2020 AFC Futsal Championship qualification Tournament details Host countries Vietnam (ASEAN) Iran (Central & South) China (East) Bahrain (West) Dates 16–27 October 2019 [ 1] Teams 31 (from 1 confederation) Tournament statistics Matches played 52 Goals scored 371 (7.13 per match) Attendance 28,992 (558 per match) Top scorer Muhammad Osamanmusa (7 goals)
International football competition
The2020 AFC Futsal Championship qualification was the qualification process organized by theAsian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine the participating teams for the2020 AFC Futsal Championship , the 16th edition of the international men'sfutsal championship of Asia.[ 2]
A total of 16 teams qualified to play in the final tournament, includingTurkmenistan who automatically qualified as original hosts (tournament was later relocated to Kuwait before being cancelled).[ 3]
The qualification process was divided into four zones:ASEAN Zone , where the2019 AFF Futsal Championship served as the qualifying competition,Central &South Zone (Nepal being the only team from South Zone entering),East Zone , andWest Zone .
Qualification process [ edit ] Of the 47AFC member associations, a total of 31 teams entered the competition. Based on the teams’ performance of2018 AFC Futsal Championship , the 16 spots in the final tournament were distributed as follows:
Host: 1 spotASEAN Zone: 3 spotsCentral & South Zone: 4 spotsEast Zone: 3 spotsWest Zone: 5 spotsIn each zone, the teams were seeded according to their performance in the2018 AFC Futsal Championship final tournament andqualification (overall ranking shown in parentheses; NR stands for non-ranked teams).
The draw for the2019 AFF Futsal Championship , which served as the ASEAN Zone qualifying competition, was held by the AFF in July 2019.[ 4] The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams.
ASEAN Zone Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
The draw for the Central & South Zone, East Zone and West Zone, was held on 25 July 2019, 15:00MYT (UTC+8 ), at the AFC House inKuala Lumpur ,Malaysia .[ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
In the Central & South Zone, the seven teams were drawn into two groups: one group of four teams and one group of three teams.Turkmenistan also entered the qualifying competition despite having automatically qualified for the final tournament. Central & South Zone Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3
In the East Zone, the seven teams were drawn into two groups: one group of four teams and one group of three teams. In the West Zone, the nine teams were drawn into two groups: one group of five teams and one group of four teams. West Zone Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
Notes Teams inbold qualified for the final tournament. Did not enter ASEAN Zone East Zone South Zone West Zone
In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue.
Teams are ranked according topoints (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 10.5):[ 2]
Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points); Drawing of lots. Top three teams of the tournament qualified for2020 AFC Futsal Championship .
The matches were played between 21 and 27 October 2019. All matches were held inVietnam . Times listed areUTC+7 . Schedule Matchday Dates Matches Matchday 1 21 October 2019 1 v 4, 2 v 3 Matchday 2 22 October 2019 4 v 2, 3 v 1 Matchday 3 23 October 2019 1 v 2, 3 v 4 Matchday 4 25 October 2019 Semi-finals Matchday 5 27 October 2019 Third place match & Final
21 October 2019 (2019-10-21 )
11:00
Attendance: 120
Referee: Hawkar Salar Ahmed (
Iraq )
21 October 2019 (2019-10-21 )
13:30
22 October 2019 (2019-10-22 )
11:30
Attendance: 68
Referee: Abdulrahman Al-Doseri (
Bahrain )
22 October 2019 (2019-10-22 )
14:00
Attendance: 100
Referee: Tsubasa Oya (
Japan )
23 October 2019 (2019-10-23 )
11:30
23 October 2019 (2019-10-23 )
14:00
Attendance: 145
Referee: Eisa Abdulhoussain (
Kuwait )
21 October 2019 (2019-10-21 )
16:00
21 October 2019 (2019-10-21 )
19:00
Attendance: 1,400
Referee: Takeshi Fujita (
Japan )
22 October 2019 (2019-10-22 )
16:30
Attendance: 1,922
Referee: Ebrahim Mehrabi Afshar (
Iran )
22 October 2019 (2019-10-22 )
19:00
The winners qualified for2020 AFC Futsal Championship .
25 October 2019 (2019-10-25 )
14:00
25 October 2019 (2019-10-25 )
17:00
Attendance: 384
Referee: Takeshi Fujita (
Japan )
The winner qualified for2020 AFC Futsal Championship .
27 October 2019 (2019-10-27 )
14:00
Attendance: 1,655
Referee: Hawkar Salar Ahmed (
Iraq )
27 October 2019 (2019-10-27 )
17:00
Attendance: 536
Referee: Ebrahim Mehrabi Afshar (
Iran )
Central & South Zone[ edit ] Top two teams of each group qualified for2020 AFC Futsal Championship . Had Turkmenistan occupied one of the qualifying spots, the best third-placed team from the two groups would also have qualified.
