The2021–22 UEFA Futsal Champions League was the 36th edition of Europe's premier clubfutsal tournament, and the 21st edition organized by UEFA. It was also the fourth edition since the tournament was rebranded from "UEFA Futsal Cup" toUEFA Futsal Champions League.
Sporting CP, the title holders, entered in the main round. They lost 4–0 in the final againstBarcelona, who won their fourth title.
A total of 55 teams from 51 of the 55UEFA member associations participated in the 2021–22 UEFA Futsal Champions League. The association ranking based on theUEFA futsal national team coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
Associations 1–3 (since the title holders were in the top three) each had two teams qualify.
The winners of the2020–21 UEFA Futsal Champions League qualified automatically and its association may have entered a second team. If the title-holders' association was among the three best ranked associations, the fourth ranked association was also entitled to enter a second team.
TheUEFA futsal national team coefficients at the end of April 2020, used to determine the number of teams each association was entitled to enter, was as follows.[1]
Association ranking for 2021–22 UEFA Champions League
For the 2021–22 UEFA Futsal Champions League, the clubs' entry round was determined by theirUEFA futsal club coefficients, which took into account their performance from the previous three seasons.The following was the access list for the season.[2]
Access list for 2021–22 UEFA Futsal Champions League
Below were the participating teams of the 2021–22 UEFA Futsal Champions League (with their ranking among participating teams), grouped by their starting round and path for the main round.
In this season, the tournament returned to the mini-tournament format consisting of three qualifying rounds and the final tournament. The qualifying rounds consisted of the following stages:[3]
Preliminary round: 32 teams entering in this round were divided in eight groups of four teams with the winners and the best runners-up advancing to the next round.
Main round:
Path A: 16 teams entering in this round were divided in four groups of four teams, with the winners, runners-up and third-placed teams advancing to the next round.
Path B: 7 teams which entered in this round and the 9 teams advancing from the preliminary round were divided in four groups of four teams, with the winners advancing to the next round.
Elite round: 16 teams were divided in four groups of four teams, with the winners qualifying to the final tournament.
In each group, teams played against each other in a singleround-robin format hosted by one of the participating teams.
Thefinal tournament was played at a centralized location and consisted of single-legged semi-finals, third-place play-off and final. If scores were level at the end of normal time,extra time was played, followed by apenalty shoot-out if the scores remained tied.
Teams were ranked according topoints (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams were tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (see Article 14 Equality of points – mini-tournaments, Regulations of the UEFA Futsal Champions League):[3]
Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams;
If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Disciplinary points (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point);
For the ranking of second-placed teams in the preliminary round, teams are also ranked according to points, with the following tiebreakers applying in case of a tie.
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Disciplinary points (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point);
The draw for the preliminary round was held on 7 July 2021, 14:00CEST.[4] The preliminary round was played from 21 to 25 October 2021. The winners of each group and the best runners-up advanced to the main round Path B.
Times areCET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
A total of 32 teams played in the preliminary round. Seeding of teams was based on their 2021UEFA futsal club coefficients. Eight teams were pre-selected as hosts and were first drawn from a separate pot to their corresponding seeding position. The remaining teams were then drawn from their respective pots to their corresponding seeding position. Due to political reasons, teams from Kosovo and Serbia could not be drawn into the same group.
A total of 32 teams played in the main round. They were divided in two paths:
Path A (16 teams): the title holders and teams ranked 1–11 and 16–19.
Path B (16 teams): teams ranked 12–15 and 20-22 and 9 teams advancing form the preliminary round.
Seeding of teams was based on their 2021UEFA futsal club coefficients. On Path B, the seeding position 3 and 4 were drawn from the same pot, comprising all teams advancing from the preliminary round, with the exception ofLuxol St Andrews, who attributed to seeding position 2 as top ranked team advancing from the previous round. Eight teams (four in each path) were pre-selected as hosts and were first drawn from a separate pot to their corresponding seeding position. The remaining teams were then drawn from their respective pots to their corresponding seeding position. Teams from Kosovo and Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina or Armenia and Azerbaijan could not be drawn into the same group. Additionally, winners and runners-up from the same preliminary round advancing to the main round could not be drawn into the same group.
A total of 16 teams played in the elite round. Seeding of teams was based on their results in the previous round:
Seeding position 1: main round path A group winners.
Seeding position 2: main round path A runners-up.
Seeding positions 3 and 4 (drawn from the same pot): main round path A third-placed teams and path B group winners.
Four teams were pre-selected as hosts and were first drawn from a separate pot to their corresponding seeding position. Teams from Ukraine and Russia could not be drawn into the same group. Additionally, winners and runners-up from the same main round path A group could not be drawn into the same group.
The final tournament consisted of two semifinals, a third-place play-off and a final, and was contested by the last four remaining teams from 29 April to 1 May 2022 atArena Riga in Latvia.[7]
Barcelona (4th title)
Sporting CP
ACCS
Mirko Marinković(11 goals)
Ferrão
Alex Merlim
Hossein Tayyebi
Luxol St Andrews
Proekt(H)
Cefn Druids
Ashdod Dolphins
Dinamo Plus
Futsal Minerva(H)
Varna City
Fiorentino
Haladás
Differdange 03
Tirana(H)
Utleira
Hammarby IF
Gentofte
Viimsi(H)
Sparta Belfast
KMF FON
Titograd(H)
Blue Magic
CIU
Kampuksen Dynamo
Araz Naxçivan
Raba(H)
Europa
Diamant Linz
Doukas(H)
Encamp
APOEL Futsal
Liqeni
TSV Weilimdorf(H)
Helvécia
Tavşançalı
Sinara Yekaterinburg
Halle-Gooik
Lučenec(H)
Dobovec(H)
Atyrau
Viten Orsha
Kauno Žalgiris(H)
Plzeň
Rekord Bielsko-Biała
Uragan(H)
United Galati
Olmissum(H)
Leo
Hovocubo
