UEFA Futsal Champions League preliminary round report

Nine teams, including debutants Csíkszereda, Toulon Élite and Weilimdorf went through from the UEFA Futsal Champions League preliminary round as group winners.

• Results
• Final standings
• Group winners progress to October's main round path B (already drawn)
• Through: Csíkszereda, Georgians, Hovocubo, Leo, Luxol St Andrews, Omonia, Shkupi, Toulon Élite, Weilimdorf

Group A
Through: Toulon Élite (FRA)
Eliminated: SMS Viimsi (EST, hosts), Kampuksen Dynamo (FIN), KF Tirana (ALB)

Group B
Through: Shkupi 1927 (MKD, hosts)
Eliminated: Lokomotiv Daugavpils (LVA), Cardiff University (WAL), Encamp (AND)

Group C
Through: Futsal Klub Csíkszereda (ROU)
Eliminated: Futsal Minerva (SUI), Blue Magic FC Dublin (IRL), AEK Futsal Club (GRE, hosts)

Group D
Through: Omonia Nicosia (CYP, hosts)
Eliminated: Gazi Üniversitesi (TUR), Pinerola Brastislava (SVK), Vængir Júpiters (ISL)

Group E 
Through: TSV Weilimdorf (GER)
Eliminated: Allstars Wiener Neustadt (AUT, hosts), Racing Futsal Luxembourg (LUX), Sparta Belfast (NIR)

Group F
Through: Luxol St Andrews (MLT)
Eliminated: Dinamo Chisinau (MDA), Sjarmtrollan Idrettslag (NOR, hosts), Fiorentino (SMR)

Group G
Through: Hovocubo (NED, hosts)
Eliminated: London Helvecia (ENG), PYF Saltires (SCO), Lynx FC (GIB)

Group H
Through: Georgians Tbilisi (GEO)
Eliminated: Maccabi Nahalat Yitzhak Tel-Aviv (ISR), Varna City (BUL, hosts)

Group I
Through: Leo Futsal Club (ARM)
Eliminated: Futsal Gentofte (DEN), KMF Titograd (MNE, hosts)

• Debutants: Csíkszereda, Lokomotiv Daugavpils, Weilimdorf, Toulon, AEK, SMS Viimsi, Fiorentino, Sparta Belfast
• Kampuksen Dynamo won their preliminary round group last season while St Andrews and Leo did so in 2017/18, the first year of the current format.

Main round draw (8 to 13 October)

Path A

Group 1: Sporting CP (POR, holders), Ekonomac Kragujevac (SRB), Dobovec (SVN, hosts), Mostar SG (BIH)

Group 2: Benfica (POR), Halle Gooik (BEL, hosts), Araz Naxçivan (AZE), Kherson (UKR)

Group 3: Barça (ESP), Ayat (KAZ), Tyumen (RUS), Vytis (LTU, hosts)

Group 4: Kairat Almaty (KAZ), Murcia FS (ESP), Sport Club KPRF (RUS), Berettyóújfalu (HUN, hosts)

• Holders Sporting CP, the next 11 top-ranked clubs and the teams ranked 16th to 19th are involved in this path.
• In this path are former winners Kairat Almaty, Barcelona and Benfica, plus 2008 runners-up Murcia FS.
• Debutants: Ayat, Tyumen, KPRF
• The top three teams in each of the four groups progress to the elite round.

Path B

Group 5: Record Bielsko-Biała (POL), Sparta Praha (CZE, hosts),
Futsal Club Csíkszereda (ROU)*, Luxol St Andrews (MLT)*

Group 6: Novo Vrijeme Makarska (CRO, hosts), Shkupi 1927 (MKD)*, Omonia Nicosia (CYP)*, Leo Futsal Club (ARM)*

Group 7: Stalitsa Minsk (BLR, hosts), Liburn (KOS), Hovocubo (NED)*, Toulon Élite (FRA)*

Group 8: Pesaro (ITA), Uddevalla (SWE, hosts), Georgians Tbilisi (GEO)*, Weilimdorf (GER)*

• The teams ranked 12th to 15th and 20th to 22nd are joined by the preliminary round qualifiers (marked *).
• Debutants: Sparta Praha, Csíkszereda*, Toulon Elite*, Weilimdorf
• The winners of each of the four groups advance to the elite round.

Calendar
Elite round draw: 14:00CET, 18 October
Elite round: 19–24 November
Finals draw: tbc
Finals: 23 or 24 & 25 or 26 April