2014 AFC Futsal Championship

The 2014 AFC Futsal Championship was held in Vietnam from 30 April to 10 May 2014. 16 countries took part in the 13th edition of the tournament. Japan won the championship and successfully defended their title from the 2012 AFC Futsal Championship.

Qualified teams

Team	Qualified as	Qualification date	Appearance in finals
Japan	2012 AFC Futsal Championship Winners	0130 May 2012	13th
Thailand	2012 AFC Futsal Championship Runners-up	0230 May 2012	13th
Iran	2012 AFC Futsal Championship Third place	031 June 2012	13th
Vietnam	Hosts and ASEAN Zone Third place	0431 August 2013	3rd
Chinese Taipei	East Zone Runners-Up	056 October 2013	10th
China	East Zone Winner	066 October 2013	10th
South Korea	East Zone Third place	077 October 2013	12th
Indonesia	ASEAN Zone Fourth place	0822 October 2013	9th
Australia	ASEAN Zone Runners-up	0922 October 2013	6th
Malaysia	ASEAN Zone Fifth place	1023 October 2013	10th
Uzbekistan	South & Central Group Winner	116 November 2013	13th
Tajikistan	South & Central Group Runners-up	127 November 2013	8th
Kyrgyzstan	South & Central Group Third place	137 November 2013	13th
Lebanon	West Group Winners	1411 December 2013	9th
Kuwait	West Group Runners-up	1511 December 2013	11th
Iraq	West Group Third place	1612 December 2013	9th

Venues

Ho Chi Minh City
Phu Tho Gymnasium	Ton Duc Thang University Gymnasium
Capacity: 5,000	Capacity: 2,700

Draw

The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the previous season in 2012.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Vietnam (hosts)Japan Thailand Iran	Australia Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lebanon	Uzbekistan China Tajikistan Chinese Taipei	Indonesia South Korea Iraq Malaysia

Group stage

If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria were applied to determine the rankings.

Greater number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
Greater number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
Goal difference in all the group matches;
Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches;
Kicks from the penalty mark if only two teams are involved and they are both on the field of play;
Fewer score calculated according to the number of yellow and red cards received in the group matches;
Drawing of lots.

All times are local (UTC+7).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Kuwait	3	2	1	11	5	+6	6
2	Vietnam (H)	3	2	1	13	7	+6	6
3	Iraq	3	2	1	11	7	+4	6
4	Tajikistan	3	0	3	5	21	−16	0

Kuwait	5–0	Tajikistan
Hamad 3', 22' Al Tawail 13', 38', 39'

Vietnam	1–2	Iraq
Al-Zubaidi 25' (o.g.)		Abed 22' Fahem 40'

Iraq	3–5	Kuwait
Hwede 18' Fahem 34' Al Thabeti 35'		Ahmad 2' Altawail 16', 29', 30' Almosabehi 25'

Tajikistan	4–10	Vietnam
Makhmudov 11', 28' Mamedbabaev 17' Jumaev 17'		Trần Văn Vũ 10' Phùng Trọng Luân 12', 27' Ngô Ngọc Sơn 13', 27' Lê Quốc Nam 15' Phạm Đức Hòa 16' Nguyễn Bảo Quân 25', 33' Lý Khánh Hưng 37'

Vietnam	2–1	Kuwait
Ahmad 18' (o.g.) Phùng Trọng Luân 24'		Almosabehi 40'

Tajikistan	1–6	Iraq
Makhmudov 13'		Hamzah 1', 24' Hasan 15', 28' Fahem 27' Al Thabeti 35'

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Iran	3	3	0	25	2	+23	9
2	Australia	3	2	1	8	9	−1	6
3	Indonesia	3	1	2	5	13	−8	3
4	China	3	0	3	4	18	−14	0

Iran	5–1	Indonesia
Tayebi 8' Tavakoli 17', 17' Hassanzadeh 18' Shafiei 38'		Kustiawan 30'

Australia	2–1	China
Seeto 6', 39'		Zhang Wen 3'

Indonesia	0–5	Australia
		Giovenali 14' de Moraes 20' Giovenali 38' Seeto 39' Fogarty 40'

China	0–12	Iran
		Tayebi 1', 12', 27', 35' Tavakoli 5' Hassanzadeh 1', 2', 25' Shafiei 10', 28' Fakhim 24' Ahmadi 40'

Iran	8–1	Australia
Tayebi 2', 10', 11' Taheri 10', 29' Vafaei 15' Shafiei 17' Esmaeilpour 28'		Daniel Fogarty 7'

China	3–4	Indonesia
Zhao Liang 9' Wang Tianyi 11' Agustin 40' (o.g.)		Kustiawan 3', 30' Oktavianus 12', 36'

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Thailand	3	2	1	0	15	6	+9	7
2	Lebanon	3	1	1	1	12	13	−1	4
3	Chinese Taipei	3	1	0	2	10	15	−5	3
4	Malaysia	3	1	0	2	8	11	−3	3

