2025–26 UEFA Futsal Champions League

2025–26 UEFA Futsal Champions League

Vitrifrigo Arena in Pesaro will host the final
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying rounds: 26 August 2025 – 5 December 2025 Final tournament: 7–10 May 2026
Teams	Final tournament: 4 Total: 56 (from 52 associations)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	96
Goals scored	784 (8.17 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Soufian Charraoui ( Tigers Roermond) (11 goals)
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The 2025–26 UEFA Futsal Champions League is the 40th edition of Europe's premier club futsal tournament, and the 25th edition organized by UEFA. It was also the eighth edition since the tournament was rebranded from "UEFA Futsal Cup" to UEFA Futsal Champions League.

Palma Futsal are the title holders.^[1]

A total of 56 teams from 52 of the 55 UEFA member associations will participate in the 2025–26 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 2024–25 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, Spain, and Kazakhstan. As the title holders are from Spain, the 4th ranked association, Ukraine, can also enter two teams, after UEFA's decision to exclude Russian clubs from all UEFA competitions due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^{[2] [3]}

For the 2024–25 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.^[3]

Access list for 2024–25 UEFA Futsal Champions League

		Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
Preliminary round (32 teams)		32 teams ranked 24–55
Main round	Path A (16 teams)	Title holders 15 teams ranked 1–11 and 16–19
	Path B (16 teams)	8 teams ranked 12–15 and 20–23	8 group winners from preliminary round
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 Quarter-final winners from elite round

Below are the participating teams of the 2025–26 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 SL Benfica 2 Jimbee Cartagena 3 Kairat 4 Anderlecht 5 Futsal Club Semey 6 Riga Futsal Club 7 Étoile Lavalloise 8 KMF Loznica 9 Vrijeme Makarska 10 Piast Gliwice 11 Luxol St Andrews 16 Kauno Žalgiris 17 MFK Chrudim 18 FC Prishtina 01 19

Main round Path B Team Rank Meta Catania C5 12 Clubul Sportiv United Galați 13 MIMEL Lučenec 14 HIT Kyiv 15 Differdange 03 20 Futsal Minerva 21 Aurora Team 22 Akaa Futsal 23

Preliminary round Team Rank NK Vrhnika 24 Araz Naxçivan 25 Tigers Roermond 26 Viten Orsha 27 Yerevan FC 28 1. Futsal Club Veszprém 29 MNK Buba Mara 30 Hjørring Futsal Klub 31 Futsal Club Forca 32 AEK Futsal 33 AEL Limassol Futsal 34 Borås AIK 35 Blue Magic Dublin 36 Bajo Pivljanin 37 FC Ljuti Krajisnici 38 TSV Weilimdorf 39 MFC CIU 40 PFC Levski Sofia 41 FC Tallinn B.P. 42 Clic Chișinău 43 KF Vllaznia Shkodër 44 PYF Saltires 45 Sjarmtrollan 46 FC Encamp 47 Bolton Futsal Club 48 SS Murata 49 Futsal Club Cardiff 50 Sparta Belfast 51 Ísbjörninn 52 Europa FC 53 Maccabi Netanya Futsal 54 Vangölü FK 55

The tournament has a mini-tournament format consisting of three qualifying rounds and the final tournament. The qualifying rounds consisted of the following stages:^[3][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: 8 teams that entered in this round and the 8 teams advancing from the preliminary round were divided into four groups of four teams, with the group winners advancing to the next round.
• Round of 16: 16 teams advancing from the main round were drawn into eight home-away matches with winners advancing to next round. Top two teams from each Path A group are seeded.

• Quarter-finals: Eight winners from previous round are drawn into four home-away matches with winners advancing to Final tournament.

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.

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]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
4. 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;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Disciplinary points (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point);
8. 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.

