Futsal EURO 2026 main round draw
Thursday, May 30, 2024
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The draw split the 40 teams into ten groups of four to compete between December and April for ten finals and eight play-off spots.
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The UEFA Futsal EURO 2026 main round draw split the 40 contenders into ten groups of four, played as home-and-away games between December 2024 and April 2025.
Futsal EURO 2026 main round groups
Group 1: Ukraine, Romania, Germany, Cyprus
Group 2: Finland, Italy, Belarus, Malta
Group 3: Poland, Slovakia, Moldova, Türkiye
Group 4: Slovenia, Hungary, Montenegro, Norway
Group 5: Croatia, Azerbaijan, Sweden, Greece
Group 6: Kazakhstan, Armenia, Denmark, Albania
Group 7: Portugal (holders), Netherlands, North Macedonia, Andorra
Group 8: Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, England, Switzerland
Group 9: Serbia, Czechia, Belgium, Austria
Group 10: France, Georgia, Kosovo, Bulgaria
While co-hosts Latvia and Lithuania progress automatically to the finals, the top 34 qualifying contenders in the UEFA men's futsal national team coefficient ranking as of December 2023, including holders Portugal, enter directly in the main round. They are joined by the six teams that progressed from April's preliminary round (Andorra, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Malta and Switzerland).
The ten main round group winners join co-hosts Latvia and Lithuania in the 2026 finals, with the eight best runners-up entering the play-offs in September 2025.
- Portugal have won the last two Futsal EURO in 2018 and 2022, and also triumphed in the 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup and 2022 Futsal Finalissima.
- Spain have won seven European titles and Italy two.
- Twice runners-up, Ukraine also reached the 2022 semis, losing the third-place match to Spain.
- Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Slovakia lost in the 2022 quarter-finals and Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, hosts Netherlands, Poland, Serbia and Slovenia also took part.
- Belarus, Belgium, Czechia, France, Hungary, Romania and Türkiye have also previously qualified.
- Andorra got through a round of qualifying for the first time to reach this stage.
- Malta got through a round of qualifying for the first time to reach this stage and had never won a competitive game before the preliminary round.
- Croatia, France, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Ukraine will represent Europe at the 2024 World Cup in Uzbekistan from 14 September to 6 October.
- Both Latvia and Lithuania will make their finals debut in 2026.
Futsal EURO 2026 dates
Main round: 9–18 December 2024, 27 January–5 February 2025, 3–12 March 2025, 7–16 April 2025
Play-off draw: 15 May 2025
Play-offs: 15–24 September 2025
Final tournament (Latvia & Lithuania): Between 18 January and 8 February 2026
Draw procedure
The teams are were split into four pots of ten teams based on their coefficients as of 18 April 2024
Pot 1 (position 4): Albania, Norway, Greece, Türkiye, Cyprus, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Andorra, Malta, Austria
Pot 2 (position 3): Belarus, Moldova, Belgium, North Macedonia, Germany, Sweden, Montenegro, Kosovo, England, Denmark
Pot 3 (position 2): Netherlands, Italy, Czechia, Romania, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Slovakia, Hungary, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Pot 4 (position 1): Portugal (holders), Spain, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Croatia, Finland, France, Poland, Slovenia, Serbia
Pot 1 was drawn first. The teams were drawn in ascending order from Groups 1 to 10. The same procedure was then repeated for Pots 2, 3 and 4.
Based on decisions taken by the UEFA Executive Committee, these pairs of teams could not be drawn in the same group:
- Belarus & Ukraine
- Kosovo & Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Kosovo & Serbia
Should a clash have arisen, the team drawn would be moved to the next available slot. Should there have been a clash with the last two or three balls, the teams were assigned to the appropriate groups.