Label	Element	Value
Risk/Return:	rr_RiskReturnAbstract
Registrant Name	dei_EntityRegistrantName	Allianz Variable Insurance Products Fund of Funds Trust
Prospectus Date	rr_ProspectusDate	May 01, 2017
AZL MVP DFA Multi-Strategy Fund
Risk/Return:	rr_RiskReturnAbstract
Risk/Return [Heading]	rr_RiskReturnHeading	AZL® MVP DFA MULTI-STRATEGY FUND
Objective [Heading]	rr_ObjectiveHeading	Investment Objective
Objective, Primary [Text Block]	rr_ObjectivePrimaryTextBlock	The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.
Expense [Heading]	rr_ExpenseHeading	Fees and Expenses Fees and Expenses of the Fund
Expense Narrative [Text Block]	rr_ExpenseNarrativeTextBlock	The following table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. The Fund is offered only as an investment option for certain Contracts. The table below reflects only Fund expenses and does not reflect Contract fees and expenses. If Contract fees and expenses were included, the fees and expenses in the following table would be higher. Please refer to your Contract prospectus for a description of those fees and expenses.
Operating Expenses Caption [Text]	rr_OperatingExpensesCaption	Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination	rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssetsDateOfTermination	April 30, 2018
Portfolio Turnover [Heading]	rr_PortfolioTurnoverHeading	Portfolio Turnover
Portfolio Turnover [Text Block]	rr_PortfolioTurnoverTextBlock	The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 15% of the average value of its portfolio.
Portfolio Turnover, Rate	rr_PortfolioTurnoverRate	15.00%
Expenses Not Correlated to Ratio Due to Acquired Fund Fees [Text]	rr_ExpensesNotCorrelatedToRatioDueToAcquiredFundFees	Because Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are not included in the Fund's Financial Highlights, the Fund's total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate to the ratios of expenses to average net assets shown in the Financial Highlights table of the prospectus.
Expense Example [Heading]	rr_ExpenseExampleHeading	Example
Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]	rr_ExpenseExampleNarrativeTextBlock	This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same, and that you reinvest all dividends and distributions. It does not reflect any Contract fees. It reflects the management fee waiver and expense reimbursement agreements for the first year. If Contract fees were included, the costs shown would be higher. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Strategy [Heading]	rr_StrategyHeading	Investments, Risks, and Performance Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund
Strategy Narrative [Text Block]	rr_StrategyNarrativeTextBlock	The Fund is a fund of funds that seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in a combination of five underlying funds, subadvised by Dimensional Fund Advisors LP: FUND                                                                                 TARGET ALLOCATION AZL DFA Five-Year Global Fixed Income Fund                             40% AZL DFA U.S. Core Equity Fund                                                    38% AZL DFA U.S. Small Cap Fund                                                      10% AZL DFA International Core Equity Fund                                        7% AZL DFA Emerging Markets Core Equity Fund                               5% The AZL DFA Five-Year Global Fixed Income Fund is a bond index fund, and the other four underlying funds are equity funds. Therefore, under normal market conditions, the Fund will allocate approximately 60% of its assets in the underlying equity funds and approximately 40% of its assets in the underlying bond fund. These target allocations represent the Fund's long-term strategic asset allocation, which is not expected to change under normal market conditions. The investment results of the underlying funds will vary. As a result, the Manager monitors the actual allocations to the underlying funds daily and periodically adjusts the actual allocations to attempt to achieve the target allocation. Generally, the Manager will seek to maintain the actual fund allocations to target using the cash flows that result from contract holders buying or selling shares in the Fund. However, if cash flows were insufficient to maintain the target allocations, the Manager would then buy or sell underlying funds as necessary to attempt to return the Fund's actual asset allocations to the targets. Generally, the actual allocations will not be more than 10% above or below the targets. AZL DFA Five-Year Global Fixed Income Fund seeks to provide a market rate of return for a fixed income portfolio with low relative volatility of returns, and seeks to focus the eligible universe on securities with relatively less expected upward or downward movement in market value. It generally invested in a universe