2022–23 UEFA Futsal Champions League

2022–23 UEFA Futsal Champions League
	The Palma Arena in Palma de Mallorca hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying rounds:; 24 August 2022 – 26 November 2022; Final tournament:; 5 – 7 May 2023
Teams	Final tournament: 4; Total: 56 (from 52 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Palma Futsal (1st title)
Runners-up	Sporting CP
Third place	Benfica
Fourth place	Anderlecht
Tournament statistics
Matches played	124
Goals scored	878 (7.08 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Season total:; Vinicius Lazzaretti (11 goals); Final tournament:; Ivan Chishkala (3 goals)
	← 2021–22 2023–24 →

The 2022–23 UEFA Futsal Champions League was the 37th edition of Europe's premier club futsal tournament, and the 22nd edition organized by UEFA. It was also the fifth edition since the tournament was rebranded from "UEFA Futsal Cup" to UEFA Futsal Champions League. The final tournament took place at the Palma Arena in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on 5–7 May 2023.

Debutants Palma Futsal defeated Sporting CP on penalties in the final to claim their first title in the competition and became the fifth club to win the title in their debut appearance. Benfica took bronze after beating Anderlecht, the first Belgian side to reach the last four since 2007. Barcelona were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the elite round.

Association team allocation

A total of 56 teams from 52 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated in the 2022–23 UEFA Futsal Champions League. The association ranking based on the UEFA futsal national team coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:

The top three-ranked associations have two teams qualify.
The winners of the 2021–22 UEFA Futsal Champions League qualify automatically and its association can also enter a second team. If the title-holders' association is among the top three-ranked associations, the 4th ranked association is also entitled to enter a second team.
The remaining associations have one team qualify.

For this season, the top three-ranked associations are Portugal, Russia, and Spain. As the title holders are from Spain, the 4th ranked association, Kazakhstan, can enter two teams. After UEFA's decision to exclude Russian clubs from the 2022–23 UEFA competitions due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine,^[1] the right to enter a second team passed to the 5th ranked association, Croatia.^[2]

Association ranking

The UEFA futsal national team coefficients at the end of April 2022, used to determine the number of teams each association was entitled to enter, was as follows.^[3]

Association ranking for 2022–23 UEFA Champions League

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams
1	Portugal	2693.758	2
2	Russia	2547.159	0^[1]
3	Spain(TH)	2488.909	2
4	Kazakhstan	2367.187
5	Croatia	2051.042
6	Serbia	2050.143	1
7	Azerbaijan	2015.589
8	Ukraine	2009.816
9	Italy	1934.516
10	Czech Republic	1887.535
11	Georgia	1871.616
12	Finland	1854.372
13	Slovakia	1847.970
14	Slovenia	1841.333
15	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1837.207
16	Poland	1781.027
17	Romania	1738.151
18	Netherlands	1686.516
19	Belarus	1646.403

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams
20	Hungary	1637.232	1
21	France	1615.979
22	Belgium	1607.692
23	Latvia	1464.140
24	North Macedonia	1449.976
25	Moldova	1419.922
26	Montenegro	1321.596
27	Albania	1299.617
28	Kosovo	1264.428
29	Turkey	1257.736
30	Norway	1255.233
31	Denmark	1236.240
32	Sweden	1235.426
33	Armenia	1217.145
34	England	1204.183
35	Germany	1188.549
36	Greece	1155.396
37	Israel	1142.105

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams
38	Switzerland	1098.903	1
39	Cyprus	1085.011
40	Bulgaria	1063.645
41	Wales	1011.432
42	Lithuania	910.904
43	Andorra	910.044
44	San Marino	853.043
45	Estonia	849.940
46	Malta	837.308
47	Scotland	816.083
48	Gibraltar	780.661
49	Austria	728.018
50	Northern Ireland	724.015
NR	Iceland	—
	Luxembourg	—
	Republic of Ireland	—
	Faroe Islands	—	DNE
	Liechtenstein	—	DNE

Notes

TH – Additional berth for title holders
NR – No rank (association national team had been inactive on the previous 36 months)
DNE – Did not enter

Distribution

For the 2022–23 UEFA Futsal Champions League, the clubs' entry round was determined by their UEFA futsal club coefficients, which took into account their performance from the previous three seasons.^[2]

Access list for 2022–23 UEFA Futsal Champions League
		Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
Preliminary round (32 teams)		32 teams ranked 24–55
Main round	Path A (16 teams)	Title holders 15 teams ranked 1–11 and 16–19
Main round	Path B (16 teams)	8 teams ranked 12–15 and 20–23	8 group winners from preliminary round
Elite round (16 teams)			4 group winners from main round path A 4 group runners-up from main round path A 4 group third-placed team from main round path A 4 group winners from main round path B
Final tournament (4 teams)			4 group winners from elite round

Teams

Below are the participating teams of the 2022–23 UEFA Futsal Champions League (with their ranking among participating teams), grouped by their starting round and path for the main round.^[4]

