2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship explained

Tourney Name:Asian U-20 Futsal Championship
Year:2019
Other Titles:2019 مسابقات قهرمانی فوتسال زیر ۲۰ سال آسیا
Country:Iran
City:Tabriz
Dates:14–22 June[1]
Num Teams:12
Confederations:1
Venues:1
Count:1
Matches:20
Goals:128
Top Scorer: Salar Aghapour
Player: Masashi Osawa
Prevseason:2017
Nextseason:2021

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.[2] A total of 12 teams participated of tournament.[3] 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

See main article: 2019 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship qualification.

Unlike the previous tournament where all teams entered the final tournament, qualifiers were held from 1 to 10 December 2018.[4] The draw for the qualifiers was held on 30 August 2018.[5]

Qualified teams

The following 12 teams qualified for the final tournament.[6]

TeamQualified asdata-sort-type="number"AppearancePrevious 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.[2]

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.[7] [8] 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.

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Squads

See main article: article.

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).[3]

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals.

TiebreakersTeams 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):[3]
  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.

All times are local, IRDT (UTC+4:30).

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MatchdayDatesMatches
Matchday 114 June 20193 v 1
Matchday 215 June 20192 v 3
Matchday 316 June 20191 v 2

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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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).[3]

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

Awards

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

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: AFC Competitions Calendar 2019. AFC. 28 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180216025100/http://www.the-afc.com/afc/documents/PdfFiles/afc-competitions-calendar-2019. 16 February 2018. dead.
  2. 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.
  3. Web site: AFC U-20 Futsal Championship 2019 Competition Regulations. AFC. https://web.archive.org/web/20180809054417/http://www.the-afc.com/afc/documents/PdfFiles/afc-u-20-futsal-championship-2019-competition-regulations. 9 August 2018. dead.
  4. Web site: AFC Competitions Calendar 2018. AFC. 11 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180214060050/http://www.the-afc.com/afc/documents/PdfFiles/afc-competition-calendar-2018. 14 February 2018. dead.
  5. Web site: Asian hopefuls to identify opponents in official draw. AFC. 29 August 2018.
  6. Web site: Iran 2019 cast complete. AFC. 10 December 2018.
  7. Web site: IR Iran 2019 Finals draw: All you need to know. AFC. 10 April 2019.
  8. Web site: Draw sets stage for exciting IR Iran 2019 Finals. AFC. 11 April 2019.
  9. Web site: Aghapour bags Top Scorer Award, Masashi clinches MVP Award. AFC. 22 June 2019.