2015–16 UEFA Futsal Cup

2015–16 UEFA Futsal Cup
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying rounds:; 25 August – 15 November 2015; Final tournament:; 22–24 April 2016
Teams	Final tournament: 4; Total: 49 (from 48 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Gazprom-Ugra Yugorsk (1st title)
Runners-up	Inter FS
Third place	Benfica
Fourth place	ASD Pescara
Tournament statistics
Matches played	103
Goals scored	735 (7.14 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Eder Lima (13 goals)

The 2015–16 UEFA Futsal Cup was the 30th edition of Europe's premier club futsal tournament, and the 15th edition under the current UEFA Futsal Cup format organized by UEFA.

Kairat Almaty were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the elite round. In the final, Gazprom-Ugra Yugorsk defeated Inter FS to become the third Russian team, after MFK Dinamo Moskva and MFK Viz-Sinara Yekaterinburg, to win the title.

Teams

A total of 49 teams from 48 of the 54 UEFA member associations entered the tournament, which included first-time entrants from Luxembourg.[1] Each association could enter one team. Moreover, the winners of the 2014–15 UEFA Futsal Cup, Kairat Almaty, qualified automatically as title holders, and thus their association, Kazakhstan, could enter a second team.[2]

Teams were ranked according to their UEFA coefficients, computed based on results of the last three seasons, to decide on the round they entered. The top four teams (with the title holders being the automatic top seed) entered the elite round, the next 16 teams (ranked 5–20) entered the main round, and the bottom 29 teams (ranked 21–49) entered the preliminary round.

For teams entering the preliminary round or main round, they were assigned a seeding position according to their ranking for the respective draw, with eight teams pre-selected as hosts for the preliminary round and six teams pre-selected as hosts for the main round (marked by (H) below).[3][4]

Rank	Association	Team	Coeff
Elite round
1	Kazakhstan	Kairat Almaty (Title holders)	64.167
2	Spain	Inter FS	29.666
3	Kazakhstan	Tulpar Karagandy	28.500
4	Serbia	Ekonomac Kragujevac	21.000
Main round
Seeding position 1
5	Czech Republic	FK EP Chrudim	19.500
6	Russia	Gazprom-Ugra Yugorsk	18.500
7	Slovakia	Slov-Matic Bratislava (H)	17.501
8	Hungary	Győri ETO FC (H)	16.167
9	Ukraine	FC Lokomotiv Kharkiv	15.500
10	Portugal	Benfica	14.667
Seeding position 2
11	Latvia	FK Nikars Riga (H)	14.000
12	England	Baku United FC	10.167
13	Netherlands	Futsal Club Eindhoven	8.000
14	Romania	City'US Târgu Mureș (H)	7.833
15	Bulgaria	FC Grand Pro Varna	7.374
16	Georgia	Georgians Tbilisi	5.834
Seeding position 3
17	Belarus	LSM Lida	5.334
18	Slovenia	Dobovec (H)	5.000
19	Cyprus	FC APOEL Nicosia (H)	4.500
20	Greece	Athina '90	4.500

