# 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup

The 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup was the 16th edition of the AFC Futsal Asian Cup, 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.
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. The tournament was scheduled to be played in Kuwait from 16 to 27 February 2022. 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.

## Qualification

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

### Qualified teams

The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.
| Team | Qualified as | Appearances | Last Appearance | Previous best performance |
| Kuwait | Hosts | 12th | 2014 | Fourth place (2003, 2014) |
| Lebanon | West Zone Group A winners | 12th | 2018 | Quarter-finals (2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018) |
| Saudi Arabia | West Zone Group A runners-up | 2nd | 2016 | Group stage (2016) |
| Iraq | West Zone Group B winners | 12th | 2018 | Fourth place (2018) |
| Bahrain | West Zone Group B runners-up | 3rd | 2018 | Quarter-finals (2018) |
| Oman | West Zone playoff winner | 1st | Debut | None |
| Thailand | ASEAN Zone winners | 16th | 2018 | Runners-up (2008, 2012) |
| Indonesia | ASEAN Zone runners-up | 10th | 2014 | Group stage (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014) |
| Vietnam | ASEAN Zone third place | 6th | 2018 | Fourth place (2016) |
| Iran | Central and South Zone Group A winners | 16th | 2018 | Champions (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2018) |
| Turkmenistan | Central and South Zone Group A runners-up | 7th | 2012 | Group stage (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012) |
| Uzbekistan | Central and South Zone Group B winners | 16th | 2018 | Runners-up (2001, 2006, 2010, 2016) |
| Tajikistan | Central and South Zone Group B runners-up | 11th | 2018 | Quarter-finals (2007) |
| Japan | East Zone winners | 16th | 2018 | Champions (2006, 2012, 2014) |
| South Korea | East Zone runner-up | 14th | 2018 | Runners-up (1999) |
| Chinese Taipei | East Zone third place | 13th | 2018 | Quarter-finals (2003) |
    $^1$ Italic indicates hosts for that year.

## Venues

* Kuwait City
* Saad Al Abdullah Hall
* Capacity: 6,000

## Draw

The draw was held on 26 May 2022 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
| Kuwait (hosts) Iran Japan Uzbekistan | Iraq Lebanon Vietnam Bahrain | Thailand Chinese Taipei Tajikistan South Korea | Indonesia Turkmenistan Saudi Arabia Oman |

## Squads

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

## Group stage

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):
* 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, AST (UTC+3).

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Thailand | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 7 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Kuwait (H) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 6 | +5 | 5 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Iraq | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 4 | |
| 4 | Oman | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 18 | −15 | 0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Uzbekistan | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | +14 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Tajikistan | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 11 | +3 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Bahrain | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 14 | −6 | 1 | |
| 4 | Turkmenistan | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 20 | −11 | 1 | |

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Iran | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 1 | +23 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Indonesia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 8 | +3 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Chinese Taipei | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 15 | −12 | 1 | |
| 4 | Lebanon | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 17 | −14 | 1 | |

### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Japan | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 2 | +7 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Vietnam | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Saudi Arabia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 6 | |
| 4 | South Korea | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 15 | −14 | 0 | |
* 1 2 3 Tied on head-to-head-points (3). Head-to-head goal difference: Japan +1, Vietnam 0, Saudi Arabia −1.

## Knockout stage

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).

### Bracket

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| 4 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | 4 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | | | |
| Thailand | 3 | | | |
| Thailand | 3 | 6 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | 6 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | | |
| Tajikistan | 2 | 6 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | 6 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | |
| Tajikistan | 2 | Thailand | 0 | |
| 4 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | 4 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | | Thailand | 0 | |
| 4 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | 4 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | Iran | 5 | |
| Iran | 8 | Iran | 5 | |
| Iran | 8 | | | | 8 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | 8 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall |
| Vietnam | 1 | | | | 8 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | 8 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall |
| Vietnam | 1 | | | | Iran | 2 |
| 4 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | 4 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | | | | | Iran | 2 |
| 4 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | 4 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | | | | Japan | 3 |
| Uzbekistan | 3 | | | | Japan | 3 |
| Uzbekistan | 3 | 6 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | 6 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | | | |
| Kuwait | 0 | 6 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | 6 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | | | |
| Kuwait | 0 | Uzbekistan | 1 | | | |
| 4 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | 4 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | | Uzbekistan | 1 | | | |
| 4 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | 4 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | Japan | 2 | | Third place | Third place |
| Japan | 3 | Japan | 2 | | Third place | Third place |
| Japan | 3 | | | | 8 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | 8 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall |
| Indonesia | 2 | | | | 8 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall | 8 October – Saad Al Abdullah Hall |
| Indonesia | 2 | | | | Thailand | 2 |
| | | | | | Uzbekistan | 8 |

