2007 UEFA Futsal Championship

The 2007 UEFA Futsal Championship was the fifth official edition of the UEFA-governed European Championship for national futsal teams. It was held in Portugal, between November 16 and November 25, 2007, in two venues located in Porto's Greater Metropolitan Area — Gondomar, Portugal and Santo Tirso Municipality. Eight teams competed in the final round, after a qualifying phase where seven teams managed to join the Portuguese hosts.

2007 UEFA Futsal Championship
Campeonato Europeu de Futsal de 2007
UEFA Futsal Championship Portugal 2007 logo
Tournament details
Host country Portugal
Dates16 November – 25 November
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Spain (4th title)
Runners-up Italy
Third place Russia
Fourth place Portugal
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored83 (5.19 per match)
Attendance33,579 (2,099 per match)
Top scorer(s) Daniel (5 goals)
Predrag Rajić (5 goals)
Cirilo (5 goals)
Best player(s) Ricardinho

Spain, the 2000 FIFA Futsal World Championship and 2004 FIFA Futsal World Championship winners, successfully defended their European crown and added a fourth continental title to their record, by defeating Italy 3-1, in a reprise of the last FIFA Futsal World Championship final.

Bids

The Portuguese bid was selected during a meeting of UEFA's Executive Committee, on April 19, 2005, in Tallinn, Estonia. The bid was picked ahead of two other entries from the Netherlands (Eindhoven and Maastricht) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo), which had been previously shortlisted from nine preliminary bids.[1]

Venues

The bid's proposed main venue was to be the 4,500-seated Rosa Mota Pavilion, in the heart of Porto, and a second venue would be located in the neighbouring Matosinhos municipality. However, on August 14, 2006 the tournament's main venue was switched to the future 3,800-seated arena in the Gondomar municipality — the Pavilhão Multiusos de Gondomar "Coração de Ouro" (English: Gondomar's Multi-Purpose Pavilion "Heart of Gold".[2] The second venue was also changed to Santo Tirso's Pavilhão Desportivo Municipal (English: Municipal Sports Pavilion).

  • Pavilhão Multiusos de Gondomar "Coração de Ouro"
  • Pavilhão Municipal de Santo Tirso

Referees

Final tournament

Group A
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Italy 3210111+107
 Portugal 321083+57
 Romania 3102914−53
 Czech Republic 3003717−100
Portugal 0 – 0 Italy
Report
Multiusos Gondomar, Porto
Attendance: 3,300
Referee: Károly Török (Hungary)
Czech Republic 4 – 8 Romania
G. Dobre  15' (o.g.)
T. Sluka  18'
L. Rešetár  27'
M. Mareš  30'		 Report R. F. Matei  12'  37'  40' (pen.)
C. Gherman  17'
R. Lupu  23'  35'
G. Molomfalean  24'
Lo. Szöcs  32'
Multiusos Gondomar, Porto
Attendance: 1,800
Referee: Oleg Ivanov (Ukraine)
Italy 7 – 1 Romania
C. Morgado  2'  21'  23'
S. Assis  6'
A. Foglia  10'  19'
F. Grana  26'		 Report C. Gherman  14'
Multiusos Gondomar, Porto
Attendance: 1,988
Referee: Roberto Gracia Marin (Spain)
Portugal 5 – 3 Czech Republic
Ricardinho  7'
Gonçalo  15'
Arnaldo  20'
Marcelinho  28'
Formiga  36'		 Report R. Mareš  1'  12'
D. Frič  9'
Multiusos Gondomar, Porto
Attendance: 3,648
Referee: Ivan Shabanov (Russia)
Romania 0 – 3 Portugal
Report Ricardinho  1'  25'
Leitão  34'
Multiusos Gondomar, Porto
Attendance: 3,450
Referee: Edi Sunjic (Croatia)
Italy 4 – 0 Czech Republic
S. Zanetti  11'
A. Foglia  23'
A. Fabiano  32'
F. Grana  36'		 Report
Pavilhao Municipal Santo Tirso, Porto
Attendance: 900
Referee: Alexandr Remin (Belarus)

Group B
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Spain 3210114+77
 Russia 3201108+26
 Serbia 311178−14
 Ukraine 3003513−80
Spain 6 – 2 Ukraine
Marcelo  15'  38'
Kike  17'
Álvaro  27'
Jordi Torras  33'
Daniel  35'		 Report S. Cheporniuk  17'  27'
Multiusos Gondomar, Porto
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Antonius Van Eekelen (Netherlands)
Serbia 3 – 5 Russia
P. Rajić  24'  31'
M. Perić  26'		 Report Cirilo  2'  15'  34'
D. Khamadiev  24'
V. Shayakhmetov  37'
Multiusos Gondomar, Porto
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Karel Henych (Czech Republic)
Ukraine 1 – 4 Russia
D. Khamadiev  35' (o.g.) Report O. Khursov  20' (o.g.)
Cirilo  26' (pen.)
V. Shayakhmetov  27'
S. Zuev  36'
Multiusos Gondomar, Porto
Attendance: 748
Referee: Antonio Jose Fernandes Cardoso (Portugal)
Spain 1 – 1 Serbia
Andreu  18' Report P. Rajić  40'
Multiusos Gondomar, Porto
Attendance: 1,100
Referee: Vladimir Colbasiuc (Moldova)
Russia 1 – 4 Spain
K. Maevski  6' Report Andreu  17'
Daniel  20'  38'
Marcelo  23'
Multiusos Gondomar, Porto
Attendance: 1,313
Referee: Massimo Cumbo (Italy)
Ukraine 2 – 3 Serbia
S. Cheporniuk  21'
S. Sytin  24'		 Report P. Rajić  5'  23'
V. Cvetanović  14'
Pavilhao Municipal Santo Tirso, Porto
Attendance: 850
Referee: Pascal Lemal (Belgium)

Semi-finals
Italy 2 – 0 Russia
Grana  3'
A. Fabiano  31'		 Report
Multiusos Gondomar, Porto
Attendance: 1,882
Referee: Roberto Gracia Marin (Spain)
Spain 2 – 2 Portugal
Daniel  36'
Andreu  39'		 Report Gonçalo  31'
Ricardinho  35'
Penalties
Kike
Daniel
Jordi Torras
Ortiz 		4 – 3 Ricardinho
Joel Queirós
Marcelinho
Ivan
Leitão
Multiusos Gondomar, Porto
Attendance: 3,900
Referee: Massimo Cumbo (Italy)

Third place play-off
Russia 3 – 2 Portugal
Cirilo  17'
A. Fukin  18'
V. Shayakhmetov  36'		 Report Gonçalo  15'
Leitão  36'
Multiusos Gondomar, Porto
Attendance: 3,100
Referee: Oleg Ivanov (Ukraine)

Final
Italy 1 – 3 Spain
A. Feller  30' Report Marcelo  9'
Daniel  22'
Javi Rodríguez  27'
Multiusos Gondomar, Porto
Attendance: 3,600
Referee: Antonio Jose Fernandes Cardoso (Portugal)

Champions
 UEFA Futsal Championship 2007 Winners 

Spain
Fourth title

Final ranking
 Spain
 Italy
 Russia
4 Portugal
5 Serbia
6 Romania
7 Ukraine
8 Czech Republic

Top goalscorers
Scorer Goals Nation
Predrag Rajić 5  Serbia
Cirilo 5  Russia
Daniel 5  Spain
Ricardinho 4  Portugal
Marcelo 4  Spain

References
  1. "Porto to stage 2007 finals". UEFA. 2005-04-19. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
  2. "Gondomar given EURO honour". UEFA. 2006-08-14. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
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