The 2023–24 UEFA Futsal Champions League was the 38th edition of Europe's premier club
futsal
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tournament, and the 23rd edition organized by
UEFA
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. It is also the sixth edition since the tournament was rebranded from "UEFA Futsal Cup" to
UEFA Futsal Champions League
The UEFA Futsal Champions League is an annual futsal competition for European club teams organized by UEFA. It was founded as the UEFA Futsal Cup in 2001 and replaced the Futsal European Clubs Championship, an unofficial competition held since 1 ...
. The final tournament was taken place at the
Karen Demirchyan Complex
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in
Yerevan
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,
Armenia
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on 3–5 May 2024.
Palma Futsal are the title holders.
Association team allocation
A total of 55 teams from 51 of the 55
UEFA
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member associations will participate in the 2023–24 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
2022–23 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
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,
the right to enter a second team passed to the 5th ranked association, Croatia.
Association ranking
The
UEFA futsal national team coefficients at the end of April 2023, used to determine the number of teams each association was entitled to enter, was as follows.
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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
For the 2023–24 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.
Teams
Below are the participating teams of the 2023–24 UEFA Futsal Champions League (with their ranking among participating teams), grouped by their starting round and path for the main round.
Format
The tournament has a mini-tournament format consisting of three qualifying rounds and the final tournament. The qualifying rounds consisted of the following stages:
*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: 7 teams that entered in this round and the 9 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
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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
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was played, followed by a
penalty shoot-out
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if the scores remained tied.
Tiebreakers
Teams were ranked according to
points
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(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):
#Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
#
Goal difference
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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
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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
The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in
Nyon
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, Switzerland).
Preliminary round
The draw for the preliminary round was held on 5 July 2023, 14:00
CET
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The preliminary round will be played from 23 to 26 August 2023. The winners of each group and best runner-up progress to the main round Path B.
Times are
CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Seeding
A total of 32 teams played in the preliminary round. Seeding of teams was based on their 2023
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, and Kosovo & Bosnia and Herzegovina could not be drawn into the same group.
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*H – Mini-tournament hosts
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Group E
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Group F
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Group G
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Group H
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Ranking of second-placed teams
Main round
The draw for the preliminary round was held on 5 July 2023, 14:00
CET
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* Cet, Albania
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The main round will be played from 24 to 29 October 2023.
Times are
CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Seeding
A 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 on each group proceed to the elite round.
*Path B (16 teams): Teams ranked 12–15 and 20-22 and 9 teams advancing from the preliminary round. The winners of each group move on to the elite round.
Seeding of teams was based on their 2023
UEFA futsal club coefficients. On Path B, the teams ranked 12th to 15th were in seeding position 1 and those ranked 20th to 22nd in position 2, along with one preliminary round winner. The remaining preliminary round winners were in a further pot to fill positions 3 and 4, while the best preliminary round runner-up is pre-allocated into Group 5 position 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, and Kosovo & Bosnia and Herzegovina could not be drawn into the same group.
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*H – Mini-tournament hosts
Path A
Group 1
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Group 2
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Group 3
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Group 4
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Path B
Group 5
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Group 6
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Group 7
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Group 8
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Elite round
The draw for the elite round was held on 2 November 2023, 14:15
CET
CET or cet may refer to:
Places
* Cet, Albania
* Cet, standard astronomical abbreviation for the constellation Cetus
* Colchester Town railway station (National Rail code CET), in Colchester, England
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Comcast En ...
.
The elite round was played from 29 November to 3 December 2023.
Times are
CET
CET or cet may refer to:
Places
* Cet, Albania
* Cet, standard astronomical abbreviation for the constellation Cetus
* Colchester Town railway station (National Rail code CET), in Colchester, England
Arts, entertainment, and media
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, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Seeding
A total of 16 teams played in the elite round. Seeding of teams was based on their results in the previous round:
*Seeding position 1: main round path A group winners.
*Seeding position 2: main round path A runners-up.
*Seeding positions 3 and 4 (drawn from the same pot): main round path A third-placed teams and path B group winners.
Four teams were pre-selected as hosts and were first drawn from a separate pot to their corresponding seeding position. Winners and runners-up from the same main round path A group could not be drawn into the same group.
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*H – Mini-tournament hosts
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Final tournament
Semi-finals
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Third place match
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Final
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Statistics
*Preliminary round: There were 308 goals scored in 45 matches, for an average of 6.84 goals per match.
*Main round: There were 325 goals scored in 48 matches, for an average of 6.77 goals per match.
*Elite round: There were 175 goals scored in 24 matches, for an average of 7.29 goals per match.
*Final tournament: There were 32 goals scored in 4 matches, for an average of 8 goals per match.
Top goalscorers
Players in bold are still in the competition
Top assists
Players in bold are still in the competition
References
External links
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