The 2020 AFC Futsal Championship qualification was the qualification process organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine the participating teams for the 2020 AFC Futsal Championship, the 16th edition of the international men's futsal championship of Asia.[2]
A total of 16 teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including Turkmenistan who automatically qualified as original hosts (tournament was later relocated to Kuwait before being cancelled).[3]
Of the 47 AFC member associations, a total of 31 teams entered the competition. Based on the teams’ performance of 2018 AFC Futsal Championship, the 16 spots in the final tournament were distributed as follows:
Host: 1 spot
ASEAN Zone: 3 spots
Central & South Zone: 4 spots
East Zone: 3 spots
West Zone: 5 spots
Draw[]
In each zone, the teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2018 AFC Futsal Championship final tournament and qualification (overall ranking shown in parentheses; NR stands for non-ranked teams).
The draw for the 2019 AFF Futsal Championship, which served as the ASEAN Zone qualifying competition, was held by the AFF in July 2019.[4] The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams.
The draw for the Central & South Zone, East Zone and West Zone, was held on 25 July 2019, 15:00 MYT (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[5][6][7]
In the Central & South Zone, the seven teams were drawn into two groups: one group of four teams and one group of three teams. Turkmenistan also entered the qualifying competition despite having automatically qualified for the final tournament.
In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue.
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):[2]
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);
Top two teams of each group qualified for 2020 AFC Futsal Championship. Had Turkmenistan occupied one of the qualifying spots, the best third-placed team from the two groups would also have qualified.
The matches were played between 23 and 25 October 2019.
Muhammad Osamanmusa (7 goals)
Myanmar
East Timor
Cambodia
Indonesia
Vietnam (H)
Australia
Malaysia
Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Afghanistan
Iran (H)
Kyrgyzstan
Turkmenistan[a]
China (H)
Mongolia
Chinese Taipei
Hong Kong
Japan
South Korea
Macau
Kuwait
Bahrain (H)
United Arab Emirates
Iraq
Palestine
Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
Oman
Qatar
Xu Yang
Minami Kato
Kritsada Wongkaeo
Waleed Khalid
Karim Abou Zeid
Andri Kustiawan
Mahdi Javid
Abdulrahman Al-Wadi
Ridzwan Bakri
Naing Ye Kyaw
Muatasim Al-Shamsi
Rashid Shawahna
Abdullah Al-Otaibi
Lee Min-yong
Khusniddin Nishonov
Akbar Kazemi
Ahmed Abdulnabi
Chi Sheng-fa
Rustam Hamidov
Abdulkarim Jamil
Nguyễn Minh Trí
Jarrod Basger
Keo Cheatuo
Arstanbek Tursunov
Fong Chi Wa
Purevdorj Erdenebat
Mani Lama
Mario Moniz
Chow Ka Wa
Tamim Al-Awlaqi
Mülkaman Annagulyýew