Summary
The 2019 was AFC U-20 Futsal Championship the biennial international the championships organised Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for men's youth national futsal teams off Asia. Will Qualfily 2020 FIFA U-20 FUTSAL WORLD CUP
| 2019 مسابقات قهرمانی فوتسال زیر ۲۰ سال آسیا | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Iran |
| City | Tabriz |
| Dates | 14–22 June[1] |
| Teams | 12 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 1 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Japan (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Afghanistan |
| Third place |  Iran |
| Fourth place |  Indonesia |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 20 |
| Goals scored | 128 (6.4 per match) |
| Attendance | 14,031 (702 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Salar Aghapour (8 goals) |
| Best player(s) | Masashi Osawa |
| Fair play award | Japan |
The tournament was hosted by Iran between 14 and 22 June 2019.[2] A total of 12 teams participated of tournament.[3] were the defending champion but failed to defend the title after losing to Japanese in the semi-final. Japanese became the champions after beating Afghanistan in the final.
Qualification edit
Unlike the previous tournament where all teams entered the final tournament, qualifiers were held from 1 to 10 December 2018.[4] The draw for the qualifiers was held on 30 August 2018.[5]
Qualified teams edit
The following 12 teams qualified for the final tournament.[6]
| Team | Qualified as | Appearance | Previous best performance |
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 Thailand |
ASEAN Zone winners | 2nd | Third place (2017) |
 Vietnam |
ASEAN Zone runners-up | 2nd | Group stage (2017) |
| Indonesia |
ASEAN Zone third place | 2nd | Quarter-finals (2017) |
| Iran |
Central Zone Group A winners and Hosts | 2nd | Champions (2017) |
 Kyrgyzstan |
Central Zone Group B winners | 2nd | Group stage (2017) |
| Afghanistan |
Central Zone play-off winners | 2nd | Group stage (2017) |
 Tajikistan |
Central Zone play-off losers | 2nd | Group stage (2017) |
| Japan |
East Zone Group A winners | 2nd | Quarter-finals (2017) |
 Chinese Taipei |
East Zone Group B winners | 2nd | Group stage (2017) |
 Hong Kong[note 1] |
East Zone best runners-up | 2nd | Group Stage (2017) |
 Lebanon |
West Zone Group A winners | 2nd | Quarter-finals (2017) |
 Iraq |
West Zone Group B winners | 2nd | Runners-up (2017) |
Notes:
Venue edit
The matches were played at the Shahid Poursharifi Arena in Tabriz.[2]
| Tabriz |
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| Shahid Poursharifi Arena |
| Capacity: 6,000 |
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Draw edit
The final draw was held on 11 April 2019, 15:30 MYT (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur.[7][8] 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 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 |
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Squads edit
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 (Regulations Articles 27.1 and 27.2).[3]
Group stage edit
The top two teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals.
- Tiebreakers
Teams were 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 were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 11.5):[3]
- 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.
All times are local, IRDT (UTC+4:30).
| Matchday | Dates | Matches |
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| Matchday 1 | 14 June 2019 | 3 v 1 |
| Matchday 2 | 15 June 2019 | 2 v 3 |
| Matchday 3 | 16 June 2019 | 1 v 2 |
Group A edit
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Iran (H)
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Afghanistan
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 3 | |
| 3 | Hong Kong
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 13 | −9 | 0 |
| Hong Kong | 3–7 | Iran |
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| Afghanistan | 6–1 | Hong Kong |
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| Iran | 3–2 | Afghanistan |
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Group B edit
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Thailand
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | +9 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Lebanon
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 3 | |
| 3 | Kyrgyzstan
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 0 |
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
| Kyrgyzstan | 2–4 | Thailand |
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| Lebanon | 3–2 | Kyrgyzstan |
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| Thailand | 8–1 | Lebanon |
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Group C edit
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Japan
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Vietnam
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| 3 | Tajikistan
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 |
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
| Tajikistan | 1–3 | Japan |
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| Vietnam | 2–1 | Tajikistan |
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Group D edit
