The 2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship was the second edition of the biennial international futsal championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation for men's youth national futsal teams of Asia.
The tournament was hosted by Iran between 14 and 22 June 2019.[2] A total of 12 teams participated of tournament.[3] IR Iran were the defending champion but failed to defend the title after losing to Japan in the semi-final. Japan 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]
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.
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]
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);
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]
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.
^ ab"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.
^ abcd"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.
^ ab"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.
^ abc"Aghapour bags Top Scorer Award, Masashi clinches MVP Award". AFC. 22 June 2019.
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