2022 WAFF Women's Futsal Championship

2022 WAFF Women's Futsal Championship
بطولة اتحاد غرب آسيا الثالثة لكرة الصالات للسيدات

Tournament details
Host country	Saudi Arabia
City	Jeddah
Dates	15–24 June
Teams	6 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Iraq (1st title)
Runners-up	Saudi Arabia
Third place	Bahrain
Fourth place	Kuwait
Tournament statistics
Matches played	11
Goals scored	58 (5.27 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Shokhan Salihi (7 goals)
Best player(s)	Seba Tawfiq
Best goalkeeper	Zahra Ali
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International football competition

The 2022 WAFF Women's Futsal Championship was the third edition of the WAFF Women's Futsal Championship, an international women's futsal Championship organised by the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) for the women's national teams of West Asia. It was hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the first time and marked the country's first-ever women's international tournament, held from June 15 to 24, 2022.^[1]^[2]

Iran the two-time defending champions, would have been the defending champions. However, they have since left WAFF to join CAFA. Iraq won their first title after defeating host Saudi Arabia in the final 4–2, thus becoming the first Arab national team to win the title.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Participation

Participating teams

Initially, seven (out of 12) WAFF member associations entered teams for the final tournament in Jeddah.^[6] However, the United Arab Emirates withdrew after the draw.

Team	App.	Previous best performance
Bahrain	2nd	Third Place (2012)
Iraq	3rd	Group Stage (2008, 2012)
Kuwait	2nd	Group Stage (2008)
Oman	1st	Debut
Palestine	3rd	Fourth Place (2008)
Saudi Arabia	1st	Debut
~~United Arab Emirates~~	~~1st~~	~~Debut~~

Did not enter

Jordan
Lebanon
Qatar
Syria
Yemen

Draw

The draw took place virtually on 25 May 2022, and was streamed on the West Asian Football Federation's YouTube channel.^[7]

The draw resulted in the following groups:

Group A
Pos	Team
A1	Palestine
A2	Iraq
A3	Bahrain
A4	United Arab Emirates

Group B
Pos	Team
B1	Saudi Arabia
B2	Oman
B3	Kuwait

Squads

Group stage

All times are local, SAST (UTC+3). The original schedule was announced following the draw.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bahrain	2	2	0	7	0	+7	6	Knockout stage
2	Iraq	2	1	1	7	1	+6	3	Knockout stage
3	Palestine	2	0	2	0	13	−13	0	Fifth place match

Source: WAFF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

16 June 2022

17:30

Bahrain	6–0	Palestine
Al-Khalifa 15:29, 18:06 Al-Isa 19:20, 27:27, 36:19 Ebrahim 28:48	Report Line Up

King Abdullah Sports City, Jeddah

Referee: Yasir Al-Zaabi (United Arab Emirates)
Najat Al-Blooshi (United Arab Emirates)
Rafid Salman Lami (Iraq)

18 June 2022

18:00

Iraq	0–1	Bahrain
	Report Line Up	Al-Ali 36:14

King Abdullah Sports City, Jeddah

Referee: Mohammed Al-Boloushi (Kuwait)
Maryam Al Hadhrami (Oman)
Samar Al-Inezi (Kuwait)

20 June 2022

18:00

Palestine	0–7	Iraq
	Report Line Up	Al-Ghazawi 15:46, 30:34, 38:33 Salihi 16:01 (pen.) Mulla Bakr 20:12, 29:45 Salih 33:24

King Abdullah Sports City, Jeddah

Referee: Reem Shami (Lebanon)
Aisha Al Saadi (Oman)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kuwait	2	2	0	9	2	+7	6	Knockout stage
2	Saudi Arabia (H)	2	1	1	6	3	+3	3	Knockout stage
3	Oman	2	0	2	1	11	−10	0	Fifth place match

Source: WAFF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

16 June 2022

20:30

Kuwait	3–1	Saudi Arabia
Al-Mulla 4:17, 24:23 M. Nour 20:00	Report Line Up	Reda 37:22