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Indonesia
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Iraq
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 3 | |
| 3 | Chinese Taipei
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 11 | −6 | 0 |
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
| Chinese Taipei | 2–5 | Iraq |
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| Indonesia | 6–3 | Chinese Taipei |
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| Iraq | 1–2 | Indonesia |
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Knockout stage edit
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 (no extra time) was used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Articles 15.1 and 16.1).[3]
Bracket edit
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | ||||||||||
| Iran (a.e.t.) | 3 | |||||||||
| 20 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | ||||||||||
| Lebanon | 2 | |||||||||
| Iran | 4 | |||||||||
| 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | ||||||||||
| Japan (a.e.t.) | 8 | |||||||||
| Japan | 2 | |||||||||
| 22 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | ||||||||||
| Iraq | 0 | |||||||||
| Japan | 3 | |||||||||
| 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | ||||||||||
| Afghanistan | 1 | |||||||||
| Thailand | 2 | |||||||||
| 20 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | ||||||||||
| Afghanistan | 3 | |||||||||
| Afghanistan (a.e.t.) | 4 | |||||||||
| 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | ||||||||||
| Indonesia | 3 | Third place match | ||||||||
| Indonesia | 7 | |||||||||
| 22 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | ||||||||||
| Vietnam | 5 | |||||||||
| Iran | 9 | |||||||||
| Indonesia | 1 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals edit
| Indonesia | 7–5 | Vietnam |
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| Japan | 2–0 | Iraq |
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| Iran | 3–2 (a.e.t.) | Lebanon |
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Semi-finals edit
| Afghanistan | 4–3 (a.e.t.) | Indonesia |
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| Iran | 4–8 (a.e.t.) | Japan |
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Third place match edit
| Iran | 9–1 | Indonesia |
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Final edit
| Japan | 3–1 | Afghanistan |
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Winners edit
| 2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship |
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 Japan First title |
Awards edit
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:
| Top Goalscorer[9] | Most Valuable Player[9] | Fair Play award[9] |
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| Salar Aghapour
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Masashi Osawa
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Japan
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Goalscorers edit
There were 128 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 6.4 goals per match.
8 goals
Salar Aghapour
6 goals
Seyed Mousavi
5 goals
Muhammad Sanjaya
4 goals
- Agung Pandega
- Masoud Yousef
3 goals
- Ali Zada
Wong Wai Kwok- Ali Akrami
- Mahdi Dehghan
- Reza Ghanbari
Masashi Osawa
2 goals
- Mojtaba Mohammadi
- Dawood Yousufi
Chen Ching-hang- Huang Yu-wei
- Abdussalam
- Firman Adriansyah
- Muhammad Syaifullah
- Belal Esmaeili
- Sajjad Sarbaz
Yaseen Hussein- Takehiro Motoishi
- Hiroto Otsuka
- Yudai Takahashi
Damir Isakov- Mamatziia Zholdoshov
Steve Koukezian- Jamal Selwan
Krit Aransanyalak- Sivakorn Jongkolthakorn
- Thanawat Koedbangrachan
- Siksaka Pramanong
- Thawatchai Rairat
An Lâm Tới- Nguyễn Huỳnh Thanh Huy
1 goal
- Hamid Reza Hossaini
- Farzad Mahmoodi
- Sadiq Zaheri
- Fu Wei-da
- Chow Ka Lok Leo
- Filippo Inzaghi
- Ari Ramdani
- Afif Rizky
- Rizki Xavier
- Erfan Hosseinzadeh
- Sajjad Haitham
- Hussein Hamid
- Ali Muwafaq
- Hussein Zamil
- Manatsu Hagiwara
- Reira Hashimoto
- Yuki Hatakeyama
- Rintaro Iguchi
- Yuta Kimura
- Kota Matsukawa
- Hiroshi Tabuchi
- Jiei Yamada
- Kaito Yamada
- Mouafac Ghattas
- Hassan Shehab
Nasim Sharipov- Idris Yorov
- Nattasak Photi
- Chutipong Suraditanunt
- Hà Đức Ngọc
- Huỳnh Mi Woen
- Nhận Gia Hưng
- Triệu Xuân Linh
1 own goal
- Morteza Haidari (against Thailand)
- Hussein Hamieh (against Thailand)
References edit
- ^ "AFC Competitions Calendar 2019". AFC. 28 February 2018. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ a b c d "AFC U-20 Futsal Championship 2019 Competition Regulations". AFC. Archived from the original on 9 August 2018.
- ^ "AFC Competitions Calendar 2018". AFC. 11 January 2018. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018.
- ^ "Asian hopefuls to identify opponents in official draw". AFC. 29 August 2018.
- ^ "Iran 2019 cast complete". AFC. 10 December 2018.
- ^ a b "IR Iran 2019 Finals draw: All you need to know". AFC. 10 April 2019.
- ^ "Draw sets stage for exciting IR Iran 2019 Finals". AFC. 11 April 2019.
- ^ a b c "Aghapour bags Top Scorer Award, Masashi clinches MVP Award". AFC. 22 June 2019.
External links edit
- AFC U-20 Futsal Championship, the-AFC.com
- AFC U20 Futsal Championship 2019, stats.the-AFC.com