2016–17 UEFA Futsal Cup

2016–17 UEFA Futsal Cup

Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying rounds: 16 August – 27 November 2016 Final tournament: 28–30 April 2017
Teams	Final tournament: 4 Total: 52 (from 51 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Inter FS (4th title)
Runners-up	Sporting CP
Third place	Kairat Almaty
Fourth place	Gazprom-Ugra Yugorsk
Tournament statistics
Matches played	112
Goals scored	817 (7.29 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Season total: Bolinha Alen Fetić Nenê Rami Tirkkonen Denis Totošković (9 goals each) Final tournament: Ricardinho (4 goals)[1]

The 2016–17 UEFA Futsal Cup was the 31st edition of Europe's premier club futsal tournament. This was the 16th edition under the current UEFA Futsal Cup format organized by UEFA.

In the final, Inter FS defeated Sporting CP to win their fourth title. Kairat Almaty defeated Ugra Yugorsk, who were the defending champions, to finish third.

Teams

A total of 52 teams from 51 of the 55 UEFA member associations entered the tournament, which was a record number of entries and included first-time entrants from Kosovo and San Marino.^[2] Each association could enter one team, the winners of their regular top domestic futsal league (or in special circumstances, the runners-up). Moreover, the winners of the 2015–16 UEFA Futsal Cup qualified automatically as title holders, and thus their association could enter a second team.^[3]

Teams were ranked according to their UEFA coefficients, computed based on results of the last three seasons, to decide on the round they entered. The top four teams (with the title holders being the automatic top seed) entered the elite round, the next 16 teams (ranked 5–20) entered the main round, and the bottom 32 teams (ranked 21–52) entered the preliminary round.

For teams entering the preliminary round or main round, they were assigned a seeding position according to their ranking for the respective draw, with eight teams pre-selected as hosts for the preliminary round and six teams pre-selected as hosts for the main round (marked by (H) below).^[4]

Rank	Association	Team	Qualified through	Coeff	Seed
Elite round
1	Russia	Ugra Yugorsk (Title holders)	2015–16 UEFA Futsal Cup	34.000	—
2	Kazakhstan	Kairat Almaty	2015–16 Kazakhstani Futsal Championship	50.333
3	Spain	Inter FS	2015–16 Primera División de Futsal	43.500
4	Russia	Dinamo Moskva	2015–16 Russian Futsal Super League	33.000
Main round
5	Portugal	Sporting CP	2015–16 Liga Portuguesa de Futsal	26.166	1
6	Azerbaijan	Araz Naxçivan	2015–16 Azerbaijan Futsal Premier League	20.501
7	Serbia	Ekonomac (H)	2015–16 Serbian Prva Futsal Liga	20.000
8	Czech Republic	EP Chrudim (H)	2015–16 Czech Futsal First League	19.001
9	Hungary	ETO Győr	2015–16 Futsal Nemzeti Bajnokság I	14.168
10	Latvia	Nikars Riga	2015–16 Latvian Futsal Premier League	12.500
11	Belarus	LSM Lida	2015–16 Belarusian Futsal Premier League	10.833	2
12	Macedonia	Železarec Skopje (H)	2015–16 Macedonian Futsal First League	9.501
13	Belgium	Halle-Gooik	2015–16 Belgian Futsal Division 1	9.000
14	Bulgaria	Grand Pro Varna (H)	2015–16 Bulgarian Premiere Futsal League	8.625
15	France	Kremlin-Bicêtre United	2015–16 Championnat de France de Futsal	8.500
16	Romania	City'US Târgu Mureș	2015–16 Futsal Liga I	6.834
17	Ukraine	Energia Lviv (H)	2015–16 Extra-Liga	6.834	3
18	Slovakia	Pinerola Bratislava	2015–16 Slovak Futsal Extraliga	6.500
19	Italy	Real Rieti (H)	2015–16 Futsal Serie A	6.334
20	Croatia	Nacional Zagreb	2015–16 Croatian Prva HMNL	5.501
Preliminary round
21	Cyprus	APOEL Nicosia	2015–16 Cypriot Futsal First Division	5.000	1
22	Greece	Athina 90	2015–16 Hellenic Futsal Premiere League	4.500
23	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Centar Sarajevo	2015–16 Premier Futsal League of Bosnia and Herzegovina	4.167
24	England	Oxford City Lions	2015–16 FA National Futsal League	3.834
25	Finland	Sievi Futsal (H)	2015–16 Futsal-Liiga	3.001
26	Germany	Hamburg Panthers	2015–16 DFB Futsal Cup	2.750
27	Netherlands	Amsterdam SV	2015–16 Topdivisie	2.667
28	Slovenia	Brezje Maribor (H)	2015–16 Slovenian Futsal League	2.500
29	Georgia	Tbilisi State University	2015–16 Georgian Futsal League	1.834	2
30	Sweden	IFK Göteborg	2015–16 Swedish Futsal League	1.584
31	Denmark	JB Futsal Gentofte	2015–16 Danish Futsal Championship	1.250
32	Poland	Zduńska Wola	2015–16 Futsal Ekstraklasa	1.167
33	Republic of Ireland	Blue Magic FC Dublin	2015–16 Irish Futsal National League	1.083
34	Norway	Sandefjord	2015–16 NFF Futsal Eliteserie	1.083
35	Turkey	Istanbul Üniversitesi SK	2015–16 Turkish Futsal League	0.999
36	Andorra	FC Encamp (H)	2015–16 Futsal Primera Divisió	0.999
37	Moldova	Classic Chișinău (H)	2015–16 Moldovan Futsal National Division	0.875	3
38	Gibraltar	Lynx FC	2015–16 Gibraltarian Futsal League	0.834
39	Albania	KF Tirana	2015–16 Albanian Futsal Premier League	0.750
40	Malta	Valletta FC	2015–16 Maltese Futsal Premier Division	0.750
41	Montenegro	Military Futsal Team (H)	2015–16 Montenegrin Futsal First League	0.584
42	Austria	SC Kaiserebersdorf (H)	2015–16 Austrian Futsal Liga	0.584
43	Israel	ASA Tel Aviv	2015–16 Israeli Futsal League	0.500
44	Armenia	ASUE Yerevan (H)	2015–16 Armenian Futsal Premier League	0.334
45	Switzerland	AFM Futsal Maniacs	2015–16 Swiss Futsal Championship	0.334	4
46	Estonia	FC Cosmos	2015–16 Saalijalgpalli Meistriliiga	0.250
47	Lithuania	FC Baltija (H)	2015–16 Lithuanian Futsal Championship	0.167
48	Wales	Cardiff University Futsal Club	2015–16 Wales Futsal League	0.000
49	Scotland	Wattcell Futsal Club	2015–16 Scottish Futsal League	0.000
50	Luxembourg	FC Munsbach	2015–16 Luxembourg Futsal League	0.000
51	Kosovo	FC Feniks	2015–16 Kosovo Futsal League	0.000
52	San Marino	Tre Fiori	2015–16 Campionato Sammarinese di Futsal	0.000

