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 (AFC). 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.
RankAssociationTeamQualifying method1 JapanShriker Osaka2016–17 F. League champions2 IraqNaft Al-Wasat2016–17 Iraq Futsal League champions3 ThailandChonburi Bluewave2016 Futsal Thailand League champions4 United Arab EmiratesAl-Dhafra2016–17 UAE Futsal League champions5 IranGiti Pasand Isfahan2016–17 Iranian Futsal Super League champions6 QatarAl Rayyan2016–17 Qatar Futsal League champions7 UzbekistanAGMK2016 Uzbekistan Futsal League champions8 Vietnam (hosts)Thái Sơn Nam2016 Vietnam Futsal League champions9 AustraliaVic Vipers2016 F-League champions10 LebanonBank of Beirut2016–17 Lebanon Futsal League champions11 ChinaShenzhen Nanling2016–17 Chinese Futsal League champions— IndonesiaVamos Mataram2016–17 Indonesia Pro Futsal League champions— KyrgyzstanOsh EREM2016–17 Kyrgyzstan Futsal League champions— TajikistanDisi Invest2016–17 Tajikistan Futsal League champions«ДИСИ ИНВЕСТ» УЗНАЛ ПОТЕНЦИАЛЬНЫХ СОПЕРНИКОВ ПО КЛУБНОМУ ЧЕМПИОНАТУ АЗИИ-2017
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 (UTC+7), at the Grand Hotel Saigon in Ho Chi Minh City. The 14 teams were drawn into two groups of four teams (Groups A and B) and two groups of three teams (Groups C and D), 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 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4 (unranked)
Squads Each team must register a squad of 14 players, minimum two of whom must be goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 30.1 and 30.2).
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 The top two teams of each group advance to the quarter-finals.
Tiebreakers Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 10.5): 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 (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points); Drawing of lots.
All times are local, Indochina Time (UTC+7).
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
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 (no extra time) is used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Articles 14.1 and 15.1).
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place match
Final
Tournament team rankings
Top goalscorers RankPlayerTeamGoals1 Jirawat Sornwichian Chonburi Bluewave92 Hossein Tayyebi Thái Sơn Nam83 Suphawut Thueanklang Chonburi Bluewave7 Ghodrat Bahadori Naft Al-Wasat Ahmad Esmaeilpour Giti Pasand Isfahan6 Vassoura Al-Dhafra67 Andri Kustiawan Vamos Mataram58 Diego Costa Al Rayyan4 Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh Giti Pasand Isfahan Flavio Barreto Arantes Al Rayyan Sota Shibano Shriker Osaka Lê Quốc Nam Thái Sơn Nam
Awards AFC Futsal Club Championship 2017 ChampionsChonburi BluewaveSecond Title
Most Valuable Player Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh ( Giti Pasand Isfahan) Top Scorer Jirawat Sornwichian (9 goals) Fair Play Award Thái Sơn Nam All-Star Team Katawut Hankampa (Chonburi Bluewave) (GK) Farhad Tavakoli (Naft Al-Wasat) Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh ( Giti Pasand Isfahan) Diego Costa (Al Rayyan) Suphawut Thueanklang (Chonburi Bluewave) Reserve All-Star Team Sepehr Mohammadi Giti Pasand Isfahan) (GK) Kritsada Wongkaeo (Chonburi Bluewave) Jirawat Sornwichian (Chonburi Bluewave) Hossein Tayyebi (Thái Sơn Nam) Ahmad Esmaeilpour ( Giti Pasand Isfahan) Coach: Rakphol Sainetngam (Chonburi Bluewave)
References
External links , the-AFC.com AFC Futsal Club Championship 2017, stats.the-AFC.com