2026–27 UEFA Futsal Champions League

2026–27 UEFA Futsal Champions League
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying rounds:; 25 August 2026 – 19 February 2027; Final tournament:; 6–9 May 2027
Teams	Final tournament: 4; Total: 56 (from 52 associations)
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The 2026–27 UEFA Futsal Champions League is the 41st edition of Europe's premier club futsal tournament, and the 26th edition organized by UEFA. It is also the ninth edition since the tournament was rebranded from "UEFA Futsal Cup" to UEFA Futsal Champions League.

Sporting CP are the title holders.^[1]

Association team allocation

A total of 56 teams from 52 of the 55 UEFA member associations participate in the 2026–27 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 2025–26 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 Portugal, 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]

Distribution

For the 2026–27 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 2026–27 UEFA Futsal Champions League
		Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from the previous round
Preliminary round (32 teams)		32 teams ranked 25–56
Main round	Path A (16 teams)	Title holders 15 teams ranked 1–11 and 16–19
Main round	Path B (16 teams)	8 teams ranked 12–15 and 20–23	8 group winners from the 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

Teams

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
Barça	1
Sporting CP	TH
Kairat	2
SL Benfica	3
ElPozo Murcia	4
Futsal Club Semey [kk]	5
Étoile Lavalloise	6
Anderlecht	7
HIT Kyiv	8
MNK Olmissum	9
MIMEL Lučenec	10
Clubul Sportiv United Galați [ro]	11
Futsal Minerva [it]	16
TFK Beitar	17
Stalitsa Minsk	18
Tigers Roermond [nl]	19

Main round Path B
Team	Rank
Piast Gliwice	12
KMF Loznica	13
Kauno Žalgiris	14
Luxol St Andrews	15
L84 Torino	20
Araz Naxçivan	21
Athletic Futsal	22
Differdange 03	23

Preliminary round
Team	Rank
Hjørring Futsal Klub	24
NK Vrhnika	25
MNK Buba Mara	26
MFK Chrudim	27
Drenica Futsal	28
Doukas SAC	29
Futsal Mad Max	30
TSV Weilimdorf	31
Újpest	32
MFC CIU	33
Clic Chișinău	34
Blue Magic Dublin	35
Studentski Dom	36
Tirana Futsal	37
Futsal Club Graz	38
FC Tallinn B.P.	39
SS Murata	40
Futsal Club Kalmar	41
KMF Proekt	42
Amigo Northwest	43
APOEL Futsal	44
Unisport Futsal Club	45
Sjarmtrollan [no]	46
Sparta Belfast	47
PYF Saltires	48
London Genesis Futsal	49
Rànger's	50
Maccabi Netanya Futsal	51
KM Reykjavík	52
Lynx Futsal Club	53
Sakarya Karasu	54
Futsal Club Cardiff	55

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:^[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 the next round. The top two teams from each Path A group are seeded.

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

The final tournament is played at a centralized location and consists of single-legged semi-finals, a third-place play-off, and a 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).^[3]

Schedule for 2026–27 UEFA Futsal Champions League
Phase	Round	Draw	Dates
Qualifying stage	Preliminary round	8 July 2026	25–30 August 2026
Final tournament	Main round	8 July 2026	27 October – 1 November 2026
	Round of 16	4 November 2026	23 November 2026 (first leg) 4 December 2026 (second leg)
	Quarter-finals		8 February 2027 (first leg) 19 February 2027 (second leg)
	Semi-finals		6 or 7 May 2027
	Final		8 or 9 May 2027

Preliminary round

The draw for the preliminary round was held on 8 July 2026, 14:00 CET.^[6] The preliminary round will be played from 25 to 30 August 2026. The winners of each group will 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 play in the preliminary round. Seeding of teams was based on their 2025 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, Kosovo & Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo & Serbia, and Ukraine & Belarus could not be drawn into the same group.

Seeding position 1	Seeding position 2	Seeding position 3	Seeding position 4
Hjørring Futsal Klub NK Vrhnika MNK Buba Mara (H) MFK Chrudim Drenica Futsal Doukas SAC (H) Futsal Mad Max TSV Weilimdorf	Újpest (H) MFC CIU Clic Chișinău Blue Magic Dublin Studentski Dom (H) Tirana Futsal (H) Futsal Club Graz (H) FC Tallinn B.P.	SS Murata Futsal Club Kalmar KMF Proekt Amigo Northwest (H) APOEL Futsal Unisport Futsal Club (H) Sjarmtrollan [no] Sparta Belfast	PYF Saltires London Genesis Futsal Rànger's Maccabi Netanya Futsal KM Reykjavík Lynx Futsal Club Sakarya Karasu Futsal Club Cardiff

Notes

H – Mini-tournament hosts

Group A

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Vrhnika	Advance to main round
2	Futsal Club Graz (H)
3	KMF Proekt
4	Maccabi Netanya

First match(es) will be played: 25 August 2026. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Hjørring	Advance to main round
2	Tirana Futsal (H)
3	APOEL Futsal
4	Cardiff

First match(es) will be played: 25 August 2026. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group C

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Buba Mara (H)	Advance to main round
2	CIU
3	Sjarmtrollan Idrettslag
4	Lynx Futsal Club

First match(es) will be played: 25 August 2026. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group D

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Drenica Futsal	Advance to main round
2	Újpest (H)
3	Murata
4	Sakarya Karasu

First match(es) will be played: 25 August 2026. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group E

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Weilimdorf	Advance to main round
2	FC Tallinn B.P.
3	Unisport Futsal Club (H)
4	KM Reykjavík

First match(es) will be played: 25 August 2026. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group F

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Doukas SAC (H)	Advance to main round
2	Blue Magic Dublin
3	Sparta Belfast
4	London Genesis Futsal

First match(es) will be played: 25 August 2026. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group G

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	MFK Chrudim	Advance to main round
2	Studentski Dom (H)
3	Futsal Club Kalmar
4	PYF Saltires

First match(es) will be played: 25 August 2026. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group H

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Futsal Mad Max	Advance to main round
2	Clic Chișinău
3	Amigo Northwest (H)
4	Rànger's

First match(es) will be played: 25 August 2026. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Main round

The draw for the preliminary round was held on 8 July 2026, 14:00 CET.^[7] The main round will be played from 27 October to 1 November 2026.

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

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. 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 2026 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.