2016 AFC Futsal Championship qualification

2016 AFC Futsal Championship qualification
Tournament details
Host countries Malaysia (West)
 Thailand (ASEAN)
 Tajikistan (Central)
 Mongolia (East)
Dates1–3 October 2015 (West)
8–16 October 2015 (ASEAN)
14–16 November 2015 (Central)
14–19 November 2015 (East)
Teams26 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played49
Goals scored414 (8.45 per match)
Attendance78,651 (1,605 per match)
Top scorer(s)Jordan Ahmed Abdelalrhman (West) (4 goals)[1]
Australia Daniel Fogarty
Thailand Jetsada Chudech
(ASEAN) (12 goals each)[2]
Afghanistan Akbar Kazemi (Central) (4 goals)[3]
South Korea Oh Hyun-jong (East) (8 goals)[4]
2014
2018

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]

  1. ^ "Top Goal Scorers (by Stage) – 2016 AFC Futsal Championship qualification (West)". AFC.
  2. ^ "Top Goal Scorers (by Stage) – 2016 AFC Futsal Championship qualification (ASEAN)". AFC.
  3. ^ "Top Goal Scorers (by Stage) – 2016 AFC Futsal Championship qualification (Central)". AFC.
  4. ^ "Top Goal Scorers (by Stage) – 2016 AFC Futsal Championship qualification (East)". AFC.
  5. ^ "Stage set for AFC Futsal Championship Uzbekistan 2016 Qualifiers draw". the-afc.com. 1 September 2015.
  6. ^ "Saudi Arabia replace Kuwait at AFC Futsal C'ship 2016". AFC. 19 November 2015.
  7. ^ "La FIFA ratificó la distribución de plazas que corresponden a cada confederación" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL.com. 4 April 2014.