UEFA Futsal Cup elite round draw

A showdown between Dynamo and Sporting CP plus the meeting of two-time winners Kairat Almaty with two debutants are among the highlights of the UEFA Futsal Cup elite round draw.

Elite round draw (matches 22–27 November)
Group A: Kairat Almaty (KAZ)*, Nikars Riga (LVA), Real Rieti (ITA), Feniks (KOS)

Group B: Ugra Yugorsk (RUS, holders), Araz Naxçıvan (AZE), Hamburg Panthers (GER), Nacional Zagreb (CRO)*

Group C: Inter FS (ESP), Ekonomac Kragujevac (SRB), EP Chrudim (CZE), Brezje Maribor (SVN)*

Group D: FC Dynamo (RUS), Sporting CP (POR)*, Győri ETO (HUN), City'US Târgu Mureş (ROU)

*Hosts

• The group winners progress to the knockout finals in the last weekend of April, with the hosts to be picked from among the four qualifying clubs.

Elite round guide

• Debutants Rieti and Feniks (the first Kosovan entrants) have to travel to Kairat Almaty, champions in 2013 and 2015 and six-time semi-finalists.
  
• Ugra won the Russian title on debut last season and face former semi-finalists Araz as well as the first German side to get this far, Hamburg.
• Inter are aiming for a record fourth title but Ekonomac and Chrudim (who have
  advanced through the main round ten seasons in a row) have plenty of experience while hosts Brezje are debutants.
• The game of the round seems to be the Lisbon encounter of 2011 runners-up Sporting and Dynamo, winners in 2007 and finalists a record six times. Dynamo beat Sporting 5-0 in the elite round the season the Russian club won the title.