Tournament details | |
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Host countries | Malaysia (West) Thailand (ASEAN) Tajikistan (Central) Mongolia (East) |
Dates | 1–3 October 2015 (West) 8–16 October 2015 (ASEAN) 14–16 November 2015 (Central) 14–19 November 2015 (East) |
Teams | 26 (from 1 confederation) |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 49 |
Goals scored | 414 (8.45 per match) |
Attendance | 78,651 (1,605 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Ahmed Abdelalrhman (West) (4 goals)[1] Daniel Fogarty Jetsada Chudech (ASEAN) (12 goals each)[2] Akbar Kazemi (Central) (4 goals)[3] Oh Hyun-jong (East) (8 goals)[4] |
The 2016 AFC Futsal Championship qualification was a men's futsal competition which decided the participating teams of the 2016 AFC Futsal Championship. A total of 16 teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including Japan, Iran, Uzbekistan (hosts), who qualified directly as the top three finishers of the 2014 AFC Futsal Championship. Since third-placed Uzbekistan qualified automatically as hosts, Kuwait, who finished fourth, would have also qualified as the next best-ranked team,[5] but they were later replaced due to FIFA's suspension of the Kuwait Football Association.[6]
The top five teams of the final tournament qualified for the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup in Colombia.[7]