Thailand (ASEAN) Uzbekistan (Central) Mongolia (East) United Arab Emirates (West)
Dates
1–9 December 2018[1]
Teams
23 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played
30
Goals scored
204 (6.8 per match)
Attendance
7,226 (241 per match)
Top scorer(s)
Khalil Marran (6 goals)
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International football competition
The 2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship qualification is the qualification process organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine the participating teams for the 2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship. Players born after 1 January 1999 were eligible to compete in the tournament.[2]
A total of 12 teams qualify to play in the final tournament.
Draw
Of the 47 AFC member associations, a total of 23 teams entered the competition. The qualification process is divided into four zones: ASEAN Zone, Central Zone, East Zone and West Zone (no teams from South Zone entered qualification). The 12 spots in the final tournament are distributed as follows:
Hosts: 1 spot
ASEAN Zone: 3 spots
Central Zone: 3 spots
East Zone: 2 spots
West Zone: 3 spots
As the final tournament hosts had not been announced at the time of the qualifying draw, the hosts were also included in the draw. Despite having automatically qualified for the final tournament, they may still decide to participate in qualification, and if they finish in one of the qualification spots, the next best team in their zone also qualifies.
The draw for the qualifiers was held on 30 August 2018, 15:00 MYT (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[3][4][5] The mechanism of the draw for each zone is as follows:
ASEAN Zone: Five teams entered the competition, and they were placed into one group, so no draw was necessary. The top three teams qualify for the final tournament.
Central Zone: Initially five teams entered the competition, and they were placed into one group, so no draw was necessary. However, after Uzbekistan were added, a re-draw for the Central Zone was held on 18 September 2018 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[6][7] The six teams were drawn into two groups of three. The winners of each group, and the winners of the play-off between the runners-up, qualify for the final tournament.
East Zone: Six teams entered the competition, and they were drawn into two groups of three. The winners of each group qualify for the final tournament.
West Zone: Six teams entered the competition, and they were drawn into two groups of three. The winners of each group, and the winners of the play-off between the runners-up, qualify for the final tournament.
Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament. Saudi Arabia, which originally qualified, withdrew and were replaced by Hong Kong.[8]
(H): Qualification hosts
Format
In each group, teams play each other once at a centralised venue.
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):[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
The ASEAN Zone qualifiers are played between 5–9 December 2018.
1Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
Goalscorers
There were 204 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 6.8 goals per match.
6 goals
Khalil Marran
5 goals
Hiroto Otsuka
Jiei Yamada
Jamal Selwan
4 goals
Muhammad Sanjaya
Muhammad Syaifullah
Takehiro Motoishi
3 goals
Seyed Mousavi
Sayed Adnan
Tai Wei-jen
Rizal Musthofa
Hussein Abdulhakeem
Masashi Osawa
Denisbek Amandyk Uulu
Mirlan Zholdubaev
Abdullah Al-Dossari
Fahad Al Qasim
Muhamamd Rajabov
Mukhammad Zoirov
Huỳnh Mi Woen
2 goals
Hamid Reza Hossaini
Farzad Mahmoodi
Komail Zakareya
Zhong Liguo
Chen Ching-hang
Chu Wing Cho
Dewa Rizki Amanda
Afif Rizky
Salar Aghapour
Seyed Behdad Ahmadi
Belal Esmaeili
Ali Abdullah Lami
Yaseen Hussein
Kaito Yamada
Georgio El Khoury
Hussein Hamieh
Majd Hamouch
Harith Naim
Ekmal Shahrin
Bat-Orgil Erdenebat
Alwaleed Al-Harbi
Khalid Saburov
Idris Yorov
Piyapan Aeimwilai
Nattasak Photi
Chutinan Raksasap
Supakorn Sangom
Asli Mukhammadiev
Shakhzodjon Sadiev
Nguyễn Huỳnh Thanh Huy
1 goal
Hassan Ali Jafari
Dawood Yousufi
Saleh Ahmed
Hasan Jaafar
Liu Changsheng
Xu Maoxi
Chang Che-ming
Huang Chih-kai
Hsieh Chin-cheng
Liu Ju-ming
Wang Kun-wei
Yuen Sai Kit
Wong Wai Kwok
Chow Ka Lok Leo
Chang Hiu Nam
Lee Ho Yin
Firman Adriansyah
Rizki Xavier
Ramadhan Zidani
Sajjad Adelipour
Reza Ghanbari
Masoud Yousef
Hussein Al-Rubaye
Sadeq Basim
Basheer Chasib
Hayder Raad
Hussein Zamil
Reira Hashimoto
Gensuke Mori
Yudai Takahashi
Abdalmahsen Al-Ateeqi
Abdullah Al-Sahli
Azamat Dolotkeldiev
Damir Isakov
Mamatziia Zholdoshov
Mohamad Elkaiss
Nabih Harfouche
Steve Koukezian
Hassan Shehab
Zakry Asraf
Iskandar Harun
Erdene-Undrakh Battogtokh
Bilegjargal Purevkhuu
Ankhbayar Tumurbaatar
Luaw Zar Yar Lwin
Htet Wai Thein
Meshari Al-Obid
Musab Muharraq
Faridun Nematov
Rabijon Rabiev
Krit Aransanyalak
Somchai Aunyongseng
Charoondej Muenthiang
Thawatchai Rairat
Chutipong Suraditanunt
Daniil Panchenko
Muhametkuli Kuliyev
Humaid Al-Shehhi
Mohamed Hasan
Abdulla Solikhov
Châu Đoàn Phát
Đào Minh Quang
Nhận Gia Hưng
1 own goal
Javad Safari (against Iran)
Muhammad Syaifullah (against Thailand)
Rizki Xavier (against Thailand)
Erfan Hosseinzadeh (against Turkmenistan)
Hassan Shehab (against Kuwait)
Pyae Phyo Maung (against Thailand)
Khalil Marran (against Bahrain)
Meylis Hoshmyradov (against Afghanistan)
Arzuvguly Sapargulyyev (against Afghanistan)
References
^"AFC Competitions Calendar 2018". AFC. 11 January 2018.
^ ab"AFC U-20 Futsal Championship 2019 Competition Regulations". AFC.
^"Asian hopefuls to identify opponents in official draw". AFC. 29 August 2018.
^"Teams discover Qualifiers' opponents". AFC. 30 August 2018.
^"AFC U-20 Futsal Championship Qualifiers 2019 - Official Draw". YouTube. 30 August 2018.
^"Uzbekistan drawn into Group B". AFC. 18 September 2018.
^"AFC Futsal U-20 championship 2019 Qualifiers Central Zone". YouTube. 18 September 2018.
^ abcd"IR Iran 2019 Finals draw: All you need to know". AFC. 10 April 2019.
^ ab"با تایید کنفدراسیون فوتبال آسیا؛". Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran. 5 December 2018. Archived from the original on 13 December 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
^ ab"Iran 2019 cast complete". AFC. 10 December 2018.
External links
AFC U-20 Futsal Championship, the-AFC.com
AFC U-20 Futsal Championship 2019, stats.the-AFC.com