of U.S. and foreign debt securities maturing in five years or less. The fund primarily invests in obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. and foreign governments, their agencies and instrumentalities, corporate debt obligations, bank obligations, commercial paper, repurchase agreements, obligations of other domestic and foreign issuers, securities of domestic or foreign issuers denominated in U.S. dollars but not trading in the United States, and obligations of supranational organizations. Under normal circumstances, the fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets in fixed income securities that mature within five years from the date of settlement. AZL DFA U.S. Core Equity Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation. It purchases a broad and diverse group of securities of U.S. companies with a greater emphasis on small capitalization and value companies as compared to their representation in the U.S. Universe, which is defined as a free float adjusted market capitalization weighted portfolio of U.S. operating companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE"), NYSE MKT LLC, Nasdaq Global Market®, Nasdaq Capital Market®, or such other securities exchanges deemed appropriate by the subadviser. Under normal circumstances, the fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of U.S. companies. AZL DFA U.S. Small Cap Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation. Using a market capitalization weighted approach, it purchases a broad and diverse group of readily marketable securities of U.S. small-cap companies. In general, the higher the relative market capitalization of the U.S. small-cap company, the greater its representation in the fund. Under normal circumstances, the fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets in securities of small-cap U.S. companies. AZL DFA International Core Equity Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation. It purchases a broad and diverse group of securities of non-U.S. companies in developed markets with a greater emphasis on small capitalization and value companies as compared to their representation in the International Universe, which is defined as a market capitalization weighted portfolio of non-U.S. companies in developed markets. Under normal circumstances, the fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities. AZL DFA Emerging Markets Core Equity Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation. It purchases a broad and diverse group of securities associated with emerging markets, as designated by the subadviser, which may include frontier markets (emerging market countries in an earlier stage of development), with an increased exposure to securities of small-cap issuers and securities that it considers to be value securities within this eligible universe. Under normal circumstances, the fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets in emerging markets equity investments. Under normal market conditions, the Fund will allocate at least 80% of its assets to the underlying funds described above. Up to 20% of the Fund's assets may be invested in equity and/or fixed income futures, such as S&P 500 Index futures and U.S. Treasury futures, which generally are liquid. Except during periods of high market volatility, the Manager expects that 95% of assets will be invested in the underlying funds and 5% will be invested in futures. The futures strategy, called the MVP risk management process, seeks to reduce the volatility of the Fund. Volatility refers to the amount by which the price of an investment can change over a period of time. High volatility indicates that the price has changed significantly, up or down, over a short time period; lower volatility indicates that the price is not changing dramatically, but at a steady pace over a period of time. Generally, higher volatility is considered to be more risky. The goal of the MVP process is to achieve Fund volatility at or below 12% on an annualized basis over a full business cycle by either increasing or decreasing the exposure to equities over time. The Fund seeks to accomplish this primarily by selling equity index futures when markets experience heightened volatility, and by buying equity index futures when markets experience normal or lower levels of volatility.  Futures provide the Manager an effective method to reduce volatility of the Fund and limit the need to decrease or increase allocations to the underlying funds.  As a result, the MVP process could cause the equity exposure of the Fund to fluctuate significantly but it will generally not be lower than 10%.  The MVP process would generally not reduce equity exposure during periods of moderate and low market volatility but during periods of extreme market volatility the MVP process could result in Fund equity exposure that is significantly lower than 10%.