Did not enter

Faroe Islands

Iceland

Liechtenstein

Northern Ireland

The draws for the preliminary round and main round were held on 7 July 2016, 14:00 CEST (UTC+2), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[5][6] The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:^[4]

• In the preliminary round, the 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four containing one team from each of the seeding positions 1–4. First, the eight teams which were pre-selected as hosts were drawn from their own designated pot and allocated to their respective group as per their seeding positions. Next, the remaining 24 teams were drawn from their respective pot which were allocated according to their seeding positions.
• In the main round, the 24 teams were drawn into six groups of four, either containing one team from each of the seeding positions 1–3 and one group winner from the preliminary round, or containing one team from each of the seeding positions 1–2 and two group winners from the preliminary round. First, the six teams which were pre-selected as hosts were drawn from their own designated pot and allocated to their respective group as per their seeding positions. Next, the remaining 18 teams (including the eight preliminary round winners, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw) were drawn from their respective pot which were allocated according to their seeding positions.

Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, teams from Azerbaijan/Armenia, Kosovo/Serbia, and Kosovo/Bosnia and Herzegovina would not be drawn into the same group. Should any of the above teams win their preliminary round group and qualify for a main round group with a team they cannot play against, they would be swapped with the next available team in their seeding position following the alphabetical order of the groups.^[4]

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).^[7]

Round	Draw	Dates
Preliminary round	7 July 2016	16–21 August 2016
Main round		11–16 October 2016
Elite round	21 October 2016	22–27 November 2016
Final tournament	4 March 2017 (Almaty)	Semi-finals: 28 April 2017 Third place match & Final: 30 April 2017

Format

In the preliminary round, main round and elite round, each group is played as a round-robin mini-tournament at the pre-selected hosts.

In the final tournament, the four qualified teams play in knockout format (semi-finals, third place match, and final), either at a host selected by UEFA from one of the teams, or at a neutral venue.

Tiebreakers

In the preliminary round, main round and elite round, the teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of a mini-tournament, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):^[3]

1. Higher number of points obtained in the mini-tournament matches played among the teams in question;
2. Superior goal difference resulting from the mini-tournament matches played among the teams in question;
3. Higher number of goals scored in the mini-tournament matches played among the teams in question;
4. If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 are reapplied exclusively to the mini-tournament matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 10 apply;
5. Superior goal difference in all mini-tournament matches;
6. Higher number of goals scored in all mini-tournament matches;
7. If only two teams have the same number of points, and they are tied according to criteria 1 to 6 after having met in the last round of the mini-tournament, their rankings are determined by a penalty shoot-out (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings are not relevant for qualification for the next stage).
8. Lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received in the mini-tournament matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
9. Coefficient ranking;
10. Drawing of lots.

Preliminary round

The eight group winners advanced to the main round to join the 16 teams which received byes to the main round.

All times were CEST (UTC+2).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	APOEL Nicosia	3	2	1	0	20	17	+3	7	Main round
2	JB Futsal Gentofte	3	2	0	1	17	10	+7	6
3	ASUE Yerevan (H)	3	1	1	1	14	15	−1	4
4	AFM Futsal Maniacs	3	0	0	3	11	20	−9	0

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Athina 90	3	3	0	0	14	10	+4	9	Main round
2	Military Futsal Team (H)	3	2	0	1	14	8	+6	6
3	Blue Magic FC Dublin	3	0	1	2	6	10	−4	1
4	Tre Fiori	3	0	1	2	5	11	−6	1

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Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hamburg Panthers	3	2	1	0	12	6	+6	7	Main round
2	Classic Chișinău (H)	3	1	1	1	5	6	−1	4
3	Sandefjord	3	0	3	0	8	8	0	3
4	Cardiff University Futsal Club	3	0	1	2	6	11	−5	1

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Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Centar Sarajevo	3	3	0	0	22	7	+15	9	Main round
2	FC Baltija (H)	3	2	0	1	11	9	+2	6
3	Istanbul Üniversitesi SK	3	1	0	2	14	19	−5	3
4	Lynx FC	3	0	0	3	9	21	−12	0

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Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	IFK Göteborg	3	3	0	0	7	4	+3	9	Main round
2	Amsterdam SV	3	2	0	1	18	9	+9	6
3	SC Kaiserebersdorf (H)	3	1	0	2	8	9	−1	3
4	FC Cosmos	3	0	0	3	5	16	−11	0

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Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tbilisi State University	3	3	0	0	23	8	+15	9	Main round
2	Sievi Futsal (H)	3	2	0	1	24	11	+13	6
3	Valletta FC	3	1	0	2	12	16	−4	3
4	Wattcell Futsal Club	3	0	0	3	10	34	−24	0

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Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brezje Maribor (H)	3	3	0	0	24	8	+16	9	Main round
2	Zduńska Wola	3	2	0	1	22	13	+9	6
3	FC Munsbach	3	1	0	2	11	25	−14	3
4	KF Tirana	3	0	0	3	6	17	−11	0

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Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FC Feniks	3	3	0	0	21	2	+19	9	Main round
2	Oxford City Lions	3	2	0	1	13	5	+8	6
3	ASA Tel Aviv	3	1	0	2	2	12	−10	3
4	FC Encamp (H)	3	0	0	3	3	20	−17	0

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Main round

The six group winners and the six group runners-up advanced to the elite round to join the four teams which received byes to the elite round.

All times were CEST (UTC+2).

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	ETO Győr	3	3	0	0	17	5	+12	9	Elite round
2	Brezje Maribor	3	1	0	2	7	8	−1	3
3	Energia Lviv (H)	3	1	0	2	8	10	−2	3
4	Kremlin-Bicêtre United	3	1	0	2	6	15	−9	3

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Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Araz Naxçivan	3	3	0	0	23	5	+18	9	Elite round
2	FC Feniks	3	2	0	1	12	4	+8	6
3	Tbilisi State University	3	1	0	2	14	14	0	3
4	Železarec Skopje (H)	3	0	0	3	4	30	−26	0

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Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Nikars Riga	3	3	0	0	12	4	+8	9	Elite round
2	Hamburg Panthers	3	2	0	1	10	12	−2	6
3	IFK Göteborg	3	1	0	2	11	14	−3	3
4	Grand Pro Varna (H)	3	0	0	3	10	13	−3	0

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Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ekonomac (H)	3	3	0	0	11	3	+8	9	Elite round
2	Nacional Zagreb	3	2	0	1	8	5	+3	6
3	LSM Lida	3	1	0	2	3	3	0	3
4	Athina 90	3	0	0	3	3	14	−11	0

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Group 5

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sporting CP	3	3	0	0	16	2	+14	9	Elite round
2	Real Rieti (H)	3	1	1	1	9	9	0	4
3	Halle-Gooik	3	1	1	1	7	10	−3	4
4	Centar Sarajevo	3	0	0	3	7	18	−11	0

