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).
Key to colours in group tablesGroup winners, runners-up, and best two third placed teams advance to the quarter finals
Group A Team3300209+119320194+5630121020−10230031117−60
Group B Team2110104+652101139+432002414−100
Group C Team3300123+993201109+163102119+233003618−120
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. Team200246−202002414−1002002516−110
Knockout stage
Quarter finals
Semi finals
Third place play off
Final
Winners
Awards Best Player (MVP) Yahya Al-Araimi Top Scorer(s) Takeshi Kawaharazuka Ishaq Al-Mas8 goals Best Goalkeeper Shingo Terukina
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 RankTeam 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
References Day 1 Results Day 2 Results Day 3 Results and quarter final draw Day 4 Quarter final Results