2025 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup qualification

2025 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup qualification
Tournament details
Dates	11 – 19 January
Teams	19 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	212 (6.63 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Maftuna Shoyimova (8 goals)
	All statistics correct as of 19 January 2025.

A qualification tournament was held to determine nine of twelve participating teams for the 2025 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup in China. This marks a first time that a dedicated tournament will be held for an AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup.^[2]

Teams

A total of 47 AFC member associations were eligible to enter the qualification process. the Northern Mariana Islands, whose association is not a FIFA member, were not be eligible to qualify for the 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup. Nineteen teams (out of 47), including nine entrants who did not participate in the previous edition, have entered the competition. 25 teams, including Bangladesh and Malaysia who did participate in the previous edition, did not enter the qualification and were listed below. The following teams with asterisks are the teams that never had a women's futsal side.

Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Bhutan*
Brunei*
Cambodia*
DPR Korea*
Timor-Leste*
Guam
Jordan
Korea Republic*
Laos
Malaysia
Maldives*
Mongolia*
Nepal*
Northern Mariana Islands*
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Singapore*
Sri Lanka*
Syria
Tajikistan
United Arab Emirates
Yemen*

Draw

The draw was held on 17 October 2024 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[3]

Seeding

Teams who participated in the final tournament of the previous edition were ranked from the 1st to the 13th by their performance at that tournament. Other teams who did not participate in the previous edition, were unranked.

Final rankings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Iran	5	5	0	0	37	6	+31	15	Champions and runners-up (Already qualified for 2025 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup)
2	Japan	6	5	0	1	33	12	+21	15
3	Thailand	6	3	2	1	31	4	+27	11	Third place
4	Vietnam	6	4	1	1	13	7	+6	13	Fourth place

5	Indonesia	4	2	1	1	13	3	+10	7	Eliminated in quarter-finals
6	China	4	2	0	2	17	12	+5	6	Qualified as hosts
7	Uzbekistan	3	1	0	2	6	15	−9	3	Eliminated in quarter-finals
8	Chinese Taipei	4	2	0	2	11	10	+1	6	Eliminated in quarter-finals

9	Malaysia	3	1	0	2	10	8	+2	3	Eliminated in group stage
10	Hong Kong	3	1	0	2	7	10	−3	3
11	Lebanon	3	1	0	2	4	13	−9	3
12	Turkmenistan	2	0	0	2	1	17	−16	0
13	Bahrain	3	0	0	3	4	21	−17	0
14	Bangladesh	3	0	0	3	2	20	−18	0
15	Macau	3	0	0	3	0	31	−31	0

Source: AFC

Pots

Participating teams are seeded into four pots based on the final ranking of the previous edition of the competition. Teams that did not participate in the previous edition and have not been ranked will be allocated to Pot 4. At the beginning of the draw, the host associations were separately placed into an additional host pot to ensure they are drawn into different groups. The host associations will be assigned to each group in accordance with their seeding, following the pot allocation principles.^[2]

	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Host teams	Thailand (H) Indonesia (H) Uzbekistan (H)			Myanmar (H)
Remaining teams	Vietnam	Chinese Taipei Hong Kong Lebanon Turkmenistan	Bahrain Macau	Australia India Iraq Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Pakistan (W) Palestine Philippines

Notes

Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.
(H): Qualification group hosts.
(W): Withdrew after the draw.

Groups

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:^[4]

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 were 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 are playing each other 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.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Thailand (H)	4	4	0	0	22	3	+19	12	Final tournament
2	Bahrain	4	2	1	1	14	10	+4	7	Final tournament
3	Palestine	4	1	1	2	6	12	−6	4
4	Iraq	4	1	1	2	9	18	−9	4
5	Lebanon	4	0	1	3	2	10	−8	1

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

11 January 2025