Rank	Association	Team	Coeff
Preliminary round
Seeding position 1
21	France	Kremlin-Bicêtre United	4.417
22	Croatia	FC National Zagreb	4.167
23	Macedonia	KMF Železarec Skopje (H)	3.750
24	Italy	ASD Pescara	3.667
25	Belgium	FP Halle-Gooik	3.250
26	Bosnia and Herzegovina	MNK Centar Sarajevo	3.167
27	Germany	Hamburg Panthers	2.000
28	Norway	Grorud IL	1.833
Seeding position 2
29	Moldova	FC Progress Chișinău (H)	1.625
30	Andorra	FC Encamp (H)	1.499
31	Republic of Ireland	Blue Magic FC Dublin	1.250
32	Israel	ASA Ben Gurion	1.084
33	Austria	Stella Rossa Wien (H)	1.000
34	Sweden	Futsal Club Göteborg	1.000
35	Finland	Sievi Futsal	0.917
36	Albania	KF Flamurtari Vlorë	0.917
Seeding position 3
37	Denmark	JB Futsal Gentofte	0.833
38	Iceland	Víkingur Ólafsvík (H)	0.750
39	Turkey	Istanbul Üniversitesi SK	0.750
40	Montenegro	KMF Titograd (H)	0.584
41	Switzerland	Mobulu Futsal Uni Bern (H)	0.500
42	Estonia	SK Augur Tallinn	0.500
43	Armenia	ASUE Futsal	0.417
44	Scotland	FC Santos Perth	0.251
Seeding position 4
45	Malta	Luxol Futsal	0.250
46	Lithuania	FC Inkaras	0.167
47	Gibraltar	Lynx FC (H)	0.084
48	Wales	Cardiff University Futsal Club	0.000
49	Luxembourg	FC Differdange 03	0.000

Did not enter
Azerbaijan
Faroe Islands
Liechtenstein
Northern Ireland
Poland
San Marino

The draws for the preliminary round and main round were held on 2 July 2015, 13:30 CEST (UTC+2), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[5][6] The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:[3][4]

In the preliminary round, the 29 teams were drawn into eight groups, either of four containing one team from each of the seeding positions 1–4, or of three containing one team from each of the seeding positions 1–3. First, the eight teams which were pre-selected as hosts were drawn from their own designated pot and allocated to their respective group as per their seeding positions. Next, the remaining 21 teams were drawn from their respective pot which were allocated according to their seeding positions.
In the main round, the 24 teams were drawn into six groups of four, either containing one team from each of the seeding positions 1–3 and one group winner from the preliminary round, or containing one team from each of the seeding positions 1–2 and two group winners from the preliminary round. First, the six teams which were pre-selected as hosts were drawn from their own designated pot and allocated to their respective group as per their seeding positions. Next, the remaining 18 teams (including the eight preliminary round winners, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw) were drawn from their respective pot which were allocated according to their seeding positions.

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition was as follows.[7]

Round	Draw	Dates
Preliminary round	2 July 2015	25–29 August 2015
Main round	2 July 2015	29 September–4 October 2015
Elite round	14 October 2015	10–15 November 2015
Final tournament	15 March 2016	Semi-finals: 22 April 2016 Third place match & Final: 24 April 2016

Format

In the preliminary round, main round and elite round, each group was played as a round-robin mini-tournament at the pre-selected hosts.

In the final tournament, the four qualified teams played in knockout format (semi-finals, third place match, and final), either at a host selected by UEFA from one of the teams, or at a neutral venue.

Tiebreakers

In the preliminary round, main round and elite round, the teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of a mini-tournament, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):[2]

Higher number of points obtained in the mini-tournament matches played among the teams in question;
Superior goal difference resulting from the mini-tournament matches played among the teams in question;
Higher number of goals scored in the mini-tournament matches played among the teams in question;
If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still had an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 were reapplied exclusively to the mini-tournament matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure did not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 10 applied;
Superior goal difference in all mini-tournament matches;
Higher number of goals scored in all mini-tournament matches;
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 mini-tournament, their rankings were determined by a penalty shoot-out (not used if more than two teams had the same number of points, or if their rankings were not relevant for qualification for the next stage).
Lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received in the mini-tournament matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
Coefficient ranking;
Drawing of lots.

Preliminary round

The eight group winners advanced to the main round to join the 16 teams which received byes to the main round.

All times were CEST (UTC+2).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kremlin-Bicêtre United	3	3	0	12	1	+11	9	Main round
2	Stella Rossa Wien (H)	3	2	1	7	5	+2	6
3	Istanbul Üniversitesi SK	3	1	2	8	7	+1	3
4	FC Inkaras	3	0	3	3	17	−14	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Host.

25 August 2015