UEFA Futsal Euro 2018 qualifying
The UEFA Futsal Euro 2018 qualifying competition was a men's futsal competition that determined the 11 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Slovenia in the Futsal Euro 2018 final tournament.
A total of 47 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition.
Format
The qualifying competition consists of three rounds:- Preliminary round: The 26 lowest-ranked teams are drawn into five groups of four teams and two groups of three teams. Each group is played in single round-robin format at one of the teams which were pre-selected as hosts. The seven group winners advance to the main round.
- Main round: The 28 teams are drawn into seven groups of four teams. Each group is played in single round-robin format at one of the teams which were pre-selected as hosts. The seven group winners qualify for the final tournament, while the seven runners-up and the best third-placed team advanced to the play-offs.
- Play-offs: The eight teams are drawn into four ties to play home-and-away two-legged matches to determine the last four qualified teams.
Tiebreakers
In the preliminary round and main round, teams are ranked according to points, and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings :- Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Goals scored in all group matches;
- Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above ;
- Disciplinary points ;
- UEFA coefficient;
- Drawing of lots.
- Points;
- Goal difference;
- Goals scored;
- Disciplinary points;
- UEFA coefficient;
- Drawing of lots.
Schedule
The qualifying matches are played on the following dates.| Stage | Dates |
| Preliminary round | 24 January – 2 February 2017 |
| Main round | 3–12 April 2017 |
| Play-offs | 10–13 & 24–27 September 2017 |
Entrants
The teams were ranked according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:- UEFA Futsal Euro 2014 final tournament and qualifying competition
- UEFA Futsal Euro 2016 final tournament and [UEFA Futsal Euro UEFA Futsal Euro 2016|2016 qualifying|qualifying competition]
- 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup final tournament and qualifying competition
| Team | ||
| 6,389 | 7 |
;Notes
The draws for the preliminary round and main round were held on 21 October 2016, 14:30 CEST, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:
Preliminary roundAll times are CET.Group A-------- Group B-------- Group C-------- Group D-------- Group E-------- Group F-------- Group G-------- Main roundAll times are CEST.Group [|1]Note: Belarus were originally to host.---- ---- Group 2-------- Group 3-------- Group 4-------- Group 5-------- Group 6-------- Group 7-------- Play-offsThe draw for the play-offs was held on 6 July 2017, 13:30 CEST, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. There were no seedings, with the only restriction that the best third-placed team could not be drawn against the runner-up from the same main round group.All times are CEST. Qualified teamsThe following 12 teams qualified for the final tournament.
Top goalscorersThe following players scored six goals or more in the qualifying competition:;9 goals
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