The 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup was the seventh FIFA Futsal World Cup, the quadrennial international futsal championship contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It took place from 1 to 18 November 2012 in Thailand. An extra four teams (increase to 24 from 20 at the 2008 event in Brazil) were competing at this World Cup. This was the first FIFA men's tournament held in Southeast Asia since the Malaysia 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship, and was the first FIFA men's tournament held in the country, having hosted the 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship.
Defending champions Brazil won the title for the fifth time, defeating Spain in a rematch of the 2008 final.
Bid process On 20 July 2009, FIFA launched the bidding for the 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup with the following timeline:
Declaration of interest: 1 September 2009, deadline for the member associations to declare their interest in hosting the tournament. FIFA Hosting Agreements: 30 September 2009, deadline for FIFA to send out the Hosting Agreements to those associations who have declared an interest to host the tournament. Bidding Agreement: 15 November 2009, deadline for the member associations to reconfirm their interest in bidding the tournament. Hosting Agreement: 15 January 2010, deadline for the member associations to submit the signed Hosting Agreements. Appointment of hosts by the FIFA Executive Committee: March 2010.
On 19 March 2010, during its Executive Committee meeting, FIFA chose Thailand to host the 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup. Thailand beat bids from China, Iran, Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, Sri Lanka and Guatemala.
Qualification
The host nation, Thailand, qualified automatically.
Qualified nations Competition Date Venue Berths Qualified Host Nation 1 2012 AFC Futsal Championship 25 May – 1 June 2012 4 CAF Preliminary Competition 6 April – 24 June 2012 3 2012 CONCACAF Futsal Championship 2–8 July 2012 4 CONMEBOL Preliminary Competition 15–22 April 2012 4 2011 Oceanian Futsal Championship 16–20 May 2011 1 UEFA Preliminary Competition 19 October 2011 – 11 April 2012 7 Total 24
1.Teams that will make their debut.
Venues The matches were originally due to take place across four venues. Due to construction delays and failure to meet the security requirement, early matches scheduled at the Bangkok Futsal Arena were moved to the Indoor Stadium Huamark. After the final inspection on 5 November, FIFA announced that the Bangkok Futsal Arena had not sufficiently met the criteria. The two quarter-final matches would be played at Nimibutr Stadium, while Indoor Stadium Huamark would host the semifinals and the final.
Bangkok Nakhon RatchasimaIndoor Stadium HuamarkNimibutr StadiumKorat Chatchai Hall Capacity: 12,000 Capacity: 6,000 Capacity: 5,000
Squads
Each team submitted a squad of 14 players, including two goalkeepers. The squads were announced on 25 October 2012.
Match officials The following were the officials for the 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup.
Confederation RefereesAFC Nurdin Bukuev Mohamad Chami Scott Kidson Kim Jang-kwan Naoki Miyatani Shukhrat Pulatov Alireza Sohrabi Zhang Youze Kaveepol Kamawitee (reserve)CAF Saheed Ayeni Said Kadara José Katemo Eduardo MahumaneCONCACAF Wenceslaos Aguilar Sergio Cabrera Alexander Cline Carlos González Geovanny López Francisco Rivera
Confederation RefereesCONMEBOL Sandro Brechane Oswaldo Gómez Jaime Jativa Renata Leite Daniel Rodríguez Héctor Rojas Joel Ruiz Dario SantamaríaOFC Amitesh Behari Rex KamusuUEFA Marc Birkett Eduardo Fernandes Fernando Gutiérrez Karel Henych Danijel Janošević Gábor Kovács Pascal Lemal Francesco Massini Ivan Shabanov Borut Sivic
Draw The official draw for the World Cup was held at the St. Regis Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand on 24 August 2012.
The 24 teams were divided in six groups, each group with four teams.
Group stage The group winners and runners up along with the 4 highest rank third places advanced to the round of 16.
The ranking of each team in each group will be determined as follows: greatest number of points obtained in all group matches; goal difference in all group matches; greatest number of goals scored in all group matches; If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings will be determined as follows: greatest number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned; goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned; greater number of goals scored in all group matches between the teams concerned; drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.
All times are Thailand Standard Time (UTC+07:00).
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Ranking of third-placed teams
Knockout phase In the knockout stages, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time shall be played (two periods of five minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by kicks from the penalty mark to determine the winner. However, for the third place match, no extra time shall be played and the winner shall be determined by kicks from the penalty mark.
