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==