The matches were played between 23 and 25 October 2019. All matches were held inIran . Times listed areUTC+3:30 . Schedule[ 8] Matchday Dates Matches Group A Group B Matchday 1 23 October 2019 1 v 4, 2 v 3 3 v 1 Matchday 2 24 October 2019 4 v 2, 3 v 1 2 v 3 Matchday 3 25 October 2019 1 v 2, 3 v 4 1 v 2
23 October 2019 (2019-10-23 )
13:00
23 October 2019 (2019-10-23 )
15:30
Attendance: 523
Referee: Husain Ali Al-Bahhar (
Bahrain )
24 October 2019 (2019-10-24 )
13:00
24 October 2019 (2019-10-24 )
15:30
25 October 2019 (2019-10-25 )
13:00
^ Turkmenistan, as original final tournament hosts, automatically qualified regardless of qualification results. 23 October 2019 (2019-10-23 )
18:00
24 October 2019 (2019-10-24 )
18:00
Referee: Osama Saeed Idrees Sedaif (
Bahrain )
25 October 2019 (2019-10-25 )
18:00
Winners of each group, and the winner of the play-off between the group runners-up, qualified for2020 AFC Futsal Championship .
The matches were played between 22 and 26 October 2019. All matches were held inChina . Times listed areUTC+8 . Schedule[ 8] Matchday Dates Matches Group A Group B Matchday 1 22 October 2019 1 v 4, 2 v 3 3 v 1 Matchday 2 23 October 2019 4 v 2, 3 v 1 2 v 3 Matchday 3 24 October 2019 1 v 2, 3 v 4 1 v 2 Matchday 4 26 October 2019 Play-off
22 October 2019 (2019-10-22 )
15:30
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Vahid Arzpeyma Mohammreh (
Iran )
22 October 2019 (2019-10-22 )
18:00
Attendance: 70
Referee: Benjapol Mucharoensap (
Thailand )
23 October 2019 (2019-10-23 )
15:30
24 October 2019 (2019-10-24 )
15:30
Attendance: 100
Referee: Ali Hafizi (
Iran )
22 October 2019 (2019-10-22 )
13:00
24 October 2019 (2019-10-24 )
13:00
The winner qualified for2020 AFC Futsal Championship .
26 October 2019 (2019-10-26 )
18:00
Top two teams of each group, and the winner of the play-off between the group third-placed team, qualified for2020 AFC Futsal Championship .
The matches were played between 16 and 22 October 2019. All matches were held inBahrain . Times listed areUTC+3 . Schedule[ 8] Matchday Dates Matches Group A Group B Matchday 1 16 October 2019 3 v 2, 5 v 4 1 v 4, 2 v 3 Matchday 2 17 October 2019 4 v 1, 5 v 3 — Matchday 3 18 October 2019 1 v 5, 2 v 4 4 v 2, 3 v 1 Matchday 4 19 October 2019 2 v 5, 3 v 1 — Matchday 5 20 October 2019 4 v 3, 1 v 2 1 v 2, 3 v 4 Matchday 6 22 October 2019 Play-off
16 October 2019 (2019-10-16 )
17:00
Attendance: 200
Referee: Mahmoudreza Nasirloo (
Iran )
16 October 2019 (2019-10-16 )
19:00
Attendance: 100
Referee: Tomohiro Kozaki (
Japan )
17 October 2019 (2019-10-17 )
17:00
Attendance: 20
Referee: Trương Quốc Dũng (
Vietnam )
17 October 2019 (2019-10-17 )
19:00
18 October 2019 (2019-10-18 )
19:00
Attendance: 200
Referee: Jargalsaikhan Rentsenkhand (
Mongolia )
19 October 2019 (2019-10-19 )
17:00
19 October 2019 (2019-10-19 )
19:00
20 October 2019 (2019-10-20 )
17:00
Attendance: 40
Referee: Trương Quốc Dũng (
Vietnam )
20 October 2019 (2019-10-20 )
19:00
Attendance: 200
Referee: Jargalsaikhan Rentsenkhand (
Mongolia )
16 October 2019 (2019-10-16 )
15:00
18 October 2019 (2019-10-18 )
13:00
18 October 2019 (2019-10-18 )
15:00
Attendance: 150
Referee: Liu Jianqiao (
China )
20 October 2019 (2019-10-20 )
13:00
Attendance: 20
Referee: Mahmoudreza Nasirloo (
Iran )
20 October 2019 (2019-10-20 )
15:00
Attendance: 20
Referee: Tomohiro Kozaki (
Japan )
The winner qualified for2020 AFC Futsal Championship .
