2024 AFC Futsal Asian Cup
ฟุตซอลชิงแชมป์เอเชีย 2024
Tournament details
Host countryThailand
Dates17–28 April 2024
Teams16 (from 1 confederation)

The 2024 AFC Futsal Asian Cup is the 17th edition of the AFC Futsal Asian Cup (previously known as the AFC Futsal Championship),[1] 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 compete in the tournament.[2] The top four teams will qualify for the 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup in Uzbekistan besides Uzbekistan who automatically qualified as host. If Uzbekistan reach the semi-finals, a play-off round will be held to determine the last Asian representatives at the Futsal World Cup.

Japan are the defending champion.

Host selection

There were five nations that were confirmed for bidding.

Thailand was selected as hosts by the AFC Futsal & Beach Soccer Committee on 5 September 2023.[3]

Qualification

Qualified teams

The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team Qualified on Qualified as Appearances Last appearance Previous best performance
 Thailand5 September 2023[3]Hosts17th 2022Runners-up (2008, 2012)
 China13 October 2023Group A winners13th2018Fourth place (2008, 2010)
 Afghanistan11 October 2023Group B winners1stDebutNone
 Saudi Arabia11 October 2023Group B runners-up3rd 2022 Group stage (2018, 2022)
 Iran 11 October 2023 Group C winners 17th 2022 Champions (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2018)
 Kyrgyzstan 11 October 2023 Group C runners-up 16th 2018 Third place (2005)
 Vietnam 9 October 2023 Group D winners 7th 2022 Fourth place (2016)
 South Korea 9 October 2023 Group D runners-up 15th 2022 Runners-up (1999)
 Myanmar 9 October 2023 Group E runners-up 2nd 2018 Group stage (4/4) (2018)
 Tajikistan 9 October 2023 Group E winners 12th 2022 Quarter-finals (2007)
 Kuwait 9 October 2023 Group F winners 13th 2022 Fourth place (2003, 2014)
 Bahrain 9 October 2023 Group F runners-up 4th 2022 Quarter-finals (2018)
 Iraq 9 October 2023 Group G runners-up 13th 2022 Fourth place (2018)
 Uzbekistan 9 October 2023 Group G winners 17th 2022 Runners-up (2001, 2006, 2010, 2016)
 Japan 11 October 2023 Group H winners 17th 2022 Champions (2006, 2012, 2014, 2022)
 Australia 11 October 2023 Group H runners-up 8th 2016 Fourth place (2012)
1 Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Venues

Thailand

Squads

Draw

The draw will be held on 14 December 2023.[4]

The 16 teams are to be drawn into four groups of four teams, with seeding based on their performance at the 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup.

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4

Group stage

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 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source:
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage
2 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: TBD
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group C

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage
2 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source:
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group D

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage
2 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source:
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

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).[2]

Bracket

Qualified teams for FIFA Futsal World Cup

The following five teams from AFC qualified for the 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup alongside host Uzbekistan.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament1
 Uzbekistan23 June 2023[5]2016, 2021
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD

References

  1. ↑ "AFC rebrands age group championships to AFC Asian Cups". AFC. 2 October 2020.
  2. 1 2 "AFC Futsal Asian Cup 2024 Competition Regulations" (PDF). Asian Football Confederation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 September 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Thailand recommended as host for the AFC Futsal Asian Cup™ 2024". the-AFC. Asian Football Confederation. 5 September 2023. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  4. ↑ "Asian Football Calendar (Oct 2023 – Sep 2024)". the-afc. Asian Football Confederation. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  5. ↑ "Uzbekistan to host the FIFA Futsal World Cup 2024". FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 23 June 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
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