UEFA Futsal Euro 2016


The 2016 UEFA Futsal Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Futsal Euro 2016, was the 10th edition of the UEFA Futsal Championship, the biennial international futsal championship organised by UEFA for the men's national teams of Europe. It was hosted for the first time in Serbia, following a decision of the UEFA Executive Committee on 20 March 2012. Serbia was chosen ahead of other bids from Bulgaria and Macedonia.
The final tournament was contested from 2 to 13 February 2016 by twelve teams, eleven of which joined the hosts Serbia after overcoming a qualifying tournament. The matches were played in the Belgrade Arena in the city of Belgrade.

Qualification

A total of 46 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Serbia qualifying automatically, the other 45 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 11 spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition, which took place from January to September 2015, consisted of three rounds:
The following 12 teams qualified for the final tournament.
TeamMethod of qualificationFinals appearanceLast appearancePrevious best performance
Hosts2012
Main round Group 1 winners2014
Main round Group 2 winners2014
Main round Group 3 winners2014
Main round Group 4 winners2014
Main round Group 5 winners2014
Main round Group 6 winners2014
Main round Group 7 winners2014
Play-off winners2010
Play-off winners—
Play-off winners2014, Third place
Play-off winners2014

Final draw

The final draw was held on 2 October 2015, 12:00 CEST, at the Belgrade Town Hall in Belgrade, Serbia, where former Serbian footballer Dejan Stanković was unveiled as the tournament ambassador and made the draw. The 12 teams were drawn into four groups of three teams. The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, with the hosts Serbia and the title holders Italy automatically placed into Pot 1.
Each group contained one team from Pot 1, one team from Pot 2, and one team from Pot 3. For political reasons, Russia and Ukraine could not be drawn in the same group or in groups scheduled to be played on the same day. Therefore, if Russia were drawn in Group B, Ukraine had to be drawn in Group C or D, and if Russia were drawn in Group C or D, Ukraine had to be drawn in Group A or B.

Venues

All matches were played at the Kombank Arena. During the course of the championship, the arena was renamed from Kombank Arena to Belgrade Arena, for sponsorship reasons. Originally the Pionir Arena was proposed to host group stage matches.
VenueBelgrade Arena
Capacity11,161
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Squads

Each national team have to submit a squad of 14 players, two of whom must be goalkeepers. If a player is injured or ill severely enough to prevent his participation in the tournament before his team's first match, he can be replaced by another player.

Group stage

The schedule of the tournament was confirmed on 28 October 2015.
The group winners and runners-up advanced to the quarter-finals.
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The teams were ranked according to points. If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:
  1. Higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
  2. Superior goal difference resulting from the group matches played among the teams in question;
  3. Higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
  4. If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still had an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 were reapplied exclusively to the group matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure did not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 9 applied;
  5. Superior goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
  7. 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 group stage, their rankings were determined by a penalty shoot-out.
  8. Lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received in the group matches ;
  9. Drawing of lots.
All times were local, CET.

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Knockout stage

If a match was drawn after 40 minutes of regular play, an extra time consisting of two five-minute periods would be played. If teams were still leveled after extra time, a penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner. In the third place match, the extra time would be skipped and the decision would go directly to kicks from the penalty mark.

Bracket

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Third place match

Final

Final ranking

RankTeam
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Goalscorers

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;4 goals:
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;2 goals
;1 goal
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  • Tomáš Koudelka
  • Péter Németh
  • Robinho

    Awards

  • Golden Player: Miguelín
  • Golden Shoe: Miguelín and Mario Rivillos, 6 goals, 4 assists
  • Silver Shoe: Álex 6 goals, 2 assists
  • Bronze Shoe: Ricardinho 6 goals, 0 assists
  • All-star squad:
  • * Miodrag Aksentijević
  • * Leo Higuita
  • * Paco Sedano
  • * Sergei Abramov
  • * Álex
  • * Douglas Júnior
  • * Mladen Kocić
  • * Leo Jaraguá
  • * Gabriel Lima
  • * Miguelín
  • * Marko Perić
  • * Ricardinho
  • * Mario Rivillos
  • * Robinho

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