The 2025–26 UEFA Futsal Champions League was the 40th edition of Europe's premier club futsal tournament, and the 25th edition organized by UEFA. It was also the eighth edition since the tournament was rebranded from "UEFA Futsal Cup" to UEFA Futsal Champions League.
Palma Futsal were the title holders.
Association team allocation A total of 56 teams from 52 of the 55 UEFA member associations participated in the 2025–26 UEFA Futsal Champions League. The association ranking based on the UEFA futsal national team coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association: The top three-ranked associations have two teams qualify. The winners of the 2024–25 UEFA Futsal Champions League qualify automatically and its association can also enter a second team. If the title-holders' association is among the top three-ranked associations, the 4th ranked association is also entitled to enter a second team. The remaining associations have one team qualify.
For this season, the top three-ranked associations are Portugal, Spain, and Kazakhstan. As the title holders are from Spain, the 4th ranked association, Ukraine, can also enter two teams, after UEFA's decision to exclude Russian clubs from all UEFA competitions due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Distribution For the 2024–25 UEFA Futsal Champions League, the clubs' entry round was determined by their UEFA futsal club coefficients, which took into account their performance from the previous three seasons.
+Access list for 2024–25 UEFA Futsal Champions LeagueTeams entering in this roundTeams advancing from previous roundPreliminary round(32 teams)32 teams ranked 24–55Main roundPath A(16 teams)Title holders 15 teams ranked 1–11 and 16–19Path B(16 teams)8 teams ranked 12–15 and 20–238 group winners from preliminary roundElite round(16 teams)4 group winners from main round path A 4 group runners-up from main round path A 4 group third-placed teams from main round path A 4 group winners from main round path BFinal tournament(4 teams)4 Quarter-final winners from elite round
Teams Below are the participating teams of the 2025–26 UEFA Futsal Champions League (with their ranking among participating teams), grouped by their starting round and path for the main round.
+Main round Path ATeam Palma FutsalTH Sporting CP1 SL Benfica2 Jimbee Cartagena3 Kairat4 Anderlecht5 6 Riga Futsal Club7 Étoile Lavalloise8 KMF Loznica9 Vrijeme Makarska10 Piast Gliwice11 Luxol St Andrews16 Kauno Žalgiris17 MFK Chrudim18 FC Prishtina 0119+Main round Path BTeam 12 13 MIMEL Lučenec14 HIT Kyiv15 Differdange 0320 21 Kyiv Futsal22 23+Preliminary roundTeam NK Vrhnika24 Araz Naxçivan25 26 Viten Orsha27 Yerevan FC28 29 MNK Buba Mara30 Hjørring Futsal Klub31 Futsal Club Forca32 AEK Futsal33 AEL Limassol Futsal34 Borås AIK35 Blue Magic Dublin36 Bajo Pivljanin37 FC Ljuti Krajisnici38 TSV Weilimdorf39 MFC CIU40 PFC Levski Sofia41 FC Tallinn B.P.42 Clic Chișinău43 KF Vllaznia Shkodër44 PYF Saltires45 46 FC Encamp47 Bolton Futsal Club48 SS Murata49 Futsal Club Cardiff50 Sparta Belfast51 52 Europa FC53 Maccabi Netanya Futsal54 Vangölü FK55
Format The tournament has a mini-tournament format consisting of three qualifying rounds and the final tournament. The qualifying rounds consisted of the following stages: Preliminary round: 32 teams entering this round were divided into eight groups of four teams with the group winners advancing to the next round. Main round: Path A: 16 teams entering this round were divided into four groups of four teams, with the group winners, runners-up, and third-placed teams advancing to the next round. Path B: 8 teams that entered in this round and the 8 teams advancing from the preliminary round were divided into four groups of four teams, with the group winners advancing to the next round. Round of 16: 16 teams advancing from the main round were drawn into eight home-away matches with winners advancing to next round. Top two teams from each Path A group are seeded.
Quarter-finals: Eight winners from previous round are drawn into four home-away matches with winners advancing to Final tournament.
