AFC Beach Soccer Championship

AFC Beach Soccer Championship
Founded	2006
Region	Asia (AFC)
Number of teams	15 (2019)
Qualifier for	FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
Current champions	Japan (3rd title)
Most successful team(s)	Japan (3 titles)
Website	afc.com
	2021 AFC Beach Soccer Championship

The AFC Beach Soccer Championship is the main international championship for beach soccer in Asia, mirroring that of the AFC Asian Cup in association football. Also known as the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualifiers for AFC, the championship was established in 2006 after FIFA made requirements for all confederations to begin holding a qualification tournament to determine the best national team(s) in the region and hence those who would proceed to represent their continent in the World Cup.

Asia was awarded three spots at the finals under FIFA's new changes to the organization of the World Cup and hence the winners, runners-up and winner of the third place play-off qualify to the succeeding World Cup finals. Before 2006, there was no consistent method of qualification or number of spots at the World Cup for Asian nations, with countries often simply being invited to play in the finals, without competing for a regional crown beforehand.

The most successful nations is Japan, who have all won three of the nine tournaments. Japan also qualified for the World Cup all tenth years by never missing top three .

Now that the World Cup takes place every two years, so does the championship, which started with the qualifiers for the 2011 World Cup.

Tournaments

For all tournaments, the top three teams qualified for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, except for 2009, where only the top two teams qualified as one of the AFC spots were given to the World Cup hosts United Arab Emirates.

Year	Location	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
Year	Location	Final			Third Place Play-off
2006 details	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Bahrain	5–3	Japan	Iran	6–4	China
2007 details	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	United Arab Emirates	4–3	Japan	Iran	6–0	Bahrain
2008 details	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	United Arab Emirates	4–3	Japan	Iran	4–1	China
2009^[1] details	Dubai United Arab Emirates	Japan	4–2	Bahrain	Oman	1–1 aet (2–1) pen	Iran
2011 details	Muscat, Oman	Japan	2–1	Oman	Iran	6–2	United Arab Emirates
2013 details	Doha, Qatar	Iran	6–6 aet (5–4) pen	Japan	United Arab Emirates	3–2	Australia
2015 details	Doha, Qatar	Oman	1–1 aet (3–2) pen	Japan	Iran	8–3	Lebanon
2017 details	Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia	Iran	7–2	United Arab Emirates	Japan	6–3	Lebanon
2019 details	Pattaya, Thailand	Japan	2–2 aet (3–1) pen	United Arab Emirates	Oman	2–2 aet (2–1) pen	Palestine
2021 details	Thailand

Notes:

1 ^ Qualifying automatically as World Cup hosts, reigning champions, the United Arab Emirates, did not take part in the championship.

Successful nations

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third-place	Fourth Place	Top 4
Japan	3 (2009, 2011, 2019)	5 (2006, 2007, 2008, 2013, 2015)	1 (2017)	-	9
United Arab Emirates	2 (2007, 2008)	2 (2017, 2019)	1 (2013)	1 (2011)	6
Iran	2 (2013, 2017)	-	5 (2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2015)	1 (2009)	8
Oman	1 (2015)	1 (2011*)	2 (2009, 2019)	-	4
Bahrain	1 (2006)	1 (2009)	-	1 (2007)	3
China	-	-	-	2 (2006, 2008)	2
Lebanon	-	-	-	2 (2015, 2017)	2
Australia	-	-	-	1 (2013)	1
Palestine	-	-	-	1 (2019)	1

* = Hosts

Overall Standings

As of 2019

Rank	Team	Part	Pld	W	WE	WP	L	GF	GA	Dif	Pts
1	Japan	9	43	30	1	2	10	226	113	+113	94
2	Iran	9	41	27	1	1	12	225	111	+114	84
3	United Arab Emirates	8	37	27	0	1	9	162	99	+83	82
4	Oman	6	29	19	0	4	6	117	72	+45	61
5	Bahrain	8	35	18	1	2	14	121	105	+16	58
6	China	9	35	10	0	2	23	102	149	-47	32
7	Lebanon	4	18	7	1	0	10	72	58	+14	23
8	Palestine	2	11	6	1	0	4	44	40	+4	20
9	Afghanistan	3	12	4	1	0	7	38	45	-7	14
10	Uzbekistan	5	18	4	0	0	14	64	77	-13	12
11	Australia	2	8	3	0	1	4	25	24	+1	10
12	Thailand	4	12	3	0	0	9	29	46	-17	9
13	Iraq	5	15	2	1	1	11	41	83	-42	9
14	Kuwait	3	9	2	0	0	7	34	44	-10	6
15	Malaysia	2	9	2	0	0	7	23	47	-24	6
16	Laos	1	3	1	0	0	2	11	21	-10	3
17	Saudi Arabia	1	5	1	0	0	4	13	26	-13	3
18	Qatar	4	14	1	0	0	13	30	85	-55	3
19	Vietnam	1	3	0	0	0	3	11	14	-3	0
20	India	1	2	0	0	0	2	5	10	-5	0
21	Indonesia	1	3	0	0	0	3	6	18	-12	0
22	Syria	1	3	0	0	0	3	6	19	-13	0
23	Kyrgyzstan	1	3	0	0	0	3	6	26	-20	0
24	Philippines	3	9	0	0	0	9	13	90	-77	0

Note: Win in Common Time W = 3 Points / Win in Extra Time WE = 2 Points / Win in Penalty shoot-out WP = 1 Point / Lose L = 0 Points

Appearances

These are the nations who have appeared in the AFC Beach Soccer Championship since 2006.

