2018 AFC Futsal Championship 2018亞足聯室內五人制足球錦標賽 Tournament details Host country Taiwan Dates 1–11 February Teams 16 (from 1 confederation) Venue 2 (in 2 host cities) Final positions Champions Iran (12th title) Runners-up Japan Third place Uzbekistan Fourth place Iraq Tournament statistics Matches played 32 Goals scored 203 (6.34 per match) Attendance 14,418 (451 per match) Top scorer Hossein Tayyebi (14 goals) Best player Ali Hassanzadeh Fair play award Iraq
International football competition
The2018 AFC Futsal Championship was the 15th edition of theAFC Futsal Championship , the biennial internationalfutsal championship organised by theAsian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's national teams of Asia. The AFC appointedTaipei andNew Taipei City ,Taiwan (designated asChinese Taipei by FIFA) as hosts on 29 July 2017;[ 1] the tournament took place between 1 and 11 February 2018 atXinzhuang Gymnasium andUniversity of Taipei Gymnasium.[ 2] A total of 16 teams played in the tournament.
Defending championsIran defeatedJapan in the final to win their 12th title.
Qualifying was played on 15 October – 12 November 2017.[ 3]
The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.[ 4]
Team Qualified as Appearance Previous best performance Chinese Taipei Hosts 12th Quarter-finals (2003 ) Vietnam ASEAN Zone Group A winners5th Fourth place (2016 ) Myanmar ASEAN Zone Group A runners-up1st Debut Thailand ASEAN Zone Group B winners15th Runners-up (2008 ,2012 ) Malaysia ASEAN Zone Group B runners-up12th Group stage (1999 ,2001 ,2002 ,2003 ,2004 ,2005 ,2006 ,2007 ,2008 ,2014 ,2016 ) Japan East Zone Group A winners15th Champions (2006 ,2012 ,2014 ) South Korea East Zone Group B winners13th Runners-up (1999 ) China East Zone play-off winners12th Fourth place (2008 ,2010 ) Uzbekistan South & Central Zone Group A winners15th Runners-up (2001 ,2006 ,2010 ,2016 ) Kyrgyzstan South & Central Zone Group A runners-up15th Semi-finals (2005 ),Fourth place (2006 ,2007 ) Iran South & Central Zone Group B winners15th Champions (1999 ,2000 ,2001 ,2002 ,2003 ,2004 ,2005 ,2007 ,2008 ,2010 ,2016 ) Tajikistan South & Central Zone Group B runners-up10th Quarter-finals (2007 ) Bahrain West Zone Group A winners2nd Group stage (2002 ) Iraq West Zone Group A runners-up11th Quarter-finals (2002 ,2016 ) Lebanon West Zone Group B winners11th Quarter-finals (2004 ,2007 ,2008 ,2010 ,2012 ,2014 ) Jordan West Zone Group B runners-up2nd Group stage (2016 )
The competition was played in two venues in two cities.[ 5]
The final draw was held on 12 December 2017, 11:00TWT (UTC+8 ), at the Sherwood Taipei inTaipei .[ 6] The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams.[ 7] The teams were seeded according to their performance in the2016 AFC Futsal Championship final tournament andqualification , with the hosts Chinese Taipei automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.[ 8]
Each team must register a squad of 14 players, minimum two of whom must be goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 29.4 and 29.5).[ 9]
The following referees were chosen for the 2018 AFC Futsal Championship.
Referees Darius Turner Hussain Ali Al-Bahhar An Ran Liu Jianqiao Lee Po-fu Mahmoudreza Nasirloo Hasan Mousa Al-Gburi Tomohiro Kozaki Kim Jong-hee Nurdin Bukuev Mohamad Chami Helday Idang Rey Ritaga Yuttakon Maiket Azat Hajypolatov Fahad Al-Hosani Anatoliy Rubakov Trương Quốc DũngThe top two teams of each group advance to the quarter-finals.
