2024 AFC Futsal Asian Cup qualification

2024 AFC Futsal Asian Cup qualification
Tournament details
Host countries	Thailand (Group A); Saudi Arabia (Group B); Kyrgyzstan (Group C); Mongolia (Group D); Tajikistan (Group E); Bahrain (Group F); Uzbekistan (Group G); Chinese Taipei (Group H)
Dates	7–13 October 2023
Teams	30 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	43
Goals scored	303 (7.05 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Saeid Ahmadabbasi ; (8 goals)
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Last updated April 26, 2024

The 2024 AFC Futsal Asian Cup qualification was the qualification process organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine the participating teams for the 2024 AFC Futsal Asian Cup, the 17th edition of the international men's futsal championship of Asia.

Format changes

The AFC Executive Committee had approved several strategic recommendations put forward by the AFC Competitions Committee, one of which was the removal of zoning principles in the AFC's Futsal and Beach Soccer competitions.^[1]

Teams

The 46 AFC member associations were eligible to enter the qualification after Sri Lanka was barred from participating in international competitions due to FIFA suspension before the draw.^[2]^[3] The Northern Mariana Islands, whose association are not FIFA members, were not be eligible to qualify for the 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup.

Only 30 teams including China, India and Macau who did not participate in the previous edition, entered the competition. Thailand automatically qualified for the final tournament as hosts, but decided to also participate in the qualifying competition. 17 teams including Turkmenistan who withdrew after the draw, Qatar and United Arab Emirates who did participate in the previous edition, did not enter to the qualification and were listed below. The following teams with asterisks are the teams never entered the qualification.

Draw

The draw was held on 22 June 2023 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[4]

31 teams including Turkmenistan who withdrew after the draw and Thailand who automatically qualified as hosts after the draw, were seeded into four pots based on the their performance at the qualification and the final tournament of the previous edition.^[5] The eight hosts of the qualification including Indonesia who withdrew the hosts after the draw, were placed into the host pots.

Seeding

Teams who participated in the final tournament of the previous edition were ranked from the 1st to the 15th by their performance at that tournament and other teams who participated in the qualification of the previous edition were ranked from the 16th to 27th by their performance at that tournament. China, India and Macau who did not participate in the previous edition, were unranked.

Final rankings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final results
1	Japan	6	5	0	1	17	7	+10	15	Champions
2	Iran	6	5	0	1	39	5	+34	15	Runners-up
3	Uzbekistan	6	5	0	1	29	7	+22	15	Third place
4	Thailand	6	3	1	2	16	20	−4	10	Fourth place

5	Tajikistan	4	2	0	2	16	14	+2	6	Eliminated in quarter-finals^{[lower-alpha 1]}
6	Indonesia	4	2	0	2	13	11	+2	6
7	Kuwait	4	1	2	1	11	9	+2	5
8	Vietnam	4	2	0	2	9	12	−3	6

9	Saudi Arabia	3	2	0	1	7	4	+3	6	Eliminated in group stage^{[lower-alpha 2]}
10	Iraq	3	1	1	1	9	5	+4	4
11	Bahrain	3	0	1	2	8	14	−6	1
12	Chinese Taipei	3	0	1	2	3	15	−12	1
13	Turkmenistan	3	0	1	2	9	20	−11	1
14	Lebanon	3	0	1	2	3	17	−14	1
15	South Korea	3	0	0	3	1	15	−14	0
16	Oman	3	0	0	3	3	18	−15	0

Source: AFC

Qualification rankings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification results
1	Japan	4	4	0	0	42	3	+39	12	Qualify for final tournament^{[lower-alpha 3]}
2	Iran	3	3	0	0	28	1	+27	9
3	Uzbekistan	3	3	0	0	15	4	+11	9
4	Thailand	6	4	2	0	40	7	+33	14
5	Iraq	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2	4
6	Lebanon	3	2	1	0	11	7	+4	7
7	Indonesia	6	4	2	0	38	8	+30	14
8	Vietnam	5	2	2	1	15	7	+8	8
9	Bahrain	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	4
10	Saudi Arabia	3	1	2	0	10	9	+1	5
11	Turkmenistan	3	2	0	1	10	4	+6	6
12	Tajikistan	3	1	1	1	17	10	+7	4
13	South Korea	4	2	1	1	11	12	−1	7
14	Oman	4	1	2	1	9	8	+1	5
15	Chinese Taipei	4	2	0	2	13	14	−1	6

