2020 AFC Futsal Championship


The 2020 AFC Futsal Championship will be the 16th edition of the AFC Futsal Championship, the biennial international futsal championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation for the men's national teams of Asia. A total of 16 teams take part in the tournament, originally scheduled to be played in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan between 26 February and 8 March 2020. However, the AFC announced on 3 February 2020 that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament had been postponed following consultation with all relevant stakeholders. On 9 March 2020, originally FIFA and AFC announced that the tournament were postponed to 5–16 August 2020, but in July 2020, the tournament schedule was moved again to 4–15 November 2020.
Same as previous editions held on the same year as the FIFA Futsal World Cup, the tournament acts as the AFC qualifiers for the World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup in Lithuania as the AFC representatives.
Iran are the defending champions.

Host selection

The following nations expressed interest to host the tournament:
In spring 2019, Turkmenistan was chosen as the host to take place in Ashgabat.

Qualification

Qualifying was played from 16 – 27 October 2019. Turkmenistan also participated in the qualifiers, even though they had already qualified automatically as hosts.

Qualified teams

The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.
TeamQualified asAppearancePrevious best performance
7th
16th
10th
6th
16th
11th
16th
16th,
13th
16th
14th
12th
3rd
12th
2nd
1st

Venues

The competition will be played in two venues in one city.

Squads

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

Draw

The final draw was held on 6 December 2019, 15:00 TMT, at the Olympia Hotel in Ashgabat. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2018 AFC Futsal Championship final tournament and qualification, with the hosts Turkmenistan automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.
Pot [|1]Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4

Match officials

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals.
;Tiebreakers
The teams were ranked according to points. If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order:
  1. Greater number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
  2. Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
  3. Greater number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
  4. If, after applying criteria 1 to 3, teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 9 apply;
  5. Goal difference in all the group matches;
  6. Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are involved and they are both on the field of play;
  8. Fewer score calculated according to the number of yellow and red cards received in the group matches ;
  9. Drawing of lots.
All times are local, TMT.
MatchdayDatesMatches
Matchday 14–5 November 20201 v 4, 2 v 3
Matchday 26–7 November 20204 v 2, 3 v 1
Matchday 38–9 November 20201 v 2, 3 v 4

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Winners qualify for 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup. Losers enter fifth place play-offs.
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Fifth place play-offs

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Semi-finals

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Fifth place match

Winner qualifies for 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup.

Third place match

Final

Goalscorers

Final ranking

Qualified teams for FIFA Futsal World Cup

The following five teams from AFC qualify for the 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup.
TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA Futsal World Cup1
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TBD15.11.2020