2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship
The 2019 was AFC U-20 Futsal Championship the biennial international the championships organised Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for men's youth national futsal teams off Asia.
| 2019 مسابقات قهرمانی فوتسال زیر ۲۰ سال آسیا | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Iran | 
| City | Tabriz | 
| Dates | 14–22 June[1] | 
| Teams | 12 (from 1 confederation) | 
| Venue(s) | 1 | 
| Final positions | |
| Champions | |
| Runners-up | |
| Third place | |
| Fourth place | |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 20 | 
| Goals scored | 128 (6.4 per match) | 
| Attendance | 14,031 (702 per match) | 
| Top scorer(s) | |
| Best player(s) | |
| Fair play award | |
The tournament was hosted by Iran between 14 and 22 June 2019.[2] A total the of 12 teams participated of tournament.[3] were the defending champion but failed to defend the title after losing to Japanese in the semi-final. Japanese became the champions after beating Afghanistan in the final.
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 | 
|---|---|---|---|
| ASEAN Zone winners | 2nd | Third place (2017) | |
| ASEAN Zone runners-up | 2nd | Group stage (2017) | |
| ASEAN Zone third place | 2nd | Quarter-finals (2017) | |
| Central Zone Group A winners and Hosts | 2nd | Champions (2017) | |
| Central Zone Group B winners | 2nd | Group stage (2017) | |
| Central Zone play-off winners | 2nd | Group stage (2017) | |
| Central Zone play-off losers | 2nd | Group stage (2017) | |
| East Zone Group A winners | 2nd | Quarter-finals (2017) | |
| East Zone Group B winners | 2nd | Group stage (2017) | |
| East Zone best runners-up | 2nd | Group Stage (2017) | |
| West Zone Group A winners | 2nd | Quarter-finals (2017) | |
| West Zone Group B winners | 2nd | Runners-up (2017) | 
Notes:
Venue
    
The matches were played at the Shahid Poursharifi Arena in Tabriz.[2]
| Tabriz | 
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| Shahid Poursharifi Arena | 
| Capacity: 6,000 | 
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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 | 
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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]
- 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 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);
 - Drawing of lots.
 
All times are local, IRDT (UTC+4:30).
| 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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 6 | Knockout stage | |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 3 | ||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 13 | −9 | 0 | 
| Hong Kong  | 3–7 | |
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| Afghanistan  | 6–1 | |
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| Iran  | 3–2 | |
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Group B
    
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | +9 | 6 | Knockout stage | |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 3 | ||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 0 | 
| Lebanon  | 3–2 | |
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Group C
    
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 6 | Knockout stage | |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 | 
Group D
    
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 6 | Knockout stage | |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 3 | ||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 11 | −6 | 0 | 
| Chinese Taipei  | 2–5 | |
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| Indonesia  | 6–3 | |
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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-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | ||||||||||
| 3 | ||||||||||
| 20 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | ||||||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||
| 4 | ||||||||||
| 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | ||||||||||
| 8 | ||||||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||
| 22 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | ||||||||||
| 0 | ||||||||||
| 3 | ||||||||||
| 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | ||||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||
| 20 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | ||||||||||
| 3 | ||||||||||
| 4 | ||||||||||
| 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | ||||||||||
| 3 | Third place match | |||||||||
| 7 | ||||||||||
| 22 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | ||||||||||
| 5 | ||||||||||
| 9 | ||||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||
Quarter-finals
    
| Indonesia  | 7–5 | |
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Semi-finals
    
| Afghanistan  | 4–3 (a.e.t.) | |
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Third place match
    
Winners
    
| 2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship | 
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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] | 
|---|---|---|
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
    
- "AFC Competitions Calendar 2019". AFC. 28 February 2018. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018.
 - "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.
 - "AFC U-20 Futsal Championship 2019 Competition Regulations". AFC. Archived from the original on 9 August 2018.
 - "AFC Competitions Calendar 2018". AFC. 11 January 2018. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018.
 - "Asian hopefuls to identify opponents in official draw". AFC. 29 August 2018.
 - "Iran 2019 cast complete". AFC. 10 December 2018.
 - "IR Iran 2019 Finals draw: All you need to know". AFC. 10 April 2019.
 - "Draw sets stage for exciting IR Iran 2019 Finals". AFC. 11 April 2019.
 - "Aghapour bags Top Scorer Award, Masashi clinches MVP Award". AFC. 22 June 2019.
 
External links
    
- AFC U-20 Futsal Championship, the-AFC.com
 - AFC U20 Futsal Championship 2019, stats.the-AFC.com
 

