2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup qualification

The 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup qualification was the qualification process organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine the participating teams for the 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup, the 17th edition of the international men's futsal championship of Asia.^[2]

A total of 15 teams qualified to play in the final tournament, excluding Kuwait - who automatically qualified as a host.

The qualification process was divided into four zones: ASEAN Zone, where the 2022 AFF Futsal Championship served as the qualifying competition, Central & South Zone, East Zone, and West Zone.

Qualification process

Of the 47 AFC member associations, a total of 31 teams entered the competition. Sixteen spots in the final tournament were distributed as follows:

• Host: 1 spot (Kuwait)
• West Zone: 5 spots
• Central & South Zone: 4 spots
• East Zone: 3 spots
• ASEAN Zone: 3 spots

Draw

• In the West Zone, seven teams were drawn into one group of four teams and another group of three teams.

West Zone

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Iraq  Lebanon	Bahrain  Saudi Arabia	United Arab Emirates	Oman  Palestine

• In the Central & South Zone, eight teams were drawn into two groups.

Central and South Zone

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Iran  Uzbekistan	Kyrgyzstan  Tajikistan	Turkmenistan  Afghanistan	Nepal  Maldives

• In the East Zone, six teams were drawn into two group of three teams. Later, after China withdrew, the qualification was played as one group instead.^[3]

East Zone

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Japan  Chinese Taipei	China  South Korea	Hong Kong  Mongolia

• Three berths from the ASEAN Zone were determined by 2022 AFF Futsal Championship where a separate draw was conducted by the ASEAN Football Federation on February 21.

ASEAN Zone

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
Thailand  Vietnam	Malaysia  Myanmar	Indonesia  East Timor	Australia  Cambodia	Brunei

Notes

• Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.

Did not enter

West Zone	Central and South Zone (all of them in South Zone)	East Zone	ASEAN Zone
Jordan  Qatar  Syria  Yemen	Bangladesh  Bhutan  India  Pakistan  Sri Lanka	Guam  Macau  Northern Mariana Islands  North Korea  China	Laos  Philippines  Singapore

Format

The qualifiers took place between April 1 to 15 in centralized venues. In the West Zone, the United Arab Emirates were the hosts. Top two teams from each group and the winner of the play-off match between the third placed teams qualified. In the Central and South Zone, the matches were played in the Kyrgyz Republic where top two teams from each group advanced to the final tournament. The host for the East Zone were Malaysia. The top three teams from the five team group qualified for the tournament. The 2022 AFF Futsal Championship acts as the qualifiers for the ASEAN Zone, in which the top three teams (e.g. the two finalists and the winners of the third-place playoff) qualified.

West Zone

Top two teams of each group, and the winner of the play-off between the group third-placed team, qualified for 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup.

• The matches were played between 5 and 9 April 2022.
• All matches were played in United Arab Emirates.
• Times listed are UTC+4.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Lebanon	3	2	1	0	11	7	+4	7	2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup
2	Saudi Arabia	3	1	2	0	10	9	+1	5
3	Oman	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2	Play-off
4	Palestine	3	0	1	2	8	12	−4	1

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iraq	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2	4	2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup
2	Bahrain	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	4
3	United Arab Emirates (H)	2	0	0	2	0	3	−3	0	Play-off

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Play-off

The winner qualified for 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup.

Central and South Zone

Top two teams of each group qualified for 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup.

• The matches were played between 10 and 12 April 2022.
• All matches were played in Kyrgyzstan.
• Times are listed are UTC+6.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iran	3	3	0	0	28	1	+27	9	2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup
2	Turkmenistan	3	2	0	1	10	4	+6	6
3	Kyrgyzstan (H)	3	1	0	2	9	12	−3	3
4	Maldives	3	0	0	3	1	31	−30	0

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uzbekistan	3	3	0	0	15	4	+11	9	2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup
2	Tajikistan	3	1	1	1	17	10	+7	4
3	Afghanistan	3	1	1	1	13	10	+3	4
4	Nepal	3	0	0	3	3	24	−21	0

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East Zone

The top three teams qualified for 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup. China withdrew from the tournament on 20 April 2022 due to the surge in COVID-19 cases in the country following the 2022 Shanghai COVID-19 outbreak.^[4][3] Before they withdrew, the qualification was to be staged between six teams which were drawn into two groups of three teams, with the group winners and a play-off winner between the group runner-ups to qualify for the final tournament.

• The matches were played between 17 and 21 May 2022.
• All matches were played in Malaysia.
• Times listed are UTC+8.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	4	4	0	0	42	3	+39	12	2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup
2	South Korea	4	2	1	1	11	12	−1	7
3	Chinese Taipei	4	2	0	2	13	14	−1	6
4	Hong Kong	4	0	2	2	6	17	−11	2
5	Mongolia	4	0	1	3	2	28	−26	1

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ASEAN Zone

Top three teams of the 2022 AFF Futsal Championship qualified for 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup.

• The matches were played between 2 and 10 April 2022.
• All matches were held in Thailand.
• Times listed are UTC+7.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Thailand (H)	4	3	1	0	35	4	+31	10	Semi-finals
2	Indonesia	4	3	1	0	30	5	+25	10
3	Malaysia	4	2	0	2	20	15	+5	6
4	Cambodia	4	0	1	3	10	36	−26	1
5	Brunei	4	0	1	3	2	37	−35	1

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Myanmar	3	2	1	0	17	5	+12	7	Semi-finals
2	Vietnam	3	2	1	0	13	3	+10	7
3	Australia	3	1	0	2	9	15	−6	3
4	East Timor	3	0	0	3	8	24	−16	0

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Semi-finals

The winners qualified for 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup.

Third place match

The winner qualified for 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup.

Final

Qualified teams

The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.^[5]

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in AFC Futsal Championship1
Kuwait	Hosts	25 January 2021[6]	11 (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)
Lebanon	West Zone Group A winners	6 April 2022	11 (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
Bahrain	West Zone Group B runners-up	6 April 2022	2 (2002, 2018)
Iraq	West Zone Group B winners	6 April 2022	11 (2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018)
Saudi Arabia	West Zone Group A runners-up	7 April 2022	1 (2016)
Indonesia	ASEAN Zone runners-up	8 April 2022	9 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)
Thailand	ASEAN Zone winners	8 April 2022	15 (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
Oman	West Zone Play-off winners	9 April 2022	0 (debut)
Vietnam	ASEAN Zone third place	10 April 2022	5 (2005, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018)
Uzbekistan	Central & South Zone Group B winners	11 April 2022	15 (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
Iran	Central & South Zone Group A winners	11 April 2022	15 (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
Tajikistan	Central & South Zone Group B runners-up	12 April 2022	10 (2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
Turkmenistan	Central & South Zone Group A runners-up	12 April 2022	6 (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012)
Japan	East Zone winners	19 May 2022	15 (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
South Korea	East Zone runners-up	19 May 2022	13 (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018)
Chinese Taipei	East Zone third place	20 May 2022	12 (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

There were 377 goals scored in 52 matches, for an average of 7.25 goals per match.

11 goals

9 goals

8 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

2 own goals

References