# 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup qualification (UEFA)

The UEFA qualifying competition for the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup was a men's futsal competition that determined the seven European national teams taking part in the final tournament in Colombia.
The national teams from a total of 45 UEFA member associations entered the qualifying competition. Denmark, Gibraltar, Sweden and Wales made their FIFA Futsal World Cup qualifying debuts.

## Format

The qualifying competition consisted of three rounds:
* Preliminary round: The 23 lowest-ranked teams were drawn into five groups of four teams and one group of three teams. Each group was played in single round-robin format at one of the teams which were pre-selected as hosts (if a group was drawn without pre-selected hosts, the hosts were selected afterwards by agreement or draw by UEFA). The six group winners advanced to the main round.
* Main round: The 28 teams (22 highest-ranked teams and six preliminary round qualifiers) were drawn into seven groups of four teams. Each group was played in single round-robin format at one of the teams which were pre-selected as hosts. The seven group winners and the seven runners-up advanced to the play-offs.
* Play-offs: The 14 teams were drawn into seven ties to play home-and-away two-legged matches to determine the seven qualified teams.

### Tiebreakers

In the preliminary round and main 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:
* Higher number of points obtained in the mini-tournament matches played among the teams in question;
* Superior goal difference resulting from the mini-tournament matches played among the teams in question;
* Higher number of goals scored in the mini-tournament matches played among the teams in question;
* If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still had an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 were reapplied exclusively to the mini-tournament matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure did not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 10 applied;
* Superior goal difference in all mini-tournament matches;
* Higher number of goals scored in all mini-tournament matches;
* If only two teams had the same number of points, and they were tied according to criteria 1 to 6 after having met in the last round of the mini-tournament, their rankings were determined by a penalty shoot-out (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were not relevant for qualification for the next stage).
* Lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received in the mini-tournament matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
* Coefficient ranking;
* Drawing of lots.
In the play-offs, the team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs qualified for the final tournament. If the aggregate score was level, the away goals rule was applied, i.e., the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs advanced. If away goals were also equal, extra time was played. The away goals rule was again applied after extra time, i.e., if there were goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score was still level, the visiting team advanced by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals were scored during extra time, the tie was decided by penalty shoot-out.

## Schedule

The qualifying matches were played on the following dates.
| Stage | Dates |
| Preliminary round | 22–25 October 2015 |
| Main round | 10–13 December 2015 |
| Play-offs | 22 March & 12 April 2016 |

## Entrants

The teams were ranked according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:
* UEFA Futsal Euro 2012 final tournament and qualifying competition
* 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup final tournament and qualifying competition
* UEFA Futsal Euro 2014 final tournament and qualifying competition
The 22 highest-ranked teams entered the main round, while the 23 lowest-ranked teams entered the preliminary round. The coefficient ranking was also used for seeding in the preliminary round and main round draws.

### Notes

* Iceland (Coeff: 0.222; Rank 41), Republic of Ireland (Coeff: 0.000; Rank 47), Austria (no rank), Faroe Islands (no rank), Germany (no rank), Liechtenstein (no rank), Luxembourg (no rank), Northern Ireland (no rank), and Scotland (no rank) did not enter.
* Gibraltar entered despite being a non-FIFA member and thus ineligible for the World Cup.
* Teams which were pre-selected as preliminary round or main round hosts were denoted by (H). As only three teams were pre-selected as preliminary round hosts, three preliminary round groups were drawn without pre-selected hosts, and the hosts would be selected afterwards by agreement or draw by UEFA.
The draws for the preliminary round and main round were held on 2 July 2015, 14:30 CEST (UTC+2), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. Each group in the preliminary round and main round contained one team from each of the seeding positions 1–4, except for one group in the preliminary round which contained one team from each of the seeding positions 1–3. The six teams which qualified from the preliminary round, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw, were placed in seeding position 4 for the main round draw. In the preliminary round draw, the teams which were pre-selected as hosts could not be drawn in the same group, while in the main round draw, the teams which were pre-selected as hosts were drawn from a separate pot, while being placed in their groups according to their seeding positions.

## Preliminary round

Times were CEST (UTC+2), except for matches on 25 October 2015 which were CET (UTC+1).

