2011 AFC Beach Soccer Championship

2011 AFC Beach Soccer Championship

2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Qualification (AFC)
Tournament details
Host country	Oman
City	Muscat
Dates	27 February – 4 March
Teams	11 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Japan (2nd title)
Runners-up	Oman
Third place	Iran
Fourth place	United Arab Emirates
Tournament statistics
Matches played	23
Goals scored	163 (7.09 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Takeshi Kawaharazuka Ishaq Al-Mas (8 goals)
Best player(s)	Yahya Al-Araimi
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The 2011 AFC Beach Soccer Championship was a continental beach soccer tournament, which took place from 27 February to 4 March 2011, in Muscat, Oman, seeing the tournament leave Dubai for the first time. Beach Soccer Worldwide and FIFA decided to move the location of the championship to the Al-Musannah Sports City complex in Muscat, due to the success of the 2010 Asian Beach Games held there. ^[1]

The two finalists and the third place play-off winner earned qualification to represent Asia at the 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Ravenna, Italy being Japan, who won the championship for a second consecutive time, Oman who finished in second place, qualifying to the world cup for the first time and Iran who beat the United Arab Emirates in the third place play off, to qualify by finishing in third place for the fourth time. ^[2]

Participating teams

A tournament record 11 teams, an increase of four teams following the seven that participated in the 2009 qualifiers confirmed their participation in the competition, with many newcomers, showing the ever growing popularity of the sport. ^[3]

Bahrain   China   Indonesia   Iran   Iraq   Japan

Kuwait   Oman   Syria   United Arab Emirates   Uzbekistan

Originally, 15 teams were going to take part, which included Afghanistan, Palestine, Qatar and Yemen. ^[4] However, the four countries pulled out of the tournament because of an undisclosed reason. ^[5]

Group stage

The draw to divide the eleven teams into the following three groups was conducted on 24 February 2011. The group stage commenced on 27 February 2011 and consisted of each nation playing each other once in a single round-robin format. To qualify for the quarter-finals, a team must have finished in the top two of each group or have one of the two best records of the third placed group finishers.

All kickoff times are listed as Omani local time (UTC+4).

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners, runners-up, and best two third placed teams advance to the quarter finals

Group A

Team	Pld	W	W+	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Oman	3	3	0	0	20	9	+11	9
China	3	2	0	1	9	4	+5	6
Iraq	3	0	1	2	10	20	−10	2
Kuwait	3	0	0	3	11	17	−6	0

27 February 2011

13:15

China	5 – 2	Iraq
Han Xue 6', 17' Gui Qixuan 15', 33' Qiu Hao 36'	Report	Sadeq Jabr 2' Hussein Jabbar 8'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

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27 February 2011

17:00

Kuwait	6 – 8	Oman
Al-Safi 9', 13' Al-Saqer 11', 29' Al-Mas 26' (o.g.) Al-Eid 28'	Report	Al-Sinani 3', 7' Al-Mas 4' H. Al-Araimi 10' Al-Alawi 20' Al-Zaabi 21' Y. Al-Araimi 33', 35'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

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28 February 2011

12:00

China	4 – 1	Kuwait
Yilihanmu Aihaiti 17' Han Xue 25', 26' Gui Qixuan 28'	Report	Al-Saqer 15'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

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28 February 2011

17:00

Oman	11 – 3	Iraq
Al-Mas 1', 19', 36', 36' H. Al-Araimi 15' Y. Al-Araimi 24', 32' Al-Alawi 26', 35' Al-Zaabi 28', 29'	Report	Hussein Jabbar 5', 36' Moshtak Kadhim 32'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

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1 March 2011

13:15

Iraq	5 – 4 (a.e.t.)	Kuwait
Hussein Jabbar 7', 14', 18', 39' Sadeq Jabr 27'	Report	Al-Jaser 6', 12', 35' Al-Safi 17'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

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1 March 2011

17:00

Oman	1 – 0	China
Al-Dhabit 2'	Report

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

Group B

Team	Pld	W	W+	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Iran	2	1	1	0	10	4	+6	5
Japan	2	1	0	1	13	9	+4	3
Syria	2	0	0	2	4	14	−10	0

27 February 2011

15:45

Japan	9 – 4	Syria
Kawaharazuka 2', 17', 22' Yamauchi 5', 30', 35' Oda 29' Tabata 33', 33'	Report	Akil 10' Arnaout 17' Shatta 26' Nassif 33'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

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28 February 2011

14:30

Iran	5 – 0	Syria
Boloukbashi 6', 21' Mesigar 18' Naderi 23' Ahmadzadeh 35'	Report

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

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1 March 2011

15:45

Japan	4 – 5 (a.e.t.)	Iran
Yamauchi 4' Kawaharazuka 20', 24' Wakabayashi 38'	Report	Ahmadzadeh 9' Naderi 12', 18' Abdollahi 37' Hassani 39'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

Group C

Team	Pld	W	W+	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United Arab Emirates	3	3	0	0	12	3	+9	9
Bahrain	3	2	0	1	10	9	+1	6
Uzbekistan	3	1	0	2	11	9	+2	3
Indonesia	3	0	0	3	6	18	−12	0

27 February 2011

12:00

Bahrain	4 – 3	Uzbekistan
Darwish 17' Yousef 17', 18' Jamal 18'	Report	Elibaev 7' Sharipov 9', 15'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

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27 February 2011

14:30

Indonesia	1 – 6	United Arab Emirates
Dwipayudha 1'	Report	W. Mohammed 7' Ranjabar 9' A. Karim 13', 28' R. Ahmed 19' H. Al-Balooshi 32'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

