UEFA Futsal Euro 2026


The 2026 UEFA Futsal Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Futsal Euro 2026, is the 13th edition of the UEFA Futsal Championship, the quadrennial international futsal championship organised by UEFA for the men's national teams of Europe.
This is the second tournament to be held on a four-year basis after 2022. It is taking place between 21 January and 7 February 2026. The tournament was supposed to be held solely in Latvia and Lithuania, but due to their unwillingness to accommodate Belarus, UEFA added Slovenia as a third co-host as the Slovenians agreed to hosting the Belarusian team. This marks the first time the Futsal Euro is co-hosted and the first UEFA tournament to have three nations hosting. This is the first time a senior UEFA national team tournament is held in the Baltics.
For the second time after the expansion in 2022, 16 teams took part. Qualification took place between April 2024 and September 2025. The original two co-hosts, Latvia and Lithuania, qualified automatically, becoming the first host nations to make their debut at the same tournament they are hosting. Armenia also made their debut.
Portugal are the two-time defending champions after previously winning in 2018 and 2022.

Host selection

The bidding procedure for hosting was launched in 2022, with a deadline of January 2023 to express their interest in hosting. UEFA requirements states the host country needs to have two arena, one with a spectator capacity of at least 7,500 and the other with at least 4,500.
The final proposal had to delivered with the bid dossier in May 2023 at the latest, and UEFA received four bids:
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Soon after, Belgium and France became two separate bids, while Latvia and Lithuania merged their bids.
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On 2 December 2023, Latvia and Lithuania were awarded the hosting rights in Hamburg, Germany.

Slovenia added as a co-host

However, problems emerged with the hosting arrangement after Belarus qualified, with neither country willing to host them due to the Russo-Ukrainian war. Latvia had stated that they were ready to relinquish their hosting rights if they had to host Belarus. UEFA was supposed to make a decision in May 2025 but it was delayed. On 27 June 2025, Slovenia were added as a third co-host, with two venues in Ljubljana. Lithuanian Football Federation general secretary, Edgaras Stankevičius, stated he supports the hosting system. The plan was approved by the Slovenian government as well. Belarus and Kazakhstan also stated an interest in hosting the event. The arrangement was very similar to the India and Pakistan cricket arrangement where neither side can play a world cup in the other country, so a neutral venue had to be found. Arena Stožice and Tivoli Arena were selected by Slovenia.

Preparations

2024

  • On 22 October, UEFA representatives went to observe Lithuania's preparations for the second time.

2025

  • On 30 September, Slovenia's official website was released.
  • On 17 October, Slovenian captain, Igor Osredkar, and former Slovenian football international, Bojan Jokić, were revealed as Slovenia's ambassadors.
  • On 24 October, on the day of the draw, Slovenia set up a countdown clock for the tournament.
  • Lithuanian boxer, Eimantas Stanionis, was announced as Lithuania's ambassador.
  • On 27 October, a newly designed trophy for the Futsal Euro was shown for the first time.
  • On 3 December, a press conference between president of the Slovenian Football Association, Radenko Mijatovic, and the deputy mayor of the Ljubljana Municipality, Samo Logar, took place in Ljubljana.
  • On 5 December, the process of media accreditation in Lithuania was opened, with the deadline being the 7 January 2026.
  • On 22 December, an event in the Domina shopping centre in Riga took place.

2026

  • On 9 January, the process of media accreditation in Latvia was opened.
  • On 12 January, UEFA announced that each host country will have a unique court based off their national colours.

Tickets

On 27 October at 12:00 CET, tickets sales started. The tickets are split into categories 1 and 2, priced at 20 and 15 Euros respectively.

Ticket websites

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Qualification

Qualified teams

The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.

Venues

The tournament is being held at four venues, with two in Ljubljana and one each in Riga and Kaunas. Before Slovenia's inclusion, the final was planned to be in Riga. The opening match was in Riga. The final will be at Arena Stožice in Ljubljana. Latvia and Lithuania each host one group and a quarterfinal, while Slovenia host two groups and the remaining knockout stage matches. With UEFA not allowing arenas to include sponsors in their names, the Xiaomi Arena was changed to its original name, Arena Riga, for the tournament. Ljubljana became the first city to host two UEFA Futsal Euros.

Overview of venues

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Draw

The draw was held at 12:00 EET on 24 October 2025 at the Žalgiris Arena in Kaunas, Lithuania. Lithuanian presenter, Gabrielė Martirosian hosted the draw. The guests were Portuguese futsal legend, Ricardinho and Lithuanian professional boxer and tournament ambassador Eimantas Stanionis, who assisted with the draw. Before the draw started, co-hosts Latvia, Lithuania and Slovenia were all pre-allocated into positions A1, B1 and C1 in each of their groups respectively. The draw started with, in order, pots 1, 2, 3 and 4 being drawn, with each team selected then allocated into the first available group alphabetically. The position for the team within the group would then be drawn.
There were two restrictions on the draw. Firstly, Belarus had to be drawn in a group held in Slovenia due to domestic laws in Latvia and Lithuania which prohibit matches involving Belarusian teams to be played in their countries. Secondly, Ukraine had to be drawn into a group held in Latvia and Lithuania to avoid playing Belarus as far into the tournament as possible.

