2011 AFC Beach Soccer Championship

2011 AFC Beach Soccer Championship
The 2011 AFC Beach Soccer Championship was a continental beach soccer tournament, which took place from 27 February to 4 March 2011, in Muscat, Oman, seeing the tournament leave Dubai for the first time. Beach Soccer Worldwide and FIFA decided to move the location of the championship to the Al-Musannah Sports City complex in Muscat, due to the success of the 2010 Asian Beach Games held there.
The two finalists and the third place play-off winner earned qualification to represent Asia at the 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Ravenna, Italy being Japan, who won the championship for a second consecutive time, Oman who finished in second place, qualifying to the world cup for the first time and Iran who beat the United Arab Emirates in the third place play off, to qualify by finishing in third place for the fourth time.
Participating teams
A tournament record 11 teams, an increase of four teams following the seven that participated in the 2009 qualifiers confirmed their participation in the competition, with many newcomers, showing the ever growing popularity of the sport.
Originally, 15 teams were going to take part, which included Afghanistan, Palestine, Qatar and Yemen. However, the four countries pulled out of the tournament because of an undisclosed reason.
Group stage
The draw to divide the eleven teams into the following three groups was conducted on 24 February 2011. The group stage commenced on 27 February 2011 and consisted of each nation playing each other once in a single round-robin format. To qualify for the quarter-finals, a team must have finished in the top two of each group or have one of the two best records of the third placed group finishers.
All kickoff times are listed as Omani local time (UTC+4).
Group A
Group B
Group C
Third placed teams
Because some groups contain four teams and some three, matches against the fourth-placed team in each group are not included in this ranking.
Knockout stage
Quarter finals
Semi finals
Third place play off
Final
Winners
Awards
Top scorers
8 goals
Takeshi Kawaharazuka
Ishaq Al-Mas
7 goals
Hussein Jabbar
Shusei Yamauchi
Ali Hassan Karim
6 goals
Yahya Al-Araimi
Jamoliddin Sharipov
5 goals
Rashed Jamal
Mohammad Ahmadzadeh
Jalal Al-Sinani
Rashid Ahmed Hassan
4 goals
Han Xue
Mehdi Hassani
Moslem Mesigar
Khaild Al-Zaabi
Adel Ranjabar
3 goals
Gui Qixuan
Farid Boloukbashi
Ali Naderi
3 goals (cont.)
Omar Al-Jaser
Abdulwahhab Al-Safi
Youssef Al-Saqer
Yaqoob Al-Alawi
2 goals
Mohamed Darwish
Ebrahim Hasan
Yaqoob Nesuf
Talal Yousef
Qiu Hao
Hassan Abdollahi
Farough Dara
Sadeq Jabr
Takashi Arakaki
Hirofumi Oda
Teruki Tabata
Haitham Al-Araimi
Mohammad Nassif
Javlon Anorov
Fakhriddin Samegov
Abdusattor Sattorov
1 goal
Yilihanmu Aihaiti
Gede Darmasuta
Dewa Kadek Dwipayudha
1 goal (cont.)
Nyoman Jumada
Komang Kariana
Wayan Metrajaya
Juli Parimawan
Moshtak Kadhim
Kunihiro Wakabayashi
Abdulaziz Al-Eid
Hani Al-Dhabit
Omar Akil
Omar Al-Najjar
Alaa Arnaout
Ahmad Shatta
Humaid Al-Balooshi
Rami Al-Mesaabi
Walid Mohammed
Qambar Sadeqi
Furkat Azizov
Nodir Elibaev
Own goal
Ishaq Al-Mas (for Kuwait)
Final standings
References
Day 1 Results
Day 2 Results
Day 3 Results and quarter final draw
Day 4 Quarter final Results
Beach Soccer Championship
2011
Qualification Afc
2011
2011 in beach soccer
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