UEFA Futsal Euro 2022
The 2022 UEFA Futsal Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Futsal Euro 2022, will be the 12th edition of the UEFA Futsal Championship, the international futsal championship organised by UEFA for the men's national teams of Europe. It will be hosted for the first time in the Netherlands.
This will be the first tournament to be held on a four-year basis and featuring 16 teams, as the competition was previously played every two years and included 12 teams since 2010. It will take place between 19 January and 6 February 2022.
Host selection
The bidding procedure for hosting was launched on 12 October 2018, with a deadline of 21 January 2019 to express their interest in hosting. Seven associations expressed an interest in hosting:The final proposal had to delivered with the bid dossier by 30 May 2019 at the latest, and UEFA received three bids:
The UEFA Executive Committee selected the Netherlands as hosts on 24 September 2019 in Ljubljana.
Qualification
The 15 teams which join automatically qualified hosts Netherlands in the finals will be decided by qualifying running from 29 January 2020 to October 2021.Qualified teams
The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.Team | Method of qualification | Appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance |
6th | 2014 |
Final draw
The final draw will be held in late 2021. The 16 teams will be drawn into four groups of four teams. The hosts Netherlands will be assigned to position A1 in the draw, while the other teams will be seeded according to the new Elo-based futsal men's national-team coefficient ranking taken after the completion of the play-offs in October 2021.Venues
The tournament will be held at two venues:- Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam
- MartiniPlaza, Groningen
Squads
Group stage
The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals.;Tiebreakers
In the group stage, teams are ranked according to points, and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings :
- Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Goals scored in all group matches;
- Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above ;
- Disciplinary points ;
- UEFA coefficient ranking for the final draw.
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where extra time is not played.Bracket
Quarter-finals
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