2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship

The 2019 AFC U-20 Championship was the second edition of AFC U-20 Futsal Championship, the biennial international futsal championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's youth national futsal teams of Asia.

2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship
2019 مسابقات قهرمانی فوتسال زیر ۲۰ سال آسیا
Tournament details
Host countryIran
CityTabriz
Dates14–22 June[1]
Teams12 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)1
Final positions
Champions Japan (1st title)
Runners-up Afghanistan
Third place Iran
Fourth place Indonesia
Tournament statistics
Matches played20
Goals scored128 (6.4 per match)
Attendance14,031 (702 per match)
Top scorer(s) Salar Aghapour (8 goals)
Best player(s) Masashi Osawa
Fair play award Japan

The tournament was hosted by Iran between 14–22 June 2019.[2] A total of 12 teams participated in the tournament.[3]

Iran were the defending champions but failed to defend the title after losing to Japan in the semi-final. Japan became the champion after beating Afghanistan in the final.

Qualification
Main article: 2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship qualification

Unlike the previous tournament where all teams entered the final tournament, qualifiers were held from 1 to 10 December 2018.[4] The draw for the qualifiers was held on 30 August 2018.[5]

Qualified teams

The following 12 teams qualified for the final tournament.[6]

Team Qualified as Appearance Previous best performance
 ThailandASEAN Zone winners2ndThird place (2017)
 VietnamASEAN Zone runners-up2ndGroup stage (2017)
 IndonesiaASEAN Zone third place2ndQuarter-finals (2017)
 IranCentral Zone Group A winners and Hosts2ndChampions (2017)
 KyrgyzstanCentral Zone Group B winners2ndGroup stage (2017)
 AfghanistanCentral Zone play-off winners2ndGroup stage (2017)
 TajikistanCentral Zone play-off losers2ndGroup stage (2017)
 JapanEast Zone Group A winners2ndQuarter-finals (2017)
 Chinese TaipeiEast Zone Group B winners2ndGroup stage (2017)
 Hong Kong[note 1]East Zone best runners-up2ndGroup Stage (2017)
 LebanonWest Zone Group A winners2ndQuarter-finals (2017)
 IraqWest Zone Group B winners2ndRunners-up (2017)

Notes:

  1. Hong Kong replaced Saudi Arabia (West Zone play-off winners) after they withdrew.[7]

Venue

The matches were played at the Shahid Poursharifi Arena in Tabriz.[2]

Tabriz
Shahid Poursharifi Arena
Capacity: 6,000

Draw

The final draw was held on 11 April 2019, 15:30 MYT (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur.[7][8] The 12 teams were drawn into four groups of three teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2017 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship final tournament, with the hosts automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3
  1.  Iran (hosts)
  2.  Iraq
  3.  Thailand
  4.  Japan
  1.  Indonesia
  2.  Lebanon
  3.  Vietnam
  4.  Afghanistan
  1.  Hong Kong
  2.  Tajikistan
  3.  Kyrgyzstan
  4.  Chinese Taipei

Squads

Players born after 1 January 1999 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team must register a squad of 14 players, minimum two of whom must be goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 27.1 and 27.2).[3]

Group stage

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

Tiebreakers

Teams were 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 were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 11.5):[3]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. 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;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
  8. 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);
  9. Drawing of lots.

All times are local, IRDT (UTC+4:30).

Schedule
Matchday Dates Matches
Matchday 1 14 June 2019 3 v 1
Matchday 2 15 June 2019 2 v 3
Matchday 3 16 June 2019 1 v 2

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Iran (H) 2 2 0 0 10 5 +5 6 Knockout stage
2  Afghanistan 2 1 0 1 8 4 +4 3
3  Hong Kong 2 0 0 2 4 13 −9 0
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Host.
Hong Kong 3–7 Iran
  • Wong Wai Kwok  15', 17', 36'
 Report
  • Aghapour  3', 22', 40'
  • Akrami  4', 5'
  • Esmaeili  29'
  • Yousef  31'
Attendance: 600
Referee: Benjapol Mucharoensap (Thailand)
Afghanistan 6–1 Hong Kong
  • Mohammadi  6'
  • Zaheri  20'
  • Zada  22'
  • Yousufi  34'
  • Mousavi  36', 37'
 Report
  • Chow Ka Lok Leo  28'
Attendance: 100
Referee: Kim Jong-hee (South Korea)
Iran 3–2 Afghanistan
  • Yousef  3', 31'
  • Ghanbari  30'
 Report
  • Zada  18'
  • Mohammadi  38'
Attendance: 1,507
Referee: Azat Hajypolatov (Turkmenistan)

Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Thailand 2 2 0 0 12 3 +9 6 Knockout stage
2  Lebanon 2 1 0 1 4 10 −6 3
3  Kyrgyzstan 2 0 0 2 4 7 −3 0
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Kyrgyzstan 2–4 Thailand
  • Zholdoshov  7'
  • Isakov  8'
 Report
  • Thawatchai  5', 17'
  • Siksaka  17'
  • Krit  27'
Attendance: 500
Referee: Leung Chung Yin (Hong Kong)
Lebanon 3–2 Kyrgyzstan
  • Ghattas  18'
  • Koukezian  18'
  • Selwan  38'
 Report
  • Zholdoshov  1'
  • Isakov  26'
Attendance: 120
Referee: Takeshi Fujita (Japan)
Thailand 8–1 Lebanon
  • Thanawat  6'
  • Nattasak  8'
  • Siksaka  16'
  • Hamieh  25' (o.g.)
  • Sivakorn  30', 39'
  • Chutipong  30'
  • Krit  34'
 Report
  • Shehab  36'
Attendance: 300
Referee: Kim Jong-hee (South Korea)

Group C
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Japan 2 2 0 0 5 2 +3 6 Knockout stage
2  Vietnam 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 3
3  Tajikistan 2 0 0 2 2 5 −3 0
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Tajikistan 1–3 Japan
  • Sharipov  38'
 Report
  • Osawa  14'
  • Takahashi  16'
  • Otsuka  16'
Attendance: 75
Referee: Osama Saeed Idrees Sedaif (Bahrain)
Vietnam 2–1 Tajikistan
  • Triệu Xuân Linh  13'
  • Hà Đức Ngọc  15'
 Report
  • Yorov  11'
Attendance: 100
Referee: Ridzuan Rozali (Malaysia)
Japan 2–1 Vietnam
  • K. Yamada  14'
  • Motoishi  18'
 Report
  • An Lâm Tới  14'
Attendance: 80
Referee: Ali Hafizi (Iran)

Group D
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Indonesia 2 2 0 0 8 4 +4 6 Knockout stage
2  Iraq 2 1 0 1 6 4 +2 3
3  Chinese Taipei 2 0 0 2 5 11 −6 0
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Chinese Taipei 2–5 Iraq
  • Huang Yu-wei  3'
  • Chen Ching-hang  28'
 Report
  • Hussein  10', 10'
  • Muwafaq  11' (pen.)
  • Zamil  34'
  • Haitham  39'
Attendance: 500
Referee: Ali Hafizi (Iran)
Indonesia 6–3 Chinese Taipei
  • Afif  2'
  • Abdussalam  6'
  • Inzaghi  9' (pen.)
  • Sanjaya  16', 27', 28'
 Report
  • Fu Wei-da  5'
  • Huang Yu-wei  12'
  • Chen Ching-hang  28'
Attendance: 150
Referee: Andrew Best (Australia)
Iraq 1–2 Indonesia
  • Hamid  21'
 Report
  • Firman  9'
  • Ari  17'
Attendance: 100
Referee: Benjapol Mucharoensap (Thailand)

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where penalty shoot-out (no extra time) was used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Articles 15.1 and 16.1).[3]

Bracket
 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena
 
 
 Iran (a.e.t.)3
 
20 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena
 
 Lebanon2
 
 Iran4
 
18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena
 
 Japan (a.e.t.)8
 
 Japan2
 
22 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena
 
 Iraq0
 
 Japan3
 
18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena
 
 Afghanistan1
 
 Thailand2
 
20 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena
 
 Afghanistan3
 
 Afghanistan (a.e.t.)4
 
18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena
 
 Indonesia3 Third place match
 
 Indonesia7
 
22 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena
 
 Vietnam5
 
 Iran9
 
 
 Indonesia1
 

Quarter-finals
Indonesia 7–5 Vietnam
  • Abdussalam  10'
  • Syaifullah  15', 22'
  • Sanjaya  25'
  • Agung  27', 32', 35'
 Report
  • Nhận Gia Hưng  29'
  • Nguyễn Huỳnh Thanh Huy  34', 38'
  • An Lâm Tới  38'
  • Huỳnh Mi Woen  40'
Attendance: 100
Referee: Mahmoudreza Nasirloo (Iran)
Japan 2–0 Iraq
  • Hagiwara  5'
  • Matsukawa  38'
 Report
Attendance: 110
Referee: Darius Turner (Australia)
Thailand 2–3 Afghanistan
  • Thanawat  22'
  • Haidari  39' (o.g.)
 Report
  • Mousavi  2', 13'
  • Mahmoodi  18'
Attendance: 200
Referee: Tomohiro Kozaki (Japan)
Iran 3–2 (a.e.t.) Lebanon
  • Aghapour  8', 45'
  • Ghanbari  48'
 Report
  • Selwan  39'
  • Koukezian  49'
Attendance: 1,956
Referee: Liu Jianqiao (China)