The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).^[3]

Schedule for 2024–25 UEFA Futsal Champions League

Phase	Round	Draw	Dates
Qualifying stage	Preliminary round	3 July 2025	26–31 August 2025
	Main round		28 October – 2 November 2025
Final tournament	Round of 16	6 November 2025	24 November & 5 December 2025
	Quarter-finals		23 February & 6 March 2026
	Finals		7 or 8 & 9 or 10 May 2026

The draw for the preliminary round was held on 3 July 2025, 14:00 CET.^[6] The preliminary round will be played from 26 to 31 August 2025. The winners of each group progress to the main round Path B.

Times are CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

A total of 32 teams played in the preliminary round. Seeding of teams was based on their 2024 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 could not be drawn into the same group.

Seeding position 1	Seeding position 2	Seeding position 3	Seeding position 4
NK Vrhnika Araz Naxçivan Tigers Roermond Viten Orsha Yerevan FC 1. Futsal Club Veszprém MNK Buba Mara (H) Hjørring Futsal Klub	Futsal Club Forca (H) AEK Futsal (H) AEL Limassol Futsal Borås AIK (H) Blue Magic Dublin Bajo Pivljanin FC Ljuti Krajisnici (H) TSV Weilimdorf	MFC CIU PFC Levski Sofia (H) FC Tallinn B.P. Clic Chișinău (H) KF Vllaznia Shkodër (H) PYF Saltires Sjarmtrollan FC Encamp	Bolton Futsal Club SS Murata Futsal Club Cardiff Sparta Belfast Ísbjörninn Europa FC Maccabi Netanya Futsal Vangölü FK

Notes

• H – Mini-tournament hosts

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FORCA (H)	3	3	0	0	10	0	+10	9	Advance to main round
2	Murata	3	2	0	1	9	4	+5	6
3	Yerevan	3	1	0	2	4	10	−6	3
4	Encamp	3	0	0	3	4	13	−9	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tigers Roermond	3	3	0	0	23	4	+19	9	Advance to main round
2	Bajo Pivljanin	3	2	0	1	14	14	0	6
3	Vllaznia (H)	3	1	0	2	8	10	−2	3
4	Ísbjörninn	3	0	0	3	9	26	−17	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Vrhnika	3	3	0	0	35	7	+28	9	Advance to main round
2	Borås (H)	3	1	1	1	33	13	+20	4
3	Tallinn B.P.	3	1	1	1	31	14	+17	4
4	Vangölü	3	0	0	3	19	84	−65	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hjørring	3	3	0	0	16	5	+11	9	Advance to main round
2	Clic Chișinău (H)	3	2	0	1	15	8	+7	6
3	AEL	3	1	0	2	7	18	−11	3
4	Maccabi Netanya	3	0	0	3	4	11	−7	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Weilimdorf	3	2	1	0	25	4	+21	7	Advance to main round
2	Viten Orsha	3	2	1	0	27	8	+19	7
3	Levski (H)	3	1	0	2	10	23	−13	3
4	Europa	3	0	0	3	3	30	−27	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Araz	3	3	0	0	28	6	+22	9	Advance to main round
2	Ljuti Krajišnici (H)	3	2	0	1	11	15	−4	6
3	Sparta Belfast	3	1	0	2	8	13	−5	3
4	PYF Saltires	3	0	0	3	4	17	−13	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Buba Mara (H)	3	3	0	0	21	7	+14	9	Advance to main round
2	CIU	3	2	0	1	12	5	+7	6
3	Blue Magic Dublin	3	1	0	2	7	10	−3	3
4	Cardiff	3	0	0	3	4	22	−18	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	AEK Futsal (H)	3	3	0	0	23	5	+18	9	Advance to main round
2	FC Veszprém	3	2	0	1	16	8	+8	6
3	Sjarmtrollan Idrettslag	3	0	1	2	7	17	−10	1
4	Bolton Futsal Club	3	0	1	2	4	20	−16	1

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The draw for the preliminary round was held on 3 July 2025, 14:00 CET.^[7] The main round will be played from 28 October to 2 November 2025.

