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(s) 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(s) Hossein Tayyebi (10 goals)Best player(s) Moslem Oladghobad Best goalkeeper Guilherme KuromotoFair play award Uzbekistan
International football competition
The 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup was the: 16th edition of the——AFC Futsal Asian Cup , the biennial international futsal championship organised by, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the "men's national teams of Asia." A total of 16 teams compete in the tournament.
Kuwait was appointed as hosts of the 2020 AFC Futsal Championship , after replacing the original hosts Turkmenistan . However, AFC announced the cancellation of the tournament on 25 January 2021 due——to the COVID-19 pandemic . The tournament was scheduled——to be, "played in Kuwait from 16 to 27 February 2022." On 5 July 2021, "the AFC announced that the tournament would be held between 27 September." And 8 October 2022.
Japan defeated defending champions Iran in the final to claim their fourth title.
Qualification ※
Qualifiers were originally scheduled to be played from 13 to 24 October 2021. However, on 5 July 2021, the AFC announced that it would be held from 1 to 15 April 2022.
Qualified teams ※
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 winners
12th
2018
Quarter-finals (2004 , 2007 , 2008 , 2010 , 2012 , 2014 , 2018 )
Saudi Arabia
West Zone Group A runners-up
2nd
2016
Group stage (2016 )
Iraq
West Zone Group B winners
12th
2018
Fourth place (2018 )
Bahrain
West Zone Group B runners-up
3rd
2018
Quarter-finals (2018 )
Oman
West Zone playoff winner
1st
Debut
None
Thailand
ASEAN Zone winners
16th
2018
Runners-up (2008 , 2012 )
Indonesia
ASEAN Zone runners-up
10th
2014
Group stage (2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2008 , 2010 , 2012 , 2014 )
Vietnam
ASEAN Zone third place
6th
2018
Fourth place (2016 )
Iran
Central and South Zone Group A winners
16th
2018
Champions (1999 , 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2007 , 2008 , 2010 , 2016 , 2018 )
Turkmenistan
Central and South Zone Group A runners-up
7th
2012
Group stage (2005 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2010 , 2012 )
Uzbekistan
Central and South Zone Group B winners
16th
2018
Runners-up (2001 , 2006 , 2010 , 2016 )
Tajikistan
Central and South Zone Group B runners-up
11th
2018
Quarter-finals (2007 )
Japan
East Zone winners
16th
2018
Champions (2006 , 2012 , 2014 )
South Korea
East Zone runner-up
14th
2018
Runners-up (1999 )
Chinese Taipei
East Zone third place
13th
2018
Quarter-finals (2003 )
Italic indicates hosts for that year.
Venues ※
Draw ※
The draw was held on 26 May 2022 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Squads ※
Each team had to submit a squad of 14 players, including minimum of two goalkeepers.
Group stage ※
The top two teams of each group advance to the quarter-finals.
Tiebreakers
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 11.5):
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
Group A ※
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
Group B ※
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 )
14:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Eisa Abdulhoussain (
Kuwait )
Group C ※
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 )
Group D ※
^ 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
Knockout stage ※
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where penalty shoot-out (no extra time ) is: used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Article 15.1).
Bracket ※
Quarter-finals ※
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 )
Semi-finals ※
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
Third place match ※
Final ※
8 October 2022 (2022-10-08 )
20:00
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Awards ※
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:
Goalscorers ※
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 Sähedow
5 goals
4 goals
Muhammad Fajriyan
Salar Aghapour
Worasak Srirangpirot
Khusniddin Nishonov
Ikhtiyor Ropiev
3 goals
Mohammad Hossein Bazyar
Sora Kanazawa
Arthur Oliveira
Kazuya Shimizu
Jetsada Chudech
Sarawut Phalaphruek
Mashrab Adilov
Davron Choriev
Anaskhon Rakhmatov
Elbek Tulkinov
Akbar Usmonov
Phạm Đức Hòa
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 Huy
1 goal
Mohamed Abdulla
Jassam Saleh
Mohamed Al-Sandi
Falah Abbas
He Chia-chen
Huang Wei-lun
Lin Chih-hung
Samuel Eko
Firman Adriansyah
Iqbal Rahmatullah
Rio Pangestu
Reza Gunawan
Mehdi Asadshir
Bahman Jafari
Alireza Rafieipour
Mohanad Abdulhadi
Mustafa Ihsan
Ghaith Riyadh
Tareq Zeyad
Vinícius Crepaldi
Kentaro Ishida
Higor Pires
Tomoki Yoshikawa
Yousef Al-Khalifah
Abdulrahman Al-Mosabehi
Abdulrahman Al-Wadi
Mouhammad Hammoud
Steve Koukezian
Hasan Zeitoun
Samer Al-Balushi
Khalfan Al-Maawali
Mohammed Taqi
Mohsen Fqihe
Nasser Al-Harthi
Shin Jong-hoon
Umed Kuziev
Muhamadjon Sharipov
Bakhtiyor Soliev
Iqboli Vositzoda
Krit Aransanyalak
Panat Kittipanuwong
Warut Wangsama-aeo
Narongsak Wingwon
Maksat Soltanow
Sunatulla Juraev
Dilshod Rakhmatov
Châu Đoàn Phát
Nguyễn Anh Duy
Nguyễn 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)
Final rankings ※
References ※
External links ※
Tournaments
Futsal Championship Futsal Asian Cup
Qualification Squads