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Confederation: | UEFA (Europe) |
Coach: | Arben Simitçiu |
Asst Manager: | Fazli Berisha |
Captain: | Jeton Rukovci |
Home Stadium: | Palace of Youth and Sports |
Fifa Trigramme: | KVX |
Fifa Rank: | [1] |
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First Game: | 1–3 (Zadar, Croatia; 29 August 2016) |
Largest Win: | 7–0 (Zadar, Croatia; 31 August 2016) |
Largest Loss: | 7–1 (Skopje, North Macedonia; 24 October 2019) 1–7 (Skopje, North Macedonia; 27 October 2019) |
Appearances In Uefa Futsal Euro: | 0 |
Appearances In Fifa Futsal World Cup: | 0 |
The Kosovo national futsal team (Albanian: Kombëtarja e futsallit të Kosovës; Serbian: Футсал репрезентација Косова|Futsal reprezentacija Kosova) represents Kosovo in international men's futsal. It is controlled by the Football Federation of Kosovo, the governing body for football in Kosovo, which also controls futsal.
On 6 February 2013, FIFA gave the permission to play international friendly games against other member associations.[2] Whereas, on 13 January 2014, there was a change of this permit that forbade Kosovo to play against the national teams of the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Club teams were also allowed to play friendlies and this happened after a FIFA Emergency Committee meeting. However, it was stipulated that clubs and representative teams of the Football Federation of Kosovo may not display national symbols as flags, emblems, etc. or play national anthems. The go-ahead was given after meetings between the Football Association of Serbia and Sepp Blatter.
See also: Membership of Kosovo in international sports federations. In September 2015 at an UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Malta was approved the request from the federation to the admission in UEFA to the next Ordinary Congress to be held in Budapest.[3] On 3 May 2016, at the Ordinary Congress. Kosovo were accepted into UEFA after members voted 28–24 in favor of Kosovo.[4] [5] Ten days later, Kosovo was accepted in FIFA during their 66th congress in Mexico with 141 votes in favour and 23 against.[6]
On 12 December 2018, in Nyon, it was decided that Kosovo should be part in Group B of the 2020 FIFA Futsal World Cup qualification, together with Andorra, Belarus and Norway.[7] On 30 January 2019, Kosovo made their debut on FIFA Futsal World Cup qualifications with a 5–0 away defeat against Belarus.[8]
FIFA Futsal World Cup record | Qualification record | |||||||||||||||
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Year | Round | Squad | ||||||||||||||
1989 to 1996 | colspan="6" rowspan="3" | |||||||||||||||
2000 to 2012 | colspan="9" | |||||||||||||||
2016 | colspan="9" | |||||||||||||||
2021 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 28 | ||||||||||
2024 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 16 | ||||||||||
Total | — | 0/9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 33 | 44 |
On 21 October 2016, in Nyon, it was decided that Kosovo should be part in Group E of the UEFA Futsal Euro 2018 qualifying, together with Cyprus, Denmark and Norway.[9] On 30 January 2017, Kosovo made his debut on UEFA Futsal Euro qualifying with a 1–5 away win against Norway that was simultaneously also the first-ever competitive win.[10]
UEFA Futsal Championship record | Qualification record | |||||||||||||||
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Year | Round | Squad | ||||||||||||||
1996 to 1999 | colspan="6" rowspan="2" | |||||||||||||||
2001 to 2016 | colspan="9" | |||||||||||||||
2018 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | ||||||||||
2022 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 16 | ||||||||||
2026 | colspan="6" | |||||||||||||||
Total | — | 0/11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 20 |
Kosovo has so far participated in three international tournaments. first at the Futsal Week 2016, an international futsal tournament.[11] In which they won this tournament after beating Finland and Turkey in the Groupstage. They also participated at the 2021 Continental Futsal Championship in Thailand.
Tournament | Round | ||||||||
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2016 Futsal Week Tournament[12] | Champions | 1st | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 7 | |
2021 Continental Futsal Championship | Group stage | 4th | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 14 | |
2023 April Cup Futsal Week | Group stage | 3th | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 | |
Total | 1 title | 3/3 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 32 | 31 |
Head-to-head records are included only matches as FIFA member.