriers.