2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship


The 2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship was the second edition of AFC U-20 Futsal Championship, the biennial international futsal championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation for the men's youth national futsal teams of Asia.
The tournament was hosted by Iran between 14–22 June 2019. A total of 12 teams participated in the tournament.
Iran were the defending champions but failed to defend the title after losing to Japan in the semi-final. Japan became the champion after beating Afghanistan in the final.

Qualification

Unlike the previous tournament where all teams entered the final tournament, qualifiers were held from 1 to 10 December 2018. The draw for the qualifiers was held on 30 August 2018.

Qualified teams

The following 12 teams qualified for the final tournament.
TeamQualified asAppearancePrevious best performance
2nd
2nd
2nd
and 2nd
2nd
2nd
2nd
2nd
2nd
2nd
2nd
2nd

Venue

The matches were played at the Shahid Poursharifi Arena in Tabriz.
Tabriz
Shahid Poursharifi Arena
Capacity: 6,000

Draw

The final draw was held on 11 April 2019, 15:30 MYT, at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur. The 12 teams were drawn into four groups of three teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2017 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship final tournament, with the hosts automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3

Squads

Players born after 1 January 1999 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team must register a squad of 14 players, minimum two of whom must be goalkeepers.

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals.
;Tiebreakers
Teams were ranked according to points, and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings :
  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 ;
  9. Drawing of lots.
All times are local, IRDT.
MatchdayDatesMatches
Matchday 114 June 20193 v 1
Matchday 215 June 20192 v 3
Matchday 316 June 20191 v 2

Group A

----
----

Group B

----
----

Group C

----
----

Group D

----
----

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket

Quarter-finals

----
----
----

Semi-finals

----

Third place match

Final

Winners

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:
Top GoalscorerMost Valuable PlayerFair Play award
Salar Aghapour Masashi Osawa

Goalscorers