2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup

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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.

2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup
كأس آسيا لكرة الصالات 2022
Tournament details
Host countryKuwait
Dates27 September – 8 October
Teams16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Japan (4th title)
Runners-up Iran
Third place Uzbekistan
Fourth place Thailand
Tournament statistics
Matches played32
Goals scored193 (6.03 per match)
Top scorer Hossein Tayyebi (10 goals)
Best player Moslem Oladghobad
Best goalkeeper Guilherme Kuromoto
Fair play award Uzbekistan
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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)
1 Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Venues

Kuwait City
Saad Al Abdullah Hall
Capacity: 6,000

Draw

The draw was held on 26 May 2022 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
  1.  Kuwait (hosts)
  2.  Iran
  3.  Japan
  4.  Uzbekistan
  1.  Iraq
  2.  Lebanon
  3.  Vietnam
  4.  Bahrain
  1.  Thailand
  2.  Chinese Taipei
  3.  Tajikistan
  4.  South Korea
  1.  Indonesia
  2.  Turkmenistan
  3.  Saudi Arabia
  4.  Oman

Squads

Each team had to submit a squad of 14 players, including a 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):

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. 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;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
  8. 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);
  9. 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

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Thailand 3 2 1 0 11 5 +6 7 Knockout stage
2  Kuwait (H) 3 1 2 0 11 6 +5 5
3  Iraq 3 1 1 1 9 5 +4 4
4  Oman 3 0 0 3 3 18 −15 0
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Iraq 2–3 Thailand
  • Zeyad 8'
  • Ihsan 14'
 Report
  • Worasak 17'
  • Sarawut 25'
  • Jetsada 36'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Hiroyuki Kobayashi (Japan)
Kuwait 7–2 Oman
  • Al-Tawail 6', 23'
  • Al-Abbasi 8', 30'
  • Al-Basam 23'
  • Al-Khalifah 30'
  • Al-Fadhel 33'
 Report
  • S. Al-Balushi 31'
  • Al-Maawali 38'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Ebrahim Mehrabi Afshar (Iran)
Oman 0–5 Iraq
Report
  • Abdulhadi 4'
  • Faisal 4', 32', 35'
  • Riyadh 14'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Mohamad Chami (Lebanon)
Thailand 2–2 Kuwait
  • Sarawut 6'
  • Krit 35'
 Report
  • Al-Fadhel 18'
  • Al-Basam 27'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Husain Ali Al-Bahhar (Bahrain)
Thailand 6–1 Oman
  • Warut 4'
  • Jetsada 16'
  • Worasak 18'
  • Sarawut 19'
  • Narongsak 32', 37'
 Report
  • Taqi 34'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Ebrahim Mehrabi Afshar (Iran)
Kuwait 2–2 Iraq
  • Al-Wadi 2'
  • Al-Mosabehi 21'
 Report
  • Faisal 13', 18'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Ryan Shepheard (Australia)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Uzbekistan 3 3 0 0 17 3 +14 9 Knockout stage
2  Tajikistan 3 2 0 1 14 11 +3 6
3  Bahrain 3 0 1 2 8 14 −6 1
4  Turkmenistan 3 0 1 2 9 20 −11 1
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Uzbekistan 8–0 Turkmenistan
  • Choriev 6'
  • Adilov 13', 22'
  • Ropiev 15', 33'
  • D. Rakhmatov 30'
  • Fakhriddinov 34'
  • Usmonov 40'
 Report
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Fahad Al-Hosani (United Arab Emirates)
Bahrain 3–4 Tajikistan
  • Mayhad 12'
  • Antar 34'
  • Saleh 39'
 Report
  • Kuziev 8'
  • Soliev 23'
  • Sardorov 24'
  • Yorov 39'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Lee Po-fu (Chinese Taipei)
Turkmenistan 4–4 Bahrain
  • Sähedow 13', 14', 19', 26' (pen.)
 Report
  • Antar 10'
  • M. Abdulla 13'
  • Abbas 26' (pen.)
  • Al-Sandi 40'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Hawkar Salar Ahmed (Iraq)
Tajikistan 2–3 Uzbekistan
  • Sardorov 4', 38'
 Report
  • Tulkinov 3'
  • Nishonov 7'
  • A. Rakhmatov 19'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Gelareh Nazemi Deylami (Iran)
Tajikistan 8–5 Turkmenistan
  • Yorov 8', 9', 22', 38'
  • Sharipov 11'
  • Baýramdurdyýew 19' (o.g.)
  • Sardorov 37', 40'
 Report
  • Soltanow 3'
  • Sähedow 20', 40'
  • Annagulyýew 35', 37'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Mohamad Chami (Lebanon)
Uzbekistan 6–1 Bahrain
  • Tulkinov 6'
  • Usmonov 20', 30'
  • Adilov 22'
  • Fakhriddinov 26'
  • Nishonov 27'
 Report
  • Mayhad 35'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Eisa Abdulhoussain (Kuwait)

