UEFA Futsal Euro 2022 qualifying
The UEFA Futsal Euro 2022 qualifying competition will be a men's futsal competition that determines the 15 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Netherlands in the UEFA Futsal Euro 2022 final tournament, the first tournament to be held on a four-year basis and featuring 16 teams.
A record number of 50 of the 55 UEFA member national teams entered the competition, including Austria and Northern Ireland which entered for the first time. Apart from hosts Netherlands, the remaining 49 teams entered the qualifying competition. The 16 teams which advanced to the 2020 FIFA Futsal World Cup European qualifying elite round were given byes to the qualifying group stage, which for the first time would be played in home-and-away round-robin format, while the remaining 33 teams entered in the qualifying round.
Format
The qualifying competition consists of four rounds:- Qualifying round: The 33 teams which enter this round are drawn into nine groups: six groups of four teams and three groups of three teams. Each group is played in single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts before the draw. The nine group winners advance to the qualifying group stage, while the nine group runners-up and the five third-placed teams with the best record against the first and second-placed teams in their group advance to the qualifying round play-offs.
- Qualifying round play-offs: The 14 teams are drawn into seven ties to play home-and-away two-legged matches. The seven winners advance to the qualifying group stage.
- Qualifying group stage: The 32 teams are drawn into eight groups of four. Each group is played in home-and-away round-robin format. The eight group winners and the six runners-up with the best record against all teams in their group qualify for the final tournament, while the remaining two runners-up advance to the play-offs.
- Play-offs: The two teams play home-and-away two-legged matches to determine the last qualified team.
Tiebreakers
- 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;
- ' Away 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;
- ' Away goals scored in all group matches;
- ' Wins in all group matches;
- ' Away wins 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 qualifying round or qualifying group stage draw;
- ' Drawing of lots.
- Points;
- Goal difference;
- Goals scored;
- ' Away goals scored;
- ' Wins;
- ' Away wins;
- Disciplinary points;
- UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round or qualifying group stage draw;
- ' Drawing of lots
Schedule
The qualifying matches are played on dates that fall within the FIFA Futsal International Match Calendar.In the qualifying round, the schedule of each group is as follows, with one rest day between matchdays 2 and 3 for four-team groups, and no rest days for three-team groups :
Note: For scheduling, the hosts are considered as Team [|1], while the visiting teams are considered as Team 2, Team 3, and Team 4 according to their group positions.
| Matchday | Matches | Matches |
| Matchday 1 | 2 v 4, 3 v 1 | 3 v 1 |
| Matchday 2 | 3 v 2, 1 v 4 | 2 v 3 |
| Matchday 3 | 4 v 3, 1 v 2 | 1 v 2 |
In the qualifying group stage, the schedule of each group is as follows :
| Matchday | Matches |
| Matchday 1 | 2 v 3, 4 v 1 |
| Matchday 2 | 1 v 2, 3 v 4 |
| Matchday 3 | 3 v 1, 2 v 4 |
| Matchday 4 | 1 v 3, 4 v 2 |
| Matchday 5 | 3 v 2, 1 v 4 |
| Matchday 6 | 2 v 1, 4 v 3 |
Qualifying round
Draw
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 7 November 2019, 13:30 CET, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The seeding was based on the new Elo-based futsal men's national-team coefficient ranking taken on 28 October 2019. The 33 teams were drawn into nine groups: six groups of four containing one team from each of the seeding positions 1–4, and three groups of three containing one team from each of the seeding positions 1–3. First, the nine teams which were pre-selected as hosts were drawn from their own designated pot and allocated to their respective group as per their seeding positions. Next, the remaining 24 teams were drawn from their respective pot which were allocated according to their seeding positions. Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina could not be drawn in the same group.| Team | ||
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;Notes
- Teams marked in bold have qualified for the final tournament.
- ': Teams pre-selected as hosts for the qualifying round
Groups
The winners of each group advanced to the qualifying group stage, while the runners-up of each group and the five best third-placed teams advanced to the qualifying round play-offs. The qualifying round was scheduled to be played between 29 January and 1 February 2020.Times are CET, as listed by UEFA.
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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Group I
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Ranking of third-placed teams
To determine the five best third-placed teams from the qualifying round which advance to the qualifying round play-offs, only the results of the third-placed teams against the first and second-placed teams in their group are taken into account.Qualifying round play-offs
Draw
The draw for the qualifying round play-offs was held on 13 February 2020, 14:15 CET, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The seeding of the 14 teams was based on the new Elo-based futsal men's national-team coefficient ranking taken on 3 February 2020, with the seven group runners-up with the highest coefficient ranking seeded in Pot 2, and the remaining two group runners-up and the five third-placed teams unseeded in Pot 1. They were drawn into seven ties, with the teams in Pot 2 hosting the second leg. Teams from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn against each other.MatchesThe winners of each tie advance to the qualifying group stage to join the 16 teams which receive byes and the nine qualifying round winners. The qualifying round play-offs were originally scheduled to be played between 6 and 15 April 2020, but had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to a later date comprised tentatively between June and mid-December. The matches were rescheduled to be played between 2 and 11 November 2020.Qualifying group stageDrawThe draw for the qualifying group stage will be held on 2 September 2020, 13:15 CEST, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The 32 teams are drawn into eight groups of four.
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