# 2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship

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. A total of 12 teams participated of tournament. 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. The draw for the qualifiers was held on 30 August 2018.

### Qualified teams

The following 12 teams qualified for the final tournament.
| Team | Qualified as | Appearance | Previous best performance |
| Thailand | ASEAN Zone winners | 2nd | Third place (2017) |
| Vietnam | ASEAN Zone runners-up | 2nd | Group stage (2017) |
| Indonesia | ASEAN Zone third place | 2nd | Quarter-finals (2017) |
| Iran | Central Zone Group A winners and Hosts | 2nd | Champions (2017) |
| Kyrgyzstan | Central Zone Group B winners | 2nd | Group stage (2017) |
| Afghanistan | Central Zone play-off winners | 2nd | Group stage (2017) |
| Tajikistan | Central Zone play-off losers | 2nd | Group stage (2017) |
| Japan | East Zone Group A winners | 2nd | Quarter-finals (2017) |
| Chinese Taipei | East Zone Group B winners | 2nd | Group stage (2017) |
| Hong Kong | East Zone best runners-up | 2nd | Group Stage (2017) |
| Lebanon | West Zone Group A winners | 2nd | Quarter-finals (2017) |
| Iraq | West Zone Group B winners | 2nd | Runners-up (2017) |
Notes:
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## Venue

The matches were played at the Shahid Poursharifi Arena in Tabriz.
* Tabriz
* Shahid Poursharifi Arena
* Capacity: 6,000

## Draw

The final draw was held on 11 April 2019, 15:30 MYT (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur. 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 |
| Iran (hosts) Iraq Thailand Japan | Indonesia Lebanon Vietnam Afghanistan | Hong Kong Tajikistan Kyrgyzstan Chinese Taipei |

## 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).

## 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):
* 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).

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Iran (H) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Afghanistan | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 3 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 13 | −9 | 0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Thailand | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | +9 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Lebanon | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 3 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Kyrgyzstan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 0 | |

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Japan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Vietnam | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Tajikistan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 0 | |

### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Indonesia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Iraq | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 3 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Chinese Taipei | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 11 | −6 | 0 | |

## 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).

### Bracket

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | | | |
| Iran (a.e.t.) | 3 | | | |
| Iran (a.e.t.) | 3 | 20 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | 20 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | | |
| Lebanon | 2 | 20 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | 20 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | |
| Lebanon | 2 | Iran | 4 | |
| 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | | Iran | 4 | |
| 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | Japan (a.e.t.) | 8 | |
| Japan | 2 | Japan (a.e.t.) | 8 | |
| Japan | 2 | | | | 22 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | 22 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena |
| Iraq | 0 | | | | 22 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | 22 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena |
| Iraq | 0 | | | | Japan | 3 |
| 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | | | | | Japan | 3 |
| 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | | | | Afghanistan | 1 |
| Thailand | 2 | | | | Afghanistan | 1 |
| Thailand | 2 | 20 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | 20 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | | | |
| Afghanistan | 3 | 20 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | 20 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | | | |
| Afghanistan | 3 | Afghanistan (a.e.t.) | 4 | | | |
| 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | | Afghanistan (a.e.t.) | 4 | | | |
| 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | 18 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | Indonesia | 3 | | Third place match | Third place match |
| Indonesia | 7 | Indonesia | 3 | | Third place match | Third place match |
| Indonesia | 7 | | | | 22 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | 22 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena |
| Vietnam | 5 | | | | 22 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena | 22 June – Shahid Poursharifi Arena |
| Vietnam | 5 | | | | Iran | 9 |
| | | | | | Indonesia | 1 |

### Final
## Winners

* 2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship
* Japan First title

## Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:
| Top Goalscorer | Most Valuable Player | Fair Play award |
| Salar Aghapour | Masashi Osawa | Japan |

## 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)