2020 AFC Futsal Championship qualification

2020 AFC Futsal Championship qualification
Tournament details
Host countries	Vietnam (ASEAN); Iran (Central & South); China (East); Bahrain (West)
Dates	16–27 October 2019
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(s)	Muhammad Osamanmusa (7 goals)
	← 2018 2022 →

The 2020 AFC Futsal Championship qualification was the qualification process organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine the participating teams for the 2020 AFC Futsal Championship, the 16th edition of the international men's futsal championship of Asia.^[2]

A total of 16 teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including Turkmenistan 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 the 2019 AFF Futsal Championship served as the qualifying competition, Central & South Zone (Nepal being the only team from South Zone entering), East Zone, and West Zone.

Qualification process edit

Of the 47 AFC member associations, a total of 31 teams entered the competition. Based on the teams’ performance of 2018 AFC Futsal Championship, the 16 spots in the final tournament were distributed as follows:

Host: 1 spot
ASEAN Zone: 3 spots
Central & South Zone: 4 spots
East Zone: 3 spots
West Zone: 5 spots

Draw edit

In each zone, the teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2018 AFC Futsal Championship final tournament and qualification (overall ranking shown in parentheses; NR stands for non-ranked teams).

The draw for the 2019 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
Vietnam (6) Thailand (8)	Malaysia (13) Myanmar (15)	Indonesia (18) East Timor (27)	Australia (NR) Cambodia (NR)

The draw for the Central & South Zone, East Zone and West Zone, was held on 25 July 2019, 15:00 MYT (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala 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
Iran (1) Uzbekistan (3)	Kyrgyzstan (10) Tajikistan (11)	Turkmenistan (19) Afghanistan (22) Nepal (28)

In the East Zone, the seven teams were drawn into two groups: one group of four teams and one group of three teams.

East Zone
Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Japan (2) Chinese Taipei (9)	China (12) South Korea (16)	Hong Kong (21) Macau (23) Mongolia (26)

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
Iraq (4) Lebanon (5)	Bahrain (7)	Saudi Arabia (17) Qatar (20) United Arab Emirates (25)	Kuwait (NR) Oman (NR) Palestine (NR)

Notes

Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.

Did not enter
ASEAN Zone	Brunei Laos Philippines Singapore
East Zone	Guam Northern Mariana Islands North Korea
South Zone	Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Pakistan Sri Lanka
West Zone	Jordan Syria Yemen

Format edit

In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue.

Tiebreakers edit

Teams are ranked according to points (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.

ASEAN Zone edit

Top three teams of the tournament qualified for 2020 AFC Futsal Championship.

The matches were played between 21 and 27 October 2019.
All matches were held in Vietnam.
Times listed are UTC+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

Group A edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Thailand	3	3	0	0	33	1	+32	9	Knockout stage
2	Myanmar	3	2	0	1	19	13	+6	6	Knockout stage
3	East Timor	3	0	1	2	6	22	−16	1
4	Cambodia	3	0	1	2	7	29	−22	1

Source: AFF AFC

21 October 2019

11:00

Thailand	12–0	Cambodia
Ronnachai 12', 33' Osamanmusa 13', 21', 21' Kritsada 30', 31' Pornmongkol 33', 37', 40' Jetsada 36' Watchara 39'	Report

Phú Thọ Indoor Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City

Attendance: 120

Referee: Hawkar Salar Ahmed (Iraq)

21 October 2019