The 2018 AFC Futsal Club Championship was the 9th 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 Yogyakarta, Indonesia between 1–12 August 2018.
In the final, Mes Sungun defeated Thái Sơn Nam to win their first title. Chonburi Bluewave were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the quarter-final VS Bank of Beirut
Teams Of the 47 AFC member associations, a total of 16 associations teams entered the competition, each entering one team. There was no qualification, and all entrants advanced to the final tournament.
All 14 associations which participated in the 2017 AFC Futsal Club Championship returned for 2018. Moreover, South Korea entered a team for the first time ever, and Myanmar entered a team for the first time since 2012, when they participated in qualification.
AssociationTeamQualifying method AustraliaVic Vipers2016 F-League champions (2017 season cancelled) ChinaDalian Yuan Dynasty2016–17 China Futsal Super League champions Indonesia (hosts)Vamos Mataram2017–18 Indonesia Pro Futsal League champions IraqNaft Al-Wasat2017–18 Iraq Futsal League champions IranMes Sungun2017–18 Iranian Futsal Super League champions JapanNagoya Oceans2017–18 F.League champions KyrgyzstanOsh EREM2017–18 Kyrgyzstan Futsal League champions South KoreaJeonju MAG2017–18 FK-League champions LebanonBank of Beirut2017–18 Lebanon Futsal League champions MyanmarVictoria University College2017 Myanmar Futsal League third place QatarAl-Sailiya2017–18 Qatar Futsal League champions TajikistanSipar Khujand2017–18 Tajikistan Futsal League runners-up ThailandChonburi Bluewave2017 Futsal Thai League champions United Arab EmiratesAl-Dhafra 2017–18 UAE Futsal League champions UzbekistanAGMK2017–18 Uzbekistan Futsal League champions VietnamThái Sơn Nam2017 Vietnam National Futsal League champions
Venues Yogyakarta GOR UNY GOR Among Rogo Capacity: 6,000 Capacity: 5,000
Draw The draw was held on 18 May 2018, 11:00 WIB (UTC+7), at the Fairmont Hotel in Jakarta. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their association's performance in the 2017 AFC Futsal Club Championship, with the team from hosts Indonesia automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4
Squads
Each team must register a squad of 14 players, minimum two of whom must be goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 30.1 and 30.2).
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, WIB (UTC+7).
+ScheduleMatchdayDatesMatchesMatchday 11–2 August 20181 v 4, 2 v 3Matchday 23–4 August 20184 v 2, 3 v 1Matchday 35–6 August 20181 v 2, 3 v 4
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
Winners AFC Futsal Club Championship 2018 ChampionsMes SungunFirst Title
Awards Top GoalscorerMost Valuable PlayerFair Play award Mahdi Javid (12 goals)(Bank of Beirut) Mahdi Javid(Bank of Beirut) Naft Al-Wasat
All-Star Team All-Star Team Reserve All-Star Team Alireza Samimi (Mes Sungun) (GK) Farhad Tavakoli (Naft Al-Wasat) Ahmad Kheir El-Dine (Bank of Beirut) Luizinho (Nagoya Oceans) Mahdi Javid (Bank of Beirut) Hồ Văn Ý (Thái Sơn Nam) (GK) Farhad Fakhimzadeh (Mes Sungun) Tôn Thất Phi (Thái Sơn Nam) Abolghasem Orouji (Mes Sungun) Suphawut Thueanklang (Chonburi Bluewave) Coach Hamid Bigham (Mes Sungun)
Top goalscorers RankPlayerTeamGoals1 Mahdi Javid Bank of Beirut122 Suphawut Thueanklang Chonburi Bluewave8 Hossein Tayyebi Mes Sungun4 Farhad Fakhimzadeh Mes Sungun6 Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh Mes Sungun Hassan Ali Jabar Naft Al-Wasat Farhad Tavakoli Naft Al-Wasat8 Mohamed Fadaaq Al-Dhafra5 Mohamad Kobeissy Bank of Beirut Kritsada Wongkaeo Chonburi Bluewave Nguyễn Minh Trí Thái Sơn Nam
Tournament team rankings
References
External links , the-AFC.com AFC Futsal Club Championship 2018, stats.the-AFC.com