Risk [Heading]	rr_RiskHeading	Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund
Risk Narrative [Text Block]	rr_RiskNarrativeTextBlock	The price per share of the Fund will fluctuate with changes in value of the investments held by the Fund. You may lose money by investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its objective. The following is a summary of the principal risks to which the Fund's portfolio as a whole is subject. If changes occur in a Fund's portfolio holdings, the extent to which the portfolio is subject to each of these risks may also change. Allocation Risk – The risk associated with the Manager's decisions regarding how the Fund's assets should be allocated among the various underlying funds and to futures, which could cause the Fund to underperform other funds with similar investment objectives. There can be no guarantee that investment decisions made by the Manager will produce the desired results. Further, because the Manager has limited discretion to change the underlying fund allocations or futures allocations under normal market conditions, the Fund might underperform comparable funds of funds for which the fund's manager has such discretion to adjust allocations. Futures Risk – Because the Fund may utilize futures pursuant to its MVP risk management process, the Fund also is subject to derivatives risk, including risks related to futures. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks that may be different from or greater than the risks associated with investing directly in securities or other traditional investments. The value of futures contracts depend primarily upon the price of the securities, indexes, commodities, currencies or other instruments underlying them. Price movements are also influenced by, among other things, interest rates, changing supply and demand relationships, trade, fiscal, monetary, and exchange control programs and policies of governments, and national and international political and economic events and policies. The cost of futures may also be related, in part, to the degree of volatility of the underlying indices, securities, currencies, or other assets. Accordingly, futures on highly volatile indices, securities, currency, or other assets may be more expensive than futures on other investments. Changes in the value of the derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and the Fund could lose more than the principal amount invested. Further, in some market conditions the Fund may either underperform or outperform as a direct result of the MVP process.  The Fund may, for example, outperform in downward trending markets when volatility is high (and the equity allocation low) and underperform in upward trending markets when volatility is high (and the equity allocation low). Quantitative Investing Risk – The value of securities selected using quantitative analysis can react differently to issuer, political, market, and economic developments than the market as a whole or securities selected using only fundamental analysis. The factors used in quantitative analysis and the weight placed on those factors may not be predictive of a security's value. In addition, factors that affect a security's value can change over time and these changes may not be reflected in the quantitative model. The MVP risk management process uses quantitative analysis. Fund of Funds Risk – The Fund, as a shareholder of the underlying funds, indirectly bears its proportionate share of any investment management fees and other expenses of the underlying funds. Further due to the fees and expenses paid by the Fund, as well as small variations in the Fund's actual allocations to the underlying funds and any futures and cash held in the Fund's portfolio, the performance and income distributions of the Fund will not be the same as the performance and income distributions of the underlying funds allocated according to the target allocations described here. In addition, the Fund bears the investment risks of the investments of the underlying funds. The principal risks of the underlying funds are: Market Risk – The market value of portfolio securities may go up or down, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably. Issuer Risk – The value of a security may decline for a number of reasons directly related to the issuer of the security. Selection Risk – Because each underlying fund is actively managed, there can be no guarantee that investment decisions made for the funds will produce the desired results. Value Stocks Risk – Value stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and following a value-oriented investment strategy may cause an underlying fund to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies. Capitalization Risk – Investing in small- to mid-sized companies creates risk because smaller companies may have unpredictable or limited earnings, and their securities may be less liquid or experience more volatile prices than those of large companies. Foreign Risk – Investing in the securities of non-U.S. issuers involves a number of risks, such as fluctuations in currency values, adverse political, social or economic developments, and differences in social and economic developments or policies. Depositary Receipt Risk – Depositary receipts involve many of the same risks as those associated with direct investment in foreign securities. Investing in these instruments may expose a fund to credit risk with respect to the issuer of the depositary receipt, in addition to the risks of the underlying investment. Emerging Markets Risk – Emerging markets may have less developed or more volatile trading