The 2015 AFC Futsal Club Championship was the 6th edition of the
AFC Futsal Club Championship
The AFC Futsal Club Championship is the current highest Asian futsal club competition, hosted by the Asian Football Confederation. It is futsal equivalent to AFC Champions League.
For the inaugural edition, AFC Futsal Committee decided to make ...
, the annual Asian
futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hardcourt, hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and Indoor soccer, indoor football.
Futsal is played between two teams of five players ...
club championship organized by the
Asian Football Confederation
The Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal in some countries/territories in Asia and Oceania. It has 47 member countries most of which are located in Asia. Australia, formerly in ...
(AFC). The tournament was held in
Isfahan
Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian Empire, middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Regio ...
,
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
between July 31 and August 7, 2015.
Qualified teams
A total of 12 teams from 12
AFC member associations participated in the tournament.
Tasisat Daryaei of Iran, as the representatives of the host association, and
Nagoya Oceans
are a Japanese professional futsal club, currently playing in the F. League Division 1. The team is located in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Their home ground is Takeda Teva Ocean Arena.
Season-by-season
Sponsor
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of Japan, as the defending champions, automatically qualified for the finals. The other teams are from Thailand, China, Uzbekistan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, Vietnam, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, and Lebanon.
Venue
Draw
The draw was held on 10 June 2015 in
Isfahan
Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian Empire, middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Regio ...
. The 12 teams were drawn into four groups of three teams (one seeded team and two unseeded teams). Besides the team from the host association Iran, the teams from Japan, Thailand, and China were also seeded as per the final ranking of the
2014 AFC Futsal Club Championship
The 2014 AFC Futsal Club Championship was the 5th AFC Futsal Club Championship. It was held in Chengdu, China 25–30 August 2014.
Qualification
Apart from hosts China and defending champions Thailand, teams from Iran, Japan, Uzbekistan, Ku ...
.
Group stage
The top two teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals.
;Tiebreakers
The teams were ranked according to
points
Point or points may refer to:
Places
* Point, Lewis, a peninsula in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
* Point, Texas, a city in Rains County, Texas, United States
* Point, the NE tip and a ferry terminal of Lismore, Inner Hebrides, Scotland
* Point ...
(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order:
#Greater number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
#
Goal difference
Goal difference, goal differential or points difference is a form of tiebreaker used to rank sport teams which finish on equal points in a league competition. Either "goal difference" or "points difference" is used, depending on whether matches ar ...
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 is 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
The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pen ...
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.
All times are local,
IRDT
Iran Standard Time (IRST) or Iran Time (IT) is the time zone used in Iran. Iran uses a UTC offset UTC+03:30. IRST is defined by the 52.5 degrees east meridian (geography), meridian, the same meridian which defines the Iranian calendar and is the o ...
(
UTC+3:30).
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, the
extra time
Overtime or extra time is an additional period of play specified under the rules of a sport to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played onl ...
and
penalty shoot-out
The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pen ...
were used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time would be used in the third-place match).
Bracket
Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Third place play-off
Final
Awards
* Most Valuable Player
**
Vahid Shamsaei
Vahid Shamsaei ( fa, وحید شمسايی ; born 21 September 1975) is an Iranian professional futsal coach and former player. He was a Pivot and he scored 392 goals in international matches. He is currently head coach of Iran national futsal te ...
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* Top Scorer
** Vahid Shamsaei
Vahid Shamsaei ( fa, وحید شمسايی ; born 21 September 1975) is an Iranian professional futsal coach and former player. He was a Pivot and he scored 392 goals in international matches. He is currently head coach of Iran national futsal te ...
(10 goals)
* Fair-Play Award
** Thái Sơn Nam
* All-Star Team
** Mostafa Nazari
Mostafa Nazari ( fa, مصطفی نظری; born 11 December 1982) is an Iranian professional futsal coach and former player. Nazari was selected as the best futsal goalkeeper in the world in 2010.
Honours
Country
* AFC Futsal Championship
** Cha ...
( Tasisat Daryaei) (GK)
** Vahid Shamsaei
Vahid Shamsaei ( fa, وحید شمسايی ; born 21 September 1975) is an Iranian professional futsal coach and former player. He was a Pivot and he scored 392 goals in international matches. He is currently head coach of Iran national futsal te ...
( Tasisat Daryaei)
** Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh
Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh Navlighi ( fa, علیاصغر حسنزاده ناولیقی; born 2 November 1987) is an Iranian professional futsal player. He is a Left Winger, and currently a member of Giti Pasand in the Iranian Futsal Super Le ...
( Tasisat Daryaei)
** Abdulrahman Al Wadi (Al-Qadsia
Al-Qadsiah Football Club ( ar, نادي القادسية) is a Saudi Arabian professional football club that competes in the Saudi First Division League. They are based in Khobar and their home ground is the Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium.
His ...
)
** Mohammad Taheri
Mohammad Taheri ( fa, محمد طاهری; born 2 May 1985) is an Iranian professional futsal player.
Honours
Country
* FIFA Futsal World Cup
** Third place (1): 2016
* AFC Futsal Championship
** Champion (5): 2005 - 2007 - 2008 - 2010 - ...
(Al-Qadsia
Al-Qadsiah Football Club ( ar, نادي القادسية) is a Saudi Arabian professional football club that competes in the Saudi First Division League. They are based in Khobar and their home ground is the Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium.
His ...
)
* Reserve All-Star Team
** Kirill Ermolov ( MFC Emgek) (GK)
** Saul Olmo Campana ( Thái Sơn Nam)
** Abdulrahman Altawail (Al-Qadsia
Al-Qadsiah Football Club ( ar, نادي القادسية) is a Saudi Arabian professional football club that competes in the Saudi First Division League. They are based in Khobar and their home ground is the Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium.
His ...
)
** Trần Long Vũ ( Thái Sơn Nam)
** Mohammad Nasser Safari (Naft Al-Wasat
Naft Al-Wasat Sports Club ( ar, نادي نفط الوسط الرياضي, lit=''Midland Oil'') is an Iraqi sports club based in Najaf, Iraq. Its professional football team plays in the Iraqi Premier League, the top tier of Iraqi football. The c ...
)
** Coach: Amir Shamsaei ( Tasisat Daryaei)
Top goalscorers
Final standing
References
External links
AFC Futsal Club Championship
the-AFC.com
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Club
Club may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Club'' (magazine)
* Club, a ''Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' character
* Clubs (suit), a suit of playing cards
* Club music
* "Club", by Kelsea Ballerini from the album ''kelsea''
Brands and enterprises
...
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2015–16 in Iranian futsal