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28 February 2011

13:15

Bahrain	5 – 2	Indonesia
Jamal 6', 10' Darwish 14' Nesuf 16' Hasan 25'	Report	Kariana 5' Jumada 10'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

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28 February 2011

15:45

United Arab Emirates	2 – 1	Uzbekistan
R. Ahmed 1' Ranjabar 2'	Report	Sharipov 13'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

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1 March 2011

12:00

Uzbekistan	7 – 3	Indonesia
Anorov 4', 30' Sattorov 9', 22' Sharipov 26', 27', 36'	Report	Parimawan 6' Darmasuta 16' Metrajaya 22'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

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1 March 2011

14:30

United Arab Emirates	4 – 1	Bahrain
A. Karim 4' R. Ahmed 13' Al-Mesaabi 24' Ranjabar 34'	Report	Hasan 33'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

Third placed teams

Because some groups contain four teams and some three, matches against the fourth-placed team in each group are not included in this ranking.

Team	Pld	W	W+	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Uzbekistan	2	0	0	2	4	6	−2	0
Syria	2	0	0	2	4	14	−10	0
Iraq	2	0	0	2	5	16	−11	0

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	2 March 2011
	Iran	5
					3 March 2011
	Uzbekistan	3
					Iran	2 (0)
	2 March 2011
					Oman (pen.)	2 (1)
	Oman	5
									4 March 2011
	Syria	2
									Oman	1
	2 March 2011
									Japan	2
	Japan	6
					3 March 2011
	Bahrain	2
					Japan	2
	2 March 2011
					United Arab Emirates	1			Third place
	United Arab Emirates	5
									4 March 2011
	China	1
									Iran	6
									United Arab Emirates	2

Quarter finals

2 March 2011

13:15

Iran	5 – 3	Uzbekistan
Abdollahi 15' Ahmadzadeh 28' Mesigar 29' Hassani 33', 36'	Report	Samegov 13', 36' Azizov 26'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

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2 March 2011

14:30

Japan	6 – 2	Bahrain
Yamauchi 6', 36' Arakaki 13', 21' Kawaharazuka 17' Oda 22'	Report	Jamal 25', 30'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

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2 March 2011

15:45

United Arab Emirates	5 – 1	China
A. Karim 1', 4', 7' R. Ahmed 3' Ranjabar 36'	Report	Qiu Hao 13'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

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2 March 2011

17:00

Oman	5 – 2	Syria
Y. Al-Araimi 7', 20' Al-Mas 18' Al-Sinani 20', 27'	Report	Nassif 7' Al-Najjar 34'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

Semi finals

3 March 2011

15:45

Japan	2 – 1	United Arab Emirates
Kawaharazuka 12' Yamauchi 15'	Report	A. Karim 35'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

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3 March 2011

17:00

Iran	2 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Oman
Ahmadzadeh 22' Boloukbashi 29'	Report	Al-Sinani 5' Al-Zaabi 9'
Penalties
Mesigar	0 – 1	Al-Sinani

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

Third place play off

4 March 2011

15:45

Iran	6 – 2	United Arab Emirates
Mesigar 1', 25' Dara 11', 36' Hassani 35' Ahmadzadeh 35'	Report	R. Ahmed 18' Sadeqi 29'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

Final

4 March 2011

17:00

Oman	1 – 2	Japan
Al-Mas 1'	Report	Kawaharazuka 26' Arakaki 35'

Al-Musannah Sports City, Muscat

Winners

(2011) FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Qualification (AFC) Winners:
Japan Second title

Awards

Best Player (MVP)
Yahya Al-Araimi
Top Scorer(s)
Takeshi Kawaharazuka	Ishaq Al-Mas
8 goals
Best Goalkeeper
Shingo Terukina

Top scorers

8 goals Takeshi Kawaharazuka Ishaq Al-Mas 7 goals Hussein Jabbar Shusei Yamauchi Ali Hassan Karim 6 goals Yahya Al-Araimi Jamoliddin Sharipov 5 goals Rashed Jamal Mohammad Ahmadzadeh Jalal Al-Sinani Rashid Ahmed Hassan 4 goals Han Xue Mehdi Hassani Moslem Mesigar Khaild Al-Zaabi Adel Ranjabar 3 goals Gui Qixuan Farid Boloukbashi Ali Naderi

3 goals (cont.) Omar Al-Jaser Abdulwahhab Al-Safi Youssef Al-Saqer Yaqoob Al-Alawi 2 goals Mohamed Darwish Ebrahim Hasan Yaqoob Nesuf Talal Yousef Qiu Hao Hassan Abdollahi Farough Dara Sadeq Jabr Takashi Arakaki Hirofumi Oda Teruki Tabata Haitham Al-Araimi Mohammad Nassif Javlon Anorov Fakhriddin Samegov Abdusattor Sattorov 1 goal Yilihanmu Aihaiti Gede Darmasuta Dewa Kadek Dwipayudha

1 goal (cont.) Nyoman Jumada Komang Kariana Wayan Metrajaya Juli Parimawan Moshtak Kadhim Kunihiro Wakabayashi Abdulaziz Al-Eid Hani Al-Dhabit Omar Akil Omar Al-Najjar Alaa Arnaout Ahmad Shatta Humaid Al-Balooshi Rami Al-Mesaabi Walid Mohammed Qambar Sadeqi Furkat Azizov Nodir Elibaev Own goal Ishaq Al-Mas (for Kuwait)

Final standings

Rank	Team
1	Japan
2	Oman
3	Iran
4	United Arab Emirates
5	China
6	Bahrain
7	Uzbekistan
8	Syria
9	Iraq
10	Kuwait
11	Indonesia

References

• Day 1 Results
• Day 2 Results
• Day 3 Results and quarter final draw
• Day 4 Quarter final Results

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