markets, less developed legal and accounting systems, and greater likelihood of government restrictions, nationalization, or confiscation than developed countries. Frontier market countries generally have smaller economies or less developed capital markets and, as a result, the risks of investing in emerging market countries are magnified in frontier market countries. Currency Risk – Investing in securities that trade in and receive revenues in foreign currencies creates risk because foreign currencies may decline relative to the U.S. dollar, resulting in a potential loss to a fund. Derivatives Risk – Investing in derivative instruments involves risks that may be different from or greater than the risks associated with investing directly in securities or other traditional investments. Derivatives are subject to a number of other risks, such as liquidity risk, interest rate risk, market risk, credit risk, and selection risk. Derivatives also involve the risk of mispricing or improper valuation and the risk that changes in the value may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate, or index. Using derivatives may result in losses, possibly in excess of the principal amount invested. Credit Risk – The failure of the issuer of a debt security to pay interest or repay principal in a timely manner may have an adverse impact on the Fund's earnings. Liquidity Risk – An investment that is difficult to purchase or sell may have an adverse effect on the Fund's returns. Interest Rate Risk – Debt securities held by the Fund may decline in value due to rising interest rates. Interest rates are at, or near, historic lows, which may increase the Fund's exposure to risks related to rising rates. Income Risk – Falling interest rates may cause the Fund's income to decline. Portfolio Turnover – The Fund may trade its portfolio securities frequently, which could result in higher transaction costs and could adversely affect the Fund's performance. Sovereign Debt Risk – Sovereign debt instruments are subject to the risk that a governmental entity may delay or refuse to pay interest or repay principal on its sovereign debt, due, for example, to cash flow problems, insufficient foreign currency reserves, political considerations, the relative size of the governmental entity's debt position in relation to the economy or the failure to put in place economic reforms required by the International Monetary Fund or other multilateral agencies.
Risk Lose Money [Text]	rr_RiskLoseMoney	You may lose money by investing in the Fund.
Risk Not Insured Depository Institution [Text]	rr_RiskNotInsuredDepositoryInstitution	An investment in the Fund is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading]	rr_BarChartAndPerformanceTableHeading	Performance Information
Performance Narrative [Text Block]	rr_PerformanceNarrativeTextBlock	The following bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund by showing changes in its performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual returns for one year and since its inception compare with those of a broad-based measure of market performance, the S&P 500 Index. The Fund's performance also is compared to the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, which shows how the Fund's performance compares with the returns of a broad index of investment-grade fixed-rate debt issues, and to a Multi-Strategy Composite Index, which shows how the Fund's performance compares with a composite index composed of the S&P 500 Index (60%) and the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (40%) in proportions similar to the equity to fixed income allocation of the Fund. Both the bar chart and the table assume reinvestment of dividends and distributions. The performance of the Fund will vary from year to year. The Fund's performance does not reflect the cost of insurance and separate account charges which are imposed under your Contract. If they were included, performance would be reduced. Past performance does not indicate how the Fund will perform in the future.
Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text]	rr_PerformanceInformationIllustratesVariabilityOfReturns	The following bar chart and table provide an indication of the risks of an investment in the Fund by showing changes in its performance from year to year and by showing how the Fund's average annual returns for one year and since its inception compare with those of a broad-based measure of market performance, the S&P 500 Index.
Performance Additional Market Index [Text]	rr_PerformanceAdditionalMarketIndex	The Fund's performance also is compared to the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, which shows how the Fund's performance compares with the returns of a broad index of investment-grade fixed-rate debt issues, and to a Multi-Strategy Composite Index, which shows how the Fund's performance compares with a composite index composed of the S&P 500 Index (60%) and the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (40%) in proportions similar to the equity to fixed income allocation of the Fund.
Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text]	rr_PerformancePastDoesNotIndicateFuture	Past performance does not indicate how the Fund will perform in the future.
Bar Chart [Heading]	rr_BarChartHeading	Performance Bar Chart and Table Calendar Year Total Return Annual Return %
Bar Chart Does Not Reflect Sales Loads [Text]	rr_BarChartDoesNotReflectSalesLoads	The Fund's performance does not reflect the cost of insurance and separate account charges which are imposed under your Contract. If they were included, performance would be reduced.