16	Myanmar	5	2	2	1	19	12	+7	8	Eliminated in qualification^{[lower-alpha 3]}
17	Afghanistan	3	1	1	1	13	10	+3	4
18	United Arab Emirates	3	0	0	3	3	8	−5	0
19	Kyrgyzstan	3	1	0	2	9	12	−3	3
20	Malaysia	4	2	0	2	20	15	+5	6
21	Australia	3	1	0	2	9	15	−6	3
22	Palestine	3	0	1	2	8	12	−4	1
23	Hong Kong	4	0	2	2	6	17	−11	2
24	East Timor	3	0	0	3	8	24	−16	0
25	Nepal	3	0	0	3	3	24	−21	0
26	Cambodia	4	0	1	3	10	36	−26	1
27	Maldives	3	0	0	3	1	31	−30	0
28	Mongolia	4	0	1	3	2	28	−26	1
29	Brunei	4	0	1	3	2	37	−35	1

Source: AFC

↑ Teams are ranked in descending order as follows: goal difference in the quarter-finals, goals scored in the quarter-finals and the procedure used same as the teams eliminated in the group stage.^[6]
↑ Teams are ranked in descending order as follows: position in the group stage, points, goal difference, goals scored and disciplinary points in all group matches and drawing of lots.^[6]
1 2 Teams are ranked in descending order as follows: position in the group stage, points in same number of group matches among the teams with same group position, goal difference in same number of group matches among the teams with same group position, goals scored in same number of group matches among the teams with same group position, disciplinary points in same number of group matches among the teams with same group position and drawing of lots. ^[6]

Pots

The 31 teams including Turkmenistan who withdrew after the draw and Thailand who automatically qualified as hosts after the draw, were drawn into six groups of four teams and two groups of three teams.

	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Host teams	Uzbekistan (H) Thailand (H, Q) Indonesia Tajikistan (H)	Bahrain (H) Chinese Taipei (H)	Kyrgyzstan (H)	Mongolia (H)
Remaining teams	Japan Iran Kuwait Vietnam	Saudi Arabia (H) Iraq Turkmenistan (W) Lebanon South Korea Myanmar	Afghanistan Malaysia Australia Palestine Hong Kong East Timor Nepal	Cambodia Maldives Brunei China India Macau

Notes

Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.
(H): Qualification group hosts
(Q): Final tournament hosts, automatically qualified regardless of qualification results
(W): Withdrew after draw

Groups

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:^[7]

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 were 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 are playing each other 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.

Group A

Thailand already qualified to the final tournament as host country, so their matches were not taken into account when calculating the group ranking. Then, Turkmenistan withdrew after the draw. Since only two teams were competing, a total of two games were played between China and Hong Kong.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	China	2	2	0	0	11	2	+9	6	Qualify for the final tournament
2	Hong Kong	2	0	0	2	2	11	−9	0

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

7 October 2023

18:00

China	1–5	Thailand
Wang Bo 39'	Report	Charoenphong 8' Praphaphan 9' Phalaphruek 11' Srirangpirot 17' Kittipanuwong 29'

Bangkok Arena, Bangkok

9 October 2023

17:00

Hong Kong	0–6	China
	Report	Lee Wo Ho 9' (o.g.) Wang Bo 23' Paiheierding Tudahong 25' (pen.) Chow Ka Wa 28' (o.g.) Ding Shunjie 32' Yakepujiang Maimaiti 37'

Bangkok Arena, Bangkok

11 October 2023

19:30

Thailand	6–0	Hong Kong
Srirangpirot 7', 22' Praphaphan 9', 19' Osamamusa 36', 40'	Report

Bangkok Arena, Bangkok

13 October 2023

17:00

China	5–2	Hong Kong
Yang Zu 4', 4', 26' Pan Zhongdi 26' Paiheierding Tudahong 31'	Report	Liu Kin Po 27' Chan Lok Him 36'

Bangkok Arena, Bangkok

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Afghanistan	3	2	1	0	28	11	+17	7	Qualify for the final tournament
2	Saudi Arabia (H)	3	2	0	1	14	5	+9	6	Qualify for the final tournament
3	Indonesia	3	1	1	1	21	10	+11	4
4	Macau	3	0	0	3	2	39	−37	0

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

7 October 2023