2018 AFC Women's Futsal Championship

2018 AFC Women's Futsal Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Thailand
Dates	3–12 May 2018
Teams	13 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	TBC (in TBC host cities)

The 2018 AFC Women's Futsal Championship will be the second edition of the AFC Women's Futsal Championship, the biennial international futsal championship organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's national teams of Asia. It will take place in Thailand, which was appointed as hosts by the AFC on 29 July 2017,^[1] between 3 and 12 May 2018.^[2] The tournament was originally to be held between 15–26 August 2017, two years after the inaugural edition in 2015, but was postponed to the following year.

A total of 13 teams will participate in the tournament. The 13 teams will be divided into three groups (one with five teams and two with four teams), with the group winners and the best runner-up advancing to the semi-finals.^[3]

The tournament will serve as qualifying for the futsal tournament at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, with the winner and the runner-up qualifying for the girls' tournament, to be represented by their U-18 representative teams.^[4][5]

Qualified teams

There is no qualification, and all 13 entrants will advance to the final tournament.

Team	Appearance	Previous best performance
Thailand (hosts)	2nd	03 !Third place (2015)

Venues

To be confirmed.

Draw

The 13 teams will be drawn into one group of five teams (Group A) and two groups of four teams (Groups B and C).

Squads

Each team can register a maximum of 14 players (minimum two of whom must be goalkeepers).^[4]

Group stage

The winner of each group and the best runner-up advance to the semi-finals.

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 10.5):^[4]

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, ICT (UTC+7).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Thailand (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	A2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage if best runner-up
3	A3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	A4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	A5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Group B

Group C

Ranking of second-placed teams

Due to groups having different number of teams, the results against the fifth-placed team in Group A are not considered for this ranking.

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where penalty shoot-out (no extra time) is used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Articles 14.1 and 15.1).^[4]

Bracket

Semi-finals

Winners qualify for 2018 Summer Youth Olympics girls' futsal tournament, to be represented by their U-18 representative teams.

Third place match

Final

Winners

Qualified teams for Youth Olympics

The following two teams from AFC qualified for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics girls' futsal tournament, to be represented by their U-18 representative teams.

Note: As participation in team sports (Futsal, Beach handball, Field hockey, and Rugby sevens) are limited to one team per gender for each National Olympic Committee (NOC), the participating teams of the 2018 Youth Olympics futsal tournament will be confirmed by mid-2018 after each qualified NOC confirmed their participation and any unused qualification places are reallocated.^[5]

Awards

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

See also

• 2017 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship
• Futsal at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

References

External links

• AFC Women's Futsal Championship, the-AFC.com

International futsal

AMF AMF Futsal World Cup FIFA FIFA Futsal World Cup Women's Futsal World Tournament Grand Prix Confederations Cup Pan American Games South American Games Futsal Mundialito Mediterranean Cup Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games Lusophony Games Southeast Asian Games Futsal Awards Teams Asia AFC Futsal Championship Women's Futsal Championship Africa CAF Futsal Cup of Nations North America Central America and Caribbean CONCACAF Futsal Championship South America CONMEBOL Copa América Copa América Femenina Oceania OFC Futsal Championship Europe UEFS UEFS Futsal Men's Championship UEFS Futsal Women's Championship UEFA Futsal Championship UEFA Women's Futsal Championship