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The AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup is the main championship for beach soccer in Asia, contested between the senior men's national teams of the members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It is the sport's version of the better known AFC Asian Cup in association football.
Organising body | AFC |
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Founded | 2006 |
Region | Asia |
Number of teams | ~16 |
Qualifier for | FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup |
Current champions | Iran (3rd title) |
Most successful team(s) | Iran Japan (3 titles each) |
Website | afc.com |
2025 AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup |
The winners of the championship are crowned continental champions; the tournament also acts as the qualification route for Asian nations to the upcoming edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.[1] Coinciding with the annual staging of the World Cup, the competition took place yearly until 2009; the World Cup then became biennial, and as its supplementary qualification event, the championship followed suit. Japan are the most successful nation with three titles and having also qualified for the World Cup on every occasion
The championship was established in 2006 by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW)[2] under the title, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup AFC qualifier;[3][4]after FIFA made it a requirement for all confederations to begin holding qualification tournaments to determine the best national team(s) in their region who would proceed to represent their continent in the upcoming World Cup (previously, nations were simply invited to play, without having to earn their place).[5] BSWW organised the first six editions. During this time it also became informally known by the misnomer, the AFC Beach Soccer Championship.[6]
In 2015, the Asia's governing body for football, the AFC adopted the competition and branded it using its informal title in an official capacity; they jointly organised that year's edition with BSWW.[7] Since 2017, the AFC have been sole organisers.[1] For 2021, the competition was renamed as the AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup, bringing it in line with the naming of other AFC senior national tournaments.[8]
For all tournaments, the top three teams qualified for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup (except for 2009, when only the top two teams qualified as one of the AFC spots was automatically given to the World Cup hosts, United Arab Emirates).
Team | Titles | Runners-up | Third place | Fourth place | Total |
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Japan | 3 (2009, 2011, 2019) | 6 (2006, 2007, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2023) | 1 (2017) | – | 10 |
Iran | 3 (2013, 2017, 2023) | – | 5 (2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2015) | 1 (2009) | 9 |
United Arab Emirates | 2 (2007*, 2008*) | 2 (2017, 2019) | 1 (2013) | 2 (2011, 2023) | 7 |
Oman | 1 (2015) | 1 (2011*) | 2 (2009, 2019) | 1 (2023) | 5 |
Bahrain | 1 (2006) | 1 (2009) | – | 1 (2007) | 3 |
China | – | – | – | 2 (2006, 2008) | 2 |
Lebanon | – | – | – | 2 (2015, 2017) | 2 |
Australia | – | – | – | 1 (2013) | 1 |
Palestine | – | – | – | 1 (2019) | 1 |
Rank | Team | Part | M | W | WE | WP | L | GF | GA | GD | Points |
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1 | Japan | 10 | 49 | 35 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 261 | 124 | +137 | 109 |
2 | Iran | 10 | 47 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 279 | 123 | +156 | 102 |
3 | United Arab Emirates | 9 | 42 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 178 | 116 | +82 | 91 |
4 | Oman | 7 | 34 | 23 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 148 | 80 | +68 | 73 |
5 | Bahrain | 9 | 39 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 129 | 122 | +7 | 64 |
6 | China | 10 | 39 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 112 | 171 | –59 | 38 |
7 | Lebanon | 5 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 88 | 71 | +17 | 26 |
8 | Palestine | 3 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 48 | 52 | –8 | 23 |
9 | Thailand | 5 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 40 | 57 | –17 | 15 |
10 | Uzbekistan | 6 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 72 | 94 | –22 | 15 |
11 | Afghanistan | 4 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 48 | 58 | –10 | 14 |
12 | Australia | 2 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 25 | 24 | +1 | 10 |
13 | Kuwait | 4 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 44 | 61 | –17 | 10 |
