2020 AFC Futsal Championship

2020 AFC Futsal Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Turkmenistan
Dates	27 February – 8 March 2020
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
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The 2020 AFC Futsal Championship will be the 16th edition of the AFC Futsal Championship, the biennial international futsal championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's national teams of Asia. A total of 16 teams take part in the tournament to be played in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan between 27 February and 8 March 2020.

Same as previous editions held on the same year as the FIFA Futsal World Cup, the tournament acts as the AFC qualifiers for the World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2020 FIFA Futsal World Cup in Lithuania as the AFC representatives.^[2]

Iran are the defending champions.

Host selection

The following nations have expressed interest to host the tournament:

In Spring 2019, Turkmenistan was chosen as the host to take place in Ashgabat.

Qualification

The qualification matches will be started between October 16 and October 27. 4 teams can be qualified from West, Central & South, Southeast Zone, 3 teams can be qualified from East Zone.

Qualified teams

The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Appearance	Previous best performance
Turkmenistan	Hosts	7th	Round 1 (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012)
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Venues

Winter Sports Complex Ashgabat

Squads

Each team had to submit a squad of 14 players, including a minimum of two goalkeepers.^[3]

Draw

The 16 teams are drawn into four groups of four teams. The teams are seeded according to their performance in the 2018 AFC Futsal Championship final tournament and qualification, with the hosts Turkmenistan automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Turkmenistan (hosts) TBD TBD TBD	TBD TBD TBD TBD	TBD TBD TBD TBD	TBD TBD TBD TBD

Match officials

Group stage

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

Tiebreakers

The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order:^[3]

Greater number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
Greater number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
If, after applying criteria 1 to 3, teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 9 apply;
Goal difference in all the group matches;
Greater number of goals scored in all the group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are involved and they are both on the field of play;
Fewer score calculated according to the number of yellow and red cards received in the group matches (1 point for a single yellow card, 3 points for a red card as a consequence of two yellow cards, 3 points for a direct red card, 4 points for a yellow card followed by a direct red card);
Drawing of lots.

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Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time would be used in the third place match).^[3]