2025 AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup


The 2025 AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup is the eleventh edition of the AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup, the premier beach soccer tournament contested by Asian men's national teams, organised by the Asian Football Confederation.
The tournament is taking place in Pattaya, Thailand. The championship also acts as the qualification tournament for Asian teams for the 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, to be held in Seychelles. The top three teams qualify for the World Cup.
Iran are the defending champions.

Teams

A total of 16 teams are competing in the tournament.
TeamAppearancePrevious best performance
5th
10th
11th
11th
2nd
3rd
6th
11th
5th
6th
4th
8th
3rd
6th
2nd
10th

Draw

The draw of the tournament was held on 19 December 2024 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2023 AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup, with the hosts Thailand automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4

Group stage

Points are earned for the following results:
The top two teams from each group advance to the quarter-finals.
Tie-breaking criteria
The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:
  1. Points in all group matches;
  2. Points amongst tied teams;
  3. Goal difference amongst tied teams;
  4. Goals scored amongst tied teams;
  5. If at least one team is ranked and two or more teams remain tied, reapply above criteria to exclusively tied teams;
  6. Goal difference in all group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if last match is between two tied teams;
  8. Fair play points;
  9. Drawing of lots.
All times are local, ICT.

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

Winners qualified for the 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.
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Third-place match

Winners qualified for the 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

Awards

  • Most Valuable Player: Ali Mirshekari
  • Best Goalkeeper: Seyed mahdi Mirjalili
2025 AFC Beach Soccer Championship winners

Iran
4th title

Qualified teams for FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

The following teams qualified for the world cup.
TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
only FIFA era
29 March 20258
29 March 20255
30 March 202512