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 OF 2020 FIFA U-20 Futsal World Cup
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 asAppearance Previous best performance 2nd (2017) 2nd (2017) 2nd (2017) and 2nd (2017) 2nd (2017) 2nd (2017) 2nd (2017) 2nd (2017) 2nd (2017) 2nd (2017) 2nd (2017) 2nd (2017)
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 1Pot 2Pot 3
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).
+ScheduleMatchdayDatesMatchesMatchday 114 June 20193 v 1Matchday 215 June 20192 v 3Matchday 316 June 20191 v 2
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
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
Semi-finals
Third place match
Final
Winners
Awards The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:
Top GoalscorerMost Valuable PlayerFair Play award Salar Aghapour Masashi Osawa
Goalscorers
References
External links
, the-AFC.com AFC U20 Futsal Championship 2019, stats.the-AFC.com