It was founded in 1978, and has been a member of the Asian Football Confederation and of FIFA since 1980.

In the 1970s, Qaboos bin Said al Said favored the development of sports events and associations, which led in 1978 to the creation of the Omani Football Association with Sayyid / Haitham bin Tariq Al Said (Minister of National Heritage and Culture and in 2020, the successor to Qaboos as Sultan) as its first president.

In its first year of operations, the Association became a member of the Union of Arab Football Associations and of FIFA, and joined the Asian Football Federation in 1980.

[3] In November 2017, the OFA was chosen to organize the FIFA Executive Football Summit scheduled for February 2018.

The Association is 70%-financed by the government through the Ministry of Sports Affairs (2010).