Futsal Women's World Cup elite round draw
Thursday, October 31, 2024
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European champions Spain take on France, Poland and Finland while Portugal play Italy, Hungary and Sweden as four World Cup slots are decided in March.
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Europe's four contenders at the inaugural FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup in 2025 will be decided by the elite round, for which the draw was made on 31 October.
FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup qualifying elite round draw
Group A: Portugal, Italy (hosts), Hungary, Sweden
Group B: Spain, France (hosts), Poland, Finland
Top seeds Spain and Portugal begin in the elite round, and are joined by the six teams that progressed from the main round earlier this month: Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Sweden.
They have been drawn into two groups of four, played as single-venue mini-tournaments between 18 and 23 March. The top two in each group will qualify for the finals.
The finals will run from 21 November to 7 December 2025 in the Philippines.
Team guide
- Spain won the three UEFA Women's Futsal EURO editions so far, in 2019, 2022 and 2023. They beat Poland in 2019 qualifying and Finland to reach the 2023 finals.
- Portugal were runners-up in 2019 and 2022, and finished third in 2023. They defeated Italy in 2022 qualifying before beating Hungary in the semis and again in the 2023 third-place match.
- Hungary also qualified in 2022 and 2023 for the four-team EURO finals; it will expand to eight teams for the next edition in 2027.
- France made their competitive debut in the main round and knocked out Ukraine, who qualified for all three four-team EUROs and were runners-up in 2023.
- Finland, Italy, Poland and Sweden all ended with 100% winning records in the main round.
- Italy beat Sweden in 2022 qualifying.
2025 Futsal Women's World Cup: Confederation slots
Hosts: 1 (Philippines)
AFC: 3
CAF: 2
CONCACAF: 2
CONMEBOL: 3
OFC: 1 (New Zealand)
UEFA: 4
How the draw worked
Teams were split into two seeding categories. Top seeds Spain and Portugal were in position 1 of the two groups and the six main round qualifiers were drawn into positions 2, 3 and 4.
France and Italy were appointed mini-tournament hosts and drawn from a separate pot 1, while maintaining their seeding.
Pot 1 (hosts):
France
Italy
The hosts were drawn and assigned to position 2 in Group A for the first team drawn and Group B for the second.
Pot 2 (remaining main round winners):
Finland
Hungary
Poland
Sweden
The four teams were allocated to position 4 in Group A then Group B, then to position 3 in Group A then Group B.
Pot 3 (seeded teams):
Spain
Portugal
The two teams were drawn into position 1 in Group A then Group B.