#UCLFutsal chosen turn draw: Benfica face Sporting
Sporting CP and Benfica will go conduct to conduct in Lisbon after a UEFA Futsal Champions League chosen turn pull was made.
Elite turn pull (13 to 18 November)
Group A: Inter FS (ESP, holders), Dobovec (SVN), Halle-Gooik (BEL), Vytis (LTU, hosts)
Group B: TTG-Ugra Yugorsk (RUS), Barça (ESP, hosts), Ekonomac Kragujevac (SRB), Record Bielsko-Biała (POL)
Group C: Benfica (POR), Sporting CP (POR, hosts), Sibiryak (RUS), Novo Vrijeme Makarska (CRO)
Group D: Kairat Almaty (KAZ), EP Chrudim (CZE, hosts), LSM Lida (BLR), AS Futsal Pescara (ITA)
- The 4 organisation winners will swell to a knockout finals, with one of those clubs allocated hosts for a eventuality on 25 or 26 and 27 or 28 April.
Draw facts
- Inter are aiming for a record third pretension in a quarrel and sixth overall.
- Former champions Ugra and Barça are matched.
- Barça kick Ekomomac 3-2 in final season’s chosen round.
- 2010 winners Benfica and three-time runners-up Sporting have met in 12 Portuguese play-off finals though never in Europe.
- Sporting CP have reached 3 finals, losing a final dual to Inter.
- Twice champions Kairat have been ever benefaction in all 13 chosen rounds underneath this format; Chrudrim are in their 11th though are nonetheless to strech a finals (and have mislaid to Kairat 4 times in this round).
- Kairat kick Lida 6-0 in a categorical round.
- Kairat and Chrudim’s opponents AS Futsal Pescara are a seventh opposite Italian side to strech a chosen round, one some-more than Ukraine.
- Novo Vrijeme and Sibiryak, in Benfica and Sporting’s group, are a other dual foe debutants remaining.
- Preliminary turn survivors Vytis are a initial Lithuanian group to strech a chosen round, a 32nd opposite republic to be represented.
- Record Bielsko-Biała, who also came by a rough round, have also reached a chosen turn for a initial time.
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