### Final
## Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:
| Top Goalscorer | Best Goalkeeper | Most Valuable Player | Fair Play Award |
| Hossein Tayyebi | Guilherme Kuromoto | Moslem Oladghobad | Uzbekistan |

## Goalscorers

There were 193 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 6.03 goals per match.
10 goals
* Hossein Tayyebi
7 goals
* Saeid Ahmadabbasi
6 goals
* Idris Yorov
* Gurbangeldi Sähedow
5 goals
* Moslem Oladghobad
* Salim Faisal
* Fayzali Sardorov
4 goals
* Muhammad Fajriyan
* Salar Aghapour
* Worasak Srirangpirot
* Khusniddin Nishonov
* Ikhtiyor Ropiev
3 goals
* Mohammad Hossein Bazyar
* Sora Kanazawa
* Arthur Oliveira
* Kazuya Shimizu
* Jetsada Chudech
* Sarawut Phalaphruek
* Mashrab Adilov
* Davron Choriev
* Anaskhon Rakhmatov
* Elbek Tulkinov
* Akbar Usmonov
* Phạm Đức Hòa
2 goals
* Ahmed Antar
* Ammar Hasan Mayhad
* Dewa Rizki
* Syauqi Saud
* Mohammad Hossein Derakhshani
* Alireza Javan
* Mehdi Karimi
* Soma Mizutani
* Abdullatif Al-Abbasi
* Abdulaziz Al-Basam
* Saleh Al-Fadhel
* Abdulrahman Al-Tawail
* Farhan Ali
* Fahad Rudayni
* Narongsak Wingwon
* Mülkaman Annagulyýew
* Shakhram Fakhriddinov
* Ilkhomjon Khamroev
* Trần Thái Huy
1 goal
* Mohamed Abdulla
* Jassam Saleh
* Mohamed Al-Sandi
* Falah Abbas
* He Chia-chen
* Huang Wei-lun
* Lin Chih-hung
* Samuel Eko
* Firman Adriansyah
* Iqbal Rahmatullah
* Rio Pangestu
* Reza Gunawan
* Mehdi Asadshir
* Bahman Jafari
* Alireza Rafieipour
* Mohanad Abdulhadi
* Mustafa Ihsan
* Ghaith Riyadh
* Tareq Zeyad
* Vinícius Crepaldi
* Kentaro Ishida
* Higor Pires
* Tomoki Yoshikawa
* Yousef Al-Khalifah
* Abdulrahman Al-Mosabehi
* Abdulrahman Al-Wadi
* Mouhammad Hammoud
* Steve Koukezian
* Hasan Zeitoun
* Samer Al-Balushi
* Khalfan Al-Maawali
* Mohammed Taqi
* Mohsen Fqihe
* Nasser Al-Harthi
* Shin Jong-hoon
* Umed Kuziev
* Muhamadjon Sharipov
* Bakhtiyor Soliev
* Iqboli Vositzoda
* Krit Aransanyalak
* Panat Kittipanuwong
* Warut Wangsama-aeo
* Narongsak Wingwon
* Maksat Soltanow
* Sunatulla Juraev
* Dilshod Rakhmatov
* Châu Đoàn Phát
* Nguyễn Anh Duy
* Nguyễn Minh Trí
1 own goal
* Saeid Ahmadabbasi (against Japan)
* Mustafa Rhyem (against Iran)
* Seo Jung-woo (against Japan)
* Shin Jong-hoon (against Vietnam)
* Şiri Baýramdurdyýew (against Tajikistan)
* Châu Đoàn Phát (against Saudi Arabia)

## Final rankings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Final results |
| 1 | Japan | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 7 | +10 | 15 | Champions |
| 2 | Iran | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 39 | 5 | +34 | 15 | Runners-up |
| 3 | Uzbekistan | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 7 | +22 | 15 | Third place |
| 4 | Thailand | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 20 | −4 | 10 | Fourth place |
| 5 | Tajikistan | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 14 | +2 | 6 | Eliminated in quarter-finals |
| 6 | Indonesia | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 11 | +2 | 6 | Eliminated in quarter-finals |
| 7 | Vietnam | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 12 | −3 | 6 | Eliminated in quarter-finals |
| 8 | Kuwait | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 9 | +2 | 5 | Eliminated in quarter-finals |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 6 | Third place in group stage |
| 10 | Iraq | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 4 | Third place in group stage |
| 11 | Bahrain | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 14 | −6 | 1 | Third place in group stage |
| 12 | Chinese Taipei | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 15 | −12 | 1 | Third place in group stage |
| 13 | Turkmenistan | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 20 | −11 | 1 | Fourth place in group stage |
| 14 | Lebanon | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 17 | −14 | 1 | Fourth place in group stage |
| 15 | South Korea | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 15 | −14 | 0 | Fourth place in group stage |
| 16 | Oman | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 18 | −15 | 0 | Fourth place in group stage |