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Group 6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	EP Chrudim (H)	3	3	0	0	14	1	+13	9	Elite round
2	City'US Târgu Mureș	3	1	1	1	11	9	+2	4
3	APOEL Nicosia	3	1	1	1	9	15	−6	4
4	Pinerola Bratislava	3	0	0	3	9	18	−9	0

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Elite round

The draw for the elite round was held on 21 October 2016, 13:30 CEST (UTC+2), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[8][9][10] The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four, containing one team which received byes to the elite round, and either two group winners and one group runner-up from the main round, or one group winner and two group runners-up from the main round. First, the four teams which were pre-selected as hosts (marked by (H) below) were drawn from their own designated pot and allocated to their respective group as per their seeding positions. Next, the remaining 12 teams were drawn from their respective pot which were allocated according to their seeding positions. Teams from the same main round group could not be drawn in the same group. Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, FC Feniks (Kosovo) and Ekonomac (Serbia) could not have been drawn into the same group.

Bye to elite round Team Ugra Yugorsk Kairat Almaty (H) Inter FS Dinamo Moskva

Advanced from main round Group Winners Runners-up 1 ETO Győr Brezje Maribor (H) 2 Araz Naxçivan FC Feniks 3 Nikars Riga Hamburg Panthers 4 Ekonomac Nacional Zagreb (H) 5 Sporting CP (H) Real Rieti 6 EP Chrudim City'US Târgu Mureș

The four group winners advanced to the final tournament.

All times were CET (UTC+1).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kairat Almaty (H)	3	3	0	0	13	3	+10	9	Final tournament
2	Real Rieti	3	2	0	1	15	6	+9	6
3	Nikars Riga	3	1	0	2	5	14	−9	3
4	FC Feniks	3	0	0	3	6	16	−10	0

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ugra Yugorsk	3	3	0	0	13	1	+12	9	Final tournament
2	Nacional Zagreb (H)	3	2	0	1	14	7	+7	6
3	Araz Naxçivan	3	1	0	2	6	7	−1	3
4	Hamburg Panthers	3	0	0	3	2	20	−18	0

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Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Inter FS	3	3	0	0	13	2	+11	9	Final tournament
2	EP Chrudim	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	3
3	Brezje Maribor (H)	3	1	0	2	8	9	−1	3
4	Ekonomac	3	1	0	2	4	14	−10	3

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Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sporting CP (H)	3	2	1	0	23	5	+18	7	Final tournament
2	Dinamo Moskva	3	2	1	0	19	5	+14	7
3	ETO Győr	3	1	0	2	7	9	−2	3
4	City'US Târgu Mureș	3	0	0	3	2	32	−30	0

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Final tournament

The hosts of the final tournament was selected by UEFA from the four qualified teams,^[11] with UEFA announcing on 9 December 2016 that it would be hosted by Kairat Almaty at the Almaty Arena, in Almaty, Kazakhstan.^[12]

The draw for the final tournament was held on 4 March 2017, 15:45 ALMT (UTC+6), at the Almaty Central Stadium in Almaty, during half-time of the 2017 Kazakhstan Super Cup.^[13][14] The four teams were drawn into two semi-finals without any restrictions.

In the final tournament, extra time and penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner if necessary; however, no extra time would be used in the third place match.^[3]

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	28 April
	Ugra Yugorsk	1
					30 April
	Sporting CP	2
					Sporting CP	0
	28 April
					Inter FS	7
	Inter FS	3
	Kairat Almaty	2
					Third place match
					30 April
					Ugra Yugorsk	5 (2)
					Kairat Almaty (p)	5 (3)

All times are CEST (UTC+2); local times, ALMT (UTC+6), are in parentheses.^[15]

Semi-finals

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Third place match

Final

Top goalscorers

— Team eliminated / inactive for this stage.

Rank	Player	Team	PR	MR	ER	FT	Total
1	Bolinha	Araz Naxçivan	—	8	1	—	9
	Alen Fetić	Brezje Maribor	4	2	3	—
	Nenê	APOEL Nicosia	8	1	—	—
	Rami Tirkkonen	Sievi Futsal	9	—	—	—
	Denis Totošković	Brezje Maribor	5	3	1	—
6	Diogo	Sporting CP	—	3	5	0	8
	Divanei	Kairat Almaty	—	—	7	1
	Archil Sebiskveradze	Tbilisi State University	4	4	—	—

Source: UEFA.com^[16][17]

References

External links

• 2016–17 UEFA Futsal Cup
• European league standings