| Tourney Name: | AFC Futsal Asian Cup qualification |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Country: | Thailand (Group A) |
| Country2: | Saudi Arabia (Group B) |
| Country3: | Kyrgyzstan (Group C) |
| Country4: | Mongolia (Group D) |
| Country5: | Tajikistan (Group E) |
| Country6: | Bahrain (Group F) |
| Country7: | Uzbekistan (Group G) |
| Country8: | Chinese Taipei (Group H) |
| Num Teams: | 30 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Matches: | 43 |
| Goals: | 303 |
| Top Scorer: | Saeid Ahmadabbasi (8 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 2022 |
| Nextseason: | 2026 |
The 2024 AFC Futsal Asian Cup qualification was the qualification process organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine the participating teams for the 2024 AFC Futsal Asian Cup, the 17th edition of the international men's futsal championship of Asia.
A total of 16 teams qualified to play in the final tournament in Thailand. The host country Thailand qualified automatically, while the other 15 teams were decided by qualification, with the matches played between 7–13 October 2023 in centralised venues.
This tournament also served as the first stage of Asian qualification for the 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup, where five teams from the Futsal Asian Cup qualify directly for the World Cup (plus hosts Uzbekistan).
The AFC Executive Committee had approved several strategic recommendations put forward by the AFC Competitions Committee, one of which was the removal of zoning principles in the AFC's Futsal and Beach Soccer competitions.[1]
The 46 AFC member associations were eligible to enter the qualification after Sri Lanka was barred from participating in international competitions due to FIFA suspension before the draw.[2] [3] The Northern Mariana Islands, whose association are not FIFA members, were not be eligible to qualify for the 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup.
Only 30 teams including China, India and Macau who did not participate in the previous edition, entered the competition. Thailand automatically qualified for the final tournament as hosts, but decided to also participate in the qualifying competition. 17 teams including Turkmenistan who withdrew after the draw plus Oman and United Arab Emirates who did participate in the previous edition, did not enter to the qualification and were listed below. The following teams with asterisks are the teams never entered the qualification.
The draw was held on 22 June 2023 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[4]
31 teams including Turkmenistan who withdrew after the draw and Thailand who automatically qualified as hosts after the draw, were seeded into four pots based on the their performance at the qualification and the final tournament of the previous edition.[5] The eight hosts of the qualification including Indonesia who withdrew the hosts after the draw, were placed into the host pots.
Teams who participated in the final tournament of the previous edition were ranked from the 1st to the 15th by their performance at that tournament and other teams who participated in the qualification of the previous edition were ranked from the 16th to 27th by their performance at that tournament. China, India and Macau who did not participate in the previous edition, were unranked.
The 31 teams including Turkmenistan who withdrew after the draw and Thailand who automatically qualified as hosts after the draw, were drawn into six groups of four teams and two groups of three teams.
| width=23% | Pot 1 | width=23% | Pot 2 | width=23% | Pot 3 | width=23% | Pot 4 | ||
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| Host teams | valign=top | valign=top | valign=top | valign=top | |||||
| Remaining teams | valign=top | valign=top | valign=top | valign=top |
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:[6]
Thailand already qualified to the final tournament as host country, so their matches were not taken into account when calculating the group ranking. Then, Turkmenistan withdrew after the draw. Since only two teams were competing, a total of two games were played between China and Hong Kong.
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The seven best second-placed teams from the eight groups advanced to the final tournament along with the eight group winners. Due to fewer matches in groups A and H, results against the fourth-placed teams of each group C to G were not counted in determining the ranking of the second-placed teams.
The team rankings will be used for seeding in the qualification draw and the final draw of the next edition for non-qualified teams.
Of the 16 teams qualified, 11 teams were returning after appearing in the 2022 edition.
Afghanistan were the only debutant in the final tournament, while Australia marked their return for the first time in 8 years. China, Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar also qualified for the first time in 6 years. Japan, Iran, Thailand and Uzbekistan were the only four teams to qualify for every edition.
Three nations from the previous edition failed to qualify (Chinese Taipei, Indonesia and Lebanon) and other two nations from the previous edition did not enter to qualifiers (Oman and Turkmenistan).
| Team | Method of qualification | Date of qualification | Finals appearances | Last appearance | Previous best performance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17th | (2008, 2012) | |||||
| 13th | (2008, 2010) | |||||
| 1st | Debut | |||||
| 3rd | 2022 | (2016, 2022) | ||||
| 17th | 2022 | (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2018) | ||||
| 16th | 2018 | (2006, 2007), (2005) | ||||
| 7th | 2022 | (2016) | ||||
| 15th | 2022 | (1999) | ||||
| 12th | 2022 | (2007, 2022) | ||||
| 2nd | 2018 | (2018) | ||||
| 13th | 2022 | (2003, 2014) | ||||
| 4th | 2022 | (2018) | ||||
| 17th | 2022 | (2001, 2006, 2010, 2016) | ||||
| 13th | 2022 | (2018) | ||||
| 17th | 2022 | (2006, 2012, 2014, 2022) | ||||
| 8th | 2016 | (2012) |