Host country Thailand Dates 11 May 2017 – 21 May 2017 | Venue(s) 2 (in 1 host city) | |
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Teams 22 (from 1 confederation) | ||
The 2017 AFC U-20 Futsal Championship will be the first edition of the AFC U-20 Futsal Championship, the biennial international futsal championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's youth national teams of Asia. Iran and Thailand have signaled their intent to host the inaugural competition.
Contents
A total of 22 teams will participate in the tournament. The 22 teams will be divided into four groups (two with six teams and two with five teams), with the group winners and runners-up advancing to the quarter-finals.
The tournament will serve as qualifying for the futsal tournament at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, with the winner, and possibly the runner-up, qualifying for the boys' tournament, where they will be represented by their U-18 representative teams.
Qualified teams
There is no qualification, and all 22 entrants will advance to the final tournament.
Venues
The matches are played at the Bangkok Arena and Indoor Stadium Huamark in Bangkok.
Group stage
The top two teams of each group advance to the quarter-finals.
The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
- 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.
Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time is used in the third place match).
Awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:
Qualified teams for Youth Olympics
The following three teams from AFC qualified for the Youth Olympic futsal tournament.