AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup


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. It is the sport's version of the better known AFC Asian Cup in association football.
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. 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
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History

The championship was established in 2006 by Beach Soccer Worldwide under the title, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup AFC qualifier;after FIFA made it a requirement for all confederations to begin holding qualification tournaments to determine the best national team in their region who would proceed to represent their continent in the upcoming World Cup.
BSWW organised the first six editions. During this time it also became informally known by the misnomer, the AFC Beach Soccer Championship.
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. Since 2017, the AFC have been sole organisers. 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.

Results

For all tournaments, the top three teams qualified for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

Summary (2006–2025)

Points: W = 3 points / WE = 2 points / WP = 1 points / L = 0 points

Awards

By category



Team of the tournament

Since 2017, the competition's Technical Study Group have produced a post-tournament report including a dream and reserve "team of the tournament".
YearDream teamReserve teamRef.


Appearances and performance timeline

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.
;Legend
  • – Champions
  • – Runners-up
  • – Third place
  • – Fourth place
  • 5th–16th – Fifth to sixteenth place
  • Q – Qualified for upcoming tournament
  • × – Did not enter
  • •• – Entered but withdrew
  • – Hosts
  • Apps – No. of appearances
;Timeline
2006

Performance of qualifiers at the World Cup

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.
;Legend
  • – Champions
  • – Runners-up
  • – Third place
  • – Fourth place
  • – Hosts
  • QF – Quarter-finals
  • R1 – Round 1
  • q – Qualified for upcoming tournament
  • Total – Total times qualified for World Cup
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