The 2016 South American Futsal World Cup qualifiers was a men's

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tournament that was used as the South American qualifying tournament to determine three of the four

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teams in the

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final tournament in Colombia. The tournament was held in

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between 5–13 February 2016. Champions

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, runners-up

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and third-placed

qualified for the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup as the CONMEBOL representatives, besides

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who qualified automatically as hosts.

Teams

All ten

member national teams participated in the tournament. Note: Statistics start from 2012 when a separate qualifying tournament was held. Prior to 2012, the

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was used as the CONMEBOL qualifying tournament for the FIFA Futsal World Cup.

Venues

The matches were played at the Polideportivo del Club Sol de América in

Group stage

The draw of the tournament was held on 23 October 2015 during the CONMEBOL Futsal Committee meeting at the CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque,

. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five teams. Each group contained one team from each of the five "pairing pots": Argentina–Paraguay, Brazil–Colombia, Chile–Venezuela, Peru–Uruguay, Bolivia–Ecuador. The schedule of the tournament was announced on 8 January 2016. The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals, while the remaining teams proceeded to the classification play-offs for fifth to tenth place. The teams were ranked according to

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(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order: #Head-to-head result in games between tied teams; #

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( UTC−3).

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage,

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and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was used in the classification play-offs for fifth to tenth place).

Bracket

Ninth place play-off

Seventh place play-off

Fifth place play-off

Semi-finals

Winners qualified for

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Third place play-off

Winner qualified for

Final

Final ranking

Qualified teams for FIFA Futsal World Cup

The following four teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the FIFA Futsal World Cup. :

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. ''Italic'' indicates host for that year.

References

External links

Eliminatorias de Futsal
CONMEBOL.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Fifa Futsal World Cup qualification (Conmebol) 2016

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