2016 AFC Futsal Championship qualification
The 2016 AFC Futsal Championship qualification was a men's futsal competition which decided the participating teams of the 2016 AFC Futsal Championship. A total of 16 teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including Japan, Iran, Uzbekistan (hosts), who qualified directly as the top three finishers of the 2014 AFC Futsal Championship. Since third-placed Uzbekistan qualified automatically as hosts, Kuwait, who finished fourth, would have also qualified as the next best-ranked team, but they were later replaced due to FIFA's suspension of the Kuwait Football Association. The top five teams  of the final tournament qualified for the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup in Colombia. Teams. A total of 26 AFC member national teams entered the qualifying stage, split into zones according to their regional affiliations. The draw for the qualifiers was held on 2 September 2015 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Only the groups in West Asia were drawn, as no draw was necessary for Central Asia and East Asia, and the draw for the 2015 AFF Futsal Championship had already been held on 16 June 2015 in Singapore. Apart from the four direct qualifiers, the remaining  twelve slots in the final tournament were allocated as follows: Format. In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue. The top two teams of each group (total 12 teams) qualified for the final tournament. Tiebreakers. The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order: Zones. The matches were played on the following dates: Qualified teams. The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.