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place match
Final
Champions
Goalscorers 9 goals Éder Lima
8 goals Rodolfo Fortino
7 goals
Fernandinho Neto Saad Assis Cardinal Ricardinho
6 goals Jé
5 goals
Cristian Borruto Cirilo Sergei Sergeev Lozano Denys Ovsyannikov Yevgen Rogachov
4 goals
Maximiliano Rescia Falcão Rodrigo Andrés Reyes Jhonathan Toro Edwin Cubillo Ahmed Mohamed Kaoru Morioka Enmanuel Ayala Mladen Kocić Aicardo Fernandão Maxym Pavlenko
3 goals
Leandro Cuzzolino Ari Gabriel Rafael Vinícius Angellott Caro Ramadan Samasry Gabriel Lima Kotaro Inaba Ahmad Al-Farsi Dmitri Prudnikov Vidan Bojović Borja Jordi Torras Suphawut Thueanklang
2 goals
Martín Amas Tobias Seeto Simi Wilde Jorge Abril Yefri Duque Luis Navarrete Diego Zúñiga Michal Belej Ibrahim Bougy Alan Aguilar Walter Enríquez Afshin Kazemi Mohammad Taheri Marco Ercolessi Humberto Honorio Alex Merlim Sergio Romano Shota Hoshi Wataru Kitahara Shaker Al-Mutairi Abdulrahman Al-Taweel Mohammed Rahoma Morgan Plata Alquis Alvarado Michael De Leon Claudio Goodridge Miguel Lasso Fernando Mena Carlos Pérez Juan Salas Matos Aleksandr Fukin Pula Robinho Pavel Suchilin Vladimir Lazić Slobodan Rajčević Micah Leaalafa Alemao Álvaro Lin Miguelín Ortiz Jirawat Sornwichian Kritsada Wongkaeo Serhiy Chepornyuk Oleksandr Sorokin
1 goal
Santiago Basile Hernán Garcías Matías Lucuix Alamiro Vaporaki Aaron Cimitile Greg Giovenali Danny Ngaluafe Yeisson Fonnegra Johann Prado Jose Quiroz Alejandro Serna Marek Kopecký Tomáš Koudelka Lukáš Rešetár Michal Seidler Matěj Slovacek Ahmed Abou Serie Mizo Mostafa Nader Erick Acevedo Estuardo De León Armando Escobar José Rafael González Masoud Daneshvar Ahmad Esmaeilpour Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh Ali Rahnama Hossein Tayyebi Jairo dos Santos Marcio Forte Luca Leggiero Giuseppe Mentasti Rafael Henmi Nobuya Osodo Hamad Al-Awadhi Ahmed Fathe Victor Quiroz Jorge Rodríguez Aziz Derrou Youssef El-Mazray Adil Habil Yahya Jabrane Mohammed Talibi Apolinar Gálvez Óscar Hinks Fabio Alcaraz Adolfo Salas Walter Villalba Marinho Nandinho Vladislav Shayakhmetov Slobodan Janjić Bojan Pavićević Bule Samuel Osifelo Elliot Ragomo Stevenson Anthony Talo Kike Keattiyot Chalaemkhet Jetsada Chudech Dmytro Fedorchenko Petro Shoturma Serhiy Zhurba
Own goals Jhonathan Toro (playing against Brazil) Jairo Toruño (playing against Paraguay) Saad Assis (playing against Spain) Alemao (playing against Russia)
Awards The following awards were given for the tournament:
Golden Shoe winnerGolden Ball winnerGolden Gloves winner Eder Lima Neto Stefano MammarellaSilver Shoe winnerSilver Ball winnerGoal of the Tournament Rodolfo Fortino Kike Suphawut ThueanklangBronze Shoe winnerBronze Ball winnerFIFA Fair Play Trophy Fernandinho Ricardinho
Tournament ranking Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-out are counted as draws.
TeamFinal result1 7 7 0 0 45 7 +38 21Champions2 7 5 1 1 31 13 +18 16Runners-up3 7 6 0 1 30 13 +17 18Third place4 7 3 0 4 19 18 +1 9Fourth place5 5 4 0 1 32 3 +29 12Eliminated in Quarter-finals6 5 3 1 1 21 13 +8 107 5 3 0 2 18 9 +9 98 5 2 1 2 18 14 +4 79 4 2 1 1 13 7 +6 7Eliminated in Round of 1610 4 2 1 1 9 8 +1 711 4 1 1 2 13 17 –4 412 4 1 1 2 10 15 –5 413 4 1 1 2 7 14 –7 414 4 1 0 3 12 14 –2 315 4 1 0 3 9 16 –7 316 4 1 0 3 14 31 –17 317 3 1 0 2 8 12 –4 3Eliminated in Group stage18 3 1 0 2 8 13 –5 319 3 1 0 2 8 15 –7 320 3 1 0 2 5 17 –12 321 3 1 0 2 7 30 –23 322 3 0 0 3 4 13 –9 023 3 0 0 3 5 15 –10 024 3 0 0 3 3 22 –19 0
Symbols Official song
The official song of 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup was "Heart & Soul", a single by the Thai band Slot Machine.
References
External links FIFA Futsal World Cup Thailand 2012, FIFA.com FIFA Technical Report