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Moldova (H) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 4 | +17 | 7 | Main round |
| 2 | Georgia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 4 | +16 | 7 | |
| 3 | Andorra | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 12 | −7 | 3 | |
| 4 | Gibraltar | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 31 | −26 | 0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Sweden (H) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 8 | +8 | 7 | Main round |
| 2 | Greece | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 6 | |
| 3 | Montenegro | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 4 | |
| 4 | San Marino | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 14 | −9 | 0 | |

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | France | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 | +13 | 9 | Main round |
| 2 | Albania | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | +5 | 6 | |
| 3 | Lithuania (H) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 12 | −8 | 3 | |
| 4 | Malta | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 16 | −10 | 0 | |

### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Latvia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 7 | +7 | 9 | Main round |
| 2 | Cyprus (H) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 6 | |
| 3 | Estonia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 11 | −6 | 3 | |
| 4 | Armenia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 0 | |

### Group E

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | England | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 7 | +5 | 9 | Main round |
| 2 | Denmark | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 10 | +5 | 6 | |
| 3 | Wales | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 12 | −3 | 3 | |
| 4 | Israel (H) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 15 | −7 | 0 | |

### Group F

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Finland (H) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | +3 | 4 | Main round |
| 2 | Bulgaria | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 3 | Switzerland | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 1 | |

## Main round

All times were CET (UTC+1).

### Group 1

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Ukraine | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 5 | +13 | 9 | Play-offs |
| 2 | Hungary (H) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 11 | +2 | 6 | Play-offs |
| 3 | Belgium | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 11 | −3 | 3 | |
| 4 | England | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 16 | −12 | 0 | |

### Group 2

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Azerbaijan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 8 | +11 | 7 | Play-offs |
| 2 | Belarus | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 13 | −2 | 4 | Play-offs |
| 3 | Croatia (H) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 12 | +1 | 4 | |
| 4 | Sweden | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 15 | −10 | 1 | |
* 1 2 Ranked by head-to-head record (Belarus: 3 pts; Croatia: 0 pts).

### Group 3

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Russia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | +10 | 9 | Play-offs |
| 2 | Serbia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 6 | Play-offs |
| 3 | Finland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 3 | |
| 4 | Turkey (H) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 21 | −18 | 0 | |

### Group 4

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Spain | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 2 | +20 | 9 | Play-offs |
| 2 | Netherlands (H) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 12 | −4 | 6 | Play-offs |
| 3 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 14 | −5 | 3 | |
| 4 | Latvia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 15 | −11 | 0 | |

### Group 5

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Kazakhstan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 7 | Play-offs |
| 2 | Slovenia | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 5 | Play-offs |
| 3 | Czech Republic (H) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 3 | |
| 4 | France | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 1 | |

### Group 6

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Portugal (H) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | +14 | 9 | Play-offs |
| 2 | Poland | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 9 | +4 | 6 | Play-offs |
| 3 | Romania | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 14 | −8 | 3 | |
| 4 | Norway | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 14 | −10 | 0 | |

### Group 7

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Italy (H) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 6 | Play-offs |
| 2 | Slovakia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 6 | Play-offs |
| 3 | North Macedonia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 9 | −1 | 6 | |
| 4 | Moldova | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 0 | |
* 1 2 3 Ranked by head-to-head record (Italy: 3 pts, +4 GD; Slovakia: 3 pts, 0 GD; Macedonia: 3 pts, −4 GD).

## Play-offs

The draw for the play-offs was held on 12 February 2016, 12:00 CET (UTC+1), at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Belgrade, Serbia. The seven group winners were seeded, and the seven group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were paired with the unseeded teams, with the former hosting the second leg. Teams from the same main round group could not be drawn against each other.

### Seeding

| Group | Winners (Seeded in play-off draw) | Runners-up (Unseeded in play-off draw) |
| 1 | Ukraine | Hungary |
| 2 | Azerbaijan | Belarus |
| 3 | Russia | Serbia |
| 4 | Spain | Netherlands |
| 5 | Kazakhstan | Slovenia |
| 6 | Portugal | Poland |
| 7 | Italy | Slovakia |

### Summary

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Slovenia | 2–5 | Spain | 1–0 | 1–5 |
| Slovakia | 1–11 | Ukraine | 0–6 | 1–5 |
| Poland | 1–8 | Kazakhstan | 1–1 | 0–7 |
| Serbia | 2–4 | Portugal | 1–2 | 1–2 |
| Belarus | 3–6 | Russia | 1–4 | 2–2 |
| Netherlands | 5–9 | Azerbaijan | 1–5 | 4–4 |
| Hungary | 0–9 | Italy | 0–3 | 0–6 |

### Matches

The first legs were played on 22 March, and the second legs were played on 12 and 13 April 2016. Times were CET (UTC+1) for first legs, and CEST (UTC+2) for second legs.
Spain won 5–2 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.
Ukraine won 11–1 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.
Kazakhstan won 8–1 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.
Portugal won 4–2 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.
Russia won 6–3 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.
Azerbaijan won 9–5 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.
Italy won 9–0 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.