Semi-finals
Afghanistan 4–3 (a.e.t.) Indonesia
  • Mousavi  8', 43'
  • Zada  29'
  • Yousufi  45'
 Report
  • Xavier  22'
  • Agung  30'
  • Sanjaya  50'
Attendance: 300
Referee: Osama Saeed Idrees Sedaif (Bahrain)
Iran 4–8 (a.e.t.) Japan
  • Yousef  10'
  • Sarbaz  17'
  • Dehghan  24', 30'
 Report
  • Hashimoto  4'
  • Otsuka  18'
  • Osawa  23'
  • Motoishi  40' (pen.)
  • Iguchi  43'
  • J. Yamada  46'
  • Hatakeyama  47'
  • Kimura  49'
Attendance: 2,105
Referee: Mohamad Chami (Lebanon)

Third place match
Iran 9–1 Indonesia
  • Aghapour  3', 6', 25' (pen.)
  • Akrami  4'
  • Sarbaz  11'
  • Ghanbari  16'
  • Hosseinzadeh  17'
  • Esmaeili  29'
  • Dehghan  40'
 Report
  • Firman  39'
Attendance: 2,254
Referee: Liu Jianqiao (China)

Final
Japan 3–1 Afghanistan
  • Takahashi  9'
  • Osawa  16'
  • Tabuchi  38'
 Report
  • Hossaini  34'
Attendance: 2,874
Referee: Ridzuan Rozali (Malaysia)

Winners
2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship

Japan
First title

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:

Top Goalscorer[9] Most Valuable Player[9] Fair Play award[9]
Salar Aghapour Masashi Osawa  Japan

Goalscorers

There were 128 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 6.4 goals per match.

8 goals

  • Salar Aghapour

6 goals

  • Seyed Mousavi

5 goals

  • Muhammad Sanjaya

4 goals

  • Agung Pandega
  • Masoud Yousef

3 goals

  • Ali Zada
  • Wong Wai Kwok
  • Ali Akrami
  • Mahdi Dehghan
  • Reza Ghanbari
  • Masashi Osawa

2 goals

  • Mojtaba Mohammadi
  • Dawood Yousufi
  • Chen Ching-hang
  • Huang Yu-wei
  • Abdussalam
  • Firman Adriansyah
  • Muhammad Syaifullah
  • Belal Esmaeili
  • Sajjad Sarbaz
  • Yaseen Hussein
  • Takehiro Motoishi
  • Hiroto Otsuka
  • Yudai Takahashi
  • Damir Isakov
  • Mamatziia Zholdoshov
  • Steve Koukezian
  • Jamal Selwan
  • Krit Aransanyalak
  • Sivakorn Jongkolthakorn
  • Thanawat Koedbangrachan
  • Siksaka Pramanong
  • Thawatchai Rairat
  • An Lâm Tới
  • Nguyễn Huỳnh Thanh Huy

1 goal

  • Hamid Reza Hossaini
  • Farzad Mahmoodi
  • Sadiq Zaheri
  • Fu Wei-da
  • Chow Ka Lok Leo
  • Filippo Inzaghi
  • Ari Ramdani
  • Afif Rizky
  • Rizki Xavier
  • Erfan Hosseinzadeh
  • Sajjad Haitham
  • Hussein Hamid
  • Ali Muwafaq
  • Hussein Zamil
  • Manatsu Hagiwara
  • Reira Hashimoto
  • Yuki Hatakeyama
  • Rintaro Iguchi
  • Yuta Kimura
  • Kota Matsukawa
  • Hiroshi Tabuchi
  • Jiei Yamada
  • Kaito Yamada
  • Mouafac Ghattas
  • Hassan Shehab
  • Nasim Sharipov
  • Idris Yorov
  • Nattasak Photi
  • Chutipong Suraditanunt
  • Hà Đức Ngọc
  • Huỳnh Mi Woen
  • Nhận Gia Hưng
  • Triệu Xuân Linh

1 own goal

  • Morteza Haidari (against Thailand)
  • Hussein Hamieh (against Thailand)

References
  1. "AFC Competitions Calendar 2019". AFC. 28 February 2018.
  2. "با تایید کنفدراسیون فوتبال آسیا؛". Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran. 5 December 2018. Archived from the original on 13 December 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  3. "AFC U-20 Futsal Championship 2019 Competition Regulations". AFC.
  4. "AFC Competitions Calendar 2018". AFC. 11 January 2018.
  5. "Asian hopefuls to identify opponents in official draw". AFC. 29 August 2018.
  6. "Iran 2019 cast complete". AFC. 10 December 2018.
  7. "IR Iran 2019 Finals draw: All you need to know". AFC. 10 April 2019.
  8. "Draw sets stage for exciting IR Iran 2019 Finals". AFC. 11 April 2019.
  9. "Aghapour bags Top Scorer Award, Masashi clinches MVP Award". AFC. 22 June 2019.
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