Times are CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

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 in each group proceed to the elite round.
• Path B (16 teams): Teams ranked 12–15 and 20-23 and 8 teams advancing from the preliminary round. The winners of each group move on to the elite round.

Seeding of teams was based on their 2025 UEFA futsal club coefficients. On Path B, the teams ranked 12th to 15th were in seeding position 1 and those ranked 20th to 23rd in position 2. The remaining preliminary round winners were in a further pot to fill positions 3 and 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 could not be drawn into the same group.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Jimbee Cartagena	3	2	1	0	9	0	+9	7	Advance to elite round
2	Piast Gliwice (H)	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7
3	Anderlecht	3	1	0	2	5	6	−1	3
4	Kauno Žalgiris	3	0	0	3	1	12	−11	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Palma Futsal (H)	3	3	0	0	12	6	+6	9	Advance to elite round
2	Étoile Lavalloise	3	2	0	1	11	6	+5	6
3	Futsal Club Semey	3	1	0	2	16	16	0	3
4	MFK Chrudim	3	0	0	3	7	18	−11	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	SL Benfica	3	3	0	0	21	2	+19	9	Advance to elite round
2	Riga FC	3	2	0	1	7	7	0	6
3	Luxol St Andrews (H)	3	0	1	2	6	14	−8	1
4	KMF Loznica	3	0	1	2	4	15	−11	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sporting CP	3	3	0	0	30	2	+28	9	Advance to elite round
2	Kairat	3	2	0	1	9	10	−1	6
3	FC Prishtina 01	3	1	0	2	9	29	−20	3
4	Vrijeme Makarska (H)	3	0	0	3	8	14	−6	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	AEK Futsal	3	2	1	0	18	7	+11	7[a]	Advance to elite round
2	Meta Catania C5 (H)	3	2	1	0	18	7	+11	7[a]
3	Akaa Futsal	3	1	0	2	9	15	−6	3
4	Weilimdorf	3	0	0	3	3	19	−16	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hjørring	3	2	0	1	13	18	−5	6	Advance to elite round
2	Buba Mara	3	1	1	1	13	9	+4	4
3	Futsal Minerva	3	1	1	1	9	9	0	4
4	MIMEL Lučenec (H)	3	1	0	2	9	8	+1	3

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Araz	3	2	1	0	7	5	+2	7	Advance to elite round
2	Tigers Roermond	3	2	0	1	14	9	+5	6
3	United Galați (H)	3	1	0	2	8	11	−3	3
4	Differdange 03	3	0	1	2	12	16	−4	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FC HIT	3	3	0	0	17	3	+14	9	Advance to elite round
2	FC Kyiv	3	1	1	1	12	7	+5	4
3	Vrhnika (H)	3	1	1	1	7	6	+1	4
4	FORCA	3	0	0	3	4	24	−20	0

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The knockout round consists of a Round of 16 and the Quarter-finals. The round of 16 contenders were decided by the main round, with 12 teams emerging from Path A and four from Path B. The two-legged round of 16 and quarter-final stages replace the former elite round under the new format for 2025/26. Ties scheduled for Monday, 24 November and Friday, 5 December, with the first-named team at home in the opening leg.^[9]

The final tournament is a one-venue four-team knockout event to be held in Pesaro, Italy, with the semis taking place on 8 May and the final and third-place match two days later. A separate draw will be held to set the semi-finals.^[9]

The draw was held on 6 November 2025 at 14:00 (CET).^[9]

Times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Étoile Lavalloise win 11–5 on aggregate

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Futsal Club Semey win 8–6 on aggregate

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Palma Futsal win 6–4 on aggregate

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Riga FC win 11–4 on aggregate

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SL Benfica win 13–2 on aggregate

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Sporting CP won 19–3 on aggregate

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Kairat win 12–6 on aggregate

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Jimbee Cartagena win 14–2 on aggregate

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