2011 AFC Beach Soccer Championship

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2011 AFC Beach Soccer Championship
2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Qualification (AFC)
Tournament details
Host countryOman
CityMuscat
Dates27 February – 4 March
Teams11 (from 1 confederation)
Venue1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Japan (2nd title)
Runners-up Oman
Third place Iran
Fourth place United Arab Emirates
Tournament statistics
Matches played23
Goals scored163 (7.09 per match)
Top scorer(s)Japan Takeshi Kawaharazuka
Oman Ishaq Al-Mas
(8 goals)
Best playerOman Yahya Al-Araimi
2009
2013

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.[1]

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.[2]

Participating teams

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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.[3]

Originally, 15 teams were going to take part, which included Afghanistan, Palestine, Qatar and Yemen.[4] However, the four countries pulled out of the tournament because of an undisclosed reason.[5]

Group stage

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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

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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
File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq 3 0 1 2 10 20 −10 2
File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait 3 0 0 3 11 17 −6 0
China 5 – 2File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq
Han Xue File:Soccerball shade.svg 6', 17'
Gui Qixuan File:Soccerball shade.svg 15', 33'
Qiu Hao File:Soccerball shade.svg 36'
Report Sadeq Jabr File:Soccerball shade.svg 2'
Hussein Jabbar File:Soccerball shade.svg 8'



Oman 11 – 3File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq
Al-Mas File:Soccerball shade.svg 1', 19', 36', 36'
H. Al-Araimi File:Soccerball shade.svg 15'
Y. Al-Araimi File:Soccerball shade.svg 24', 32'
Al-Alawi File:Soccerball shade.svg 26', 35'
Al-Zaabi File:Soccerball shade.svg 28', 29'
Report Hussein Jabbar File:Soccerball shade.svg 5', 36'
Moshtak Kadhim File:Soccerball shade.svg 32'


Group B

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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
File:Flag of the United Arab Republic (1958–1971), Flag of Syria (1980–2024).svg Syria 2 0 0 2 4 14 −10 0


Group C

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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
File:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Uzbekistan 3 1 0 2 11 9 +2 3
File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia 3 0 0 3 6 18 −12 0





Third placed teams

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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
File:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Uzbekistan 2 0 0 2 4 6 −2 0
File:Flag of the United Arab Republic (1958–1971), Flag of Syria (1980–2024).svg Syria 2 0 0 2 4 14 −10 0
File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq 2 0 0 2 5 16 −11 0

Knockout stage

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Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
2 March 2011
 
 
 Iran5
 
3 March 2011
 
File:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Uzbekistan3
 
 Iran2 (0)
 
2 March 2011
 
 Oman (pen.)2 (1)
 
 Oman5
 
4 March 2011
 
File:Flag of the United Arab Republic (1958–1971), Flag of Syria (1980–2024).svg Syria2
 
 Oman1
 
2 March 2011
 
 Japan2
 
 Japan6
 
3 March 2011
 
 Bahrain2
 
 Japan2
 
2 March 2011
 
 United Arab Emirates1 Third place
 
 United Arab Emirates5
 
4 March 2011
 
 China1
 
 Iran6
 
 
 United Arab Emirates2
 

Quarter finals

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Semi finals

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Third place play off

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Final

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Winners

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

Awards

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Best Player (MVP)
Oman Yahya Al-Araimi
Top Scorer(s)
Japan Takeshi Kawaharazuka Oman Ishaq Al-Mas
8 goals
Best Goalkeeper
Japan Shingo Terukina

Top scorers

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Final standings

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Rank Team
1  Japan
2  Oman
3  Iran
4  United Arab Emirates
5  China
6  Bahrain
7 File:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Uzbekistan
8 File:Flag of the United Arab Republic (1958–1971), Flag of Syria (1980–2024).svg Syria
9 File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq
10 File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait
11 File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia

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