Futsal in Slovenia is governed by the

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History

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futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and indoor football. Futsal is played between two teams of five players each, one of whom is ...

has been played from the mid-1980s. In the beginning, there was only a tournament system, followed by the first official national championship in the 1995–96 season. In the same year, the national futsal team of Slovenia was established under the auspices of the

Recent history

After sixteen years, this sport has developed to such an extent that the national championship consists of the first

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(with eight teams), 2nd league (11 teams), two 3rd leagues (26 teams), junior league (14 teams), four cadet leagues (28 teams), and leagues of older boys (9 teams) and younger boys (9 teams).

National team

As a result of good work in clubs all over the country, the national

team managed to qualify three times for the final

UEFA Futsal Championship The UEFA European Futsal Championship is the main futsal competition of the men's national futsal teams governed by UEFA (the Union of European Football Associations). History The first tournament was held in Spain in 1996 and featured only six t ...

in the past nine years (2003, 2010, 2012). Likewise, the youth national team (U-21) has reached the final tournament in 2008.

References

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