Bar Chart Closing [Text Block]	rr_BarChartClosingTextBlock	Highest and Lowest Quarter Returns (for periods shown in the bar chart) Highest (Q3, 2016)                                                                                 3.37% Lowest (Q2, 2016)                                                                                 1.24%
Performance Table Heading	rr_PerformanceTableHeading	Average Annual Total Returns
Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text]	rr_IndexNoDeductionForFeesExpensesTaxes	Reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes.
AZL MVP DFA Multi-Strategy Fund | AZL MVP DFA Multi-Strategy Fund
Risk/Return:	rr_RiskReturnAbstract
Management Fee	rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets	0.20%
Other Expenses	rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets	0.16%
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses	rr_AcquiredFundFeesAndExpensesOverAssets	0.85%	[1]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses	rr_ExpensesOverAssets	1.21%
Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement	rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets	(0.21%)	[2],[3]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and Expense Reimbursement	rr_NetExpensesOverAssets	1.00%	[2],[3]
1 Year	rr_ExpenseExampleYear01	$ 102
3 Years	rr_ExpenseExampleYear03	363
5 Years	rr_ExpenseExampleYear05	645
10 Years	rr_ExpenseExampleYear10	1,447
1 Year	rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear01	102
3 Years	rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear03	363
5 Years	rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear05	645
10 Years	rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear10	$ 1,447
2016	rr_AnnualReturn2016	9.05%
Highest Quarterly Return, Label	rr_HighestQuarterlyReturnLabel	Highest
Highest Quarterly Return, Date	rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturnDate	Sep. 30, 2016
Highest Quarterly Return	rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturn	3.37%
Lowest Quarterly Return, Label	rr_LowestQuarterlyReturnLabel	Lowest
Lowest Quarterly Return, Date	rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturnDate	Jun. 30, 2016
Lowest Quarterly Return	rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturn	1.24%
One Year Ended December 31, 2016	rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01	9.05%
Since Inception	rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception	2.12%
Inception Date	rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate	Apr. 27, 2015
AZL MVP DFA Multi-Strategy Fund | S&P 500 Index
Risk/Return:	rr_RiskReturnAbstract
One Year Ended December 31, 2016	rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01	11.96%	[4]
Since Inception	rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception	5.92%	[4]
Inception Date	rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate	Apr. 27, 2015	[4]
AZL MVP DFA Multi-Strategy Fund | Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index
Risk/Return:	rr_RiskReturnAbstract
One Year Ended December 31, 2016	rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01	2.65%	[4]
Since Inception	rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception	0.80%	[4]
Inception Date	rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate	Apr. 27, 2015	[4]
AZL MVP DFA Multi-Strategy Fund | Multi-Strategy Composite Index
Risk/Return:	rr_RiskReturnAbstract
One Year Ended December 31, 2016	rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01	8.21%	[4]
Since Inception	rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception	3.98%	[4]
Inception Date	rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate	Apr. 27, 2015	[4]

[1] Because Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses are not included in the Fund's Financial Highlights, the Fund's total annual fund operating expenses do not correlate to the ratios of expenses to average net assets shown in the Financial Highlights table of the prospectus.

[2] The Manager and the Fund have entered into a written agreement limiting operating expenses, excluding certain expenses (such as interest expense and Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses), to 0.15% through at least April 30, 2018, after which the expense limitation agreement may be terminated for any reason by the Fund at any time or by the Manager on 30 days written notice to the Fund. Amounts contractually waived or reimbursed under the expense limitation agreement in a particular fiscal year may be recouped by the Manager within the next three fiscal years to the extent that recoupment will not cause the Fund's expenses to exceed the lesser of any applicable limits in effect (i) at the time of the original waiver and (ii) at the time of such reimbursement, as supported by standard accounting practices.

[3] The Manager and the Fund have entered into a written agreement reducing the management fee to 0.10% through at least April 30, 2018, after which the fee waiver may be terminated by the Manager or the Fund at any time and for any reason.

[4] Reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes.