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.

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]

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 —

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

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
	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

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

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.

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).^[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		24–29 October 2023
	Elite round	2 November 2023	28 November–3 December 2023
Final tournament	Semi-finals	14 March 2024	3 May 2024
	Third-place play-off & final		5 May 2024

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).

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

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

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Örebro SK	3	2	1	0	16	6	+10	7[a]	Advance to main round
2	Amigo Northwest (H)	3	2	1	0	13	5	+8	7[a]
3	Diamant Linz	3	1	0	2	5	9	−4	3
4	Tel Aviv Owls	3	0	0	3	4	18	−14	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	KMF Titograd (H)	3	3	0	0	13	6	+7	9	Advance to main round
2	New Vision Georgians	3	2	0	1	11	4	+7	6
3	FC Eindhoven	3	1	0	2	7	10	−3	3
4	Europa FC	3	0	0	3	1	12	−11	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Prishtina 01	3	2	1	0	17	3	+14	7[a]	Advance to main round
2	KSC Lubawa (H)	3	2	1	0	15	1	+14	7[a]
3	Utleira	3	1	0	2	7	12	−5	3
4	Ísbjörninn	3	0	0	3	2	25	−23	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	MIMEL Lučenec (H)	3	2	1	0	14	6	+8	7[a]	Advance to main round
2	Cosmos Tallinn	3	2	1	0	13	7	+6	7[a]
3	PYF Saltires	3	1	0	2	9	12	−3	3
4	FC Encamp	3	0	0	3	2	13	−11	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Doukas (H)	3	3	0	0	14	4	+10	9	Advance to main round
2	Blue Magic Dublin	3	1	1	1	9	9	0	4
3	Nistru Chișinău	3	1	1	1	6	8	−2	4
4	Bloomsbury Futsal	3	0	0	3	4	12	−8	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	AEL Futsal (H)	3	2	1	0	15	4	+11	7	Advance to main round
2	Futsal Minerva	3	1	1	1	10	9	+1	4
3	FC Fiorentino	3	0	2	1	2	7	−5	2
4	Yerevan FC	3	0	2	1	5	12	−7	2

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Radnik Bijeljina	2	2	0	0	23	4	+19	6	Advance to main round
2	FK Tirana (H)	2	1	0	1	9	10	−1	3
3	Sparta Belfast	2	0	0	2	5	23	−18	0
4	Cefn Druids	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

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Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	D	KSC Lubawa	3	2	1	0	15	1	+14	7	Advance to main round
2	B	Amigo Northwest	3	2	1	0	13	5	+8	7
3	E	Cosmos Tallinn	3	2	1	0	13	7	+6	7
4	A	Araz Naxçivan	3	2	0	1	17	9	+8	6
5	C	New Vision Georgians	3	2	0	1	11	4	+7	6
6	G	Futsal Minerva	3	1	1	1	10	9	+1	4
7	F	Blue Magic Dublin	3	1	1	1	9	9	0	4
8	H	FK Tirana	2	1	0	1	9	10	−1	3

The draw for the preliminary round was held on 5 July 2023, 14:00 CET.^[6]The main round will be played from 24 to 29 October 2023.

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 on each group proceed to the elite round.
• Path B (16 teams): Teams ranked 12–15 and 20-22 and 9 teams advancing from the preliminary round. The winners of each group move on to the elite round.

Seeding of teams was based on their 2023 UEFA futsal club coefficients. On Path B, the teams ranked 12th to 15th were in seeding position 1 and those ranked 20th to 22nd in position 2, along with one preliminary round winner. The remaining preliminary round winners were in a further pot to fill positions 3 and 4, while the best preliminary round runner-up is pre-allocated into Group 5 position 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, and Kosovo & Bosnia and Herzegovina could not be drawn into the same group.

Path A

Seeding position 1	Seeding position 2	Seeding position 3	Seeding position 4
Palma Futsal (H) Sporting CP FC Barcelona Benfica	Kairat FK Dobovec (H) Anderlecht Olmissum (H)	Ayat Haladás Luxol St Andrews United Galați	KMF Loznica-Grad (H) HIT Kyiv Differdange 03 Étoile Lavalloise

Path B

Seeding position 1	Seeding position 2	Seeding positions 2 (one club), 3 and 4
Kauno Žalgiris (H) SK Plzeň (H) Feldi Eboli (H) Futsal Dinamo (H)	Kampuksen Dynamo Futsal Gentofte Stalitsa Minsk	Riga Futsal Club Örebro SK KMF Titograd Prishtina 01 MIMEL Lučenec	Doukas AEL Futsal Radnik Bijeljina KSC Lubawa

Notes

• H – Mini-tournament hosts

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sporting CP	3	2	1	0	14	5	+9	7	Advance to elite round
2	HIT Kyiv	3	1	2	0	8	5	+3	5
3	Olmissum (H)	3	1	0	2	6	12	−6	3
4	Ayat	3	0	1	2	5	11	−6	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FC Barcelona	3	3	0	0	10	1	+9	9	Advance to elite round
2	Anderlecht	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	6
3	KMF Loznica-Grad (H)	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	3
4	Luxol St Andrews	3	0	0	3	2	14	−12	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Palma Futsal (H)	3	3	0	0	16	8	+8	9	Advance to elite round
2	Kairat	3	1	1	1	9	8	+1	4
3	Haladás	3	0	2	1	4	6	−2	2
4	Differdange 03	3	0	1	2	7	14	−7	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Benfica	3	2	1	0	22	3	+19	7[a]	Advance to elite round
2	Étoile Lavalloise	3	2	1	0	16	6	+10	7[a]
3	FK Dobovec (H)	3	0	1	2	4	15	−11	1[b]
4	United Galați	3	0	1	2	7	25	−18	1[b]

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	KSC Lubawa	3	2	1	0	23	13	+10	7	Advance to elite round
2	Futsal Dinamo (H)	3	2	0	1	18	10	+8	6
3	KMF Titograd	3	1	1	1	11	9	+2	4
4	Örebro SK	3	0	0	3	5	25	−20	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Riga Futsal Club	3	3	0	0	25	6	+19	9	Advance to elite round
2	SK Plzeň (H)	3	1	1	1	11	16	−5	4
3	Futsal Gentofte	3	1	0	2	11	17	−6	3
4	Radnik Bijeljina	3	0	1	2	12	20	−8	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Prishtina 01	3	2	1	0	14	2	+12	7	Advance to elite round
2	Kauno Žalgiris (H)	3	1	2	0	11	4	+7	5
3	Kampuksen Dynamo	3	1	1	1	8	9	−1	4
4	AEL Futsal	3	0	0	3	7	25	−18	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Feldi Eboli (H)	3	3	0	0	7	3	+4	9	Advance to elite round
2	Stalitsa Minsk	3	2	0	1	8	5	+3	6
3	MIMEL Lučenec	3	1	0	2	6	5	+1	3
4	Doukas	3	0	0	3	6	14	−8	0

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The draw for the elite round was held on 2 November 2023, 14:15 CET.^[7] The elite round was played from 29 November to 3 December 2023.

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

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. Winners and runners-up from the same main round path A group could not be drawn into the same group.

Seeding position 1	Seeding position 2	Seeding positions 3 and 4
Sporting CP (H) FC Barcelona Palma Futsal (H) Benfica	HIT Kyiv Anderlecht Kairat Étoile Lavalloise	Olmissum KMF Loznica-Grad Haladás Dobovec	KSC Lubawa Riga Futsal Club (H) Prishtina 01 (H) Feldi Eboli

Notes

• H – Mini-tournament hosts

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FC Barcelona	3	2	1	0	12	4	+8	7	Advance to final tournament
2	Riga Futsal Club (H)	3	2	0	1	12	11	+1	6
3	Étoile Lavalloise	3	1	0	2	8	12	−4	3
4	Feldi Eboli	3	0	1	2	6	11	−5	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Benfica	3	3	0	0	17	6	+11	9	Advance to final tournament
2	Kairat	3	2	0	1	20	5	+15	6
3	Dobovec	3	0	1	2	6	14	−8	1
4	Prishtina 01 (H)	3	0	1	2	6	24	−18	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sporting CP (H)	3	3	0	0	20	4	+16	9	Advance to final tournament
2	Anderlecht	3	2	0	1	14	7	+7	6
3	KMF Loznica-Grad	3	1	0	2	5	19	−14	3
4	Haladás	3	0	0	3	6	15	−9	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Palma Futsal (H)	3	2	1	0	10	6	+4	7	Advance to final tournament
2	KSC Lubawa	3	2	0	1	14	10	+4	6
3	HIT Kyiv	3	1	1	1	11	11	0	4
4	Olmissum	3	0	0	3	8	16	−8	0

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	Semi-finals				Final
	3 May
	Benfica	4 (3)
					5 May
	Palma Futsal	4 (4)
					Palma Futsal	5
	3 May
					FC Barcelona	1
	FC Barcelona	5
	Sporting CP	4
					Third place
					5 May
					Benfica	6
					Sporting CP	3

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UEFA Futsal Champions League 2023–24 Winners
Palma Futsal 2nd Title

• Preliminary round: There were 308 goals scored in 45 matches, for an average of 6.84 goals per match.^[8]
• Main round: There were 325 goals scored in 48 matches, for an average of 6.77 goals per match.
• Elite round: There were 175 goals scored in 24 matches, for an average of 7.29 goals per match.
• Final tournament: There were 32 goals scored in 4 matches, for an average of 8 goals per match.

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