## Qualified teams

The following seven teams from UEFA qualified for the final tournament:
| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in tournament |
| Spain | 12 April 2016 | 7 (1989, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012) |
| Ukraine | 12 April 2016 | 4 (1996, 2004, 2008, 2012) |
| Kazakhstan | 12 April 2016 | 1 (2000) |
| Portugal | 12 April 2016 | 4 (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012) |
| Russia | 12 April 2016 | 5 (1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2012) |
| Azerbaijan | 12 April 2016 | 0 (debut) |
| Italy | 13 April 2016 | 6 (1989, 1992, 1996, 2004, 2008, 2012) |
    $^1$ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
    $^2$ Kazakhstan qualified as a member of the AFC in 2000.

## Goalscorers
### 8 goals

* Fernando Cardinal

### 7 goals

* Eduardo

### 6 goals

* Vitaliy Borisov
* Cristian Obadă
* Dan Mönell

### 5 goals

* Amadeu
* Mads Falck
* Stuart Cook
* Giorgi Tikurishvili
* Alex Merlim
* Maksims Seņs
* Oleg Hilotii
* Milovan Drašković
* Miguelín
* Mykhailo Grytsyna

### 4 goals

* Aleksandr Chernik
* Sergei Silivonchik
* Kamel Hamdoud
* Abdessamad Mohammed
* Serik Zhamankulov
* Andrian Laşcu
* Andrei Negara
* Tomasz Kriezel
* Fábio Cecílio
* Robinho
* Jesús Aicardo
* Álex Yepes
* Yevgen Valenko
* Serhiy Zhurba

### 3 goals

* Azem Brahimi
* Roald Halimi
* Carlos Barbosa
* Augusto
* Fineo De Araujo
* Tomo Bevanda
* Josip Suton
* Markos Ioannou
* Michal Mareš
* Jacob Jensen
* Raoni Medina
* Richard Ward
* Miika Hosio
* Juhana Jyrkiäinen
* Azdine Aigoun
* Adrien Gasmi
* Irakli Todua
* János Rábl
* Douglas Júnior
* Dauren Nurgozhin
* Yotam Bliech
* Adam Cohen
* Alessandro Patias
* Sergio Romano
* Oskars Ikstēns
* Adrijan Micevski
* Alexei Munteanu
* Tevfik Ceyar
* Bartłomiej Nawrat
* Ricardinho
* Eder Lima
* Raúl Campos
* Mladen Kocić
* Igor Osredkar
* Sargon Abraham
* Kristian Legiec
* Volodymyr Razuvanov
* Yevgen Rogachov
* Rico Zulkarnain

### 2 goals

* Gentian Begaj
* Nacho Llamas
* Aleksandr Olshevski
* Sergei Shostak
* Omar Rahou
* Jakov Grcić
* Franko Jelovčić
* Dario Marinović
* Vedran Matošević
* Kostas Antreou
* Costas Kouloumbris
* Rasmus Johansson
* Kevin Jørgensen
* Ian Parkes
* Kristjan Paapsi
* Vladislav Tšurilkin
* Panu Autio
* Sid Belhaj
* Vakhtangi Jvarashvili
* Murtaz Kakabadze
* Zurab Lukava
* Gia Nikvashvili
* Andrew Lopez
* Apostolos Gkaifyllias
* Zoltán Dróth
* Ádám Hosszú
* Péter Németh
* Mauro Canal
* Rodolfo Fortino
* Leo Jaraguá
* Chingiz Yesenamanov
* Andrejs Aleksejevs
* Igors Dacko
* Artjoms Koļesņikovs
* Igor Leovski
* Jovica Milijic
* Mohamed Attaibi
* Zaid El Morabiti
* Marcin Mikołajewicz
* Tiago Brito
* Djô
* Marius Matei
* Sergei Abramov
* Dmitri Lyskov
* Rômulo
* Matteo Michelotti
* Marko Perić
* Slobodan Rajčević
* Marek Belaník
* Tomáš Drahovský
* Rok Mordej
* Adolfo
* Bebe
* Pola
* Mario Rivillos
* Hanna Abraham
* Mathias Eteus
* Ihor Borsuk
* Sergiy Koval
* Denys Ovsyannikov
* Petro Shoturma
* Chris Hugh
* Tyrell Webbe

