2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup

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Host countryKuwait
Dates27 September – 8 October
Teams16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue1 (in 1 host city)
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 scorerIran Hossein Tayyebi (10 goals)
Best playerIran Moslem Oladghobad
Best goalkeeperJapan Guilherme Kuromoto
Fair play award Uzbekistan
2020
2018
2024

The 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup was the 16th edition of the AFC Futsal Asian Cup,[1] 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.[2]

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.[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 champions Iran in the final to claim their fourth title.

Qualified teams

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
 KuwaitHosts12th2014Fourth place (2003, 2014)
 LebanonWest Zone Group A winners12th2018Quarter-finals (2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018)
 Saudi ArabiaWest Zone Group A runners-up2nd2016Group stage (2016)
 IraqWest Zone Group B winners12th2018Fourth place (2018)
 BahrainWest Zone Group B runners-up3rd2018Quarter-finals (2018)
 OmanWest Zone playoff winner1stDebutNone
 ThailandASEAN Zone winners16th2018Runners-up (2008, 2012)
 IndonesiaASEAN Zone runners-up10th2014Group stage (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)
 VietnamASEAN Zone third place6th2018Fourth place (2016)
 IranCentral and South Zone Group A winners16th2018Champions (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2018)
 TurkmenistanCentral and South Zone Group A runners-up7th2012Group stage (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012)
 UzbekistanCentral and South Zone Group B winners16th2018Runners-up (2001, 2006, 2010, 2016)
 TajikistanCentral and South Zone Group B runners-up11th2018Quarter-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.[6]

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4

Squads

Each team had to submit a squad of 14 players, including a minimum of two goalkeepers.[2]

Group stage

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).[2]

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
Report
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
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
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
Report
Saad Al Abdullah Hall, Kuwait City
Referee: Ryan Shepheard (Australia)

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:[7]

Top Goalscorer Best Goalkeeper Most Valuable Player Fair Play Award
Iran Hossein Tayyebi[8] Japan Guilherme Kuromoto[9] Iran Moslem Oladghobad[10]  Uzbekistan

Goalscorers

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

10 goals

7 goals

6 goals

  • Tajikistan Idris Yorov
  • Turkmenistan Gurbangeldi Sähedow

5 goals

4 goals

  • Indonesia Muhammad Fajriyan
  • Iran Salar Aghapour
  • Thailand Worasak Srirangpirot
  • Uzbekistan Khusniddin Nishonov
  • Uzbekistan Ikhtiyor Ropiev

3 goals

2 goals

  • Bahrain Ahmed Antar
  • Bahrain Ammar Hasan Mayhad
  • Indonesia Dewa Rizki
  • Indonesia Syauqi Saud
  • Iran Mohammad Hossein Derakhshani
  • Iran Alireza Javan
  • Iran Mehdi Karimi
  • Japan Soma Mizutani
  • Kuwait Abdullatif Al-Abbasi
  • Kuwait Abdulaziz Al-Basam
  • Kuwait Saleh Al-Fadhel
  • Kuwait Abdulrahman Al-Tawail
  • Saudi Arabia Farhan Ali
  • Saudi Arabia Fahad Rudayni
  • Thailand Narongsak Wingwon
  • Turkmenistan Mülkaman Annagulyýew
  • Uzbekistan Shakhram Fakhriddinov
  • Uzbekistan Ilkhomjon Khamroev
  • Vietnam Trần Thái Huy

1 goal

  • Bahrain Mohamed Abdulla
  • Bahrain Jassam Saleh
  • Bahrain Mohamed Al-Sandi
  • Bahrain Falah Abbas
  • Chinese Taipei He Chia-chen
  • Chinese Taipei Huang Wei-lun
  • Chinese Taipei Lin Chih-hung
  • Indonesia Samuel Eko
  • Indonesia Firman Adriansyah
  • Indonesia Iqbal Rahmatullah
  • Indonesia Rio Pangestu
  • Indonesia Reza Gunawan
  • Iran Mehdi Asadshir
  • Iran Bahman Jafari
  • Iran Alireza Rafieipour
  • Iraq Mohanad Abdulhadi
  • Iraq Mustafa Ihsan
  • Iraq Ghaith Riyadh
  • Iraq Tareq Zeyad
  • Japan Vinícius Crepaldi
  • Japan Kentaro Ishida
  • Japan Higor Pires
  • Japan Tomoki Yoshikawa
  • Kuwait Yousef Al-Khalifah
  • Kuwait Abdulrahman Al-Mosabehi
  • Kuwait Abdulrahman Al-Wadi
  • Lebanon Mouhammad Hammoud
  • Lebanon Steve Koukezian
  • Lebanon Hasan Zeitoun
  • Oman Samer Al-Balushi
  • Oman Khalfan Al-Maawali
  • Oman Mohammed Taqi
  • Saudi Arabia Mohsen Fqihe
  • Saudi Arabia Nasser Al-Harthi
  • South Korea Shin Jong-hoon
  • Tajikistan Umed Kuziev
  • Tajikistan Muhamadjon Sharipov
  • Tajikistan Bakhtiyor Soliev
  • Tajikistan Iqboli Vositzoda
  • Thailand Krit Aransanyalak
  • Thailand Panat Kittipanuwong
  • Thailand Warut Wangsama-aeo
  • Thailand Narongsak Wingwon
  • Turkmenistan Maksat Soltanow
  • Uzbekistan Sunatulla Juraev
  • Uzbekistan Dilshod Rakhmatov
  • Vietnam Châu Đoàn Phát
  • Vietnam Nguyễn Anh Duy
  • Vietnam Nguyễn Minh Trí

1 own goal

  • Iran Saeid Ahmadabbasi (against Japan)
  • Lebanon Mustafa Rhyem (against Iran)
  • South Korea Seo Jung-woo (against Japan)
  • South Korea Shin Jong-hoon (against Vietnam)
  • Turkmenistan Şiri Baýramdurdyýew (against Tajikistan)
  • Vietnam Châu Đoàn Phát (against Saudi Arabia)

Final rankings

References

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