14 | Iraq | 5 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 41 | 83 | –42 | 9 |
15 | Saudi Arabia | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 23 | 36 | –13 | 7 |
16 | Malaysia | 3 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 33 | 72 | –39 | 6 |
17 | Laos | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 21 | –10 | 3 |
18 | Qatar | 4 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 30 | 85 | –55 | 3 |
19 | Vietnam | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 14 | –3 | 0 |
20 | India | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 10 | –5 | 0 |
21 | Syria | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 19 | –13 | 0 |
22 | Kyrgyzstan | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 40 | –28 | 0 |
23 | Indonesia | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 42 | –32 | 0 |
24 | Philippines | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 90 | –77 | 0 |
Points: W = 3 points / WE = 2 points / WP = 1 points / L = 0 points
Year | Top goalscorer(s) | Gls | Best player | Best goalkeeper | Fair play | Ref. |
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2006 | Takeshi Kawaharazuka | 9 | Abdullah Omar | Hamed Ghorbanpour | not awarded | |
2007 | Farid Boulokbashi | Bakhit Alabadla | Mohamed Al Mazam | |||
2008 | Shusei Yamauchi | 12 | Rami Al Mesaabi | Shingo Terukina | ||
2009 | Moslem Mesigar | Yaqoob Al Nesuf | Tomoya Ginoza | |||
2011 | Takeshi Kawaharazuka Ishaq Al-Qassmi |
8 | Yahya Al Araimi | Shingo Terukina | ||
2013 | Moslem Mesigar | 11 | Ozu Moreira | Simon Jaeger | ||
2015 | Takasuke Goto | 8 | Ozu Moreira | Peyman Hosseini | ||
2017 | Mohammadali Mokhtari | 12 | Mohammadali Mokhtari | not awarded[a] | Iran | |
2019 | Ozu Moreira | 9 | Ozu Moreira | United Arab Emirates | ||
2023 | Takuya Akaguma | 11 | Moslem Mesigar | Mahdi Mirjalili | Oman |
Since 2017, the competition's Technical Study Group have produced a post-tournament report including a dream and reserve "team of the tournament".
Year | Dream team | Reserve team | Ref. |
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Shingo Terukina (GK) |
Peyman Hosseini (GK) |
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Mohamed Abdulla (GK) |
Shingo Terukina (GK) |
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Mahdi Mirjalili (GK) |
Shinya Shibamoto (GK) |
The following is a performance timeline of the teams who have appeared in the AFC Beach Soccer Championship and how many appearances they each have made.
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Year Team |
2006 (6) |
2007 (6) |
2008 (6) |
2009 (7) |
2011 (11) |
2013 (16) |
2015 (14) |
2017 (12) |
2019 (15) |
2023 (16) |
2025 (16) |
Apps |
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Afghanistan | × | × | × | × | •• | 11th | × | 6th | 12th | 13th | Q | 5 |
Australia | × | × | × | 5th | × | 4th | × | × | × | × | × | 2 |
Bahrain | 1st | 4th | × | 2nd | 6th | 9th | 7th | 5th | 6th | 6th | Q | 10 |
China | 4th | 5th | 4th | 7th | 5th | 7th | 6th | 12th | 9th | 7th | Q | 11 |
India | × | 6th | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | Q | 2 |
Indonesia | × | × | × | × | 11th | × | × | × | × | 16th | Q | 3 |
Iran | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 7th | 1st | Q | 11 |
Iraq | × | × | × | × | 9th | 10th | 12th | 9th | 13th | × | Q | 6 |
Japan | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | Q | 11 |
Kuwait | × | × | × | × | 10th | × | 9th | × | 11th | 8th | Q | 5 |
Kyrgyzstan | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | 15th | 14th | × | 2 |
Laos | × | × | × | × | × | × | 10th | × | × | × | × | 1 |
Lebanon | × | × | × | × | × | 8th | 4th | 4th | 5th | 10th | Q | 6 |
Malaysia | × | × | × | × | × | × | × | 8th | 8th | 15th | Q | 4 |
Oman | × | × | × | 3rd | 2nd | 5th | 1st | 7th | 3rd | 3rd | Q | 8 |
Palestine | × | × | × | × | •• | 6th | •• | × | 4th | 11th | × | 3 |
Philippines | 6th | × | 6th | × | × | 16th | × | × | × | × | × | 3 |
Qatar | × | × | × | × | •• | 15th | 14th | 11th | 14th | × | × | 4 |
Saudi Arabia | × | × | × | × | × | 12th | × | × | × | 9th | Q | 3 |
Syria | × | × | × | × | 8th | × | × | × | × | × | × | 1 |
Thailand | × | × | × | × | × | 13th | 13th | 10th | 10th | 5th | Q | 6 |
United Arab Emirates | 5th | 1st | 1st | × | 4th | 3rd | 5th | 2nd | 2nd | 4th | Q | 10 |
Uzbekistan | × | × | 5th | 6th | 7th | 14th | 8th | •• | × | 12th | × | 6 |
Vietnam | × | × | × | × | × | × | 11th | × | × | × | Q | 2 |
The following is a performance timeline of the AFC teams who have appeared in the Beach Soccer World Cup since being sanctioned by FIFA in 2005.
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