# 2025 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup

The 2025 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup will be the 3rd edition of the AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup, the international futsal championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's national teams of Asia. The tournament will be held between 6 and 17 May 2025.
Iran are the two-time defending champions.
The tournament will serve as the qualifying for the inaugural 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup in the Philippines.

## Host selection

The following three football associations submitted their interest to host the tournament by the deadline.
* China
* Indonesia
* Uzbekistan
On 13 September 2024, the AFC Executive Committee ratified the AFC Futsal & Beach Soccer Committee's decisions to award the hosting rights of the 2025 AFC Women’s Futsal Asian Cup to the Chinese Football Association.

## Qualification

The host country and the top two teams of the previous tournament in 2018 AFC Women's Futsal Championship qualified automatically, while the other nine teams were determined by qualification matches played in January 2025.

### Qualified teams

The following twelve teams qualified for the tournament:
| Team | Method of qualification | Date of qualification | Finals appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance |
| China | Hosts | 13 September 2024 | 3rd | 2018 | Quarter-finals (2018) |
| Iran | 2018 champions | 30 August 2024 | 3rd | 2018 | Champions (2015, 2018) |
| Japan | 2018 runners-up | 30 August 2024 | 3rd | 2018 | Runners-up (2015, 2018) |
| Thailand | Group A winners | 17 January 2025 | 3rd | 2018 | Third place (2015, 2018) |
| Indonesia | Group B winners | 17 January 2025 | 2nd | 2018 | Quarter-finals (2018) |
| Australia | Group C winners | 17 January 2025 | 1st | N/A | N/A (Debut) |
| Vietnam | Group D winners | 17 January 2025 | 3rd | 2018 | Fourth place (2018) |
| Bahrain | Group A runners-up | 19 January 2025 | 2nd | 2018 | Group Stage (2018) |
| Hong Kong | Group B runners-up | 17 January 2025 | 3rd | 2018 | Group Stage (2015, 2018) |
| Uzbekistan | Group C runners-up | 19 January 2025 | 3rd | 2018 | Quarter-finals (2018) |
| Chinese Taipei | Group D runners-up | 17 January 2025 | 2nd | 2018 | Quarter-finals (2018) |
| Philippines | Best third-placed team | 17 January 2025 | 1st | N/A | N/A (Debut) |

### Draw

The draw was held on 6 February 2025 at the Juva Grand Hotel in Hohhot, China.
The 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four teams, with seeding based on their FIFA Futsal World Ranking as of October 2024, which are shown in parentheses except for the team who is unranked, which are denoted by (–). As hosts, China were automatically seeded into pot 1.
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
| China (26; hosts) Thailand (6) Iran (9) | Japan (10) Vietnam (11) Uzbekistan (18) | Indonesia (24) Chinese Taipei (25) Hong Kong (31) | Bahrain (36) Philippines (59) Australia (–) |

## Squads

Each team must register a final squad of 14 players, including at least two goalkeepers, no later than 10 days before the first match of the tournament (Regulations Articles 26.3).

## Group stage
### 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 7.3):
* 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 were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were 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 were 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.

### Group A

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | China (H) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Uzbekistan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible knockout stage based on ranking |
| 4 | Australia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Iran | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Vietnam | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible knockout stage based on ranking |
| 4 | Philippines | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

### Group C

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Thailand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Indonesia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible knockout stage based on ranking |
| 4 | Bahrain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

### Ranking of third-placed teams

| Pos | Grp | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | A | Third place Group A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | B | Third place Group B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | C | Third place Group C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

## 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 without extra time is used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Article 10).

### Bracket

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| 13 May - Hohhot | 13 May - Hohhot | | |
| Group A winner | | | |
| Group A winner | | 15 May - Hohhot | 15 May - Hohhot | |
| Group B/C third place | | 15 May - Hohhot | 15 May - Hohhot |
| Group B/C third place | | Quarter final 3 winner | |
| 13 May - Hohhot | 13 May - Hohhot | | Quarter final 3 winner | |
| 13 May - Hohhot | 13 May - Hohhot | Quarter final 2 winner | |
| Group C winner | | Quarter final 2 winner | |
| Group C winner | | | | 17 May - Hohhot | 17 May - Hohhot |
| Group A/B third place | | | | 17 May - Hohhot | 17 May - Hohhot |
| Group A/B third place | | | | Semi final 1 winner | |
| 13 May - Hohhot | 13 May - Hohhot | | | | Semi final 1 winner |
| 13 May - Hohhot | 13 May - Hohhot | | | Semi final 2 winner | |
| Group B winner | | | | Semi final 2 winner | |
| Group B winner | | 15 May - Hohhot | 15 May - Hohhot | | |
| Group C runner-up | | 15 May - Hohhot | 15 May - Hohhot | | |
| Group C runner-up | | Quarter final 1 winner | | | |
| 13 May - Hohhot | 13 May - Hohhot | | Quarter final 1 winner | | |
| 13 May - Hohhot | 13 May - Hohhot | Quarter final 4 winner | | Third place play-off | Third place play-off |
| Group A runner-up | | Quarter final 4 winner | | Third place play-off | Third place play-off |
| Group A runner-up | | | | 17 May - Hohhot | 17 May - Hohhot |
| Group B runner-up | | | | 17 May - Hohhot | 17 May - Hohhot |
| Group B runner-up | | | | Semi final 1 loser | |
| | | | | Semi final 2 loser | |

### Semi-finals

Winners will qualify for the 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup.

### Third place match

Winner will qualify for the 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup. If the Philippines reach the semi-finals, the loser will also qualify.

### Final
## Qualified teams for the 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup

As the host nation, the Philippines have secured their place in the World Cup, regardless of their results in the Asian Cup.
Should the Philippines advance to the semifinals, all other semifinalists will automatically qualify. However, if the Philippines do not reach the semifinals, then the top three teams—the winner, runner-up, and third-place finisher—will secure qualification for the 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup.
The following four teams from AFC qualified for the 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup.
| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in the FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup |
| Philippines | 15 May 2024 | 0 (debut) |
| | May 2025 | 0 (debut) |
| | May 2025 | 0 (debut) |
| | May 2025 | 0 (debut) |