2018 AFC Futsal Championship qualification

2018 AFC Futsal Championship qualification
Tournament details
Host countriesVietnam (ASEAN)
Thailand (East and West)
Iran (South & Central)
Dates15 October – 12 November 2017[1]
Teams29 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played44
Goals scored391 (8.89 per match)
Attendance19,982 (454 per match)
Top scorer(s)Myanmar Pyae Phyo Maung I (11 goals)
2016
2020

The 2018 AFC Futsal Championship qualification was the qualification process organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to determine the participating teams for the 2018 AFC Futsal Championship, the 15th edition of the international men's futsal championship of Asia.[2]

A total of 16 teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including Chinese Taipei who qualified automatically as hosts.[3]

The qualification process was divided into four zones, where the ASEAN Zone doubled as the 2017 AFF Futsal Championship, the East Zone and West Zone was played in Thailand, and the South Zone was merged to Central Zone as Nepal was the only team from South Zone.

  1. ^ "AFC Competitions Calendar 2017" (PDF). AFC. 12 April 2016.
  2. ^ "AFC Futsal Championship 2018 Competition Regulations". AFC.
  3. ^ "AFC Futsal Club Licensing Regulations to strengthen professionalism in Asia". AFC. 29 July 2017.