#UCLFutsal categorical turn report

The UEFA Futsal Cup has turn a UEFA Futsal Champions League in 2018/19 and a categorical turn runs until Sunday with only one of a 16 chosen turn places nonetheless to be filled.

• Main turn fixtures/results
  
• Preliminary turn results
  
• Competition regulations

Holders Inter and Chrudim both done it through©Andreja Kostadinović

Kairat continue their bid for a third title©Gani Kosumi

Fans in Makarska saw Croatia’s Novo Vrijeme go by on debut©Matko Begović

Main turn groups

Path A

Group 1
1st: Benfica (POR)
2nd: Barça (ESP)
3rd: Halle-Gooik (BEL)

Group 2
1st: Inter FS (ESP, holders)
2nd: EP Chrudim (CZE)
3rd: Ekonomac Kragujevac (SRB)

Group 3
1st: TTG-Ugra Yugorsk (RUS)
2nd: Dobovec (SVN)
3rd: Sibiryak (RUS)

Group 4
1st: Kairat Almaty (KAZ)
2nd: Sporting CP (POR)
3rd: LSM Lida (BLR)

*Berettyóújfalu transposed Győr 

• Top 3 in any organisation swell to a chosen round.
• Record five-time winners Inter are assimilated by former champions Barça, Benfica, Ugra and Kairat (who have now reached a chosen turn in all 13 seasons given a stream format was introduced).
• Sporting have finished runners-up 3 times and mislaid a final dual finals to Inter.
• Sibiryak are by on their debut.

Path B

Group 5
Through: AS Futsal Pescara (ITA)

Group 6
Through: Novo Vrijeme Makarska (CRO)

Group 7 (ends Sunday)
Could still qualify: Record Bielsko-Biała (POL)*, Informatica Timişoara (ROU)*

Group 8
Through: Vytis (LTU)*

*Preliminary turn winners

• Group winners swell to a chosen round.
• Vytis are a initial Lithuanian side to strech a chosen round.
• AS Futsal Pescara and Novo Vrijeme Makarska have done their entrance in this round, with newcomers Informatica TimiÅŸoara carrying make their crawl in a rough stage.

Preliminary turn organisation winners

Group A winners: Mostar SG (BIH)

Group B winners: Kampuksen Dynamo (FIN)

Group C winners: Uddevalla (SWE)

Group D winners: Hohenstein-Ernstthal (GER)

Group E winners: Valletta (MLT)

Group F winners: Vytis (LTU)

Group G winners: Record Bielsko-Biała (POL)

Group H winners: Informatica TimiÅŸoara (ROU)

Group we winners: TMC Tbilisi (GEO)

• Group winners swell to a categorical round
• Kampuksen Dynamo, Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Informatica TimiÅŸoara and TMC Tbilisi all came by on their entrance entries

Elite turn draw: 14 October
Elite round: 13–18 November

• Four groups of 4 will be shaped with a winners surpassing to a knockout finals, hosted by one of a qualifiers

Finals: 25 or 26 27 or 28 April

What is a format?

• The top 3 nations in a UEFA Futsal National Teams fellow rankings have two guaranteed entries in a competition: for 2018/19 that is Spain, Portugal and Russia.

• Kazakhstan (ranked fourth) also have a second entrant for 2018/19 as Spanish champions Inter FS will enter as holders (joined by Barça; no nation can enter 3 teams even if a holders finish outward their inhabitant tip two).

• There are preliminary, categorical and chosen rounds, played as one-venue mini-tournaments heading to a four-team finals, underneath a same format introduced for 2017/18.

• A record sum of 57 clubs entered a new UEFA Futsal Champions League: all will be concerned in a rough and categorical rounds, that were drawn on 5 July.

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Highlights: Inter kick Sporting for fifth title

What are a pivotal dates?

5 July: Preliminary categorical turn draws, Nyon
28 August–2 September: Preliminary round
2–7 October: Main round
12 October (14:00CET, streamed live): Elite turn draw, Nyon
13–18 November: Elite round
Early 2019: Finals draw
25 or 26 April: Semi-finals
27 or 28 April: Final third-place play-off

When did teams enter?

• The lowest-ranked teams in a UEFA Futsal Champions League bar fellow rankings for 2018/19 began in a rough round (depending on a series of entries, this deteriorate 34). The organisation winners (nine this season) progressed to a categorical round.

• No teams accept byes to a chosen round, and all contenders immune a rough turn start in a categorical round.

Main round

• The categorical round, with a sum of 32 clubs, is apart into two apart paths.

• Path A consists of 16 teams including a holders. In addition, the sides ranked 1st to 11th and 16th to 19th in a UEFA Futsal Champions League bar fellow rankings (excluding a holders) go into Path A. They were drawn into four groups of four, with the top three in any advancing to a chosen round.

• Path B comprises a other 16 teams (ranked 12th to 15th and 20th to 22nd, and a 9 rough turn qualifiers for this season). These were drawn into 4 groups of four, with a first-placed sides proceeding to a chosen round.

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2017 final: Inter recover crown

Elite round

• The 16 teams will be drawn into 4 groups, a winners of any surpassing to a knockout finals.

• There will be three seeding pots for a chosen turn draw.

• The four categorical turn Path A winners will be drawn into position one of any group.

• The Path A runners-up will be drawn into position two and will not be means to accommodate a winners of their categorical turn group.

• The other 8 clubs will afterwards be drawn to fill a remaining dual positions in any group (sides that finish third in a Path A organisation can accommodate possibly a winners or a runners-up from that section).

• There will be no nation protection.

Finals

• As before, a foe concludes with a four-team knockout final contest hosted by one of a contenders.

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