2011 AFC Beach Soccer Championship
# 2011 AFC Beach Soccer Championship

The 2011 AFC Beach Soccer Championship was a continental beach soccer tournament, which took place from 27 February to 4 March 2011, in Muscat, Oman, seeing the tournament leave Dubai for the first time. Beach Soccer Worldwide and FIFA decided to move the location of the championship to the Al-Musannah Sports City complex in Muscat, due to the success of the 2010 Asian Beach Games held there.

The two finalists and the third place play-off winner earned qualification to represent Asia at the 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Ravenna, Italy being Japan, who won the championship for a second consecutive time, Oman who finished in second place, qualifying to the world cup for the first time and Iran who beat the United Arab Emirates in the third place play off, to qualify by finishing in third place for the fourth time.

## Participating teams

A tournament record 11 teams, an increase of four teams following the seven that participated in the 2009 qualifiers confirmed their participation in the competition, with many newcomers, showing the ever growing popularity of the sport.

Originally, 15 teams were going to take part, which included Afghanistan, Palestine, Qatar and Yemen. However, the four countries pulled out of the tournament because of an undisclosed reason.

## Group stage

The draw to divide the eleven teams into the following three groups was conducted on 24 February 2011. The group stage commenced on 27 February 2011 and consisted of each nation playing each other once in a single round-robin format. To qualify for the quarter-finals, a team must have finished in the top two of each group or have one of the two best records of the third placed group finishers.

All kickoff times are listed as Omani local time (UTC+4).

Key to colours in group tables :

* Group winners, runners-up, and best two third placed teams advance to the quarter finals

### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | W+ | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Oman | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 9 | +11 | 9 |
| China | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 6 |
| Iraq | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 20 | −10 | 2 |
| Kuwait | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 17 | −6 | 0 |

### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | W+ | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Iran | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 5 |
| Japan | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 9 | +4 | 3 |
| Syria | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 14 | −10 | 0 |

### Group C

| Team | Pld | W | W+ | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Arab Emirates | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | +9 | 9 |
| Bahrain | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 9 | +1 | 6 |
| Uzbekistan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 9 | +2 | 3 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 18 | −12 | 0 |

### Third placed teams

Because some groups contain four teams and some three, matches against the fourth-placed team in each group are not included in this ranking.

| Team | Pld | W | W+ | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Uzbekistan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 0 |
| Syria | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 14 | −10 | 0 |
| Iraq | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 16 | −11 | 0 |

## Knockout stage

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2 March 2011 | 2 March 2011 | | | |
| Iran | 5 | | | |
| Iran | 5 | 3 March 2011 | 3 March 2011 | | |
| Uzbekistan | 3 | 3 March 2011 | 3 March 2011 | |
| Uzbekistan | 3 | Iran | 2 (0) | |
| 2 March 2011 | 2 March 2011 | | Iran | 2 (0) | |
| 2 March 2011 | 2 March 2011 | Oman (pen.) | 2 (1) | |
| Oman | 5 | Oman (pen.) | 2 (1) | |
| Oman | 5 | | | | 4 March 2011 | 4 March 2011 |
| Syria | 2 | | | | 4 March 2011 | 4 March 2011 |
| Syria | 2 | | | | Oman | 1 |
| 2 March 2011 | 2 March 2011 | | | | | Oman | 1 |
| 2 March 2011 | 2 March 2011 | | | | Japan | 2 |
| Japan | 6 | | | | Japan | 2 |
| Japan | 6 | 3 March 2011 | 3 March 2011 | | | |
| Bahrain | 2 | 3 March 2011 | 3 March 2011 | | | |
| Bahrain | 2 | Japan | 2 | | | |
| 2 March 2011 | 2 March 2011 | | Japan | 2 | | | |
| 2 March 2011 | 2 March 2011 | United Arab Emirates | 1 | | Third place | Third place |
| United Arab Emirates | 5 | United Arab Emirates | 1 | | Third place | Third place |
| United Arab Emirates | 5 | | | | 4 March 2011 | 4 March 2011 |
| China | 1 | | | | 4 March 2011 | 4 March 2011 |
| China | 1 | | | | Iran | 6 |
| | | | | | United Arab Emirates | 2 |

## Winners

* (2011) FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Qualification (AFC) Winners:
* Japan Second title

## Awards

Best Player (MVP) :

| Yahya Al-Araimi |||
| - | - | - |
| Top Scorer(s) |||
| Takeshi Kawaharazuka | Ishaq Al-Mas |
| 8 goals |||
| Best Goalkeeper |||
| Shingo Terukina |||

## Final standings

| Rank | Team |
| - | - |
| 1 | Japan |
| 2 | Oman |
| 3 | Iran |
| 4 | United Arab Emirates |
| 5 | China |
| 6 | Bahrain |
| 7 | Uzbekistan |
| 8 | Syria |
| 9 | Iraq |
| 10 | Kuwait |
| 11 | Indonesia |
