The 2021–22 UEFA Futsal Champions League is the 36th edition of the European club football championship organised by UEFA, and the fourth edition since being rebranded as the UEFA Futsal Champions League.
Sporting CP, the title holders, entered in the main round.
A total of 55 teams from 51 of the 55 UEFA member associations participate in the 2021–22 UEFA Futsal Champions League. The association ranking based on the UEFA futsal national team coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
Associations 1–3 (since the title holders were in the top three) each have two teams qualify.
The winners of the 2020–21 UEFA Futsal Champions League qualify automatically and it's association may enter a second team. If the title-holders' association is among the three best ranked associations, the 4th ranked association is also entitled to enter a second team.
The remaining associations have one team qualify.
Association ranking[]
The UEFA futsal national team coefficients at the end of April 2020, used to determine the number of teams each association was entitled to enter, was as follow.[1]
Association ranking for 2021–22 UEFA Champions League
NR – No rank (association national team has been inactive on the previous 36 months)
DNE – Did not enter
Distribution[]
For the 2021–22 UEFA Futsal Champions League, the clubs' entry round is determined by their UEFA futsal club coefficients, which takes into account their performance from the previous three seasons.
The following is the access list for this season.[2]
Access list for 2019–20 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
Path B (16 teams)
7 teams ranked 12–15 and 20–22
8 group winners from preliminary round
Best preliminary round runners-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 team 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 2021–22 UEFA Futsal Champions League (with their ranking among participating teams), grouped by their starting round and path for the main round.
In this season, the tournament returned to the mini-tournament format consisting of three qualifying rounds and the final tournament. The qualifying rounds consisted of the following stages:[3]
Preliminary round: 32 teams entering in this round were divided in eight groups of four teams with the winners and the best runners-up advancing to the next round.
Main round:
Path A: 16 teams entering in this round were divided in four groups of four teams, with the winners, runners-up and third-placed teams advancing to the next round.
Path B: 7 teams which entered in this round and the 9 teams advancing from the preliminary round were divided in four groups of four teams, with the winners advancing to the next round.
Elite round: 16 teams were divided in four groups of four teams, with the winners qualifying to 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 consists single-legged semi-finals, third-place play-off and final. If scores are level at the end of normal time, extra time is played, followed by a penalty shoot-out if the scores remain 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):[3]
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.
For the ranking of second-placed teams in the preliminary round, teams are also ranked according to points, with the following tiebreakers applying in case of a tie.
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.
Schedule[]
The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).[2]
Schedule for 2021–22 UEFA Futsal Champions League
Phase
Round
Draw
Dates
Qualifying stage
Preliminary round
7 July 2021
20–25 August 2021
Main round
30 August 2021
26–31 October 2021
Elite round
3 November 2021
30 November – 5 December 2021
Final tournament
Semi-finals
TBC
28/29 April 2022
Third-place play-off & final
30 April/1 May 2022
Preliminary round[]
The draw for the preliminary round was held on 7 July 2021, 14:00 CEST.[4] The preliminary round was played from 21 to 25 October 2021. The winners of each group and the best runners-up advanced to the main round Path B.
Times are CET (UTC+1), 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 2021 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. Due to political reasons, teams from Kosovo and Serbia could not be drawn into the same group.
Updated to match(es) played on 24 August 2021. Source: Unknown Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Main round[]
The draw for the main round was held on 30 August 2021, 14:00 CEST.[5] The main round was played from 26 to 31 October 2021.
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.
Path B (16 teams): teams ranked 12–15 and 20-22 and 9 teams advancing form the preliminary round.
Seeding of teams was based on their 2021 UEFA futsal club coefficients. On Path B, the seeding position 3 and 4 were drawn from the same pot, comprising all teams advancing from the preliminary round, with the exception of Luxol St Andrews, who attributed to seeding position 2 as top ranked team advancing from the previous round. 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 Kosovo and Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina or Armenia and Azerbaijan could not be drawn into the same group. Additionally, winners and runners-up from the same preliminary round advancing to the main round could not be drawn into the same group.
Referee: Peter Nurse (ENG), Maksim Dzeikala (BLR), Marjan Mladenovski (MKD)
Elite round[]
The draw for the elite round was held on 3 November 2021, 14:00 CET.[6] The elite round was played from 30 November to 5 December 2021.
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. Teams from Ukraine and Russia could not be drawn into the same group. Additionally, winners and runners-up from the same main round path A group could not be drawn into the same group.
The final tournament comprises two semifinals, a third-place play-off and the final, and will be played by the last four remaining teams from 28 or 29 April to 30 April or 1 May 2022 at Arena Riga, Latvia.[7]
Luxol St Andrews
(H)
(H)
Haladás
Tirana (H)
Hammarby IF
(H)
(H)
Araz Naxçivan
(H)
(H)
Encamp
APOEL Futsal
TSV Weilimdorf (H)
Helvécia
Benfica
Sinara Yekaterinburg
Halle-Gooik
(H)
Dobovec (H)
Barcelona
(H)
Pesaro (H)
Rekord Bielsko-Biała
Uragan (H)
Olmissum (H)
Leo
(H)