| Tourney Name: | UEFA Futsal Cup |
| Year: | 2015–16 |
| Dates: | Qualifying rounds: Final tournament: 22–24 April 2016 |
| Num Teams: | Final tournament: 4 Total: 49 |
| Associations: | 48 |
| Champion Other: |  Gazprom-Ugra Yugorsk |
| Count: | 1 |
| Second Other: |  Inter FS |
| Third Other: | Benfica |
| Fourth Other: |  ASD Pescara |
| Matches: | 103 |
| Goals: | 735 |
| Prevseason: | 2014–15 |
| Nextseason: | 2016–17 |
The 2015–16 UEFA Futsal Cup was the 30th edition of Europe's premier club futsal tournament, and the 15th edition under the current UEFA Futsal Cup format organized by UEFA.
Kairat Almaty were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the elite round. In the final, Gazprom-Ugra Yugorsk defeated Inter FS to become the third Russian team, after MFK Dinamo Moskva and MFK Viz-Sinara Yekaterinburg, to win the title.
A total of 49 teams from 48 of the 54 UEFA member associations entered the tournament, which included first-time entrants from Luxembourg.[1] Each association could enter one team. Moreover, the winners of the 2014–15 UEFA Futsal Cup, Kairat Almaty, qualified automatically as title holders, and thus their association, Kazakhstan, could enter a second team.[2]
Teams were ranked according to their UEFA coefficients, computed based on results of the last three seasons, to decide on the round they entered. The top four teams (with the title holders being the automatic top seed) entered the elite round, the next 16 teams (ranked 5–20) entered the main round, and the bottom 29 teams (ranked 21–49) entered the preliminary round.
For teams entering the preliminary round or main round, they were assigned a seeding position according to their ranking for the respective draw, with eight teams pre-selected as hosts for the preliminary round and six teams pre-selected as hosts for the main round (marked by (H) below).[3] [4]
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 San Marino |
The draws for the preliminary round and main round were held on 2 July 2015, 13:30 CEST (UTC+2), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[5] [6] The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:[3] [4]
The schedule of the competition was as follows.[7]
| Round | Draw | Dates | |
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| Preliminary round | 2 July 2015 | 25–29 August 2015 | |
| Main round | 29 September–4 October 2015 | ||
| Elite round | 14 October 2015 | 10–15 November 2015 | |
| Final tournament | 15 March 2016 | Semi-finals: 22 April 2016 Third place match & Final: 24 April 2016 |
In the preliminary round, main round and elite round, each group was played as a round-robin mini-tournament at the pre-selected hosts.
In the final tournament, the four qualified teams played in knockout format (semi-finals, third place match, and final), either at a host selected by UEFA from one of the teams, or at a neutral venue.
In the preliminary round, main round and elite round, the 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 equal on points on completion of a mini-tournament, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):[2]
The eight group winners advanced to the main round to join the 16 teams which received byes to the main round.
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The six group winners and the six group runners-up advanced to the elite round to join the four teams which received byes to the elite round.
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The draw for the elite round was held on 14 October 2015, 14:00 CEST (UTC+2), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[8] [9] The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four, containing one team which received byes to the elite round, and either two group winners and one group runner-up from the main round, or one group winner and two group runners-up from the main round. First, the four teams which were pre-selected as hosts (marked by (H) below) 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 main round group could not be drawn in the same group. For political reasons, Gazprom-Ugra Yugorsk from Russia and FC Lokomotiv Kharkiv from Ukraine (due to the Russian military intervention in Ukraine) could not be drawn in the same group.[10]
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The four group winners advanced to the final tournament.
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The hosts of the final tournament was selected by UEFA from the four qualified teams on 11 December 2015,[11] and was staged by Inter FS at the Palacio Multiusos de Guadalajara in Guadalajara, Spain, on 22 and 24 April 2016.[12] [13]
The draw for the final tournament was held on 15 March 2016, 20:30 CET (UTC+1), at half-time of the UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg between Atlético Madrid and PSV Eindhoven, at the Vicente Calderón Stadium in Madrid, Spain.[14] [15] The four teams were drawn into two semi-finals without any restrictions.
In the final tournament, extra time and penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner if necessary; however, no extra time would be used in the third place match.[2]
| Rank | Player | Team | Total | ||||
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| 1 | Eder Lima | Gazprom-Ugra Yugorsk | — | 7 | 6 | 0 | 13 |
| 2 | Alessandro Patias | Benfica | — | 7 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| 3 |  Joni Pakola | Sievi Futsal | 5 | 5 | — | — | 10 |
 Rogério da Silva | ASD Pescara | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 10 | |
| 5 | Fernando Cardinal | Inter FS | — | — | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| Rami Tirkkonen | Sievi Futsal | 6 | 2 | — | — | 8 | |
| 7 | Mauro Canal | ASD Pescara | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
 Valentin Dujacquier | FP Halle-Gooik | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | 7 | |
 Aleksandar Gligorov | KMF Železarec Skopje | 1 | 3 | 3 | — | 7 | |
 Mladen Kocić | FC National Zagreb | 6 | 1 | — | — | 7 |
Final tournament top scorer:[16]
Andrei Afanasyev, playing for Gazprom-Ugra Yugorsk (3 goals)