The final tournament is played at a centralized location and consisted of single-legged semi-finals, a third-place play-off, and final. If scores were level at the end of normal time, extra time was played, followed by a penalty shoot-out if the scores remained tied.
Tiebreakers 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 tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (see Article 14 Equality of points – mini-tournaments, Regulations of the UEFA Futsal Champions League): Points in head-to-head matches among the tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among the tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among the tied teams; If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Disciplinary points (direct red card = 3 points; double yellow card = 3 points; single yellow card = 1 point); UEFA futsal club coefficients.
If two teams that have the same number of points and have scored and conceded the same number of goals play their last mini-tournament match against each other and are still equal at the end of that match, their final rankings are determined by a penalty shoot-out provided that no other teams within the group have the same number of points on completion of the mini-tournament. This procedure is only necessary if a ranking of the teams is required to determine the team which qualifies for the next stage.
Schedule The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).
+PhaseRoundDrawDatesQualifying stagePreliminary round3 July 202526–31 August 2025Final tournamentMain round28 October – 2 November 2025Round of 166 November 202524 November 2025 (first leg)5 December 2025 (second leg)Quarter-finals23 February 2026 (first leg)6 March 2026 (second leg)Semi-finals8 May 2026Final10 May 2026
Preliminary round The draw for the preliminary round was held on 3 July 2025, 14:00 CET. The preliminary round was played from 26 to 31 August 2025. The winners of each group progressed to the main round Path B.
Times are CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Seeding A total of 32 teams played in the preliminary round. Seeding of teams was based on their 2024 UEFA futsal club coefficients. Eight teams were pre-selected as hosts and were first drawn from a separate pot to their corresponding seeding position. The remaining teams were then drawn from their respective pots to their corresponding seeding position. Teams from Armenia & Azerbaijan could not be drawn into the same group.
Seeding position 1Seeding position 2Seeding position 3Seeding position 4
Notes H – Mini-tournament hosts
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Main round The draw for the preliminary round was held on 3 July 2025, 14:00 CET. The main round was played from 28 October to 2 November 2025.
Times are CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Seeding A total of 32 teams played in the main round. They were divided in two paths: Path A (16 teams): The title holders and teams ranked 1–11 and 16–19. The top three teams in each group proceed to the elite round. Path B (16 teams): Teams ranked 12–15 and 20-23 and 8 teams advancing from the preliminary round. The winners of each group move on to the elite round.
Seeding of teams was based on their 2025 UEFA futsal club coefficients. On Path B, the teams ranked 12th to 15th were in seeding position 1 and those ranked 20th to 23rd in position 2. The remaining preliminary round winners were in a further pot to fill positions 3 and 4.
Eight teams (four in each path) were pre-selected as hosts and were first drawn from a separate pot to their corresponding seeding position. The remaining teams were then drawn from their respective pots to their corresponding seeding position. Teams from Armenia & Azerbaijan could not be drawn into the same group.
Path A
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Path B Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8
Knockout stage The knockout round consisted of a round of 16 and the quarter-finals. The round of 16 contenders were decided by the main round, with 12 teams emerging from Path A and four from Path B. The two-legged round of 16 and quarter-final stages replace the former elite round under the new format for 2025/26. Ties scheduled for 24 November and 5 December, with the first-named team at home in the opening leg.
The final tournament was a one-venue four-team knockout event held in Pesaro, Italy, with the semi-finals taking place on 8 May and the final and third-place match two days later. A separate draw was held to set the semi-finals.
The draw was held on 6 November 2025 at 14:00 CET.
Bracket
Matches Times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Round of 16
Étoile Lavalloise won 11–5 on aggregate.
Futsal Club Semey won 8–6 on aggregate.
Palma Futsal won 6–4 on aggregate.
Riga FC won 11–4 on aggregate.
Benfica won 13–2 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 19–3 on aggregate.
Kairat won 12–6 on aggregate.
Jimbee Cartagena won 14–2 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
Étoile Lavalloise won 8–6 on aggregate.
Palma Futsal won 7–5 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 10–8 on aggregate.
Jimbee Cartagena won 9–5 on aggregate.
Final tournament
Semi-finals
Third place match
Final
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