International futsal competition
2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup كأس آسيا لكرة الصالات 2022 Tournament details Host country Kuwait Dates 27 September – 8 October Teams 16 (from 1 confederation) Venue 1 (in 1 host city) Final positions Champions Japan (4th title) Runners-up Iran Third place Uzbekistan Fourth place Thailand Tournament statistics Matches played 32 Goals scored 193 (6.03 per match) Top scorer Hossein Tayyebi (10 goals)Best player Moslem Oladghobad Bestgoalkeeper Guilherme KuromotoFair play award Uzbekistan
International football competition
The2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup was the 16th edition of theAFC Futsal Asian Cup ,[ 1] the biennial internationalfutsal championship organised by theAsian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's national teams of Asia. A total of 16 teams compete in the tournament.[ 2]
Kuwait was appointed as hosts of the2020 AFC Futsal Championship , after replacing the original hostsTurkmenistan . However, AFC announced the cancellation of the tournament on 25 January 2021 due to theCOVID-19 pandemic .[ 3] The tournament was scheduled to be played in Kuwait from 16 to 27 February 2022.[ 4] On 5 July 2021, the AFC announced that the tournament would be held between 27 September and 8 October 2022.
Japan defeated defending championsIran in the final to claim their fourth title.
Qualifiers were originally scheduled to be played from 13 to 24 October 2021.[ 5] However, on 5 July 2021, the AFC announced that it would be held from 1 to 15 April 2022.
The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.
Team Qualified as Appearances Last Appearance Previous best performance Kuwait Hosts 12th 2014 Fourth place (2003 ,2014 ) Lebanon West Zone Group A winners12th 2018 Quarter-finals (2004 ,2007 ,2008 ,2010 ,2012 ,2014 ,2018 ) Saudi Arabia West Zone Group A runners-up2nd 2016 Group stage (2016 ) Iraq West Zone Group B winners12th 2018 Fourth place (2018 ) Bahrain West Zone Group B runners-up3rd 2018 Quarter-finals (2018 ) Oman West Zone playoff winner1st Debut None Thailand ASEAN Zone winners16th 2018 Runners-up (2008 ,2012 ) Indonesia ASEAN Zone runners-up10th 2014 Group stage (2002 ,2003 ,2004 ,2005 ,2006 ,2008 ,2010 ,2012 ,2014 ) Vietnam ASEAN Zone third place6th 2018 Fourth place (2016 ) Iran Central and South Zone Group A winners16th 2018 Champions (1999 ,2000 ,2001 ,2002 ,2003 ,2004 ,2005 ,2007 ,2008 ,2010 ,2016 ,2018 ) Turkmenistan Central and South Zone Group A runners-up7th 2012 Group stage (2005 ,2006 ,2007 ,2008 ,2010 ,2012 ) Uzbekistan Central and South Zone Group B winners16th 2018 Runners-up (2001 ,2006 ,2010 ,2016 ) Tajikistan Central and South Zone Group B runners-up11th 2018 Quarter-finals (2007 ) Japan East Zone winners16th 2018 Champions (2006 ,2012 ,2014 ) South Korea East Zone runner-up14th 2018 Runners-up (1999 ) Chinese Taipei East Zone third place13th 2018 Quarter-finals (2003 )
1 Italic indicates hosts for that year.
The draw was held on 26 May 2022 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[ 6]
Each team had to submit a squad of 14 players, including a minimum of two goalkeepers.[ 2]
The 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):[ 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. All times are local,AST (UTC+3 ).
