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2019 AFC Beach Soccer Championship

The 2019 AFC Beach Soccer Championship was the ninth edition of the AFC Beach Soccer Championship (second official edition),[1] the premier beach soccer tournament contested by Asian men's national teams, organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).[2]

2019 AFC Beach Soccer Championship
ฟุตบอลชายหาดชิงแชมป์เอเชีย 2019
Tournament details
Host countryThailand
CityPattaya
Dates7–17 March
Teams15 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Japan (3rd title)
Runners-up United Arab Emirates
Third place Oman
Fourth place Palestine
Tournament statistics
Matches played29
Goals scored211 (7.28 per match)
Attendance7,810 (269 per match)
Top scorer(s)Japan Ozu Moreira (9 goals)
Best player(s)Japan Ozu Moreira
Fair play award United Arab Emirates
← 2017

The tournament took place in Pattaya, Thailand between 7–17 March 2019.[3][4] The championship also acts as the qualification tournament for Asian teams to the 2019 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Paraguay; the top three teams qualify.[5]

Iran were the defending champions but failed to defend the title after losing Japan in the quarter-final. Japan becomes the champion after beating UAE in final, becoming the first team to win the tournament three times.

Teams edit

A total of 15 teams entered the tournament.[1]

Team Appearance Previous best performance
  Afghanistan 3rd 6th place (2017)
  Bahrain 8th Champions (2006)
  China 9th 4th place (2006, 2008)
  Iran 9th Champions (2013, 2017)
  Iraq 5th 9th place (2011, 2017)
  Japan 9th Champions (2009, 2011)
  Kuwait 3rd 9th place (2015)
  Kyrgyzstan 1st Debut
  Lebanon 4th 4th place (2015, 2017)
  Malaysia 2nd 8th place (2017)
  Oman 6th Champions (2015)
  Palestine 2nd 6th place (2013)
  Qatar 4th 11th place (2017)
  Thailand (hosts) 4th 10th place (2017)
  United Arab Emirates 8th Champions (2007, 2008)

Draw edit

The draw of the tournament was held on 3 December 2018 in Pattaya, Thailand.[6] The 15 teams were drawn into three groups of four teams and one group of three teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2017 AFC Beach Soccer Championship final tournament, with the hosts Thailand automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.[1][7]

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4 (unranked)
  1.   Malaysia
  2.   Iraq
  3.   China
  4.   Qatar

Squads edit

Main article: 2019 AFC Beach Soccer Championship squads

Each team must register a squad of 12 players, minimum two of whom must be goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 26.1 and 26.2).[2]

Group stage edit

Each team earns three points for a win in regulation time, two points for a win in extra time, one point for a win in a penalty shoot-out, and no points for a defeat. The top two teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals.

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to points, and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 10.5):[2]

  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).[8]

Schedule
Matchday Dates Matches (Groups A–C) Matches (Groups D)
Matchday 1 7–8 March 2019 1 v 4, 2 v 3 3 v 1
Matchday 2 9–10 March 2019 4 v 2, 3 v 1 2 v 3
Matchday 3 11–12 March 2019 1 v 2, 3 v 4 1 v 2

Group A edit

Pos Team Pld W W+ WP L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Palestine 3 3 0 0 0 14 9 +5 9 Knockout stage
2   Malaysia 3 1 0 0 2 12 13 −1 3[a]
3   Thailand (H) 3 1 0 0 2 8 10 −2 3[a]
4   Afghanistan 3 0 1 0 2 5 7 −2 2
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Host
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Head-to-head result: Malaysia 5–4 Thailand.
Afghanistan  3–2 (a.e.t.)  Malaysia
  • Qaderi   12'
  • Alavi   25'
  • Mohammadi   37'
 Report
  • Nazri   22'
  • Qushairie   32'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 150
Referee: Fallah Al-Balushi (Oman)
Thailand  2–5  Palestine
  • Komkrit   11'
  • Tanandon   19'
 Report
  • Hassan   17', 24'
  • Atiya   19'
  • Al-Bawwab   21'
  • Kittin   33' (o.g.)
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 350
Referee: Yuichi Hatano (Japan)
Palestine  3–2  Afghanistan
  • Al-Arawi   20'
  • Hassan   32'
  • Al-Neirab   35'
 Report
  • Mohammadi   12', 29'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 70
Referee: Ebrahim Akbarpour (Iran)
Malaysia  5–4  Thailand
  • Ridhwan   3' (pen.), 10'
  • Hasrol   11', 25'
  • Qushairie   24'
 Report
  • Tanandon   20', 34'
  • Thakorn   29'
  • Komkrit   35'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 450
Referee: Waleed Abdulkarim (Bahrain)
Malaysia  5–6  Palestine
  • Ridhwan   2'
  • Zaharim   6', 19'
  • Qushairie   17'
  • Shaladan   35' (o.g.)
 Report
  • Al-Bawwab   1', 19', 25'
  • Al-Neirab   16', 19'
  • Abuobayda   33'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 250
Referee: Yuichi Hatano (Japan)
Thailand  2–0  Afghanistan
  • Thakorn   16'
  • Tanandon   28'
 Report
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 450
Referee: Fallah Al-Balushi (Oman)

