2025 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup qualification explained

Tourney Name:	2025 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup qualification
Num Teams:	19
Confederations:	1

A qualification tournament will be held to determine nine of twelve participating teams for the 2025 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup in China. This marks a first time that a dedicated tournament will be held for an AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup^[1]

Teams

A total of 47 AFC member associations were eligible to enter the qualification process. the Northern Mariana Islands, whose association is not a FIFA member, were not be eligible to qualify for the 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup. Nineteen teams (out of 47), including nine entrants who did not participate in the previous edition, have entered the competition. 25 teams, including Bangladesh and Malaysia who did participate in the previous edition, did not enter the qualification and were listed below. The following teams with asterisks are the teams that never had a women's futsal side.

Draw

The draw was held on 17 October 2024 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[2]

Seeding

Teams who participated in the final tournament of the previous edition were ranked from the 1st to the 13th by their performance at that tournament. Other teams who did not participate in the previous edition, were unranked.

Final rankings

Pots

Participating teams are seeded into four pots based on the final ranking of the previous edition of the competition. Teams that did not participate in the previous edition and have not been ranked will be allocated to Pot 4. At the beginning of the draw, the host associations were separately placed into an additional host pot to ensure they are drawn into different groups. The host associations will be assigned to each group in accordance with their seeding, following the pot allocation principles.^[1]

	width=23%	Pot 1	width=23%	Pot 2	width=23%	Pot 3	width=23%	Pot 4
Host teams	valign=top				valign=top
Remaining teams	valign=top		valign=top		valign=top		valign=top

Notes

• Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.
• (H): Qualification group hosts.

Groups

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:^[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 were 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 are playing each other 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.

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Ranking of third-placed teams

The best third-placed teams from the four groups will advance to the final tournament along with the four group winners and runners-up. Due to fewer matches in Group D, results against the fifth-placed teams of groups A to C will not be counted in determining the ranking of the third-placed teams.

Qualified teams

The following nine teams from AFC qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	data-sort-type="number"	Previous appearances in 2025 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup^1
		13 September 2024	2 (2015, 2018)
			2 (2015, 2018)
			2 (2015, 2018)

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

Notes and References

1. News: AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup China 2025: Stage set for #WACFutsal2025 Qualifiers draw . 14 October 2024 . Asian Football Confederation . 11 October 2024 . en.
2. Web site:
   1. WACFutsal2025 Qualifiers Draw finalised
   . 17 October 2024. the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 17 October 2024.
3. Web site: AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup 2025 Competition Regulations. Asian Football Confederation.