Schedule Matchday Matches Matchday 1 1 v 4, 2 v 3 Matchday 2 4 v 2, 3 v 1 Matchday 3 1 v 2, 3 v 4
27 September 2022 (2022-09-27 )
17:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Hiroyuki Kobayashi (
Japan )
29 September 2022 (2022-09-29 )
17:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
29 September 2022 (2022-09-29 )
20:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Husain Ali Al-Bahhar (
Bahrain )
1 October 2022 (2022-10-01 )
17:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Ebrahim Mehrabi Afshar (
Iran )
1 October 2022 (2022-10-01 )
20:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
27 September 2022 (2022-09-27 )
11:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
27 September 2022 (2022-09-27 )
14:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
29 September 2022 (2022-09-29 )
11:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Hawkar Salar Ahmed (
Iraq )
29 September 2022 (2022-09-29 )
14:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Gelareh Nazemi Deylami (
Iran )
1 October 2022 (2022-10-01 )
11:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
1 October 2022 (2022-10-01 )
14:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Eisa Abdulhoussain (
Kuwait )
28 September 2022 (2022-09-28 )
17:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
28 September 2022 (2022-09-28 )
20:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
30 September 2022 (2022-09-30 )
17:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Trương Quốc Dũng (
Vietnam )
30 September 2022 (2022-09-30 )
20:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
2 October 2022 (2022-10-02 )
17:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Husain Ali Al-Bahhar (
Bahrain )
2 October 2022 (2022-10-02 )
20:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Abdulrahman Al-Doseri (
Bahrain )
^a b c Tied on head-to-head-points (3). Head-to-head goal difference: Japan +1, Vietnam 0, Saudi Arabia −1. 28 September 2022 (2022-09-28 )
11:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
28 September 2022 (2022-09-28 )
14:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Benjapol Mucharoensap (
Thailand )
30 September 2022 (2022-09-30 )
11:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Zari Fathi (
Iran )
30 September 2022 (2022-09-30 )
14:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Osama Idrees Sedaif (
Bahrain )
2 October 2022 (2022-10-02 )
11:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
2 October 2022 (2022-10-02 )
14:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
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).[ 2]
4 October 2022 (2022-10-04 )
11:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Hiroyuki Kobayashi (
Japan )
4 October 2022 (2022-10-04 )
14:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Trương Quốc Dũng (
Vietnam )
4 October 2022 (2022-10-04 )
17:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
4 October 2022 (2022-10-04 )
20:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Ebrahim Mehrabi Afshar (
Iran )
6 October 2022 (2022-10-06 )
17:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Husain Ali Al-Bahhar (
Bahrain )
6 October 2022 (2022-10-06 )
20:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
8 October 2022 (2022-10-08 )
20:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:[ 7]
There were 193 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 6.03 goals per match.
10 goals
7 goals
6 goals
Idris Yorov Gurbangeldi Sähedow5 goals
4 goals
Muhammad Fajriyan Salar Aghapour Worasak Srirangpirot Khusniddin Nishonov Ikhtiyor Ropiev3 goals
2 goals
Ahmed Antar Ammar Hasan Mayhad Dewa Rizki Syauqi Saud Mohammad Hossein Derakhshani Alireza Javan Mehdi Karimi Soma Mizutani Abdullatif Al-Abbasi Abdulaziz Al-Basam Saleh Al-Fadhel Abdulrahman Al-Tawail Farhan Ali Fahad Rudayni Narongsak Wingwon Mülkaman Annagulyýew Shakhram Fakhriddinov Ilkhomjon Khamroev Trần Thái Huy1 goal
Mohamed Abdulla Jassam Saleh Mohamed Al-Sandi Falah Abbas He Chia-chen Huang Wei-lun Lin Chih-hung Samuel Eko Firman Adriansyah Iqbal RahmatullahRio Pangestu Reza Gunawan Mehdi Asadshir Bahman JafariAlireza Rafieipour Mohanad Abdulhadi Mustafa Ihsan Ghaith Riyadh Tareq Zeyad Vinícius Crepaldi Kentaro IshidaHigor Pires Tomoki Yoshikawa Yousef Al-Khalifah Abdulrahman Al-Mosabehi Abdulrahman Al-Wadi Mouhammad Hammoud Steve Koukezian Hasan Zeitoun Samer Al-Balushi Khalfan Al-MaawaliMohammed Taqi Mohsen Fqihe Nasser Al-Harthi Shin Jong-hoon Umed Kuziev Muhamadjon Sharipov Bakhtiyor Soliev Iqboli Vositzoda Krit AransanyalakPanat Kittipanuwong Warut Wangsama-aeo Narongsak Wingwon Maksat Soltanow Sunatulla Juraev Dilshod RakhmatovChâu Đoàn Phát Nguyễn Anh DuyNguyễn Minh Trí 1 own goal
Saeid Ahmadabbasi (against Japan) Mustafa Rhyem (against Iran) Seo Jung-woo (against Japan) Shin Jong-hoon (against Vietnam) Şiri Baýramdurdyýew (against Tajikistan)Châu Đoàn Phát (against Saudi Arabia)
Tournaments
Futsal Championship Futsal Asian Cup
Qualification Squads