AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup

AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup
Organising body	AFC
Founded	September 2015; 8 years ago
Region	Asia
Number of teams	16
Current champions	Iran (2nd title)
Most successful team(s)	Iran (2 titles)
	2020 AFC Women's Futsal Championship

The AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup, previously the AFC Women's Futsal Championship, is the premier national women's futsal competition of the Asian Football Confederation nations. Iran have won both editions held to date.

The first edition was held in Malaysia from 17 to 26 September 2015.^[1]^[2] The second edition was held in Thailand from 2 to 12 May 2018.^[3] The third edition was scheduled to be held in Kuwait in 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[4] From 2021, the tournament will be rebranded from the "AFC Women's Futsal Championship" to the "AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup".^[5]

Results

Source:^[6]

Summaries

Edition	Year	Host	Final			Third Place			Number of teams
Edition	Year	Host	Champions	Score	Runner-up	Third Place	Score	Fourth Place	Number of teams
1	2015 details	Malaysia	Iran	1–0	Japan	Thailand	4–1	Malaysia	8^{[note 1]}
2	2018 details	Thailand	Iran	5–2	Japan	Thailand	0–0 (3–2 PSO)	Vietnam	15
—	2020 details	Kuwait	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic^[8]
3	2025 details	Japan^[9]							12

a.e.t.: after extra time
pen.: after penalty shoot-out

Teams reaching the top four

Team	Winners	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place
Iran	2 (2015, 2018)
Japan		2 (2015, 2018)
Thailand			2 (2015, 2018*)
Malaysia				1 (2015*)
Vietnam				1 (2018)

* as hosts

Summary (2015-2018)

Rank	Team	Part	M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
1	Iran	2	10	10	0	0	58	9	+49	30
2	Japan	2	11	9	0	2	55	12	+43	27
3	Thailand	2	11	6	2	3	42	11	+31	20
4	Vietnam	2	9	4	1	4	18	16	+2	13
5	Malaysia	2	8	3	0	5	27	29	-2	9
6	China	2	7	3	0	4	22	24	-2	9
7	Indonesia	1	4	2	1	1	13	3	+10	7
8	Chinese Taipei	1	4	2	0	2	11	10	+1	6
9	Hong Kong	2	6	1	1	4	11	23	-12	4
10	Uzbekistan	2	6	1	1	4	14	36	-22	4
11	Lebanon	1	3	1	0	2	4	13	-9	3
12	Turkmenistan	1	2	0	0	2	1	17	-16	0
13	Bahrain	1	3	0	0	3	4	21	-17	0
14	Bangladesh	1	3	0	0	3	2	20	-18	0
15	Macau	1	3	0	0	3	0	31	-31	0

Participating nations

Legend:

1st — Champions
2nd — Runners-up
3rd — Third place
4th — Fourth place
QF — Quarter-finalists
GS — Group stage
q — Qualified for upcoming tournament
•• — Qualified but withdrew
• — Did not qualify
× — Did not enter
× — Withdrew / Banned / Entry not accepted by FIFA
— Hosts
— Not affiliated to FIFA

For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown:

Team	2015	2018	2020	Total
Bahrain	×	GS		1
Bangladesh	×	GS		1
China	GS	QF		2
Chinese Taipei	×	QF		1
Hong Kong	GS	GS		2
Indonesia	×	QF		1
Iran	1st	1st		2
Japan	2nd	2nd		2
Jordan	••	×		0
Kuwait	×	×	q	1
Lebanon	×	GS		1
Macau	×	GS		1
Malaysia	4th	GS		2
Thailand	3rd	3rd		2
Turkmenistan	×	GS		1
Uzbekistan	GS	QF		2
Vietnam	GS	4th		2
Total	8	15