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2017 AFC Beach Soccer Championship
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.
| Kejohanan Bola Sepak Pantai AFC 2017 |
|---|
| Malaysia |
| Kuala Terengganu |
| 4–11 March |
| 13 (from 1 confederation) |
| 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Iran (2nd title) |
| United Arab Emirates |
| Japan |
| Lebanon |
| 23 |
| 198 (8.61 per match) |
| 6,720 (292 per match) |
| Mohammad Ali Mokhtari (12 goals) |
| Mohammad Ali Mokhtari |
| Iran |
| ← 2015 2019 → |
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.
The following 14 teams entered the tournament. Myanmar initially entered but decided to withdraw prior to the draw.
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 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 | Pot 5 (unranked) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oman Japan Iran | Lebanon United Arab Emirates Bahrain | Uzbekistan China Iraq | Thailand Qatar | Afghanistan Malaysia |
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).
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.
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
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 | Column 6 | Column 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 10 March | ||||||
| United Arab Emirates (p) | 4 (2) | |||||
| 11 March | ||||||
| Lebanon | 4 (1) | |||||
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | |||||
| 10 March | ||||||
| Iran | 7 | |||||
| Iran | 8 | |||||
| Japan | 6 | |||||
| 3rd place | ||||||
| 11 March | ||||||
| Lebanon | 3 | |||||
| Japan | 6 |
Winners qualify for 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.
Winner qualifies for 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.
| 2017 AFC Beach Soccerchampions |
|---|
| IranSecond title |
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.
| Most valuable player |
|---|
| Mohammad Ali Mokhtari |
| Mohammad Ali Mokhtari (12 goals) |
| Iran |
12 goals
11 goals
9 goals
8 goals
7 goals
6 goals
Source: AFC
| Column 1 |
|---|
| Qualified for the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup |
| Rank | Team |
|---|---|
| Iran | |
| United Arab Emirates | |
| Japan | |
| 4 | Lebanon |
| 5–12 | Afghanistan |
| Bahrain | |
| China | |
| Iraq | |
| Malaysia | |
| Oman | |
| Qatar | |
| Thailand |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| Iran | 10 March 2017 | 6 (2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2015) |
| United Arab Emirates | 10 March 2017 | 4 (2007, 2008, 2009, 2013) |
| Japan | 11 March 2017 | 8 (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015) |
1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
- AFC Beach Soccer Championship, the-AFC.com
- AFC Beach Soccer Championship 2017 Archived 2017-01-13 at the Wayback Machine at Beachsoccer.com
- AFC Beach Soccer Championship 2017, stats.the-AFC.com
- Technical Report and Statistics, the AFC
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