AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup
Organising body | AFC |
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Founded | September 2015 |
Region | Asia |
Number of teams | 16 |
Current champions | Iran (2nd title) |
Most successful team(s) | Iran (2 titles) |
2025 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup qualification |
The AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup, previously the AFC Women's Futsal Championship, is the premier national women's futsal competition of the Asian Football Confederation nations. Iran have won both editions held to date.
The first edition was held in Malaysia from 17 to 26 September 2015.[1][2] The second edition was held in Thailand from 2 to 12 May 2018.[3] The third edition was scheduled to be held in Kuwait in 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4] From 2021, the tournament will be rebranded from the "AFC Women's Futsal Championship" to the "AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup".[5]
Starting from 2025, the tournament will serve as a qualification for the FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup.
Results
[edit]Source:[6]
Summaries
[edit]Edition | Year | Host | Final | Third Place | Number of teams | |||||||
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Champions | Score | Runner-up | Third Place | Score | Fourth Place | |||||||
1 | 2015 | Malaysia | Iran | 1–0 | Japan | Thailand | 4–1 | Malaysia | 8[note 1] | |||
2 | 2018 | Thailand | Iran | 5–2 | Japan | Thailand | 0–0 (3–2 PSO) | Vietnam | 15 | |||
— | 2020 | Kuwait | Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic[8] | |||||||||
3 | 2025 | China | 12 |
Teams reaching the top four
[edit]Team | Winners | Runners-up | Third place | Fourth place |
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Iran | 2 (2015, 2018) | |||
Japan | 2 (2015, 2018) | |||
Thailand | 2 (2015, 2018*) | |||
Malaysia | 1 (2015*) | |||
Vietnam | 1 (2018) |
- * as hosts
Summary (2015-2018)
[edit]Rank | Team | Part | M | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Points |
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1 | Iran | 2 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 9 | +49 | 30 |
2 | Japan | 2 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 55 | 12 | +43 | 27 |
3 | Thailand | 2 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 42 | 11 | +31 | 20 |
4 | Vietnam | 2 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 16 | +2 | 13 |
5 | Malaysia | 2 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 27 | 29 | -2 | 9 |
6 | China | 2 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 22 | 24 | -2 | 9 |
7 | Indonesia | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 3 | +10 | 7 |
8 | Chinese Taipei | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 10 | +1 | 6 |
9 | Hong Kong | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 23 | -12 | 4 |
10 | Uzbekistan | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 36 | -22 | 4 |
11 | Lebanon | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 13 | -9 | 3 |
12 | Turkmenistan | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 17 | -16 | 0 |
13 | Bahrain | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 21 | -17 | 0 |
14 | Bangladesh | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 20 | -18 | 0 |
15 | Macau | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 31 | -31 | 0 |
Participating nations
[edit]Legend:
- 1st — Champions
- 2nd — Runners-up
- 3rd — Third place
- 4th — Fourth place
- QF — Quarter-finalists
- GS — Group stage
- q — Qualified for upcoming tournament
- •• — Qualified but withdrew
- • — Did not qualify
- × — Did not enter
- × — Withdrew / Banned / Entry not accepted by FIFA
- — Hosts
- — Not affiliated to FIFA
For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown:
Team | 2015 (8) | 2018 (15) | 2020 (0) | 2025 (12) | Total |
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Bahrain | × | GS | 1 | ||
Bangladesh | × | GS | 1 | ||
China | GS | QF | q | 3 | |
Chinese Taipei | × | QF | 1 | ||
Hong Kong | GS | GS | 2 | ||
Indonesia | × | QF | 1 | ||
Iran | 1st | 1st | •• | q | 3 |
Japan | 2nd | 2nd | q | 3 | |
Jordan | •• | × | 0 | ||
Kuwait | × | × | •• | 0 | |
Lebanon | × | GS | 1 | ||
Macau | × | GS | 1 | ||
Malaysia | 4th | GS | 2 | ||
Thailand | 3rd | 3rd | 2 | ||
Turkmenistan | × | GS | 1 | ||
Uzbekistan | GS | QF | 2 | ||
Vietnam | GS | 4th | 2 | ||
Total | 8 | 15 | 12 |
FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup Performances
[edit]- 1st — Champions
- 2nd — Runners-up
- 3rd — Third place
- 4th — Fourth place
- QF — Quarter-finalists
- GS — Group stage
- q — Qualified for upcoming tournament
- •• — Qualified but withdrew
- • — Did not qualify
- × — Did not enter
- × — Withdrew / Banned / Entry not accepted by FIFA
- — Hosts
- — Not affiliated to FIFA
For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown:
Team | 2025 (16) | Total |
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Philippines | Q | 1 |
Total |
Awards
[edit]Most valuable players
[edit]Year | Player |
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2015 | Fereshteh Karimi |
2018 | Fereshteh Karimi |
Top scorers
[edit]Year | Player | Goals |
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2015 | Chikage Kichibayashi Farahiyah Ridzuan | 7 |
2018 | Fatemeh Etedadi Sara Shirbeigi Anna Amishiro Sasicha Phothiwong | 9 |
Fair play award
[edit]Year | Team |
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2015 | No award |
2018 | Iran |
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ A total 16 teams maximum were expected to participate before its cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kuwait as hosts and Iran as defending champions originally qualified.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Impact of Football Association of Indonesia Suspension". Asian Football Confederation. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
- ^ "AFC Calendar of Competitions 2015" (PDF). Asian Football Confederation.
- ^ "AFC Calendar of Competitions 2017" (PDF). AFC.
- ^ "VFF - AFC postpones AFC Women's Futsal Championship 2020 and AFC U-20 Futsal Championship 2021". VFF. 2020-04-24. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
- ^ "AFC rebrands age group championships to AFC Asian Cups". AFC. 2 October 2020.
- ^ "Iran was crowned inaugural champion of the AFC Women's Futsal Championship as it beat Japan 1-0 in a thrilling final on Saturday". Iran Daily. 26 September 2015. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015.
- ^ "Stage set for AFC Women's Futsal Championship 2015 draw". AFC. 13 July 2015.
- ^ "Bumper 2020 beckons for Asian football". AFC. 1 January 2020.
External links
[edit]- AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup, the-AFC.com