The 2024–25 UEFA Futsal Champions League is the 39th edition of Europe's premier club futsal tournament, and the 24th edition organized by UEFA. It is also the seventh edition since the tournament was rebranded from "UEFA Futsal Cup" to UEFA Futsal Champions League.
| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | Qualifying rounds: 20 August 2024 – 1 December 2024 Final tournament: 1 – 4 May 2025 |
| Teams | Final tournament: 4 Total: 56 (from 52 associations) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 124 |
Palma Futsal are the title holders.
Association team allocation
editA total of 56 teams from 52 of the 55 UEFA member associations will participate in the 2024–25 UEFA Futsal Champions League. The association ranking based on the UEFA futsal national team coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
- The top three-ranked associations have two teams qualify.
- The winners of the 2023–24 UEFA Futsal Champions League qualify automatically and its association can also enter a second team. If the title-holders' association is among the top three-ranked associations, the 4th ranked association is also entitled to enter a second team.
- The remaining associations have one team qualify.
For this season, the top three-ranked associations are Portugal, Russia, and Spain. As the title holders are from Spain, the 4th ranked association, Kazakhstan, can enter two teams. After UEFA's decision to exclude Russian clubs from all UEFA competitions due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine,[1] the right to enter a second team passed to the 5th ranked association, Croatia.[2]
Association ranking
editThe UEFA futsal national team coefficients at the end of April 2023,[2] used to determine the number of teams each association was entitled to enter, was as follows.[3]
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- TH – Additional berth for title holders
- NR – No rank (association national team had been inactive on the previous 36 months)
- DNE – Did not enter
Distribution
editFor the 2024–25 UEFA Futsal Champions League, the clubs' entry round was determined by their UEFA futsal club coefficients, which took into account their performance from the previous three seasons.[2]
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| Main round | Path A (16 teams) |
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| Path B (16 teams) |
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| Elite round (16 teams) |
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| Final tournament (4 teams) |
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Teams
editBelow are the participating teams of the 2024–25 UEFA Futsal Champions League (with their ranking among participating teams), grouped by their starting round and path for the main round.[4]
Format
editThe tournament has a mini-tournament format consisting of three qualifying rounds and the final tournament. The qualifying rounds consisted of the following stages:[2][5]
- Preliminary round: 32 teams entering this round were divided into eight groups of four teams with the group winners advancing to the next round.
- Main round:
- Path A: 16 teams entering this round were divided into four groups of four teams, with the group winners, runners-up, and third-placed teams advancing to the next round.
- Path B: 8 teams that entered in this round and the 8 teams advancing from the preliminary round were divided into four groups of four teams, with the group winners advancing to the next round.
- Elite round: 16 teams advancing from the main round were divided into four groups of four teams, with the group winners qualifying for the final tournament.
In each group, teams played against each other in a single round-robin format hosted by one of the participating teams.
The final tournament is played at a centralized location and consisted of single-legged semi-finals, a third-place play-off, and final. If scores were level at the end of normal time, extra time was played, followed by a penalty shoot-out if the scores remained tied.
Tiebreakers
editTeams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams were tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (see Article 14 Equality of points – mini-tournaments, Regulations of the UEFA Futsal Champions League):[5]
- Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
- Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
- Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
- If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Goals scored in all group matches;
- Disciplinary points (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point);
- UEFA futsal club coefficients.
If two teams that have the same number of points and have scored and conceded the same number of goals play their last mini-tournament match against each other and are still equal at the end of that match, their final rankings are determined by a penalty shoot-out provided that no other teams within the group have the same number of points on completion of the mini-tournament. This procedure is only necessary if a ranking of the teams is required to determine the team which qualifies for the next stage.
Schedule
editThe schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).[2]
| Phase | Round | Draw | Dates |
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| Qualifying stage | Preliminary round | 4 July 2024 | 20–25 August 2024 |
| Main round | 22–27 October 2024 | ||
| Elite round | 31 October 2024 | 26 November–1 December 2024 | |
| Final tournament | Semi-finals | TBD | TBD |
| Third-place play-off & final | TBD |
Preliminary round
editThe draw for the preliminary round was held on 4 July 2024, 14:00 CET.[6] The preliminary round will be played from 20 to 25 August 2024. The winners of each group progress to the main round Path B.
Times are CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Seeding
editA total of 32 teams played in the preliminary round. Seeding of teams was based on their 2024 UEFA futsal club coefficients. Eight teams were pre-selected as hosts and were first drawn from a separate pot to their corresponding seeding position. The remaining teams were then drawn from their respective pots to their corresponding seeding position. Teams from Armenia & Azerbaijan could not be drawn into the same group.
| Seeding position 1 | Seeding position 2 | Seeding position 3 | Seeding position 4 |
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- Notes
- H – Mini-tournament hosts
Main round
editThe draw for the preliminary round was held on 4 July 2024, 14:00 CET.[6]The main round will be played from 22 to 27 October 2024.
Times are CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Seeding
editA total of 32 teams played in the main round. They were divided in two paths:
- Path A (16 teams): The title holders and teams ranked 1–11 and 16–19. The top three teams in each group proceed to the elite round.
- Path B (16 teams): Teams ranked 12–15 and 20-23 and 8 teams advancing from the preliminary round. The winners of each group move on to the elite round.
Seeding of teams was based on their 2024 UEFA futsal club coefficients. On Path B, the teams ranked 12th to 15th were in seeding position 1 and those ranked 20th to 23rd in position 2. The remaining preliminary round winners were in a further pot to fill positions 3 and 4.
Eight teams (four in each path) were pre-selected as hosts and were first drawn from a separate pot to their corresponding seeding position. The remaining teams were then drawn from their respective pots to their corresponding seeding position. Teams from Armenia & Azerbaijan could not be drawn into the same group.
| Seeding position 1 | Seeding position 2 | Seeding position 3 | Seeding position 4 |
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- Notes
- H – Mini-tournament hosts
References
edit- ^ a b "UEFA decisions for upcoming competitions relating to the ongoing suspension of Russian national teams and clubs". uefa.com. UEFA. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ a b c d e "2024/25 UEFA Futsal Champions League dates, format". uefa.com. UEFA. 6 May 2024. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Men's Futsal National Team Coefficients | UEFA Coefficients". uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "UFCL Draw Procedure_PR-MR.pdf" (PDF). uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ a b "Regulations of the UEFA Futsal Champions League, 2024/25". uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ a b "UEFA Futsal Champions League preliminary and main round draws". uefa.com. UEFA. 4 July 2024. Retrieved 7 July 2024.