Tournament details | |
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Host country | Malaysia |
City | Nilai |
Dates | 21–26 September 2015 |
Teams | 8 (from 1 confederation) |
Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Iran (1st title) |
Runners-up | Japan |
Third place | Thailand |
Fourth place | Malaysia |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 16 |
Goals scored | 93 (5.81 per match) |
Attendance | 2,880 (180 per match) |
Top scorer(s) |
Chikage Kichibayashi Farahiyah Ridzuan (7 goals each) |
Best player | Fereshteh Karimi |
The 2015 AFC Women's Futsal Championship was the first edition of the AFC Women's Futsal Championship, the biennial international futsal championship organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's national teams of Asia. The tournament was held in Nilai, Malaysia between September 21–26, 2015.
A total of eight AFC member national teams participated in the tournament. The event invitations were based on participation in the previous two editions of the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (2009 and 2013).
All matches were played at the Nilai Indoor Stadium, Nilai.
The draw was held on 14 July 2015 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams (one seeded team and three unseeded teams). Japan and Iran, the champions and runners-up at the 2013 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, were seeded in Pot 1, while all other teams were unseeded in Pot 2.
The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals.
The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order:
All times are local, MYT (UTC+8).