Group B edit

Pos Team Pld W W+ WP L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   United Arab Emirates 3 3 0 0 0 15 5 +10 9 Knockout stage
2   Lebanon 3 2 0 0 1 18 8 +10 6
3   China 3 1 0 0 2 14 14 0 3
4   Kyrgyzstan 3 0 0 0 3 6 26 −20 0
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Lebanon  5–3  China
  • Abdullah   13', 29'
  • Fattal   16', 30'
  • Matar   28'
 Report
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 100
Referee: Bakhtiyor Namazov (Uzbekistan)
United Arab Emirates  6–1  Kyrgyzstan
  • K. Ali   1'
  • Muntaser   7'
  • Karim   20'
  • W. Mohammad   23'
  • Mohamed   35' (pen.)
  • W. Beshr   36'
 Report
  • Duisheev   16'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 200
Referee: Abdulla Saleh (Bahrain)
Kyrgyzstan  2–11  Lebanon
  • Duisheev   11'
  • A. Uulu   31'
 Report
  • Abdullah   5', 26'
  • Kadi   6', 34'
  • Fattal   8', 31'
  • Merhi   22', 27', 34'
  • Jalal   31'
  • Matar   31'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 100
Referee: Turki Al-Salehi (Oman)
China  2–6  United Arab Emirates
  • Guo Xuchenjiao   3'
  • Liu Yisi   36'
 Report
  • Karim   9'
  • A. Ali   9', 24'
  • W. Mohammad   26'
  • K. Ali   30'
  • A. Beshr   32'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 200
Referee: Makoto Sato (Japan)
United Arab Emirates  3–2  Lebanon
  • W. Beshr   11', 20'
  • Muntaser   13'
 Report
  • Abdullah   6'
  • Zein El Dine   11'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 70
Referee: Bakhtiyor Namazov (Uzbekistan)
China  9–3  Kyrgyzstan
  • Han Xuegeng   12' (pen.), 15', 30'
  • Bai Fan   18'
  • Liu Haoran   19', 30'
  • Liu Yisi   24'
  • Cai Weiming   24', 27'
 Report
  • Diushenov   5'
  • Almazbekov   23', 32'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 200
Referee: Abdulla Saleh (Bahrain)

Group C edit

Pos Team Pld W W+ WP L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Japan 3 3 0 0 0 21 4 +17 9 Knockout stage
2   Bahrain 3 2 0 0 1 12 10 +2 6
3   Kuwait 3 1 0 0 2 11 14 −3 3
4   Qatar 3 0 0 0 3 4 20 −16 0
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Bahrain  5–2  Qatar
  • Al-Abdulla   5', 32'
  • Al-Yaqoobi   7', 31'
  • Mubarak   28'
 Report
  • Al-Khlif   13'
  • Samy   29'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 100
Referee: Hassan Abed Rabbo (Lebanon)
Japan  8–1  Kuwait
  • Moreira   8', 12'
  • Oba   11', 25'
  • Yamauchi   13', 13', 23'
  • Komaki   31'
 Report
  • Al-Hamad   13'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 220
Referee: Wan Mohamad Tarmizi (Malaysia)
Kuwait  2–5  Bahrain
  • Hajeyah   19'
  • Al-Yaqoub   31'
 Report
  • Zubayel   5'
  • Jamal   20', 30'
  • Al-Hamad   30' (o.g.)
  • Al-Yaqoobi   36'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 200
Referee: Li Qibin (China)
Qatar  1–7  Japan
  • Al-Khlif   11'
 Report
  • Moreira   11', 22'
  • Yamauchi   11', 24'
  • Akaguma   15'
  • Okuyama   18', 20'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 300
Referee: Suwat Wongsuwan (Thailand)
Japan  6–2  Bahrain
  • Moreira   2', 19'
  • Akaguma   16'
  • Okuyama   18', 18'
  • Yamauchi   26'
 Report
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 200
Referee: Ibrahim Al-Raeesi (United Arab Emirates)
Qatar  1–8  Kuwait
 Report
  • Al-Yaqoub   7', 20', 34'
  • Al-Hamad   15', 30', 35'
  • Hajeyah   16'
  • Abdullah   18'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 100

