2015 AFC Women's Futsal Championship
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The 2015 AFC Women's Futsal Championship was the first edition of the AFC Women's Futsal Championship, the biennial international
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 ...
championship organized by the
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(AFC) for the women's national teams of Asia. The tournament was held in
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,
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between 21–26 September 2015.


Qualified teams

A total of eight AFC member national teams participated in the tournament. The event invitations were based on participation in the previous two editions of the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (
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and
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). ;Notes * were removed from the competition due to a FIFA suspension. * withdrew before the draw was held.


Venues

All matches were played at the Nilai Indoor Stadium,
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.


Draw

The draw was held on 14 July 2015 at the AFC House in
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,
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. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams (one seeded team and three unseeded teams). Japan and Iran, the champions and runners-up at the 2013 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, were seeded in Pot 1, while all other teams were unseeded in Pot 2.


Group stage

The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals. ;Tiebreakers The teams were ranked according to points (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; #
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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; #
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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, MYT (
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).


Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage,
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and
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were used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time would be used in the third place match).


Bracket


Semi-finals

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Third place play-off


Final


Awards

* Most Valuable Player **
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* Top Scorer Award ** Farahiyah Ridzuan (7 goals, won tiebreaker over
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Goalscorers

;7 goals *
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* Farahiyah Ridzuan ;6 goals *
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;4 goals *
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* Hataichanok Tappakun * Mamyalee Sawitree * Sasicha Phothiwong * Siranya Srimanee * Nguyễn Thị Châu * Phạm Thị Tươi ;1 goal *
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Wong So Han Wong So Han (born 26 November 1991) is a Hongkonger footballer who plays as a defender for Hong Kong Women League club Happy Valley AA. She is also a futsal player, and represented Hong Kong internationally in both football and futsal. Intern ...
* Nasimeh Gholami * Zohreh Meisami * Sohila Tarazi * Kana Kitagawa * Shiori Nakajima * Minako Sekinada * Akari Takao * Masturah Majid * Sity Norazizah Jamal *
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* Nipaporn Sriwarom * Feruza Turdiboeva * Nguyễn Thị Mỹ Anh ;1 Own goal * Wang Hui (playing against Japan) *
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(playing against Malaysia) *
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(playing against Thailand) ;2 Own goals *
Makhliyo Sarikova Makhliyo Sarikova is an Uzbekistani women's football striker currently playing for SSVSM-Kairat Almaty in the Kazakhstani Championship. She made her UEFA Champions League in October 2013, scoring one goal against Arsenal LFC.
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Women's Futsal Championship
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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 ...