Seeding

The seeding was based off the UEFA men's futsal national team coefficient rankings as of 26 September 2025.
TeamRank
12945.674
22639.875
52344.186
62193.280

TeamRank
111908.193
131828.292
141786.617
151781.380

Draw results

Team
B1
B2
B3
B4

Team
D1
D2
D3
D4

Squads

Each national team had to submit a squad of 14 players, two of whom must be goalkeepers. During the tournament, each team is allowed to replace a maximum of one outfield player if they are injured or ill preventing them from participating in the tournament. Each team is also allowed to temporarily replace a goalkeeper if there are fewer than two healthy goalkeepers.

Referees

A total of 32 referees and four referee observers were selected for the tournament. They were split into two groups – one for matches in Latvia and Lithuania, and one for matches in Slovenia.
Each match is officiated by a team of four referees and a timekeeper. Any referee may be one of the two referees on the pitch, the third referee, the fourth referee, or the timekeeper.

Referees

Latvia and Lithuania

  • Hikmat Qafarli
  • Peter Nurse
  • Juan José Cordero
  • Alejandro Martínez
  • Chiara Perona
  • Marjan Mladenovski
  • Done Ristovski
  • Dag Erik Tangvik
  • Telmen Undrakh
  • Cristiano Santos
  • Rúben Santos
  • Aleš Močnik Perič
  • Dejan Veselič
  • Daniel Matkovic
  • David Schärli
  • Perry Gautier
  • Massimo Cumbo

Slovenia

  • Kaloyan Kirilov
  • Nikola Jelić
  • Ondřej Černý
  • Grigori Osomkov
  • Arttu Kyynäräinen
  • Victor Chaix
  • Julien Lang
  • Dominykas Norkus
  • Viktor Bugenko
  • Damian Grabowski
  • Bogdan Hanceariuc
  • Petar Radojčić
  • Ademir Avdic
  • David Glavonjic
  • Denys Kutsyi
  • Mariia Myslovska
  • Ivan Novak
  • Pedro Galán Nieto

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals. The schedule was announced after the draw by UEFA.
;Tiebreakers
In the group stage, 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 :
  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. 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;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. 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 ;
  8. Disciplinary points ;
  9. UEFA coefficient ranking for the final draw.
All times are local. Latvia and Lithuania use EET and Slovenia uses 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

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.

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Statistics

Man of the match

A man of the match award was given to the player deemed as playing the best in each match.
RoundTeamMatchTeamPlayer
Group A2–2 Franko Jelovčić
Group A4–0 Edgars Tarakanovs
Group A2–2 Ali Aslani
Group A5–0 Souheil Mouhoudine
Group A1–4 Vítor Lima
Group A1–3 Abdessamad Mohammed
Group B2–1 Mihran Dermenjyan
Group B3–3 Ernestas Macenis
Group B5–4 Nikita Khromykh
Group B4–1 Ihor Cherniavskyi
Group B3–3 Edgaras Baranauskas
Group B3–5 Danyil Abakshyn
Group C0–4 Omar Rahou
Group C1–4 Mellado
Group C0–2 David Novoa
Group C4–5 Matej Fideršek
Group C2–3 Dmitri Shvedko
Group C10–3 Pablo Ramirez
Group D2–6 Kutchy
Group D4–2 Máté Suscsák
Group D1–5 Diogo Santos
Group D0–4 Julio De Oliveira
Group D3–2 Michał Kałuża
Group D2–2 Alex Merlim
Quarter-finals4–2 Souheil Mouhoudine
Quarter-finals0–3 Ante Piplica
Quarter-finals8–2 Pany Varela
Quarter-finals4–0 Antonio Pérez
Semi-finals–
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Third place match–
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Notable statistics

As of 1 February.
  • Most goals in a game: Spain 10–3 Belgium
  • Least goals in a game: Belarus 0–2 Spain
  • Most goals by a team in a game: Spain 10–3 Belgium
  • Least goals by a team in a game: Latvia 4–0, France 5–0 Latvia, Belarus 0–4 Belgium, Belarus 0–2 Spain, Poland 0–4 Italy, Armenia 0–3 Croatia, Spain 4–0 Italy
  • Biggest goal difference in a game: Spain 10–3 Belgium
  • Biggest half time deficit in a game: Slovenia 0–4 Spain at half
  • Most goals scored by a player in a game: 3 goals – Omar Rahou, Belarus 0–4 Belgium; Julio De Oliveira, Poland 0–4 Italy; Souheil Mouhoudine, Armenia 0–3 Croatia

Notable occurrences

  • On 21 January, Latvia became the first hosts since Serbia in 2016 to win their opening game.
  • On 22 January, at 18 years and 69 days old, Ukrainian player, Illia Prykhodko became the youngest player to appear at the finals.
  • On 24 January, at 19 years and 168 days old, Polish player, Kacper Pawlus, became the youngest player to score at the finals, after scoring Poland's first goal in a 4–2 defeat to Hungary.
  • On 26 January, at 40 years and 209 days old, Belgian player, Gréllo, became the oldest player to score at the finals, after scoring Belgium's first goal in a 5–4 defeat to Slovenia.
  • On 29 January, Spain's 10–3 win over Belgium broke the record for most goals by a team in one match at the Euro.

Broadcasting rights

On 2 December, the broadcasting rights were announced. For countries with no stated broadcasting rights, matches will be broadcast on UEFA.tv.