Tiebreakers 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 11.5):[ 9]
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. All times are local,TWT (UTC+8 ).[ 10]
Schedule Matchday Dates Matches Matchday 1 1–2 February 2018 1 v 4, 2 v 3 Matchday 2 3–4 February 2018 4 v 2, 3 v 1 Matchday 3 5–6 February 2018 1 v 2, 3 v 4
1 February 2018 (2018-02-01 )
16:30
1 February 2018 (2018-02-01 )
19:00
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Hasan Mousa Al-Gburi (
Iraq )
3 February 2018 (2018-02-03 )
16:30
Attendance: 538
Referee: Tomohiro Kozaki (
Japan )
3 February 2018 (2018-02-03 )
19:00
5 February 2018 (2018-02-05 )
19:00
5 February 2018 (2018-02-05 )
19:00
1 February 2018 (2018-02-01 )
19:00
3 February 2018 (2018-02-03 )
16:30
3 February 2018 (2018-02-03 )
19:00
Attendance: 683
Referee: Liu Jianqiao (
China )
5 February 2018 (2018-02-05 )
16:30
Attendance: 96
Referee: Mahmoudreza Nasirloo (
Iran )
5 February 2018 (2018-02-05 )
16:30
2 February 2018 (2018-02-02 )
16:30
2 February 2018 (2018-02-02 )
19:00
4 February 2018 (2018-02-04 )
16:30
4 February 2018 (2018-02-04 )
19:00
6 February 2018 (2018-02-06 )
16:30
Attendance: 150
Referee: Hussain Ali Al-Bahhar (
Bahrain )
2 February 2018 (2018-02-02 )
16:30
2 February 2018 (2018-02-02 )
19:00
4 February 2018 (2018-02-04 )
16:30
Attendance: 150
Referee: Hasan Mousa Al-Gburi (
Iraq )
4 February 2018 (2018-02-04 )
19:00
Attendance: 280
Referee: Hussain Ali Al-Bahhar (
Bahrain )
6 February 2018 (2018-02-06 )
19:00
6 February 2018 (2018-02-06 )
19:00
Attendance: 15
Referee: Trương Quốc Dũng (
Vietnam )
In the knockout stage,extra time andpenalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match wherepenalty shoot-out (noextra time ) is used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Article 15.1).[ 9]
8 February 2018 (2018-02-08 )
16:00
8 February 2018 (2018-02-08 )
16:00
Attendance: 300
Referee: Tomohiro Kozaki (
Japan )
8 February 2018 (2018-02-08 )
19:00
Attendance: 266
Referee: Mahmoudreza Nasirloo (
Iran )
8 February 2018 (2018-02-08 )
19:00
9 February 2018 (2018-02-09 )
16:00
9 February 2018 (2018-02-09 )
19:00
11 February 2018 (2018-02-11 )
16:00
11 February 2018 (2018-02-11 )
19:00
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:
There were 203 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 6.34 goals per match.
14 goals
12 goals
10 goals
7 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
Ahmed Abdulnabi Mohamed Al-Sandi Gu Haitao Xu Yang Zhang Yameng Lai Ming-huiMoslem Oladghobad Hasan Dakheel Firas Mohammed Ryosuke NishitaniKazuya Shimizu Maksat Alimov Adilet Imanbekov Ali El-Homsi Jang Yeong-cheol Umed Kuziev Dilshod SalomovJirawat Sornwichian Farkhod Abdumavlyanov Anaskhon Rakhmatov Dilshod Rakhmatov Nguyễn Đắc Huy Phùng Trọng Luân Vũ Đức Tùng1 goal
1 own goal
Huang Tai-hsiang (against Malaysia) Mohammad Abou Zeid (against Thailand)Tournament team rankings [ edit ] As per statistical convention in football, matches decided inextra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided bypenalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
Tournaments
Futsal Championship Futsal Asian Cup
Qualification Squads