| Tourney Name: | AFC Futsal Asian Cup qualification |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Dates: | [1] |
| Num Teams: | 31 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Top Scorer: | Muhammad Osamanmusa (11 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 2020 |
| Nextseason: | 2024 |
The 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup qualification was the qualification process organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine the participating teams for the 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup, the 17th edition of the international men's futsal championship of Asia.[2]
A total of 15 teams qualified to play in the final tournament, excluding Kuwait - who automatically qualified as a host.
The qualification process was divided into four zones: ASEAN Zone, where the 2022 AFF Futsal Championship served as the qualifying competition, Central & South Zone, East Zone, and West Zone.
Of the 47 AFC member associations, a total of 31 teams entered the competition. Sixteen spots in the final tournament were distributed as follows:
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| +Central and South Zone | ||||||||
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| width=15% | Pot 1 | width=15% | Pot 2 | width=15% | Pot 3 | width=15% | Pot 4 | width=15% | Pot 5 | |
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| +Did not enter | ||||||||
| width=20% | West Zone | width=20% | Central and South Zone (all of them in South Zone) | width=20% | East Zone | width=20% | ASEAN Zone | |
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The qualifiers took place between April 1 to 15 in centralized venues. In the West Zone, the United Arab Emirates were the hosts. Top two teams from each group and the winner of the play-off match between the third placed teams qualified. In the Central and South Zone, the matches were played in the Kyrgyz Republic where top two teams from each group advanced to the final tournament. The host for the East Zone were Malaysia. The top three teams from the five team group qualified for the tournament. The 2022 AFF Futsal Championship acts as the qualifiers for the ASEAN Zone, in which the top three teams (e.g. the two finalists and the winners of the third-place playoff) qualified.
Top two teams of each group, and the winner of the play-off between the group third-placed team, qualified for 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup.
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The winner qualified for 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup.
Top two teams of each group qualified for 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup.
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The top three teams qualified for 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup. China withdrew from the tournament on 20 April 2022 due to the surge in COVID-19 cases in the country following the 2022 Shanghai COVID-19 outbreak.[3] [4] Before they withdrew, the qualification was to be staged between six teams which were drawn into two groups of three teams, with the group winners and a play-off winner between the group runner-ups to qualify for the final tournament.
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See main article: 2022 AFF Futsal Championship.
Top three teams of the 2022 AFF Futsal Championship qualified for 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup.
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The winners qualified for 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup.
The winner qualified for 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup.
The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.[5]
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.