2023–24 UEFA Futsal Champions League

2023–24 UEFA Futsal Champions League
	The Karen Demirchyan Complex in Yerevan will host the final.
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying rounds:; 23 August 2023 – 3 December 2023; Final tournament:; 3 – 5 May 2024
Teams	Final tournament: 4; Total: 55 (from 51 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Palma Futsal (2nd title)
Runners-up	Barcelona
Third place	Benfica
Fourth place	Sporting CP
Tournament statistics
Matches played	121
Goals scored	840 (6.94 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Season total:; Thalles Henrique (15 goals); Final tournament:; Lúcio Rocha (5 goals)
	← 2022–23 2024–25 → All statistics correct as of 3 December 2023.

The 2023–24 UEFA Futsal Champions League was the 38th edition of Europe's premier club futsal tournament, and the 23rd edition organized by UEFA. It is also the sixth edition since the tournament was rebranded from "UEFA Futsal Cup" to UEFA Futsal Champions League. The final tournament was taken place at the Karen Demirchyan Complex in Yerevan, Armenia 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 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,^[1] the right to enter a second team passed to the 5th ranked association, Croatia.^[2]

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.^[3]

Association ranking for 2023–24 UEFA Champions League

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams
1	Portugal	2697.016	2
2	Russia	2547.159	0^[1]
3	Spain (TH)	2494.422	2
4	Kazakhstan	2344.395
5	Croatia	2035.784
6	Ukraine	2010.147	1
7	Azerbaijan	1977.359
8	Serbia	1945.646
9	Georgia	1924.716
10	Slovenia	1891.854
11	Italy	1877.471
12	Poland	1845.059
13	Romania	1819.600
14	Czech Republic	1815.227
15	Finland	1814.563
16	Slovakia	1804.533
17	France	1759.326
18	Netherlands	1740.688
19	Armenia	1637.739

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams
20	Hungary	1635.528	1
21	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1609.649
22	Belgium	1568.922
23	Belarus	1521.865
24	Moldova	1514.719
25	North Macedonia	1451.512	DNE
26	Germany	1442.547	1
27	Latvia	1387.402
28	Sweden	1327.701
29	Montenegro	1306.735
30	Kosovo	1264.444
31	England	1204.183
32	Denmark	1199.225
33	Lithuania	1195.790
34	Albania	1177.965
35	Norway	1173.463
36	Greece	1164.389
37	Turkey	1131.406

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams
38	Israel	1128.385	1
39	Cyprus	1090.591
40	Switzerland	1066.246
41	Bulgaria	1031.006
42	Wales	1011.432
43	Andorra	916.855
44	Malta	830.007
45	Gibraltar	809.650
46	Austria	794.108
47	Estonia	787.508
48	San Marino	762.906
49	Scotland	755.050
50	Northern Ireland	717.420
NR	Iceland	—
	Luxembourg	—
	Republic of Ireland	—
	Faroe Islands	—	DNE
	Liechtenstein	—	DNE

Notes

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.^[2]

Access list for 2023–24 UEFA Futsal Champions League
		Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
Preliminary round (32 teams)		32 teams ranked 23–54
Main round	Path A (16 teams)	Title holders 15 teams ranked 1–11 and 16–19
Main round	Path B (16 teams)	7 teams ranked 12–15 and 20–22	8 group winners from preliminary round Preliminary round best runner-up
Elite round (16 teams)			4 group winners from main round path A 4 group runners-up from main round path A 4 group third-placed teams from main round path A 4 group winners from main round path B
Final tournament (4 teams)			4 group winners from elite round

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.^[4]

Main round Path A
Team	Rank
Palma Futsal	TH
Sporting CP	1
FC Barcelona	2
Benfica	3
Kairat	4
FK Dobovec	5
Anderlecht	6
Olmissum	7
Ayat	8
Haladás	9
Luxol St Andrews	10
United Galați	11
KMF Loznica-Grad	16
HIT Kyiv	17
Differdange 03	18
Étoile Lavalloise	19

Main round Path B
Team	Rank
Kauno Žalgiris	12
SK Plzeň	13
Feldi Eboli	14
Futsal Dinamo	15
Kampuksen Dynamo	20
JB Futsal Gentofte	21
Stalitsa Minsk	22

Preliminary round
Team	Rank
Araz Naxçivan	23
KSC Lubawa	24
Futsal Minerva	25
MIMEL Lučenec	26
Doukas	27
Örebro SK	28
FC Eindhoven	29
Radnik Bijeljina	30
FC Diamant Linz	31
FC Prishtina 01	32
Riga Futsal Club	33
KMF Titograd	34
Yerevan FC	35
FK Tirana	36
Cosmos Tallinn	37
Blue Magic Dublin	38
New Vision Georgians	39
FC Encamp	40
Nistru Chișinău	41
Jahn Regensburg Futsal	42
Amigo Northwest	43
Utleira	44
AEL Futsal	45
Cefn Druids	46
Bloomsbury Futsal	47
PYF Saltires	48
Tel Aviv Owls	49
Istanbul Şişli	50
Sparta Belfast	51
FC Fiorentino	52
Ísbjörninn	53
Europa FC	54

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:^[2]^[5]

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 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 was played, followed by a penalty shoot-out if the scores remained tied.

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (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):^[5]

Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
Goal difference 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 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, Switzerland).^[2]

Schedule for 2023–24 UEFA Futsal Champions League
Phase	Round	Draw	Dates
Qualifying stage	Preliminary round	5 July 2023	23–26 August 2023
	Main round	5 July 2023	24–29 October 2023
	Elite round	2 November 2023	28 November–3 December 2023
Final tournament	Semi-finals	14 March 2024	3 May 2024
Final tournament	Third-place play-off & final	14 March 2024	5 May 2024

Preliminary round

The draw for the preliminary round was held on 5 July 2023, 14:00 CET.^[6] 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.

Seeding position 1	Seeding position 2	Seeding position 3	Seeding position 4
Araz Naxçivan KSC Lubawa (H) Futsal Minerva MIMEL Lučenec (H) Doukas (H) Örebro SK FC Eindhoven Radnik Bijeljina	Diamant Linz Prishtina 01 Riga Futsal Club (H) KMF Titograd (H) Yerevan FC FK Tirana (H) Cosmos Tallinn Blue Magic Dublin	New Vision Georgians FC Encamp Nistru Chișinău Jahn Regensburg Amigo Northwest (H) Utleira AEL Futsal (H) Cefn Druids	Bloomsbury Futsal PYF Saltires Tel Aviv Owls Istanbul Şişli Sparta Belfast FC Fiorentino Ísbjörninn Europa FC

Notes

H – Mini-tournament hosts

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Riga Futsal Club (H)	3	3	0	33	5	+28	9	Advance to main round
2	Araz Naxçivan	3	2	1	17	9	+8	6
3	Jahn Regensburg	3	1	2	4	9	−5	3
4	Istanbul Şişli	3	0	3	3	34	−31	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

23 August 2023

13:00

Araz Naxçivan	9–1	Istanbul Şişli
Catatau 3'25" Baghirov 5'53" Milosavljević 15'49" Amadeu 21'35", 22'49", 30'05" Atayev 27'29", 33'05" Erick Dannilo 35'52"	Report	Çamcı 30'10"

Salaspils Sporta Nams, Salaspils

Attendance: 32

Referee: Arttu Kyynäräinen (Finland),
Dražen Vukčević (Montenegro)

23 August 2023