2025 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup

The 2025 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup was the third edition of the AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup, the quadrennial international futsal championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's national teams of Asia.^[1] The tournament was held between 6 and 17 May 2025 in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China.^[2]

Iran were the two-time defending champions, but were eliminated by Japan in the semi-finals. Japan went on to win their maiden title after beating Thailand on penalties in the final.

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

The following three football associations submitted their interest to host the tournament by the deadline.^[3]

•  China^[4]
•  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.^[5]

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 were determined by qualification matches played in January 2025.^[3][6]

The following twelve teams qualified for the tournament:

The draw was held on 6 February 2025 at the Juva Grand Hotel in Hohhot, China.^[7][8]

The 12 teams were 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 are denoted by (–). As hosts, China were automatically seeded into pot 1.^[8]

The matches were played at the Hohhot Sports Center in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia.

AFC appointed the following 20 futsal referees to officiate the tournament.

Referees

Each team must register a final squad of 14 players, including at least two goalkeepers, no later than 10 days before the first match of the tournament (Regulations Articles 26.3).^[9]

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):^[9]

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.

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where penalty shoot-out without extra time was used to decide the winners if necessary (Regulations Article 10).^[9]

The winners qualified for the 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup.

The winner qualified for the 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup.

There were 119 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 4.58 goals per match.

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

As the host nation, the Philippines had secured their place in the World Cup regardless of their results in the Asian Cup.^[10]

Should the Philippines advance to the semi-finals, the other semi-finalists would have automatically qualify. However, the Philippines did not reach the semi-finals, so the top three teams—the winners, runners-up, and third-place team—secured qualification for the 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup.

The following four teams from AFC were qualified for the tournament.

• AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup, the-AFC.com