2025 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup

AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup 2025

Tournament details
Host country	China
Dates	7–18 May[1]
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
← 2018 TBD →

The 2025 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup will be the 3rd edition of the AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup, the international futsal championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's national teams of Asia. The tournament will be held between 7 and 18 May 2025.[1]

Iran are the two-time defending champions.

The tournament will serve as the qualifying for the inaugural 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup in the Philippines.

Host selection

The following three football associations submitted their interest to host the tournament by the deadline.[2]

•  China[3]
•  Indonesia
•  Uzbekistan

On 13 September 2024, the AFC Executive Committee ratified the AFC Futsal & Beach Soccer Committee's decisions to award the hosting rights of the 2025 AFC Women’s Futsal Asian Cup to the Chinese Football Association.[4]

Qualification

Main article: 2025 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup qualification

The host country and the top two teams of the previous tournament in 2018 AFC Women's Futsal Championship qualified automatically, while the other nine teams will be decided by qualification matches to be played in January 2025.[2][5]

Qualified teams

The following twelve teams qualified for the tournament:

Team	Method of qualification	Date of qualification	Finals appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
China	Hosts	13 September 2024	3rd	2018	Quarter-finals (2018)
Iran	2018 champions	30 August 2024	3rd	2018	Champions (2015, 2018)
Japan	2018 runners-up	30 August 2024	3rd	2018	Runners-up (2015, 2018)
Thailand	Group A winners	17 January 2025	3rd	2018	Third place (2015, 2018)
Indonesia	Group B winners	17 January 2025	2nd	2018	Quarter-finals (2018)
Australia	Group C winners	17 January 2025	1st	N/A	N/A (Debut)
Vietnam	Group D winners	17 January 2025	3rd	2018	Fourth place (2018)
Bahrain	Group A runners-up	19 January 2025	2nd	2018	Group Stage (2018)
Hong Kong	Group B runners-up	17 January 2025	3rd	2018	Group Stage (2015, 2018)
Uzbekistan	Group C runners-up	19 January 2025	3rd	2018	Quarter-finals (2018)
Chinese Taipei	Group D runners-up	17 January 2025	2nd	2018	Quarter-finals (2018)
Philippines	Best third-placed team	17 January 2025	1st	N/A	N/A (Debut)

Draw

The draw will be held on 6 February 2025 in Hohhot, China.[6]

The 12 teams will be drawn into three groups of four teams, with seeding based on their FIFA Futsal World Ranking as of October 2024, which are shown in parentheses except for the team who is unranked, which will be denoted by (–).

The host will be automatically seeded to Pot 1 and placed into the first position of Group A.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
China (26; hosts)  Thailand (6)  Iran (9)	Japan (10)  Vietnam (11)  Uzbekistan (18)	Indonesia (24)  Chinese Taipei (25)  Hong Kong (31)	Bahrain (36)  Philippines (59)  Australia (–)

Squads

Main article: 2025 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup squads

Each team was required to registered a squad with a minimum of 14 players and a maximum of 25 players, at least two of whom had to be goalkeepers (Regulations Article 23).[7]

Group stage

All times are local (BJT, UTC+8)

Tiebreakers

Teams were 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 were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 7.3):[7]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams were tied and they met in the last round of the group;
8. 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);
9. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	China (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to knockout stage
2	A2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	A3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible knockout stage based on ranking
4	A4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: May 2025. Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	B1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to knockout stage
2	B2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	B3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible knockout stage based on ranking
4	B4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: May 2025. Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	C1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to knockout stage
2	C2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	C3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible knockout stage based on ranking
4	C4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: May 2025. Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Ranking of third-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	A	Third place Group A	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to knockout stage
2	B	Third place Group B	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	C	Third place Group C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: May 2025. Source: AFC

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 without extra time is used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Article 10).[7]

Combinations of matches in the Quarter-finals

The specific match-ups involving the third-placed teams depended on which four third-placed teams qualified for the quarter-finals:

  Possible combination according to the two qualified teams

Third-placed teams qualify from groups				1A vs	1C vs
A	B			3B	3A
	B	C		3A	3B
A		C		3C	3A

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	May
	Group A winners
					May
	3B/3C
	May
	Group B winners
									May
	Group C runners-up
	May
	Group C winners
					May
	3A/3B
	May
									Third place play-off
	Group A runners-up
									May
	Group B runners-up

Qualified teams for the 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup

As the host nation, the Philippines have secured their place in the World Cup, regardless of their results in the Asian Cup.[8]

Should the Philippines advance to the semifinals, all other semifinalists will automatically qualify. However, if the Philippines do not reach the semifinals, then the top three teams—the winner, runner-up, and third-place finisher—will secure qualification for the 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup.

The following four teams from AFC qualified for the 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in the FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup
Philippines[8]	15 May 2024	0 (debut)
	May 2025	0 (debut)
	May 2025	0 (debut)
	May 2025	0 (debut)

References

1. "AFC Futsal & Beach Soccer Committee approves competition formats and dates". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 27 April 2024. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
2. Steve Harris [@futsal1958] (29 August 2024). "2025 Women's Asian Cup: 21 Teams Competing for World Cup Spots" (Tweet) – via Twitter. Steve Harris
3. "呼和浩特通过申办亚洲杯女足赛事推进五人制足球发展" [Hohhot promotes the development of futsal through its bid to host the AFC Women's Asian Cup.]. inews.nmgnews.com.cn (in Chinese). 29 August 2024. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
4. "AFC unveils breakthrough reforms to strengthen Women's National Team Competitions". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 13 September 2024. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
5. "日本女子代表: AFC女子フットサルアジアカップ2025の開催が決定！初のW杯開催に向け「出場枠3枠」を懸けた戦いが、2025年5月に開幕" [【Japan Women's National Team】The host of the AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup 2025 has been decided! The battle for the "three spots" in the inaugural World Cup will commence in May 2025.]. f-sal.com (in Japanese). 29 April 2024. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
6. "China 2025 cast finalised". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 20 January 2025. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
7. "AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup 2025 Competition Regulations". Asian Football Confederation.
8. "Preparations for the FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup 2025 have begun". pff.org.ph. Philippines Football Federation. 14 July 2024. Retrieved 3 September 2024.

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