2018–19 UEFA Futsal Champions League

For this season, the associations were allocated places according to the coefficient ranking of their men's senior national teams, calculated based on the following:[4]

• UEFA Futsal Euro 2016 final tournament and qualifying competition
• 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup final tournament and qualifying competition
• UEFA Futsal Euro 2018 final tournament and qualifying competition

Since the winners of the 2017–18 UEFA Futsal Cup, Inter FS, were from the top three-ranked associations, the fourth-ranked association could also enter two teams. As a result, Spain, Portugal, Russia and Kazakhstan entered two teams.[5]

Association ranking for 2018–19 UEFA Futsal Champions League

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 1  Russia 10.171 2 2  Spain 10.022 3  Portugal 9.633 4  Kazakhstan 9.000 5  Ukraine 8.389 1 6  Azerbaijan 7.822 7  Italy 7.444 8  Serbia 6.833 9  Slovenia 6.500 10  Croatia 4.278 11  Hungary 4.111 12  Czech Republic 3.611 13  Romania 3.500 14  Poland 3.389 15  France 2.944 16  Slovakia 2.944 17  Belarus 2.889 18  Netherlands 2.278 19  Bosnia and Herzegovina 2.222

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 20  Belgium 2.111 1 21  Georgia 2.056 22  Macedonia 2.000 23  Finland 1.694 24  Latvia 1.222 25  Turkey 1.222 26  Moldova 0.833 27  England 0.833 28  Albania 0.778 29  Sweden 0.778 30  Montenegro 0.722 31  Denmark 0.722 32  Norway 0.722 33  Kosovo 0.667 34   Switzerland 0.583 35  Bulgaria 0.556 36  Armenia 0.500 37  Greece 0.500

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 38  Germany 0.500 1 39  Wales 0.389 40  Lithuania 0.389 41  Cyprus 0.389 42  Israel 0.278 43  Andorra 0.222 44  Estonia 0.111 45  Malta 0.000 46  Gibraltar 0.000 47  San Marino 0.000 48  Scotland 0.000 NR  Austria 0.000  Iceland  Luxembourg  Northern Ireland  Republic of Ireland  Faroe Islands DNE  Liechtenstein

Notes

• TH – Additional berth for title holders
• NR – No rank (association did not enter in any of the competitions used for computing coefficients)
• DNE – Did not enter

Following expansion of the tournament, the top-ranked teams no longer receive byes to the elite round, and the number of teams in the main round is increased from 24 to 32. Teams are ranked according to their UEFA club coefficients, computed based on results of the last three seasons, to decide on the round they enter:

• The title holders and the teams ranked 1–22 or 23 (depending on the number of entries) enter the main round, divided into Path A and Path B.
  • Path A contains the title holders and the teams ranked 1–11 and 16–19, and the 16 teams are drawn into four groups of four. The top three teams of each group advance to the elite round.
  • Path B contains the teams ranked 12–15 and 20–22 or 23, and together with the preliminary round qualifiers (8 or 9 teams), the 16 teams are drawn into four groups of four. The winners of each group advance to the elite round.
• The remaining lowest-ranked teams enter the preliminary round, and are drawn into groups of three or four. The winners of each group and possibly one or more best runners-up advance to main round Path B.

The elite round remains to be contested by 16 teams (twelve teams from Path A and four teams from Path B), drawn into four groups of four, where the group winners and runners-up from main round Path A are seeded into the top two pots and kept apart if they are from the same group. The winners of each group advance to the final tournament, which is played in the same knockout format between four teams as before.

A record total of 57 teams from 53 associations entered this season's competition.[6] Two associations had no league as of 2017–18 (Faroe Islands, Liechtenstein).

The 23 highest-ranked teams entered the main round, while the 34 lowest-ranked teams entered the preliminary round.[7] The coefficient ranking was also used for seeding in the preliminary round and main round draws, where each team was assigned a seeding position according to their ranking for the respective draw. Nine teams were pre-selected as hosts for the preliminary round and eight teams were pre-selected as hosts for the main round.

