Futsal EURO 2026 preliminary round draw
Thursday, January 25, 2024
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Three groups of four have been formed, with the 12 teams competing in April for the last six main round spots.
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The road to UEFA Futsal EURO 2026 begins with the preliminary round, with the draw having split the contenders into three groups of four.
Preliminary round draw
Group A (9–12 April)
Cyprus (hosts), Andorra, Estonia, Northern Ireland
Group B (11–14 April)
Israel, Bulgaria, Austria (hosts), San Marino
Group C (10–13 April)
Switzerland (hosts), Malta, Gibraltar, Scotland
In all 12 teams of the 48 entrants begin in the preliminary round. Co-hosts Latvia and Lithuania progress automatically to the finals while the top 34 qualifying contenders in the UEFA futsal national team coefficient ranking as of December 2023 enter directly in the main round.
The 12 preliminary round contenders were drawn into three groups of four teams, played as mini-tournaments.
The top two in each group will go through to the main round, played as home-and-away fixtures from December.
Teams entering directly in main round
Portugal (holders), Spain, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, France, Finland, Croatia, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Azerbaijan, Serbia, Georgia, Netherlands, Romania, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Armenia, Belgium, Belarus, Moldova, Germany, North Macedonia, Sweden, Montenegro, Kosovo, England, Denmark, Albania, Norway, Greece, Türkiye
Futsal EURO 2026 dates
Preliminary round: 8–17 April 2024
Main round draw: 30 May 2024
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: Between 18 January and 8 February 2026
How the draw worked
The 12 teams were split into four pots based on their coefficient ranking.
For each pot (starting with Pot 1, the fourth seeding tier), the teams were drawn in alphabetical order from Groups A to C, with each group containing one team from each pot.
Seeding pots
Pot 1 (Seeding position 4): San Marino, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Pot 2 (Seeding position 3): Gibraltar, Austria, Estonia
Pot 3 (Seeding position 2): Bulgaria, Andorra, Malta
Pot 4 (Seeding position 1): Israel, Cyprus, Switzerland