Group C

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Iran 3 3 0 0 24 1 +23 9 Knockout stage
2  Indonesia 3 2 0 1 11 8 +3 6
3  Chinese Taipei 3 0 1 2 3 15 −12 1
4  Lebanon 3 0 1 2 3 17 −14 1
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Iran 5–0 Indonesia
  • Ahmadabbasi 2', 22'
  • Oladghobad 2'
  • Asadshir 9'
  • Tayyebi 24'
 Report
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Ryan Shepheard (Australia)
Lebanon 1–1 Chinese Taipei
  • Hammoud 18'
 Report
  • Huang Wei-lun 13'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Andrew Best (Australia)
Indonesia 7–2 Lebanon
  • Pangestu 3'
  • Fajriyan 7'
  • Firman 19'
  • Iqbal 21'
  • Dewa 27'
  • Reza 37'
  • Syauqi 40'
 Report
  • Zeitoun 25'
  • Koukezian 37'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Trương Quốc Dũng (Vietnam)
Chinese Taipei 1–10 Iran
  • He Chia-chen 31'
 Report
  • Bazyar 2'
  • Tayyebi 3', 16', 36'
  • Ahmadabbasi 4', 16', 18'
  • Aghapour 22'
  • Javan 28'
  • Karimi 35'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Helday Idang (Malaysia)
Chinese Taipei 1–4 Indonesia
  • Lin Chih-hung 30'
 Report
  • Fajriyan 10', 12', 12'
  • Syauqi 29'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Husain Ali Al-Bahhar (Bahrain)
Iran 9–0 Lebanon
  • Aghapour 8', 32'
  • Tayyebi 17', 39'
  • Rhyem 17' (o.g.)
  • Oladghobad 19'
  • Jafari 21'
  • Karimi 28'
  • Bazyar 27'
 Report
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Abdulrahman Al-Doseri (Bahrain)

Group D

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Japan 3 2 0 1 9 2 +7 6 Knockout stage
2  Vietnam 3 2 0 1 8 4 +4 6
3  Saudi Arabia 3 2 0 1 7 4 +3 6
4  South Korea 3 0 0 3 1 15 −14 0
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Notes:
  1. Tied on head-to-head-points (3). Head-to-head goal difference: Japan +1, Vietnam 0, Saudi Arabia −1.
Japan 1–2 Saudi Arabia
  • Crepaldi 3'
 Report
  • Al-Harthi 11'
  • Fqihe 15'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Anatoliy Rubakov (Uzbekistan)
Vietnam 5–1 South Korea
  • Shin Jong-hoon 2' (o.g.)
  • Trần Thái Huy 15', 34'
  • Phạm Đức Hòa 17', 35'
 Report
  • Shin Jong-hoon 1'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Benjapol Mucharoensap (Thailand)
South Korea 0–6 Japan
Report
  • Seo Jung-woo 5' (o.g.)
  • Oliveira 6'
  • Mizutani 17'
  • Ishida 27'
  • Kanazawa 28'
  • Yoshikawa 39'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Zari Fathi (Iran)
Saudi Arabia 1–3 Vietnam
  • Châu Đoàn Phát 30' (o.g.)
 Report
  • Nguyễn Anh Duy 12'
  • Châu Đoàn Phát 29'
  • Nguyễn Minh Trí 40'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Osama Idrees Sedaif (Bahrain)
South Korea 0–4 Saudi Arabia
Report
  • Ali 4', 23'
  • Rudayni 12', 39'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Leung Chung Yin (Hong Kong)
Japan 2–0 Vietnam
  • Shimizu 6', 36'
 Report
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Pornnarong Grairod (Thailand)