The draws for the preliminary round and main round were held on 5 July 2018, 14:15 CEST (UTC+2), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[8] The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:

• In the preliminary round, the 34 teams were drawn into nine groups: seven groups of four containing one team from each of the seeding positions 1–4, and two groups of three containing one team from each of the seeding positions 1–3. First, the nine teams which were pre-selected as hosts were drawn from their own designated pot and allocated to their respective group as per their seeding positions. Next, the remaining 25 teams were drawn from their respective pot which were allocated according to their seeding positions.
• In the main round Path B, the 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four, containing one team from each of the seeding positions 1–4. First, the four teams which were pre-selected as hosts were drawn from their own designated pot and allocated to their respective group as per their seeding positions. Next, the remaining 12 teams were drawn from their respective pot which were allocated according to their seeding positions (including the nine preliminary round winners, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw, which were allocated to first seeding position 4, then seeding position 3, then seeding position 2). Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, should a team from Armenia advance from the preliminary round and qualify for a main round group with a team from Azerbaijan, they would be swapped with the preliminary round group winner in seeding position 4 of the next main round group.
• In the main round Path A, the 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four, containing one team from each of the seeding positions 1–4. First, the four teams which were pre-selected as hosts were drawn from their own designated pot and allocated to their respective group as per their seeding positions. Next, the remaining 12 teams were drawn from their respective pot which were allocated according to their seeding positions. Teams from the same association could be drawn into the same group. Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, teams from Russia and Ukraine would not be drawn into the same group.

Legend

• TH: Futsal Cup title holders
• CH: National champions
• RU: National runners-up
• (H): Preliminary and main round hosts

Qualified teams for 2018–19 UEFA Futsal Champions League

Teams entering main round Rank Team Coeff.[7] Path Seed TH Inter FS (CH)[9] 73.334 A 1 1 Sporting CP (CH)[10] 47.333 2 Gazprom-Ugra Yugorsk (CH)[11] 41.000 3 Barcelona (RU) 36.001 4 Benfica (RU)[10] 29.333 2 5 Kairat (CH)[12] 28.500 6 Berettyóújfalu (RU)[Note HUN] 23.001 7 Ekonomac (CH)[13] (H) 20.501 8 Halle-Gooik (CH)[14] (H) 17.000 3 9 Sibiryak (RU)[11] 17.000 10 Era-Pack Chrudim (CH)[15] 14.501 11 Lidselmash Lida (CH)[16] 12.834 12 Nikars (CH)[17] (H) 12.000 B 1 13 Acqua e Sapone (CH)[18] 10.667 14 Araz Naxçivan (CH)[19] 10.500 15 Aktobe (RU)[12] 9.500 16 Dobovec (CH)[20] (H) 8.167 A 4 17 Prodexim Kherson (CH)[21] 8.167 18 Kremlin-Bicêtre United (CH)[22] 8.167 19 Feniks (CH)[23] (H) 5.833 20 Novo Vrijeme (CH)[24] (H) 5.501 B 2 21 APOEL (CH)[25] (H) 4.834 22 MIMEL Lučenec (RU)[Note SVK] (H) 4.167

Teams entering preliminary round Rank Team Coeff.[7] Seed 23 Informatica Timişoara (CH)[26] (H) 4.000 1 24 Mostar SG Staklorad (CH)[27] (H) 3.501 25 Leo (CH)[28] 3.250 26 Veles (CH)[29] (H) 3.167 27 Hohenstein-Ernstthal (CH)[30] (H) 3.084 28 Rekord Bielsko-Biała (CH)[31] (H) 2.834 29 Hovocubo (CH)[32] 2.667 30 Tatishvili (CH)[33] 2.501 31 Sandefjord (CH)[34] 2.250 32 Kampuksen Dynamo (CH)[35] 2.167 2 33 Uddevalla (CH)[36] (H) 2.084 34 JB Gentofte (CH)[37] 2.084 35 Valletta (CH)[38] 1.583 36 Varna City (CH)[39] 1.583 37 Doukas (CH)[40] 1.500 38 Reading Escolla (CH)[41] 1.334 39 Dinamo Chişinău (CH)[42] (H) 1.167 40 Lynx (CH)[43] 1.001 41 Čelik (CH)[44] 1.001 3 42 RCD Fidell (CH)[45] 0.834 43 Osmanlıspor (CH)[Note TUR] 0.667 44 Vytis (CH)[46] (H) 0.583 45 Maccabi Nahalat Itzhak (CH)[47] 0.583 46 Murexin Allstars (CH)[48] (H) 0.500 47 Tirana (CH)[49] 0.334 48 Futsamba Naas (CH)[50] 0.334 49 Cardiff University (CH)[51] 0.251 50 Encamp (CH)[52] 0.251 4 51 Racing Luxembourg (CH)[53] 0.250 52 Tallinna Cosmos (CH)[54] 0.167 53 Murata (CH)[55] 0.167 54 Wattcell (CH)[56] 0.000 55 Belfast United (CH)[57] 0.000 56 Vængir Júpiters (CH)[58] 0.000

Notes

In the preliminary round, main round, and elite round, teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):[3]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
8. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
9. UEFA club coefficient;
10. Drawing of lots.

The top three teams of each group in Path A advance to the elite round.