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. •
Elite round: 16 teams advancing from the main round were divided into four groups of four teams, with the group winners qualifying for the final tournament. In each group, teams played against each other in a single
round-robin format hosted by one of the participating teams. 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==