2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup
The 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup was the tenth edition of the FIFA Futsal World Cup, the quadrennial international futsal championship contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament was held in Uzbekistan. It was the first FIFA tournament ever hosted by Uzbekistan and a Central Asian nation. The tournament returned to its usual four-year cycle after the previous tournament was delayed for a year to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Portugal were the defending champions by defeating Argentina 2–1 in the previous edition, but were eliminated in the round of 16 against Kazakhstan. Brazil won a record-extending sixth title, beating their arch-rivals Argentina by the same scoreline.
Host selection
Uzbekistan's enthusiasm and impressive track-record at hosting events were deemed as the reasons for Uzbekistan's selection. This is fourth time an Asian country hosts the event and marks the first time a FIFA tournament has been held in Central Asia. Prior, Uzbekistan was supposed to host the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, but were stripped of the hosting rights due to a number of logistical and technical issues; Japan took their place instead.
Preparations
- On 20 May, the logo was unveiled by FIFA. The logo is supposed to depict the kalampir pepper, used in traditional Uzbek cuisine frequently in shape of the FIFA Futsal World Cup trophy.
- On 19 July, the media accreditation process began.
- On 30 July 2024, the ticket process started.
- On 31 July, in Paris, the trophy handover took place.
- On 7 August, the mascot was realised. Its name is Xon, the Turanian tiger.
- During August, a trophy tour in took place in Andijan, Fergana, Namangan, Jizzakh and Samarkand.
Qualification
A total of 24 teams qualify for the final tournament, in addition to Uzbekistan who qualified automatically as host, 23 other teams qualify from six separate continental competitions. Overall, 121 nations entered qualification.Of the 24 qualifiers, four made their debut: Afghanistan, France, New Zealand and Tajikistan.
Afghanistan's and Tajikistan's qualification, along with Iran and hosts Uzbekistan, means that for the first time, four nations from Central Asia qualified for the World Cup. This is also Tajikistan's first senior FIFA tournament, having previously participated in two FIFA U-17 World Cups. This is Afghanistan's first ever FIFA tournament.
Of the returnees, Europeans Croatia and Netherlands both return after a 24-year absence. Libya returns after last qualifying in 2012 while Cuba and Ukraine qualified after missing out on the previous edition.
Notable absentees include Russia, who were banned from qualification by UEFA due to the country's invasion of Ukraine. The 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup champions, Japan, failed to qualify after getting eliminated in the group stage of the 2024 Futsal Asian Cup for the first time in their history. From Africa, Egypt failed to qualify for the first time since 1992 after losing the third place play off at the 2024 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations. After making the 2016 and 2021 editions, Vietnam failed to qualify.
Czech Republic, Serbia, and United States all failed to qualify after making the 2021 edition. The highest ranked team to fail to qualify was 14th, Georgia while Cuba is the lowest ranked team to make it ranked 78th.
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| AFC (Asia) | 2024 AFC Futsal Asian Cup |  |variant=2013futsal|IRNsort|03|Third placefutsal|TJKfutsal|THAsort|16|Round of 16futsal|ANGsort|24|Group stagefutsal|LBAsort|24|Group stagefutsal|MARsort|08|Quarter-finalsfutsal|CRCsort|16|Round of 16futsal|CUBsort|24|Group stagefutsal|GUAnowrap| futsal|PARsort|08|Quarter-finalsfutsal|VENsort|16|Round of 16nowrap|futsal|CROsort|05|Fifth placefutsal|FRAfutsal|KAZsort|04|Fourth placenowrap|sort|02|Runners-upfutsal|PORsort|01|Championsfutsal|ESPsort|01|Championsfutsal|UKRsort|04|Fourth placenotelist-uaVenuesFIFA went to investigate the arenas in the Uzbek cities of Tashkent, Bukhara, Andijan, Samarkand and Fergana. After they received the hosting rights, Uzbekistan proposed four venues for the tournament, all based in the capital Tashkent. Tashkent, Bukhara and Andijan were confirmed as three host cities on 19 April 2024.Final drawThe draw was held on 26 May 2024 at the Registan Square in Samarkand at 21:00 UZT. Retired Uzbek footballer, Server Djeparov, former Manchester United and France striker Louis Saha and former Spanish player, Kike, were the guests and assisted the draw.SeedingThe 24 teams were drawn into six groups of four teams, with the host Uzbekistan automatically seeded to Pot 1 and placed into the first position of Group A. The seeding was based on the newly created FIFA Futsal World Rankings, that were published on 6 May 2024.The draw started with the host to A1, the teams from Pot 1 were drawn first, with the teams from Pots 2, 3 and 4 being drawn after. With the exception of UEFA, teams from the same confederation could not be drawn in the same group.
Draw
Match officialsThe following officials were chosen for the tournament. For the second time, after the 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup, in a FIFA Futsal tournament, the Video Support will be implemented.
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