Futsal entering an sparkling era

National group futsal in Europe moves into an sparkling new epoch from this year. While a tip men’s competitions are being stretched and revamped, women and girl players will shortly be fasten a foe for general glory.

Futsal is elaborating rapidly – and as partial of UEFA’s vital formulation for a growth of a game, a UEFA Executive Committee took a array of decisions in Helsinki final Apr that will extremely reshape a European futsal landscape as distant as a continent’s inhabitant group competitions are concerned.

The UEFA Futsal EURO finals now holding place in Slovenia will be a final book of a foe staged underneath a benefaction format. From a subsequent edition, a final foe will be played each 4 years, with 16 teams holding partial instead of 12, as is a box during a moment. This will start in 2022, and a final foe format is now being discussed within UEFA.

The new format will urge a competition’s structure, generally for a qualifiers, since there will no longer be a strife with a FIFA Futsal World Cup competition, as has been a box each 4 years. The subordinate debate is approaching to flog off after a FIFA Futsal World Cup in 2020.

Alongside a refurbishment of a comparison men’s European championship, dual new competitions will be launched this year – a UEFA Women’s Futsal EURO and a UEFA European Under-19 Futsal Championship.

The initial women’s comparison inhabitant group futsal foe will start in a 2018/19 season, and will be played each dual years. The subordinate turn will engage a mini-tournament format, and a 4 winners will foe a finals.

The Women’s Futsal EURO subordinate turn is scheduled to start in August, while a ‘final four’ will start on 14 Feb 2019.

In addition, girl futsal players are to be given a possibility to contest for European honours during inhabitant group turn with a initial book of a UEFA European Under-19 Futsal Championship, that will be launched in a arriving 2018/19 campaign.

The foe will be played each dual years. The subordinate proviso will take a form of mini-tournaments, and will be followed by a seven-day final foe featuring dual groups of 4 teams, semi-finals and a final. Preliminary-round subordinate matches are scheduled for late Jan 2019, with a categorical subordinate turn being hold in March. The final foe will take place in Sep 2019.

Alongside futsal’s inhabitant group competitions, changes are also being done during bar level. From 2018/19, a UEFA Futsal Cup will be renamed a UEFA Futsal Champions League, to align it with a dual existent and rarely prestigious men’s and women’s football competitions, a UEFA Champions League and UEFA Women’s Champions League.

Futsal is booming, and is a new fortify during a Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires this entrance October. Meanwhile, a changes that are stirring in Europe positively meant that sparkling times are beckoning for this increasingly renouned indoor game.

 

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