Main round Path A
Team	Rank
FC Barcelona	TH
Sporting CP	1
Benfica	2
Palma Futsal	3
Kairat	4
Dobovec	5
Prodexim Kherson	6
Ayat	7
Novo Vrijeme	8
Anderlecht	9
Hovocubo	10
Haladás	11
United Galați	16
Luxol St Andrews	17
Futsal Pula	18
Sporting Paris	19

Main round Path B
Team	Rank
FK Chrudim	12
Kauno Žalgiris	13
Stalitsa Minsk	14
Mostar SG	15
Liqeni	20
Shkupi	21
Araz Naxçivan	22
Feldi Eboli ^{[Note ITA]}	23

Preliminary round
Team	Rank
Kampuksen Dynamo	24
Georgians Tbilisi	25
Futsal Minerva	26
Futsal Gentofte	27
MIMEL Lučenec	28
Piast Gliwice	29
Differdange 03	30
Yerevan FC	31
Doukas	32
Stuttgarter FC	33
London Helvécia	34
KMF Loznica-Grad	35
Fortuna Wiener Neustadt	36
KMF Titograd	37
Blue Magic Dublin	38
APOEL Futsal	39
Örebro SK	40
Cosmos Tallinn	41
Nistru Chișinău	42
Petrow	43
FK Tirana	44
PYF Saltires	45
FC Encamp	46
Vesterålen Futsal	47
Istanbul Şişli	48
FC Cardiff	49
ASA Technion Haifa	50
Amigo Northwest	51
Europa FC	52
Folgore	53
Belfast United	54
Ísbjörninn	55

^
The 2021–22 Serie A champions, Italservice Pesaro, withdrew from the tournament. Therefore, the runners-up Feldi Eboli were selected to be the Italian representatives.^[5]

Format

The tournament has a mini-tournament format consisting of three qualifying rounds and the final tournament. The qualifying rounds consisted of the following stages:^[2]^[6]

Preliminary round: 32 teams entering this round were divided into eight groups of four teams with the group winners advancing to the next round.
Main round:
- Path A: 16 teams entering this round were divided into four groups of four teams, with the group winners, runners-up, and third-placed teams advancing to the next round.
- Path B: 8 teams that entered in this round and the 8 teams advancing from the preliminary round were divided into four groups of four teams, with the group winners advancing to the next round.
Elite round: 16 teams advancing from the main round were divided into four groups of four teams, with the group winners qualifying for the final tournament.

In each group, teams played against each other in a single round-robin format hosted by one of the participating teams.

The final tournament is played at a centralized location and consisted of single-legged semi-finals, a third-place play-off, and final. If scores were level at the end of normal time, extra time was played, followed by a penalty shoot-out if the scores remained tied.

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams were tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (see Article 14 Equality of points – mini-tournaments, Regulations of the UEFA Futsal Champions League):^[6]

Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Disciplinary points (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point);
UEFA futsal club coefficients.

If two teams that have the same number of points and have scored and conceded the same number of goals play their last mini-tournament match against each other and are still equal at the end of that match, their final rankings are determined by a penalty shoot-out provided that no other teams within the group have the same number of points on completion of the mini-tournament. This procedure is only necessary if a ranking of the teams is required to determine the team which qualifies for the next stage.

Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows.^[2]

Schedule for 2022–23 UEFA Futsal Champions League
Phase	Round	Draw	Dates
Qualifying stage	Preliminary round	7 July 2022	24–28 August 2022
	Main round	7 July 2022	25–30 October 2022
	Elite round	3 November 2022	22–26 November 2022
Final tournament	Semi-finals	5 April 2023	5 May 2023
Final tournament	Third-place play-off & final	5 April 2023	7 May 2023

Preliminary round

The draw for the preliminary round was held on 7 July 2022, 14:30 CEST.^[7] The preliminary round was played from 24 to 28 August 2022. The winners of each group advanced to the main round Path B.

Times are CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Seeding

A total of 32 teams played in the preliminary round. Seeding of teams was based on their 2022 UEFA futsal club coefficients. Eight teams were pre-selected as hosts and were first drawn from a separate pot to their corresponding seeding position. The remaining teams were then drawn from their respective pots to their corresponding seeding position.

Seeding position 1	Seeding position 2	Seeding position 3	Seeding position 4
Kampuksen Dynamo Georgians Tbilisi Futsal Minerva (H) JB Futsal Gentofte Lučenec Piast Gliwice Differdange 03 Yerevan FC (H)	Doukas (H) Stuttgarter FC London Helvécia Loznica-Grad Fortuna Wr. Neustadt (H) KMF Titograd (H) Blue Magic Dublin APOEL	Örebro SK Cosmos Tallinn (H) Nistru Chișinău Petrow FK Tirana (H) PYF Saltires Encamp Vesterålen Futsal	Istanbul Şişli (H) FC Cardiff Technion Haifa Amigo Northwest Europa Folgore Belfast United Ísbjörninn

Notes

H – Mini-tournament hosts

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kampuksen Dynamo	3	3	0	30	3	+27	9	Advance to main round
2	KMF Titograd (H)	3	2	1	14	4	+10	6
3	FC Encamp	3	1	2	7	16	−9	3
4	Ísbjörninn	3	0	3	3	31	−28	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

24 August 2022