King Abdullah Sports City, Jeddah

Referee: Reem Shami (Lebanon)

18 June 2022

20:30

Oman	1–6	Kuwait
Al Musallami 10:10	Report Line Up	Basha 07:10, 15:31, 17:25 Al-Refaie 23:34, 32:22 Al-Saqabi 30:26

King Abdullah Sports City, Jeddah

20 June 2022

20:30

Saudi Arabia	5–0	Oman
Mohammed 3:07 Mukhayzin 5:58, 6:32 Reda 19:23 (pen.), 21:58 (pen.)	Report Line Up

King Abdullah Sports City, Jeddah

Placement matches

Fifth place match

22 June 2022

15:30

Oman	1–6	Palestine
Al Ismaily 32:40	Report Line Up	C. Khoury 14:39 Shattara 27:26 Sohgian 32:04 Al-Shaikh 37:07 Sarawi 38:15 A. Khoury 39:50

King Abdullah Sports City, Jeddah

Knockout stage

Semi-finals		Final

22 June - Jeddah

Bahrain	0
		24 June - Jeddah
Saudi Arabia (a.e.t.)	1
		Saudi Arabia	2
22 June - Jeddah
		Iraq	4
Kuwait	0

Iraq	12
		Third Place

		24 June - Jeddah

		Bahrain	2

		Kuwait	0

Semi-finals

22 June 2022

18:00

Bahrain	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Saudi Arabia
	Report Line Up	Mobarak 42:25

King Abdullah Sports City

22 June 2022

20:30

Kuwait	0–12	Iraq
	Report Line Up	Al-Quraishi 16:52 Salih 18:52, 22:15 Mulla Bakr 21:01 Salihi 21:39, 22:28, 26:06, 27:38 Al-Lami 28:26, 29:21 Al-Ghazawi 30:15, 32:34

King Abdullah Sports City

Third place match

24 June 2022

18:15

Bahrain	2–0	Kuwait
Al-Khalifa 26:08 Ebrahim 30:05	Report Line Up

King Abdullah Sports City

Final

24 June 2022

20:30

Saudi Arabia	2–4	Iraq
Mohammed 10:35 Al-Ghazawi 35:12 (o.g.)	Report Line Up	Salihi 23:13, 39:16 Mulla Bakr 34:03 Al-Ghazawi 36:27

King Abdullah Sports City

Champion

2022 WAFF Women's Futsal Championship champion
Iraq First title

Player awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:^[8]

Top Goalscorer	Best player	Best Goalkeeper
Shokhan Salihi^[9]	Seba Tawfiq^[10]	Zahra Ali^[11]

Goalscorers

There were 58 goals scored in 11 matches, for an average of 5.27 goals per match.

7 goals

Shokhan Salihi

6 goals

Tbarek Al-Ghazawi

4 goals

3 goals

Hessa Al-Isa
Al-Anood Al-Khalifa
Lanya Salih
Shrouq Basha

2 goals

Manar Ebrahim
Zainab Al-Lami
Reem Al-Mulla
Raghad Mukhayzin
Leen Mohammed

1 goal

Rawan Al-Ali
Tiba Al-Quraishi
Maryam Nour
Abeer Al-Refaie
Nehal Al-Saqabi
Layinat Al Musallami
Thara Al Ismaily
Celine Thalia Khoury
Jeniver Shattara
Caroline Sohgian
Laila Al-Shaikh
Hala Sarawi
Aline Rita Khoury
Al Bandari Mobarak
Sara Al-Hamad

Final ranking

As per statistical convention in futsal, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Iraq	4	3	0	1	23	3	+20	9	Champions
2	Saudi Arabia	4	2	0	2	9	7	+2	6	Runners-up
3	Bahrain	4	3	0	1	9	1	+8	9	Third place
4	Kuwait	4	2	0	2	9	16	−7	6	Fourth place

5	Palestine	3	1	0	2	6	14	−8	3	Fifth place
6	Oman	3	0	0	3	2	17	−15	0	Sixth place

Source: WAFF

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