Spanish national futsal team

Spain
*España*
Nickname (s)	La Selección, ; La Furia Roja ; La Roja
Association	Real Federación ; Española de Fútbol
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	adidas
Trainer	José Venancio López
Assistant coach	Federico Vidal
captain	Luis Amado
Record scorer	Javi Rodríguez (102)
Record player	Javi Rodríguez (171)
FIFA code	ESP
home	Away
Balance sheet
	400 games ; 330 wins ; 38 draws ; 32 losses
statistics
	First international match Spain 4-2 Italy ( Leiden , Netherlands ; April 2, 1982) ; ;
	Biggest win Spain 17-1 Armenia ( Ljubljana , Slovenia ; February 14, 2000) ; ;
	Biggest defeat Spain 3-9 Brazil ( Arapoti , Brazil ; October 2, 1991) ; ;
Successes in tournaments
	World Championship
Participation in the finals	8 ( first : 1989 )
Best results	World Champion ( 2000 , 2004 )
	European Championship
Participation in the finals	11 ( first : 1996 )
Best results	European Champion ; ( 1996 , 2001 , 2005 , 2007 , 2010 , 2012 , 2016 )
	(As of February 13, 2016)

The Spanish national futsal team ( Spanish : Selección española de fútbol sala ) is a representative selection of Spanish futsal players . The team represents the Spanish Football Association at international matches. With a total of seven victories at the European Futsal Championships , the team is the most successful on the continent. So far, two titles have been celebrated at world championships , in 2000 and 2004 .

Performing in tournaments

Spain took in 1989 at the first under the auspices of FIFA discharged Futsal World Cup in part, but surprisingly resigned already in the preliminary round of after could only reach third place behind Brazil and Hungary in the group stage. In the same year, a separate professional league, the División de Honor de Fútbol Sala , was launched in Spain for the first time , which initiated an upswing in young sport in the country. At the second edition of the FIFA World Cup in 1992 , they only failed in the semi-finals against eventual tournament winners Brazil and reached third place. Four years later at the World Cup in their own country they reached the final. The Spaniards' breakthrough at world championships finally came in 2000 in Guatemala , where they defeated three-time world champions Brazil 4: 3 in the final. Four years later in Taiwan the title was defended with a 2-1 win in the final against Italy . At the Futsal World Cup in 2008, the world champion failed only in the World Cup final against the host team from Brazil and at the World Cup in Thailand in 2012 they failed again in the final four years ago against Brazil with 3-2 after extra time.

Of the ten futsal European championships officially recognized by UEFA , Spain has so far won seven. In 1996 they beat Russia 5-3 in the final in their own country . Three years later, the Russians, also in Spain, took revenge in the 6-meter shooting. After another title in 2001 , they were eliminated in 2003 in the semi-finals against hosts Italy. In 2005 , 2007 , 2010 and 2012 , four more European championship titles followed with final victories against Russia , Italy and Portugal . After finishing third in 2014 , Spain achieved their seventh triumph at the 2016 European Championship with a 7-3 win in the final against Russia.

Futsal World Cup

1989 - preliminary round
1992 - 3rd place
1996 - 2nd place
2000 - world champion
2004 - world champion
2008 - 2nd place
2012 - 2nd place
2016 - quarter-finals

European Futsal Championship

1996 - European champion
1999 - 2nd place
2001 - European champion
2003 - semi-finals
2005 - European Champion
2007 - European Champion
2010 - European Champion
2012 - European Champion
2014 - 3rd place
2016 - European Champion
2018 - 2nd place

Web links

List of all games on futsalplanet.com
Official website of the Spanish national football teams (English, Spanish)
Official website of the Spanish Federation (Spanish)