Group D edit

Pos Team Pld W W+ WP L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Oman 2 2 0 0 0 10 6 +4 6 Knockout stage
2   Iran 2 1 0 0 1 8 6 +2 3
3   Iraq 2 0 0 0 2 5 11 −6 0
Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Iraq  2–5  Iran
  • Salah   3'
  • Naji   27'
 Report
  • Mirshekari   9'
  • Akbari   12'
  • Behzadpour   18'
  • Ahmadzadeh   28'
  • Mokhtari   33'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 200
Referee: Shao Liang (China)
Oman  6–3  Iraq
  • Salim   2', 15'
  • Al-Oraimi   4', 12'
  • Al Bulushi   18'
  • Al Qasmi   28'
 Report
  • Hasan   5'
  • Qasim   33'
  • Ahmed   36'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 350
Referee: Ebrahim Al-Mansoori (United Arab Emirates)
Iran  3–4  Oman
  • Masoumizadeh   4', 27'
  • Ahmadzadeh   36'
 Report
  • Mu. Al Araimi   7'
  • Al-Sinani   12'
  • Al Bulushi   30'
  • Y. Al Araimi   34'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 420
Referee: Shao Liang (China)

Knockout stage edit

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where penalty shoot-out (no extra time) was used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Articles 14.1 and 15.1).[2]

Bracket edit

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
14 March
 
 
  Palestine4
 
15 March
 
  Lebanon3
 
  Palestine0
 
14 March
 
  Japan6
 
  Japan (a.e.t.)3
 
17 March
 
  Iran2
 
  Japan (p)2 (3)
 
14 March
 
  United Arab Emirates2 (1)
 
  United Arab Emirates8
 
15 March
 
  Malaysia1
 
  United Arab Emirates3
 
14 March
 
  Oman2 Third place match
 
  Oman5
 
17 March
 
  Bahrain3
 
  Palestine2 (1)
 
 
  Oman (p)2 (2)
 

Quarter-finals edit

Oman  5–3  Bahrain
  • Al-Oraimi   1', 27'
  • Mu. Al Araimi   4'
  • Al Bulushi   9'
  • Y. Al Araimi   34'
 Report
  • Darwish   1'
  • Jamal   9'
  • Y. Al Araimi   14' (o.g.)
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 200
Referee: Yuichi Hatano (Japan)
Japan  3–2 (a.e.t.)  Iran
  • Yamauchi   21'
  • Akaguma   26', 38'
 Report
  • Shirmohammadi   9'
  • Moradi   10'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 350
Referee: Turki Al-Salehi (Oman)
United Arab Emirates  8–1  Malaysia
  • Al-Jasmi   3'
  • Mohamed   9', 34'
  • K. Ali   10'
  • A. Mohammad   24'
  • W. Mohammad   28', 36'
  • Jamal   35'
 Report
  • Hasrol   21'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 300
Referee: Li Qibin (China)
Palestine  4–3  Lebanon
  • Al-Arawi   13'
  • Abuobayda   20'
  • Al-Bawwab   28'
  • Al-Neirab   35' (pen.)
 Report
  • Fattal   11', 28'
  • Merhi   18'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 150
Referee: Ebrahim Al-Mansoori (United Arab Emirates)

Semi-finals edit

Winners qualify for 2019 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

United Arab Emirates  3–2  Oman
  • Muntaser   6'
  • A. Ali   20'
  • W. Beshr   34'
 Report
  • Al Zadjali   19'
  • Al Bulushi   28'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 300
Referee: Bakhtiyor Namazov (Uzbekistan)
Palestine  0–6  Japan
Report
  • Akaguma   6'
  • Moreira   12', 30'
  • Oba   14'
  • Yamauchi   35'
  • Matsuo   36'
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 480
Referee: Abdulla Saleh (Bahrain)

Third place match edit

Winner qualifies for 2019 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

Palestine  2–2  Oman
  • Abuobayda   11'
  • Al-Arawi   20'
 Report
  • Al Bulushi   28', 31'
Penalties
  • Al-Neirab  
  • Al-Bawwab  
  • Atiya  
 1–2
  •   Salim
  •   Al-Oraimi
  •   Mu. Al Araimi
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 350

Final edit

Japan  2–2 (a.e.t.)  United Arab Emirates
 Report
  • A. Mohammad   22', 24'
Penalties
 3–1
  •   Mohamed
  •   W. Mohammad
Main Arena, Pattaya
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Turki Al-Salehi (Oman)

Winners edit

2019 AFC Beach Soccer Championship
 
Japan
Third title

Awards edit

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

Top Goalscorer[9] Most Valuable Player[9] Fair Play award[9]
  Ozu Moreira   Ozu Moreira   United Arab Emirates

Goalscorers edit

There were 211 goals scored in 29 matches, for an average of 7.28 goals per match.

