Stage set for Futsal first 2009 AFC Futsal Club Championship draw: Group A Foolad Mahan Sepahan (IRN) Nagoya Oceans (JPN) Stroitel Zarafshan (UZB) AUB Altyn Tas Bishkek (KGZ) Nawrouz (IRQ) Group B Port Authority (THA) Wuhan Dilong (CHN) New South Wales Thunder (AUS) Pro’s Café (LIB) Al Sadd (QAT) 2009 AFC Futsal Club Championship match schedule: 4 July 1130 Al Sadd (QAT) v Pro’s Café (LIB) 1400 Nawrouz (IRQ) v AUB Altyn Tas Bishkek (KGZ) 1630 New South Wales Thunder (AUS) v Wuhan Dilong (CHN) 1900 Stroitel Zarafshan (UZB) v Nagoya Oceans (JPN) 5 July 1130 Al Sadd (QAT) v New South Wales Thunder (AUS) 1400 Nawrouz (IRQ) v Stroitel Zarafshan (UZB) 1630 Pro’s Café (LIB) v Port Authority (THA) 1900 AUB Altyn Tas Bishkek (KGZ) v Foolad Mahan Sepahan (IRN) 6 July 1130 Wuhan Dilong (CHN) v Pro’s Café (LIB) 1400 Nagoya Oceans (JPN) v AUB Altyn Tas Bishkek (KGZ) 1630 Port Authority (THA) v Al Sadd (QAT) 1900 Foolad Mahan Sepahan (IRN) v Nawrouz (IRQ) 8 July 1130 Wuhan Dilong (CHN) v Al Sadd (QAT) 1400 Nagoya Oceans (JPN) v Nawrouz (IRQ) 1630 New South Wales Thunder (AUS) v Port Authority (THA) 1900 Stroitel Zarafshan (UZB) v Foolad Mahan Sepahan (IRN) 9 July 1130 Pro’s Café (LIB) v New South Wales Thunder (AUS) 1400 Port Authority (THA) v Wuhan Dilong (CHN) 1630 AUB Altyn Tas Bishkek (KGZ) v Stroitel Zarafshan (UZB) 1900 Foolad Mahan Sepahan (IRN) v Nagoya Oceans (JPN) 11 July 1630 Winner Group B v Runner-up Group A 1900 Winner Group A v Runner-up Group B 12 July 1630 Third-place play-off 1900 Final
very BAD draw by AFC... I can't follow them... to put all strongest teams in Group A and other to Group B...
How can you say that group A is much better than group B when it is the first time that AFC have a Futsal Club Championship ? Not all the strongest teams are in group A. If you look at the quarterfinals of last AFC Championship for national teams in 2008, group A got 4 teams ; Uzbekistan , Iran , Japan and Kyrgyzstan and group B got : Thailand , Australia , Lebanon and China Thailand finished second and China fourth in last AFC Futsal Championship, both countries got better futsal teams than football teams.
Asian futsal ranking is like this Iran>>Japan>Thailand>Uzbekistan>>the rest Iran - 9 titles & 1 runners-up Japan - 1 title & 5 runners-up Uzbekistan - 2 runners-up Thailand - 1 runners-up
Any official Asian futsal national teams ranking based on the last AFC Futsal Championship by AFC??? if we have this list it will clear some moments, i think.