2017 AFC Futsal Club Championship

2017 AFC Futsal Club Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Vietnam
City	Ho Chi Minh City
Dates	20–30 July 2017
Teams	14 (from 14 associations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Chonburi Bluewave (2nd title)
Runners-up	Giti Pasand Isfahan
Third place	Thái Sơn Nam
Fourth place	Al Rayyan
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	155 (5.96 per match)
Attendance	26,950 (1,037 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Jirawat Sornwichian (9 goals)
Best player(s)	Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh
Fair play award	Thái Sơn Nam
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Last updated December 22, 2023

The 2017 AFC Futsal Club Championship was the 8th edition of the AFC Futsal Club Championship, an annual international futsal club tournament in Asia organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It was held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from 20 to 30 July 2017.^[1]

Qualified teams

A total of 14 teams from the 14 of the 47 AFC member associations entered the tournament, which included first-time entrants from Tajikistan. Kyrgyzstan returned after a one-year absence, while Indonesia entered a team for the first time since 2011. From the associations participating in 2016, only Chinese Taipei did not enter the tournament.

For teams entering the tournament, they were assigned a seeding position according to their 2016 AFC Futsal Club Championship ranking for the respective draw and the hosts associations.

Rank	Association	Team	Qualifying method
1	Japan	Shriker Osaka	2016–17 F. League champions
2	Iraq	Naft Al-Wasat	2016–17 Iraq Futsal League champions
3	Thailand	Chonburi Bluewave	2016 Futsal Thailand League champions
4	United Arab Emirates	Al-Dhafra	2016–17 UAE Futsal League champions
5	Iran	Giti Pasand Isfahan	2016–17 Iranian Futsal Super League champions
6	Qatar	Al Rayyan	2016–17 Qatar Futsal League champions
7	Uzbekistan	AGMK	2016 Uzbekistan Futsal League champions
8	Vietnam (hosts)	Thái Sơn Nam	2016 Vietnam Futsal League champions
9	Australia	Vic Vipers	2016 F-League champions
10	Lebanon	Bank of Beirut	2016–17 Lebanon Futsal League champions
11	China	Shenzhen Nanling	2016–17 Chinese Futsal League champions
—	Indonesia	Vamos Mataram	2016–17 Indonesia Pro Futsal League champions
—	Kyrgyzstan	Osh EREM	2016–17 Kyrgyzstan Futsal League champions^[2]^[3]
—	Tajikistan	Disi Invest	2016–17 Tajikistan Futsal League champions^[4]

EREM

AGMK

Location of teams of the 2017 AFC Futsal Club Championship.

ASEAN Region

Central Region

East Region

West Region

Venue

The all matches was held at the Phú Thọ Indoor Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City.

Ho Chi Minh City
Phú Thọ Indoor Stadium
Capacity: 5,000

Draw

The draw was held on 30 May 2017, 15:00 ICT (UTC+7), at the Grand Hotel Saigon in Ho Chi Minh City.^[5]^[6]^[7] The 14 teams were drawn into two groups of four teams (Groups A and B) and two groups of three teams (Groups C and D), with the representatives from hosts Vietnam automatically assigned to position A1 in the draw. The teams were seeded according to the performances of their association's representatives in the 2016 AFC Futsal Club Championship.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4 (unranked)
Thái Sơn Nam Shriker Osaka Naft Al-Wasat Chonburi Bluewave	Al-Dhafra Giti Pasand Isfahan Al Rayyan AGMK	Vic Vipers Bank of Beirut Shenzhen Nanling	Vamos Mataram EREM Disi Invest

Squads

Each team must register a squad of 14 players, minimum two of whom must be goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 30.1 and 30.2).^[8]

Match officials

The following referees were chosen for the 2017 AFC Futsal Club Championship.

Referees

Darius Turner
Hussain Ali Al-Bahhar
Liu Jianqiao
Lee Po-fu
Mahmoudreza Nasirloo
Hiroyuki Kobayashi
Tomohiro Kozaki
Nurdin Bukuev
Mohamad Chami
Helday Idang
Rey Ritaga
Kim Jong-hee
Maiket Yuttakon
Azat Hajypolatov
Trương Quốc Dũng

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advance to the quarter-finals.

Tiebreakers

Teams are 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 are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 10.5):^[8]

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, Indochina Time (UTC+7).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Al-Dhafra	3	2	1	8	3	+5	6^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Knockout stage
2	Thái Sơn Nam (H)	3	2	1	15	7	+8	6^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Knockout stage
3	EREM	3	2	1	6	8	−2	6^{[lower-alpha 1]}
4	Vic Vipers	3	0	3	3	14	−11	0

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Notes:

1 2 3
Head-to-head results: Thái Sơn Nam 4–5 EREM, EREM 0–4 Al-Dhafra, Thái Sơn Nam 2–0 Al-Dhafra. Head-to-head standings:
- Al-Dhafra: 3 pts, +2 GD
- Thái Sơn Nam: 3 pts, +1 GD
- EREM: 3 pts, −3 GD

20 July 2017

16:30

Al-Dhafra	4–1	Vic Vipers
Henmi 2', 17' Vassoura 31', 38'	Report	Alinejad 14'

Phú Thọ Indoor Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City

Attendance: 200

Referee: Lee Po-fu (Chinese Taipei)

20 July 2017