UEFA Women's Futsal Euro 2023 explained

Tourney Name:	UEFA Women's Futsal Euro
Year:	2023
Size:	150
Country:	Preliminary round: Group A: Serbia Group B: Gibraltar Group C: Lithuania Main round: Group A: Finland Group B: Poland Group C: Portugal Group D: Czech Republic Final tournament: Hungary
Dates:	Preliminary round: 10–15 May 2022 Main round: 18–23 October 2022 Final tournament: 17–19 March 2023
Num Teams:	Final tournament: 4 Qualifying: 24
Confederations:	1
Venues:	Final tournament: 1
Cities:	1
Matches:	18
Goals:	123
Attendance:	1860
Prevseason:	2022
Nextseason:	2027
Updated:	14 May 2022

The 2023 UEFA Women's Futsal Championship, also referred to as UEFA Women's Futsal Euro 2023, is the third edition of the UEFA Women's Futsal Championship, the biennial international futsal championship organised by UEFA for the women's national teams of Europe.

Teams

A total of 24 (out of 55) UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying stage, with Latvia making their debuts.^[1] Based on their coefficient ranking, the 12 highest-ranked teams entered the main round, while the 12 lowest-ranked teams entered the preliminary round. Three teams were pre-selected as hosts for the preliminary round and four teams were pre-selected as hosts for the main round.

The draws for the preliminary round and main round was held on 18 February 2022, 14:00 CEST (UTC+2), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:

In the preliminary round, the 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four teams each. First, the three 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 eight teams were drawn from their respective pot which were allocated according to their seeding positions (the lowest-ranked teams were allocated first to seeding position 4, then seeding position 3).
In the main round, the 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four, containing one team from each of the seeding positions 1–4. First, the three 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 three preliminary round winners, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw, which were allocated to seeding position 4). Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, Spain and Gibraltar could not be drawn in the same group. Should Gibraltar qualify for the main round, and were drawn into the same group as Spain, they would be swapped with the relevant team from the next available group.

+Participating teams for UEFA Women's Futsal Euro 2023

Teams entering main round
width=210	Team !	^[2]		Seed
	TBD	1	align=center rowspan=4	1
(H)	TBD	2
	TBD	3
	TBD	4
	5.000	5	align=center rowspan=4	2
(H)	4.667	6
	4.667	7
(H)	4.000	8
	4.000	9	align=center rowspan=4	3
	3.667	10
(H)	3.667	11
	2.417	12

Teams entering preliminary round
width=210	Team !			Seed
	2.333	13	align=center rowspan=3	1
	2.125	14
	2.000	15
	1.750	16	align=center rowspan=3	2
(H)	1.667	17
	1.000	18
(H)	0.500	19	align=center rowspan=3	3
	0.333	20
	0.333	21
(H)	0.250	22	align=center rowspan=3	4
	0.250	23
	0.000	24

Notes

Teams marked in bold have qualified for the final tournament.
(H): Teams pre-selected as hosts for the preliminary round and the main round

Format

In the preliminary round and main round, each group is played as a round-robin mini-tournament at the pre-selected hosts.

In the final tournament, the four qualified teams play 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.

Tiebreakers

In the preliminary round and main round, teams are 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 are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):^[3]

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
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;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
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);
Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
UEFA coefficient ranking.

Preliminary round

The winners of each group and the two best runners-up advance to the Main Round to join the 11 teams which receive byes.

Originally, Russia received a bye to the Main Round and only the best runners-up would advance to the Main Round. On 2 May 2022, UEFA replaced Russia with the second best-ranked runner-up of the preliminary round due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[4]

Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Ranking of second-placed teams

To determine the best runner-up, only the results of the runner-up teams against the first and third-placed teams in their group are taken into account.

Main round

The winners of each group advance to the final tournament.

Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group 1

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Group 2

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Group 3

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Group 4

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Final tournament

The final tournament will be played 17 – 19 March 2023^[5]

Qualified teams

The following four teams qualify for the final tournament.

Team	Method of qualification	Date of qualification	data-sort-type="number"	Previous appearances in final tournament¹
			2 (2019, 2022)
			2 (2019, 2022)
			2 (2019, 2022)
			1 (2022)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Squads

Each national team have to submit a squad of 14 players, two of whom must be goalkeepers.

Bracket

In the semi-finals and final, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary; however, no extra time is used in the third place match (Regulations Article 16.02 and 16.03).^[3]

Semi-finals

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Final

External links

- Women's Futsal Euro Matches: 2021–22, UEFA.com

Notes and References

Web site: Women's Futsal EURO 2023 qualifying draw. UEFA.com. 18 February 2022.
Web site: Women's Futsal EURO 2023 qualifying draw procedures. UEFA.com. 18 February 2022.
Web site: Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Futsal Championship, 2022/23. UEFA.com.
Web site: UEFA decisions for upcoming competitions relating to the ongoing suspension of Russian national teams and clubs . . 2 May 2022 . UEDA.com . 2 May 2022.
Web site: 2023 Women's Futsal EURO finals draw: Spain vs Portugal, Ukraine vs Hungary. UEFA.com.