European Futsal Championship

This article describes the European Futsal Championship ; for the corresponding women's competition, see European Women's Futsal Championship ; For further European football championships, see European football championship (explanation of terms) .

European Futsal Championship
Association	UEFA
First edition	1996
Teams	12
Game mode	Round-robin tournament (4 groups of 3 teams each) / knockout system (from quarterfinals)
Title holder	Portugal (1st title)
Record winner	Spain (7 wins)
Website	uefa.com

The European Futsal Championship is the since 1999 by the UEFA organized official European Championship for Futsal - national teams . The first final round was held in Granada, Spain.

mode

The host is automatically qualified for the final round. The other seven places will be played out in qualifying tournaments. Since 2005 there has also been a preliminary round for new futsal nations, which precedes the qualifying tournaments. In the final round, the teams are currently divided into four groups of three. The first two in each group reach the quarter-finals. The four winners play in the semi-finals for participation in the finals. With one exception in 2003, the losers in the semi-finals play for third place.

The tournaments at a glance

year	Venue (s)	final			Game for third place
		European champion	Result	2nd place	3rd place	Result	4th Place
1996 details	Cordoba ( Spain )	Spain	5: 3	Russia	Belgium	3: 2 a.d.	Italy
1999 details	Granada ( Spain )	Russia	3: 3 n.v. 4: 2 in 6 ms.	Spain	Italy	3-0	Netherlands
2001 details	Moscow ( Russia )	Spain	2: 1 a.d.	Ukraine	Russia	2: 1 a.d.	Italy
2003 details	Caserta / Aversa ( Italy )	Italy	1-0	Ukraine	Spain	No game for 3rd place	Czech Republic
2005 details	Ostrava ( Czech Republic )	Spain	2: 1	Russia	Italy	3: 1	Ukraine
2007 details	Gondomar / Santo Tirso ( Portugal )	Spain	3: 1	Italy	Russia	3: 2	Portugal
2010 details	Debrecen / Budapest ( Hungary )	Spain	4: 2	Portugal	Czech Republic	5: 3	Azerbaijan
2012 details	Zagreb / Split ( Croatia )	Spain	3: 1 a.d.	Russia	Italy	3: 1	Croatia
2014 details	Antwerp ( Belgium )	Italy	3: 1	Russia	Spain	8: 4	Portugal
2016 details	Belgrade ( Serbia )	Spain	7: 3	Russia	Kazakhstan	5: 2	Serbia
2018 details	Ljubljana ( Slovenia )	Portugal	3: 2 a.d.	Spain	Russia	1-0	Kazakhstan
2022 details	Amsterdam / Groningen ( Netherlands )

Ranking list

rank	country	title	Year (s)	2nd place	3rd place	4th Place
1	Spain	7th	1996, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2016	2	1	/
2	Italy	2	2003, 2014	1	3	2
3	Russia	1	1999	5	3	/
4th	Portugal	1	2018	1	/	2
5	Ukraine			2	/	1
6th	Kazakhstan			/	1	1
7th	Belgium			/	1	/
	Czech Republic			/	1	/
9	Azerbaijan			/	/	1
	Croatia			/	/	1
	Netherlands			/	/	1
	Serbia			/	/	1

Eternal finals table

rank	Association	Participation	Games	Victories	Undecided eliminated (a)	Defeats	Gates	Points
1	Spain	11	53	39	10	5	201: 86	127
2	Italy	11	47	29	7th	11	130: 78	94
3	Russia	11	50	29	7th	14th	154: 105	94
4th	Portugal	9	35	15th	7th	13	105: 95	52
5	Ukraine	10	36	12	6th	18th	92:96	43
6th	Serbia	6th	20th	7th	5	8th	48:54	26th
7th	Czech Republic	8th	24	5	3	16	64: 110	18th
8th	Kazakhstan	2	10	5	2	3	32:22	17th
9	Azerbaijan	5	15th	5	2	8th	48:65	17th
10	Croatia	5	15th	4th	4th	7th	31:47	16
11	Romania	4th	11	3	0	8th	25:40	9
12	Belgium	5	14th	2	3	9	17:42	9
13	Netherlands	5	16	2	3	11	33:62	9
14th	Slovenia	6th	15th	2	1	12	29:60	7th
15th	France	1	2	0	1	1	07: 09	2
16	Belarus	1	2	0	1	1	06:14	1
17th	Poland	2	5	0	1	4th	08:24	1
18th	Turkey	1	2	0	0	2	01: 08	0
19th	Hungary	3	7th	0	0	7th	16:36	0

As of February 10, 2018

The ranking is calculated according to the 3-point rule .

^(a) including games that were subsequently decided by shooting from six meters (goals from shooting from six meters are not taken into account).

Web links

• Tournament details on rsssf.com