The 2017 AFC Beach Soccer Championship was a beach soccer tournament which took place between 4–11 March 2017 in Malaysia. The tournament was originally scheduled for 21–29 January 2017, but was postponed. The top three teams qualified for the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in the Bahamas.
Participating teams and draw The following 14 teams entered the tournament. Myanmar initially entered but decided to withdraw prior to the draw.
(hosts) (withdrew)
The draw of the tournament was held on 10 January 2017, 15:00 UTC+8, at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 13 teams were drawn into one group of five teams and two groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their results in the 2015 AFC Beach Soccer Championship.
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4Pot 5 (unranked)
Group stage Each team earns three points for a win in regulation time, two points for a win in extra time, one point for a win in a penalty shoot-out, and no points for a defeat. The winners from each group and the best runner-up advance to the semi-finals.
Uzbekistan withdrew in the days prior to the start of the group stage.
All times are local, MYT (UTC+8).
Group A
Group B
Group C
Ranking of second-placed teams To ensure equality in comparing the group runners-up, the matches against the fourth-placed and fifth-placed teams in Group A and the match against the fourth-placed team in Group C are discarded.
Knockout stage Bracket The semi-final matchups are determined by the identity of the best runner-up: If best runner-up from Group A: Winner Group A vs. Winner Group C; Winner Group B vs. Runner-up Group A If best runner-up from Group B: Winner Group A vs. Winner Group B; Winner Group C vs. Runner-up Group B If best runner-up from Group C: Winner Group C vs. Winner Group B; Winner Group A vs. Runner-up Group C
Semi-finals Winners qualify for 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.
Third place match Winner qualifies for 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.
Final
Awards Winners
Individual awards The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.
Most valuable player Mohammad Ali MokhtariTop scorer Mohammad Ali Mokhtari (12 goals)Fair play award
Top goalscorers 12 goals
Mohammad Ali Mokhtari
11 goals
Takasuke Goto
9 goals
Raof Qaderi Farid Boulokbashi
8 goals
Takaaki Oba
7 goals
Moslem Mesigar Takuya Akaguya Ozu Moreira
6 goals
Ali Nazem Mohamad Merhi
Final ranking Qualified for the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
RankTeam 4 5–12
Summary Rank Team M W WE WP L GF GA GD Points1660005011+39182530112516+9103530024118+2394420021714+365430011914+5964200217170672100166038410031026-163930012419-151102000239-601130003324-2101240004324-210
Qualified teams for FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup The following three teams from AFC qualified for the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.
Team Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament1only FIFA-sanctioned era (since 2005) (2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2015) (2007, 2008, 2009, 2013) (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015) 1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
References
External links , the-AFC.com AFC Beach Soccer Championship 2017 at Beachsoccer.com AFC Beach Soccer Championship 2017, stats.the-AFC.com Technical Report and Statistics, the AFC