UEFA Futsal Champions League categorical turn groups set
The UEFA Futsal Cup has turn a UEFA Futsal Champions League in 2018/19 and a rough turn is now complete.
- Preliminary turn results
- Competition regulations
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 Timişoara and TMC Tbilisi all came by on their entrance entries
Main turn groups
Path A
Group 1 (3–6 October): Barça (ESP), Benfica (POR), Halle-Gooik (BEL, hosts), Kremlin-Bicêtre United (FRA)
Group 2 (3–6 October): Inter FS (ESP, holders), Ekonomac Kragujevac (SRB, hosts), EP Chrudim (CZE), MFC Kherson (UKR)
Group 3 (3–6 October): TTG-Ugra Yugorsk (RUS), Sibiryak (RUS), Dobovec (SVN, hosts), Berettyóújfalu (HUN)*
Group 4 (3–6 October): Sporting CP (POR), Kairat Almaty (KAZ), LSM Lida (BLR), Feniks (KOS, hosts)
*Berettyóújfalu transposed GyÅ‘rÂ
- 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
- Sporting have finished runners-up 3 times and mislaid a final dual finals to Inter
- Sibiryak are creation their debut
Path B
Group 5 (3–6 October): AS Futsal Pescara (ITA), APOEL (CYP, hosts), Mostar SG (BIH)*, Uddevalla (SWE)*
Group 6 (3–6 October): Aktobe (KAZ), Novo Vrijeme Makarska (CRO, hosts), Kampuksen Dynamo (FIN)*, TMC Tbilisi (GEO)*
Group 7 (tbc October): Nikars Riga (LVA, hosts), Hohenstein-Ernstthal (GER)*, Record Bielsko-Biała (POL)*, Informatica Timişoara (ROU)*
Group 8 (3–6 October): Araz Naxçivan (AZE), LuÄenec (SVK, hosts), Valletta (MLT)*, Vytis (LTU)*
*Preliminary turn winners
- Group winners swell to a chosen round
- AS Futsal Pescara, Aktobe, Novo Vrijeme Makarska and LuÄenec are creation their debut
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 will have two guaranteed entries in a competition: for 2018/19 that is Spain, Portugal and Russia.
• Kazakhstan (ranked fourth) will 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 have entered a new UEFA Futsal Champions League: all will be concerned in a rough and categorical rounds, that were drawn on 5 July.
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 do 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 will start in a categorical round.
Main round
• The categorical round, with a sum of 32 clubs, is apart into two apart paths.
• Path A will include 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) will go into Path A. They are drawn into four groups of four, with the top three in any advancing to a chosen round.
• Path B will contain a other 16 teams (ranked 12th to 15th and 20th to 22nd, and a 9 rough turn qualifiers for this season). These are drawn into 4 groups of four, with a first-placed sides proceeding to a chosen round.
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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