2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:AFC U-20 Futsal Championship qualification
Year:2019
Dates:[1]
Num Teams:23
Confederations:1
Matches:30
Goals:204
Top Scorer: Khalil Marran
Nextseason:2021

The 2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship qualification is the qualification process organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine the participating teams for the 2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship. Players born after 1 January 1999 were eligible to compete in the tournament.[2]

A total of 12 teams qualify to play in the final tournament.

Draw

Of the 47 AFC member associations, a total of 23 teams entered the competition. The qualification process is divided into four zones: ASEAN Zone, Central Zone, East Zone and West Zone (no teams from South Zone entered qualification). The 12 spots in the final tournament are distributed as follows:

As the final tournament hosts had not been announced at the time of the qualifying draw, the hosts were also included in the draw. Despite having automatically qualified for the final tournament, they may still decide to participate in qualification, and if they finish in one of the qualification spots, the next best team in their zone also qualifies.

The draw for the qualifiers was held on 30 August 2018, 15:00 MYT (UTC+8), at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[3] [4] [5] The mechanism of the draw for each zone is as follows:

The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2017 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship final tournament.

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Notes

Format

In each group, teams play each other once at a centralised venue.

Tiebreakers

Teams are 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 are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 11.5):[2]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. 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;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
  8. 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);
  9. Drawing of lots.

ASEAN Zone

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MatchdayDatesMatches
Matchday 15 December 20183 v 2, 5 v 4
Matchday 26 December 20184 v 1, 5 v 3
Matchday 37 December 20181 v 5, 2 v 4
Matchday 48 December 20182 v 5, 3 v 1
Matchday 59 December 20184 v 3, 1 v 2

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Central Zone

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MatchdayDatesMatches
Matchday 11 December 20183 v 1
Matchday 22 December 20182 v 3
Matchday 33 December 20181 v 2
Play-off4 December 2018A2 v B2

Group A

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Group B

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Play-off

Winner qualifies for 2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship.

As Iran were confirmed as the final tournament hosts on 5 December 2018,[9] [10] loser also qualifies for 2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship.

East Zone

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MatchdayDatesMatches
Matchday 11 December 20183 v 1
Matchday 22 December 20182 v 3
Matchday 33 December 20181 v 2

Group A

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Group B

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West Zone

+Schedule
MatchdayDatesMatches
Matchday 16 December 20183 v 1
Matchday 27 December 20182 v 3
Matchday 38 December 20181 v 2
Play-off9 December 2018A2 v B2

Group A

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Group B

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Play-off

Winner qualifies for 2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship.

Saudi Arabia later withdrew and were replaced by Hong Kong.[8]

Qualified teams

The following 12 teams qualified for the final tournament. Saudi Arabia, which originally qualified, withdrew and were replaced by Hong Kong.[8]

TeamQualified asQualified ondata-sort-type="number"Previous appearances in AFC U-20 Futsal Championship1
1 (2017)
1 (2017)
1 (2017)
and 1 (2017)
1 (2017)
1 (2017)
1 (2017)
1 (2017)
1 (2017)
1 (2017)
1 (2017)
1 (2017)

1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: AFC Competitions Calendar 2018. AFC. 11 January 2018.
  2. Web site: AFC U-20 Futsal Championship 2019 Competition Regulations. AFC.
  3. Web site: Asian hopefuls to identify opponents in official draw. AFC. 29 August 2018.
  4. Web site: Teams discover Qualifiers' opponents. AFC. 30 August 2018.
  5. Web site: AFC U-20 Futsal Championship Qualifiers 2019 - Official Draw. YouTube. 30 August 2018.
  6. Web site: Uzbekistan drawn into Group B. AFC. 18 September 2018.
  7. Web site: AFC Futsal U-20 championship 2019 Qualifiers Central Zone. YouTube. 18 September 2018.
  8. Web site: IR Iran 2019 Finals draw: All you need to know. AFC. 10 April 2019.
  9. Web site: با تایید کنفدراسیون فوتبال آسیا؛. Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran. 5 December 2018. 10 December 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181213101259/http://www.ffiri.ir/news/detail/%D8%A8%D8%A7-%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C%D8%AF-%DA%A9%D9%86%D9%81%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86-%D9%81%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A2%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7-/185156/news.aspx. 13 December 2018. dead.
  10. Web site: Iran 2019 cast complete. AFC. 10 December 2018.

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