Thailand	7–1	Malaysia
Sornwichian 11', 12' Thueanklang 26', 29', 36' Thaijaroen 31' Alwee 39' (o.g.)		Amir 11'

Lebanon	8–5	Chinese Taipei
Serhan 2' Tneich 17', 23' Kobeissy 23', 23', 39' Kheir El Dine 28' Zeitoun 35'		Chu Chia-wei 9' Liu Chi-chao 11' Huang Cheng-tsung 18', 19' Lo Chih-en 27'

Malaysia	5–1	Lebanon
Akmar 1', 23' Nizam 5', 11' Aula 34'		Tneich 16'

Chinese Taipei	2–5	Thailand
Lo Chih-an 24' Huang Cheng-tsung 33'		Thueanklang 3' Chudech 4' Rattana 8' Wongkaeo 24' Sornwichian 33'

Thailand	3–3	Lebanon
Wongkaeo 21' Thueanklang 33', 40'		Tneich 1' Zaid 17', 40'

Chinese Taipei	3–2	Malaysia
Chang Hao-wei 14' Huang Cheng-tsung 17' Weng Wei-pin 26'		Amir 20' Yatim 29'

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Uzbekistan	3	2	1	0	7	3	+4	7
2	Japan	3	2	0	1	17	2	+15	6
3	Kyrgyzstan	3	1	1	1	6	7	−1	4
4	South Korea	3	0	0	3	1	19	−18	0

Japan	12–0	South Korea
Nibuya 3', 35' Osodo 6', 20', 31' Nakamura 16', 33', 38' Minamoto 29' Uchimura 31' Sato 36' Morioka 39'

Kyrgyzstan	2–2	Uzbekistan
Ryskulov 38' Kanetov 39'		Tabaldiev 5' (o.g.) Abdumavlyanov 17'

South Korea	1–4	Kyrgyzstan
Shin Jong-hoon 32'		Ermekov 17', 27' Duvanaev 37' Kondratkov 40'

Uzbekistan	2–1	Japan
Shlema 10' Yunusov 40'		Nishitani 9'

Japan	4–0	Kyrgyzstan
Minamoto 4' Nibuya 9' Osodo 17', 35'

Uzbekistan	3–0	South Korea
Shuhrat 16' Choriev 34' Dilshod 39'

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time is used in the third place match).

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals	Final

May 7 – Ho Chi Minh City

Kuwait	5
May 8 – Ho Chi Minh City
Australia	2
Kuwait	1
May 7 – Ho Chi Minh City
	Japan	6
Thailand	2
	May 10 – Ho Chi Minh City
Japan	3
Japan	2(3)
May 7 – Ho Chi Minh City
	Iran	2(0)
Iran	15
May 8 – Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam	4
Iran	10
May 7 – Ho Chi Minh City
	Uzbekistan	0	Third place
Uzbekistan	6
	May 10 – Ho Chi Minh City
Lebanon	2
Kuwait	1

Uzbekistan	2

Quarter-finals

Kuwait	5–2	Australia
Hamad 21', 32' Altawail 29' Abdulrahman 32', 34'		Tobias Seeto 32' Jarrod Basger 28'

Thailand	2–3	Japan
Suphawut 20' Jirawat 25'		Nibuya 7' Osodo 14' Morioka 36'

Iran	15–4	Vietnam
Tayyebi 2', 10', 24' Fakhim 11', 36', 38' Esmaeilpour 12' Vafaei 17', 36' Hassanzadeh 25', 26', 28' Shajari 29', 32' Jafari 30'		Phùng Trọng Luân 12', 29' Lý Khánh Hưng 22' Pham Thành Đạt 33'

Uzbekistan	6–2	Lebanon
Andrey 10' Dilshod 25', 32' Shuhrat 26' Artur 30' Farkhod 30'		Kheir El Dine 38' Moustafa Serhan 40'

Semi-finals

Kuwait	1–6	Japan
Mohammad 15'		Inaba 5', 22' Minamoto 21' Osodo 24', 27' Hoshi 29'

Iran	10–0	Uzbekistan
Tayyebi 5', 24', 28' Shafiei 10', 23', 31' Vafaei 1' Hassanzadeh 5' Esmaeilpour 7' Shajari 30'

Third place play-off

Kuwait	1–2	Uzbekistan
Alwadhi 35'		Dilshod 11' Farkhod 34'

Final

Japan	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Iran
Inaba 26' Ahmadi 46' (o.g.)		Tavakoli 8' Tayyebi 43'
Penalties
Nibuya Yoshikawa Minamoto	3–0	Taheri Bahadori Hassanzadeh

Goalscorers

15 goals

Iran Hossein Tayyebi

8 goals

7 goals

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:

Top Goalscorer	Most Valuable Player	Fair Play award
Iran Hossein Tayyebi	Iran Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh	Japan

External links

, the-AFC.com