2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup

The 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup was the 16th edition of the AFC Futsal Asian Cup,^[1] the biennial international futsal championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's national teams of Asia. A total of 16 teams compete in the tournament.^[2]

2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup

كأس آسيا لكرة الصالات 2022
Tournament details
Host country	Kuwait
Dates	27 September – 8 October
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Japan (4th title)
Runners-up	Iran
Third place	Uzbekistan
Fourth place	Thailand
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	193 (6.03 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Hossein Tayyebi (10 goals)
Best player(s)	Moslem Oladghobad
Best goalkeeper	Guilherme Kuromoto
Fair play award	Uzbekistan
← 2020 ← 2018 2024 →

Kuwait was appointed as hosts of the 2020 AFC Futsal Championship, after replacing the original hosts Turkmenistan. However, AFC announced the cancellation of the tournament on 25 January 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[3] The tournament was scheduled to be played in Kuwait from 16 to 27 February 2022.^[4] On 5 July 2021, the AFC announced that the tournament would be held between 27 September and 8 October 2022.

Japan defeated defending champions Iran in the final to claim their fourth title.

Qualifiers were originally scheduled to be played from 13 to 24 October 2021.^[5] However, on 5 July 2021, the AFC announced that it would be held from 1 to 15 April 2022.

The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.

¹ Italic indicates hosts for that year.

The draw was held on 26 May 2022 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[6]

Each team had to submit a squad of 14 players, including a minimum of two goalkeepers.^[2]

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 11.5):^[2]

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, AST (UTC+3).

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

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Notes:

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where penalty shoot-out (no extra time) is used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Article 15.1).^[2]

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:^[7]

There were 193 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 6.03 goals per match.

10 goals

7 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

• AFC Futsal Asian Cup, the-AFC.com