UEFA Futsal Euro 2022
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| Europees kampioenschap zaalvoetbal 2022 | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Netherlands |
| City | Amsterdam and Groningen |
| Dates | 19 January – 6 February |
| Teams | 16 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue | 2 (in 2 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Portugal (2nd title) |
| Runners-up |  Russia |
| Third place |  Spain |
| Fourth place |  Ukraine |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 32 |
| Goals scored | 173 (5.41 per match) |
| Attendance | 16,380 (512 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |  Birzhan Orazov (7 goals) |
| Best player | Zicky Té |
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The 2022 UEFA Futsal Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Futsal Euro 2022, was the 12th edition of the UEFA Futsal Championship, the international futsal championship organised by UEFA for the men's national teams of Europe. It was hosted for the first time in the Netherlands.
This is the first tournament to be held on a four-year basis and featuring 16 teams, as the competition was previously played every two years and included 12 teams since 2010. It took place between 19 January and 6 February 2022, in the cities of Amsterdam and Groningen. The teams practiced for the competition in Wildervank and Rotterdam.[1]
Portugal won their second title in a row after defeating Russia in the final 4–2, thus becoming the second national team, after Spain, to successfully defend the title.
The bidding procedure for hosting was launched on 12 October 2018, with a deadline of 21 January 2019 to express their interest in hosting. Seven associations expressed an interest in hosting:[2]
The final proposal had to delivered with the bid dossier by 30 May 2019 at the latest, and UEFA received three bids:[3]
The UEFA Executive Committee selected the Netherlands as hosts on 24 September 2019 in Ljubljana.[4][5]
Qualification
The 15 teams which joined automatically qualified hosts Netherlands in the finals were decided by qualifying running from 29 January 2020 to November 2021.[6][7]
Qualified teams
The following 16 teams qualify for the final tournament.
- 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
Final draw
The final draw was held in Zeist on 18 October 2021.[8] The teams were seeded according to the UEFA senior men's futsal national team coefficient rankings, with the winner of the play-off taking the ranking of the contender with the higher coefficient, Serbia.[9] 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 (due to a potential clash of teams and clash of fans).
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Venues
The tournament was held at two venues:[10]
| Amsterdam | Groningen | |
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| Ziggo Dome Capacity: 10,500 | MartiniPlaza Capacity: 4,500 | |
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Due to COVID-19 restrictions in the Netherlands, initial games of the tournament were held behind closed doors. In the evening of 25 January, the Dutch government allowed a limited number of spectators to attend matches. On 26 January only fans who purchased tickets before the spectator ban could attend, and from 27 January ticket sales were open to the general public.[11] The capacity limits for the rest of the tournament were 1,250 at Ziggo Dome and 650 at MartiniPlaza.[12]
Squads
Each national team have to submit a squad of 14 players, two of whom must be goalkeepers. During the final tournament, each team is allowed to replace a maximum of one outfield player if he is injured or ill severely enough to prevent his participation in the tournament. Each team is also allowed to temporarily replace a goalkeeper if there are fewer than two healthy goalkeepers.[7]
Group stage
Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where extra time is not played but a direct penalty shoot-out is used, instead.[7]
Bracket
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| 31 January – Amsterdam | ||||||||||
| Portugal | 3 | |||||||||
| 4 February – Amsterdam | ||||||||||
 Finland | 2 | |||||||||
| Portugal | 3 | |||||||||
| 1 February – Amsterdam | ||||||||||
| Spain | 2 | |||||||||
| Spain | 5 | |||||||||
| 6 February – Amsterdam | ||||||||||
 Slovakia | 1 | |||||||||
| Portugal | 4 | |||||||||
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| Russia | 2 | |||||||||
| Kazakhstan | 3 | |||||||||
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| Ukraine | 5 | |||||||||
| Ukraine | 2 | |||||||||
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| Russia | 3 | Third place match | ||||||||
| Russia | 3 | |||||||||
| 6 February – Amsterdam | ||||||||||
 Georgia | 1 | |||||||||
| Spain | 4 | |||||||||
| Ukraine | 1 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
| Portugal | 3–2 | Finland |
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| Kazakhstan | 3–5 | Ukraine |
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| Russia | 3–1 | Georgia |
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| Spain | 5–1 | Slovakia |
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Semi-finals
| Portugal | 3–2 | Spain |
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Third place match
| Spain | 4–1 | Ukraine |
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Final
| Portugal | 4–2 | Russia |
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Final ranking
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