2017 AFC Futsal Club Championship
The 2017 AFC Futsal Club Championship was the 8th edition of the AFC Futsal Club Championship, an annual international futsal club tournament in Asia organised by the Asian Football Confederation. It was held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from 20 to 30 July 2017.
The tournament was won by Chonburi Bluewave from Thailand after defeating Giti Pasand Isfahan from Iran 3–2 in the final. The win was Chonburi Bluewave's second Asian title, following after they won the 2013 AFC Futsal Club Championship four years ago.
Nagoya Oceans from Japan were the defending champions, but they failed to qualify from the 2016–17 season of Japanese futsal league following their loss to Shriker Osaka for the Japanese champions.
Qualified teams
A total of 14 teams from the 14 of the 47 AFC member associations entered the tournament, which included first-time entrants from Tajikistan. Kyrgyzstan returned after a one-year absence, while Indonesia entered a team for the first time since 2011. From the associations participating in 2016, only Chinese Taipei did not enter the tournament.For teams entering the tournament, they were assigned a seeding position according to their 2016 AFC Futsal Club Championship ranking for the respective draw and the hosts associations.
Rank | Association | Team | Qualifying method |
1 | Japan | Shriker Osaka | 2016–17 F. League champions |
2 | Iraq | Naft Al-Wasat | 2016–17 Iraq Futsal League champions |
3 | Thailand | Chonburi Bluewave | 2016 Futsal Thailand League champions |
4 | United Arab Emirates | Al-Dhafra | 2016–17 UAE Futsal League champions |
5 | Iran | Giti Pasand Isfahan | 2016–17 Iranian Futsal Super League champions |
6 | Qatar | Al Rayyan | 2016–17 Qatar Futsal League champions |
7 | Uzbekistan | AGMK | 2016 Uzbekistan Futsal League champions |
8 | Vietnam | Thái Sơn Nam | 2016 Vietnam Futsal League champions |
9 | Australia | Vic Vipers | 2016 F-League champions |
10 | Lebanon | Bank of Beirut | 2016–17 Lebanon Futsal League champions |
11 | China | Shenzhen Nanling | 2016–17 Chinese Futsal League champions |
— | Indonesia | Vamos Mataram | 2016–17 Indonesia Pro Futsal League champions |
— | Kyrgyzstan | Osh EREM | 2016–17 Kyrgyzstan Futsal League champions |
— | Tajikistan | Disi Invest | 2016–17 Tajikistan Futsal League champions |
Venue
The all matches was held at the Phú Thọ Indoor Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City.Ho Chi Minh City |
Phú Thọ Indoor Stadium |
Capacity: 5,000 |
Draw
The draw was held on 30 May 2017, 15:00 ICT, at the Grand Hotel Saigon in Ho Chi Minh City. The 14 teams were drawn into two groups of four teams and two groups of three teams, with the representatives from hosts Vietnam automatically assigned to position A1 in the draw. The teams were seeded according to the performances of their association's representatives in the 2016 AFC Futsal Club Championship.Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
Squads
Each team must register a squad of 14 players, minimum two of whom must be goalkeepers.Match officials
The following referees were chosen for the 2017 AFC Futsal Club Championship.;Referees
- Darius Turner
- Hussain Ali Al-Bahhar
- Liu Jianqiao
- Lee Po-fu
- Mahmoudreza Nasirloo
- Hiroyuki Kobayashi
- Tomohiro Kozaki
- Nurdin Bukuev
- Mohamad Chami
- Helday Idang
- Rey Ritaga
- Kim Jong-hee
- Maiket Yuttakon
- Azat Hajypolatov
- Trương Quốc Dũng
Group stage
;Tiebreakers
Teams are ranked according to points, and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings :
- Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Goals scored in all group matches;
- Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
- Disciplinary points ;
- Drawing of lots.
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, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where penalty shoot-out is used to decide the winner if necessary.Bracket
Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Final
Tournament team rankings
Top goalscorers
Awards
- Most Valuable Player
- * Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh
- Top Scorer
- * Jirawat Sornwichian
- Fair Play Award
- * Thái Sơn Nam
- All-Star Team
- * Katawut Hankampa
- * Farhad Tavakoli
- * Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh
- * Diego Costa
- * Suphawut Thueanklang
- Reserve All-Star Team
- * Sepehr Mohammadi Giti Pasand Isfahan)
- * Kritsada Wongkaeo
- * Jirawat Sornwichian
- * Hossein Tayyebi
- * Ahmad Esmaeilpour
- * Coach: Rakphol SaiNetngam