9 goals

8 goals

  •   Shusei Yamauchi

6 goals

  •   Haitham Fattal
  •   Sami Al Bulushi

5 goals

  •   Takuya Akaguma
  •   Hussein Abdullah
  •   Maisara Al-Bawwab

4 goals

3 goals

  •   Sami Mohammadi
  •   Salman Al-Yaqoobi
  •   Cai Weiming
  •   Liu Haoran
  •   Takaaki Oba
  •   Hasrol Ali
  •   Qushairie Asaari
  •   Ridhwan Zainal
  •   Islam Abuobayda
  •   Fadi Al-Arawi
  •   Mohammed Hassan
  •   Abbas Ali
  •   Kamal Ali
  •   Ali Mohammad
  •   Hasham Muntaser

2 goals

  •   Abdulla Al-Abdulla
  •   Liu Yisi
  •   Mohammad Ahmadzadeh
  •   Mohammad Masoumizadeh
  •   Masayuki Komaki
  •   Mohammed Hajeyah
  •   Erbol Almazbekov
  •   Kairat Duisheev
  •   Hassan Kadi
  •   Mechleb Matar
  •   Zaharim Yusof
  •   Mushel Al Araimi
  •   Yahya Al Araimi
  •   Abdullah Salim
  •   Srhan Al-Khlif
  •   Komkrit Nanan
  •   Thakorn Wikayaphan
  •   Ali Karim
  •   Haitham Mohamed

1 goal

  •   Shahab Alavi
  •   Raof Qaderi
  •   Ebrahim Al-Mahjoob
  •   Mohamed Darwish
  •   Ayoob Mubarak
  •   Abbas Zubayel
  •   Bai Fan
  •   Guo Xuchenjiao
  •   Amir Akbari
  •   Hamid Behzadpour
  •   Ali Mirshekari
  •   Mohammad Mokhtari
  •   Mohammad Moradi
  •   Mahdi Shirmohammadi
  •   Ali Ahmed
  •   Salah Hasan
  •   Murtadha Qasim
  •   Mohammed Naji
  •   Sajjad Salah
  •   Naoya Matsuo
  •   Ali Abdullah
  •   Urmat Diushenov
  •   Aktilek Abdykalyi Uulu
  •   Abbas Zein El Dine
  •   Sameh Jalal
  •   Nazri Sulaiman
  •   Ishaq Al Qasmi
  •   Jalal Al-Sinani
  •   Nooh Al Zadjali
  •   Alaa Atiya
  •   Fawaz Al-Khater
  •   Hazem Samy
  •   Mohamed Al-Jasmi
  •   Ahmed Beshr
  •   Humaid Jamal
  •   Haitham Mohamed

1 own goal

  •   Abdullatif Al-Hamad (against Bahrain)
  •   Yahya Al Araimi (against Bahrain)
  •   Yousef Shaladan (against Malaysia)
  •   Kittin Lorjanad (against Palestine)

Qualified teams for FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup edit

The following three teams from AFC qualify for the 2019 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.[10]

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup1
only FIFA era (since 2005)
  United Arab Emirates 15 March 2019 5 (2007, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2017)
  Japan 15 March 2019 9 (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017)
  Oman 17 March 2019 2 (2011, 2015)
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Draw to unveil 2019 challenge". AFC. 2 December 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d "AFC Beach Soccer Championship 2019 Competition Regulations". AFC. Archived from the original on 8 August 2018.
  3. ^ "AFC Competitions Calendar 2019". 28 February 2018. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018.
  4. ^ "Key decisions made on Futsal and Beach Soccer competition formats". AFC. 11 May 2018.
  5. ^ "The 2019 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup goes to Paraguay!". beachsoccer.com. 26 October 2018.
  6. ^ "Draw reveals 2019 challenge". AFC. 3 December 2018.
  7. ^ "AFC Beach Soccer Championship 2019 Draw". YouTube. 3 December 2018.
  8. ^ "AFC BEACH SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP THAILAND 2019 OFFICIAL MATCH SCHEDULE". AFC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2018.
  9. ^ a b c "Outstanding Ozu claims MVP and top scorer awards". AFC. 17 March 2019.
  10. ^ "UAE, Japan, Oman book passage to Paraguay 2019". FIFA.com. 15 March 2019. Archived from the original on March 29, 2019.

External links edit

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