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-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
4 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall
 
 
 Thailand3
 
6 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall
 
 Tajikistan2
 
 Thailand0
 
4 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall
 
 Iran5
 
 Iran8
 
8 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall
 
 Vietnam1
 
 Iran2
 
4 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall
 
 Japan3
 
 Uzbekistan3
 
6 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall
 
 Kuwait0
 
 Uzbekistan1
 
4 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall
 
 Japan2 Third place
 
 Japan3
 
8 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall
 
 Indonesia2
 
 Thailand2
 
 
 Uzbekistan8
 

Quarter-finals

Iran 8–1 Vietnam
  • Aghapour 9'
  • Rafieipour 9'
  • Tayyebi 15', 32', 33'
  • Bazyar 24'
  • Oladghobad 27'
  • Ahmadabbasi 37'
 Report
  • Phạm Đức Hòa 37'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Hiroyuki Kobayashi (Japan)
Japan 3–2 Indonesia
  • Kanazawa 32'
  • Pires 38'
  • Mizutani 39'
 Report
  • Eko 21'
  • Dewa 40'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Trương Quốc Dũng (Vietnam)
Thailand 3–2 Tajikistan
  • Panat 2'
  • Jetsada 35'
  • Worasak 40'
 Report
  • Vositzoda 28'
  • Yorov 34'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Ryan Shepheard (Australia)
Uzbekistan 3–0 Kuwait
  • A. Rakhmatov 14'
  • Choriev 21'
  • Nishonov 34'
 Report
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Ebrahim Mehrabi Afshar (Iran)

Semi-finals

Uzbekistan 1–2 Japan
  • Khamroev 17'
 Report
  • Oliveira 23'
  • Kanazawa 30'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Husain Ali Al-Bahhar (Bahrain)
Thailand 0–5 Iran
Report
  • Tayyebi 1'
  • Derakhshani 22', 28'
  • Oladghobad 24', 27'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Fahad Al-Hosani (United Arab Emirates)

Third place match

Thailand 2–8 Uzbekistan
  • Wingwon 2'
  • Worasak 27'
 Report
  • Ropiev 2', 26'
  • Choriev 7'
  • Tulkinov 14'
  • Nishonov 16'
  • Juraev 22'
  • A. Rakhmatov 23'
  • Khamroev 31'
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Ebrahim Mehrabi Afshar (Iran)

Final

Iran 2–3 Japan
  • Ahmadabbasi 15'
  • Javan 40'
 Report
  • Shimizu 16'
  • Oliveira 27'
  • Ahmadabbasi 40' (o.g.)
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Ryan Shepheard (Australia)

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:

Top Goalscorer Best Goalkeeper Most Valuable Player Fair Play Award
Hossein Tayyebi Guilherme Kuromoto Moslem Oladghobad  Uzbekistan

Goalscorers

There were 193 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 6.03 goals per match.

10 goals

  • Hossein Tayyebi

7 goals

  • Saeid Ahmadabbasi

6 goals

  • Idris Yorov
  • Gurbangeldi Sähedow

5 goals

  • Moslem Oladghobad
  • Salim Faisal
  • Fayzali Sardorov

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

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Final results
1  Japan 6 5 0 1 17 7 +10 15 Champions
2  Iran 6 5 0 1 39 5 +34 15 Runners-up
3  Uzbekistan 6 5 0 1 29 7 +22 15 Third place
4  Thailand 6 3 1 2 16 20 −4 10 Fourth place
5  Tajikistan 4 2 0 2 16 14 +2 6 Eliminated in
quarter-finals
6  Indonesia 4 2 0 2 13 11 +2 6
7  Vietnam 4 2 0 2 9 12 −3 6
8  Kuwait 4 1 2 1 11 9 +2 5
9  Saudi Arabia 3 2 0 1 7 4 +3 6 Third place in
group stage
10  Iraq 3 1 1 1 9 5 +4 4
11  Bahrain 3 0 1 2 8 14 −6 1
12  Chinese Taipei 3 0 1 2 3 15 −12 1
13  Turkmenistan 3 0 1 2 9 20 −11 1 Fourth place in
group stage
14  Lebanon 3 0 1 2 3 17 −14 1
15  South Korea 3 0 0 3 1 15 −14 0
16  Oman 3 0 0 3 3 18 −15 0
Source: AFC

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