Legend

1st – Champions
2nd – Runners-up
3rd – Third place
4th – Fourth place
5th-8th – Fifth to Eighth place
9th-12th – Ninth to Twelfth place
13th-16th – Thirteenth to Sixteenth place
× – Did not enter
× – Entered but withdrew
q – Qualified for upcoming tournament
– Hosts

	2006 (6)	2007 (6)	2008 (6)	2009 (7)	2011 (11)	2013 (16)	2015 (14)	2017 (12)	2019 (15)	Years
Afghanistan	×	×	×	×	×	11th	×	6th	12th	3
Australia	×	×	×	5th	×	4th	×	×	×	2
Bahrain	1st	4th	×	2nd	6th	9th	7th	5th	6th	8
China	4th	5th	4th	7th	5th	7th	6th	12th	9th	9
India	×	6th	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	1
Indonesia	×	×	×	×	11th	×	×	×	×	1
Iran	3rd	3rd	3rd	4th	3rd	1st	3rd	1st	7th	9
Iraq	×	×	×	×	9th	10th	12th	9th	13th	5
Japan	2nd	2nd	2nd	1st	1st	2nd	2nd	3rd	1st	9
Kuwait	×	×	×	×	10th	×	9th	×	11th	3
Kyrgyzstan	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	15th	1
Laos	×	×	×	×	×	×	10th	×	×	1
Lebanon	×	×	×	×	×	8th	4th	4th	5th	4
Malaysia	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	8th	8th	2
Oman	×	×	×	3rd	2nd	5th	1st	7th	3rd	6
Palestine	×	×	×	×	×	6th	×	×	4th	2
Philippines	6th	×	6th	×	×	16th	×	×	×	3
Qatar	×	×	×	×	×	15th	14th	11th	14th	4
Saudi Arabia	×	×	×	×	×	12th	×	×	×	1
Syria	×	×	×	×	8th	×	×	×	×	1
Thailand	×	×	×	×	×	13th	13th	10th	10th	4
United Arab Emirates	5th	1st	1st	×	4th	3rd	5th	2nd	2nd	8
Uzbekistan	×	×	5th	6th	7th	14th	8th	×	×	5
Vietnam	×	×	×	×	×	×	11th	×	×	1
Total (24 Teams)	6	6	6	7	11	16	14	12	15	-

Awards

Most Valuable Players

Year	Player
2006 - 2009	Not Awarded
2011	Yahya Al-Araimi
2013	Ozu Moreira
2015	Ozu Moreira
2017	Mohammadali Mokhtari
2019	Ozu Moreira

Top Scorers

Year	Player	Goals
2006 - 2009	Not Awarded	-
2011	Takeshi Kawaharazuka Ishaq Al-Masl	8
2013	Moslem Mesigar	11
2015	Takasuke Goto	8
2017	Mohammadali Mokhtari	12
2019	Ozu Moreira	9

Best Goalkeeper

Year	Player
2006 - 2009	Not Awarded
2011	Shingo Terukina
2013	Simon Jaeger
2015	Peiman Hosseini
2017 - 2019	Not Awarded

Fair Play

Year	Player
2006 - 2015	Not Awarded
2017	Iran
2019	United Arab Emirates

Performance of qualifiers at the World Cup

The following is a performance timeline of the AFC teams who have appeared in the Beach Soccer World Cup since being sanctioned by FIFA in 2005.

Legend

1st – Champions
2nd – Runners-up
3rd – Third place
4th – Fourth place
– Hosts

QF – Quarterfinals
R1 – Round 1 (group stage)
q – Qualified for upcoming tournament
Total – Total times qualified for World Cup

Team \ Years	2005^[†]	2006	2007	2008	2009	2011	2013	2015	2017	2019	Total
Bahrain		QF			R1						2
Iran		R1	R1	R1		R1	QF	QF	3rd		7
Japan	4th	QF	R1	R1	QF	R1	QF	QF	R1	4th	10
Oman						R1		R1		R1	3
Thailand	R1										1
United Arab Emirates			R1	R1	R1		R1		R1	R1	6
Total no. of unique qualifiers											6

Notes

^
In 2005, no AFC qualifiers for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup were held and Japan and Thailand were selected to represent AFC.

External links

AFC Beach Soccer Championship, the-AFC.com

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In 2005, no AFC qualifiers for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup were held and Japan and Thailand were selected to represent AFC.

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International beach soccer
FIFA Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) World Cup World Beach Games Intercontinental Cup Mundialito (de Clubes) BSWW Tour World Rankings Stars Awards
Asia	AFC – Championship
Africa	CAF – Cup of Nations
North America Central America and Caribbean	CONCACAF – Championship
South America	CONMEBOL – World Cup qualifiers Copa América U-20 League Club Copa Libertadores
Oceania	OFC – Nations Cup
Europe	UEFA – League World Cup qualifiers Cup Club Winners Cup Men's Women's
Games	Asian Beach Games Bolivarian Beach Games European Games Mediterranean Beach Games South American Beach Games

FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification
AFC	2005¹ 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019
CAF	2005¹ 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019
CONCACAF	2005² 2006 2007² 2008 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019
CONMEBOL	2005² 2006 2007² 2008 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019
OFC	2005¹ 2006 2007 2008¹ 2009 2011 2013 2015¹ 2017¹ 2019
UEFA	2005³(p) 2006³(p) 2007³(p) 2008 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019
¹ No qualifiers took place as the representatives were selected by the confederation. ² CONCACAF and CONMEBOL held a joint championship for qualification. ³ Qualification was achieved through the Euro Beach Soccer League. (p) This indicates an additional play-off round, supplement to the main qualification event.