### 1 goal

* Almir Hasaj
* Rej Karaja
* Mentor Mejzini
* Armen Babayan
* Henrik Grigoryan
* Vardan Gukasyan
* Grigor Kapukranyan
* Garegin Mashumyan
* Sargis Nasibyan
* Ramiz Chovdarov
* Sergey Chuykov
* Rizvan Farzaliyev
* Rafael
* Oleg Gorbenko
* Aleksei Popov
* Ibrahim Adnane
* Valentin Dujacquier
* Lúcio
* Jawad Yachou
* Hamza Zaaf
* Ivan Matan
* Nijaz Mulahmetović
* Dejan Pavlović
* Anel Radmilović
* Marin Šunjić
* Daniel Nestorov
* Yosif Shutev
* Kristijan Grbeša
* Manolis Manoli
* David Cupák
* Michal Seidler
* Radim Záruba
* Rasmus Lørup Arildsen
* Louis Veis
* William Gay
* Agon Rexha
* Maksim Aleksejev
* Sergei Korsunov
* Joni Pakola
* Antti Teittinen
* Samir Alla
* Boumedyen Bensaber
* Réda Rabei
* Kevin Ramirez
* Tornike Bukia
* Levan Kobaidze
* Kakhaber Maisaia
* Lasha Sigunava
* Joseph Chipol
* Ivan Robba
* Jamie Walker
* Vasilis Asimakopoulos
* Petros Katevtsian
* Spyridon Kondylatos
* Kostas Malovits
* Andreas Mantis
* Kostas Panou
* Richárd Dávid
* Norbert Horváth
* Bence Klacsák
* Szabolcs Szeghy
* Yoav Hagbi
* Asif-Yosef Sabag
* Gabriel Lima
* Japa
* Kaká
* Vinícius dos Santos
* Leo Higuita
* Arnold Knaub
* Dinmukhambet Suleimenov
* Jurijs Arhipovs-Prokofjevs
* Igors Avanesovs
* Andrejs Šustrovs
* Vaidas Garšvinskas
* Jurij Jeremejev
* Rolandas Leščius
* Deividas Stradalovas
* Aleksandar Gligorov
* Daniel Marinho de Souza
* Dragan Petrović
* Andy Mangion
* Dylan Musu
* Xavier Saliba
* Luke Stivala
* Constantin Burdujel
* Sergiu Tacot
* Alexandr Ţîmbalist
* Bojan Bajović
* Saša Gojković
* Semir Gurzaković
* Ilija Mugoša
* Jeroen de Groot
* Jamal El Ghannouti
* Karim Mossaoui
* Yoshua St Juste
* Mats Velseboer
* Mathias Dahl Abelsen
* Omar Fonstad
* Dennis Obeng
* Erlend Skaga
* Rafał Franz
* Daniel Krawczyk
* Michał Kubik
* Mikołaj Zastawnik
* Fábio Lima
* João Matos
* Vlad Iancu
* Emil Răducu
* Dumitru Stoica
* Artem Antoshkin
* Danil Kutuzov
* Ivan Milovanov
* Nikolai Pereverzev
* Renat Shakirov
* Raffaele Barducci
* Michele Moretti
* Elia Pasqualini
* Stefan Rakić
* Darko Ristić
* Miloš Stojković
* Martin Doša
* Vladimír Papajčík
* Dušan Rafaj
* Kristjan Čujec
* Alen Fetić
* Anže Širok
* Gašper Vrhovec
* Fernandão
* Lin
* Carlos Ortiz
* Niklas Asp
* Patrik Burda
* Simon Chekroun
* Albert Hiseni
* Dana Kuhi
* Yves Mezger
* Mato Sego
* Yasin Erdal
* Cem Keskin
* Cihan Özcan
* Mykola Grytsyna
* Vitaliy Kiselyov
* Lloyd Jenkins
* Simon Prangley

### 1 own goal

* Armen Babayan (against Latvia)
* Aleksandr Olshevski (against Croatia)
* Dejan Pavlović (against Netherlands)
* Jim Jensen (against England)
* Raoni Medina (against Belgium)
* Agon Rexha (against Denmark)
* Robert Veskimäe (against Cyprus)
* Leo Jaraguá (against France)
* Jamal El Ghannouti (against Bosnia and Herzegovina)
* Mustapha Achrifi (against Romania)
* Omar Fonstad (against Poland)
* Daniil Davydov (against Serbia)
* Alper Tolgahan Aytaş (against Finland)
Source: UEFA.com