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AFC

American  
  1. American Football Conference.

  2. American Foxhound Club.

  3. Association Football Club.

  4. automatic flight control.

  5. automatic frequency control.


AFC British  

abbreviation

  1. Air Force Cross

  2. Association Football Club

  3. automatic flight control

  4. automatic frequency control

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"Congrats to our Emmy-winning doc team, the town, and Wrexham AFC for always making things so dramatic and stressy. Good for TV, bad for blood pressure."

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

In the NFL, which has a salary cap, either the Kansas City Chiefs or the New England Patriots has played in the AFC championship in each of the last 15 years.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

The AFC said in a statement it continued to "closely monitor the recent developments in the Middle East during this challenging period".

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

The Super Bowl indicator, developed in 1978, suggests an NFC win signals a bull market and an AFC win signals a bear market.

From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026

The opposing team was the AFC Lightning from Fayetteville, Georgia, a mostly white middle-class suburb south of Atlanta.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John