22 October 2019 (2019-10-22 )
18:00
The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.[ 9]
Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances inAFC Futsal Championship 1 Turkmenistan Original hosts 15 April 2019 [ 3] 6 (2005 ,2006 ,2007 ,2008 ,2010 ,2012 ) Thailand ASEAN Zone winners25 October 2019 15 (1999 ,2000 ,2001 ,2002 ,2003 ,2004 ,2005 ,2006 ,2007 ,2008 ,2010 ,2012 ,2014 ,2016 ,2018 ) Indonesia ASEAN Zone runners-up25 October 2019 9 (2002 ,2003 ,2004 ,2005 ,2006 ,2008 ,2010 ,2012 ,2014 ) Vietnam ASEAN Zone third place27 October 2019 5 (2005 ,2010 ,2014 ,2016 ,2018 ) Uzbekistan Central & South Zone Group A winners24 October 2019 15 (1999 ,2000 ,2001 ,2002 ,2003 ,2004 ,2005 ,2006 ,2007 ,2008 ,2010 ,2012 ,2014 ,2016 ,2018 ) Tajikistan Central & South Zone Group A runners-up24 October 2019 10 (2001 ,2005 ,2006 ,2007 ,2008 ,2010 ,2012 ,2014 ,2016 ,2018 ) Iran Central & South Zone Group B winners24 October 2019 15 (1999 ,2000 ,2001 ,2002 ,2003 ,2004 ,2005 ,2006 ,2007 ,2008 ,2010 ,2012 ,2014 ,2016 ,2018 ) Kyrgyzstan Central & South Zone Group B runners-up24 October 2019 15 (1999 ,2000 ,2001 ,2002 ,2003 ,2004 ,2005 ,2006 ,2007 ,2008 ,2010 ,2012 ,2014 ,2016 ,2018 ) China East Zone Group A winners24 October 2019 12 (2002 ,2003 ,2004 ,2005 ,2006 ,2007 ,2008 ,2010 ,2012 ,2014 ,2016 ,2018 ) Japan East Zone Group B winners24 October 2019 15 (1999 ,2000 ,2001 ,2002 ,2003 ,2004 ,2005 ,2006 ,2007 ,2008 ,2010 ,2012 ,2014 ,2016 ,2018 ) South Korea East Zone Play-off winners26 October 2019 13 (1999 ,2000 ,2001 ,2002 ,2003 ,2004 ,2005 ,2007 ,2008 ,2010 ,2012 ,2014 ,2018 ) Kuwait West Zone Group A winners18 October 2019 11 (2001 ,2002 ,2003 ,2004 ,2005 ,2006 ,2007 ,2008 ,2010 ,2012 ,2014 ) Bahrain West Zone Group A runners-up20 October 2019 2 (2002 ,2018 ) Lebanon West Zone Group B winners18 October 2019 11 (2003 ,2004 ,2005 ,2006 ,2007 ,2008 ,2010 ,2012 ,2014 ,2016 ,2018 ) Saudi Arabia West Zone Group B runners-up20 October 2019 1 (2016 ) Oman West Zone Play-off winners22 October 2019 0 (debut)
1 Bold indicates champions for that year.Italic indicates hosts for that year.
There were 371 goals scored in 52 matches, for an average of 7.13 goals per match.
7 goals
6 goals
5 goals
Waleed Khalid Karim Abou ZeidAli Tneich Ronnachai Jungwongsuk4 goals
3 goals
Akbar Kazemi Seyed Mousavi Ahmed Abdulnabi Mohamed Al-Sandi Chi Sheng-fa Iqbal Rahmatullah Subhan Faidasa Mahdi KarimiTomoki Yoshikawa Abdulrahman Al-Tawail Georgio El-Khoury Aung Zin Oo Hlaing Min TunPyae Phyo Maung II Muhannad Al-Shibli Jwher Jmah Kim Min-kuk Rustam HamidovJetsada Chudech Watchara Laisri Warut Wangsama-aeo Abdulkarim Jamil Davron Choriev Akbar Usmonov Nguyễn Minh Trí2 goals
Jarrod Basger Daniel Fogarty Grant Lynch Keo Cheatuo Orkchan Sereyvong Geng Deyang Wang Jiahao Chang Chien-ying Huang Po-chunAli Asghar Hassanzadeh Fahad Methaq Ghaith RiyadhShota Hoshi Ahmad Al-Farsi Yousef Al-Khalifah Arstanbek Tursunov Steve Koukezian Fong Chi WaPurevdorj Erdenebat Altantulga Pagamsuren Ko Ko LwinPyae Phyo Maung I Mani Lama Khalfan Al-Maawali Loay Al-Wahaibi Adnan Salloum Aroan Mubarak Park Jeong-jin Shavqat Halimov Bahodur Khojaev Parviz Rakhmatov Fayzali SardorovNattawut Madyalan Mario Moniz Tariq Abdulla Abdalla Al-Hosani Mashrab Adilov Trần Thái HuyTrần Văn Vũ 1 goal
1 own goal
Akbar Kazemi (against Uzbekistan) Gregory Giovenali (against Malaysia) Chang Chien-ying (against China) Leung Chong Yip (against Mongolia)Li Ka Chun (against Mongolia) Husam Hamed (against Kuwait) Remigio Duarte (against Cambodia) Eufrasio Soares (against Thailand) Gurbangeldi Sähedow (against Iran)
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