The Union of European Football Associations is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs football, futsal and beach football in Europe and the transcontinental countries of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Kazakhstan, as well as the West Asian countries of Cyprus, Armenia and Israel. UEFA consists of 55 national association members. Since 2022, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, FIFA and UEFA suspended all Russian national teams and clubs from any FIFA and UEFA competitions.
In European football, the UEFA coefficients are statistics based in weighted arithmetic means used for ranking and seeding teams in club and international competitions. Introduced in 1979 for men's football tournaments, and after applied in women's football and futsal, the coefficients are calculated by UEFA, who administer football within Europe, and the Asian parts of some transcontinental countries.
The UEFA Futsal Champions League is an annual futsal competition for European club teams organized by UEFA. It was founded as the UEFA Futsal Cup in 2001 and replaced the Futsal European Clubs Championship, an unofficial competition held since 1984. The final of the first edition was played in a single game in Lisbon, while the following four editions were decided over two legs. Since 2006–07, the winner is decided through a final four tournament.
MFK Dinamo was a Russian futsal club based in Moscow oblast. Futsal is a variant of association football that is played on a smaller pitch, mainly indoors. It won the UEFA Futsal Cup in 2007.
AFC Kairat is a professional futsal club based in Almaty, the biggest city of Kazakhstan. The club was founded in 1995. Since 2012 the club has been one of the strongest teams in Europe, having reached UEFA Futsal Cup semi-finals four times and winning it in 2012–13 and 2014–15 seasons.
Carlos Ortiz Jiménez, commonly known as Ortiz, is a Spanish futsal player who plays for FC Barcelona as a Defender. In 2020 he was awarded a spot in the 2020 FutsalFeed's Best Team of the Year Award.
Cirilo Tadeus Cardoso Filho, commonly known as Cirilo, is a Brazilian-Russian futsal player of Brazilian origin. He was a member of the Russian national futsal team.
Futsal Klub Tirana or short FK Tirana are the most successful Albanian futsal club. In their short existence they have already won 14 major domestic trophies; 12 championships of the Albanian Futsal Championship and twice Cup winners. In international level they also hold one trophy of the Nationwide Futsal Cup.
Ricardo Filipe da Silva Braga, best known as Ricardinho, is a Portuguese professional futsal player who plays for Latvian club Riga Futsal Club. He is regarded by many as the best futsal player of all time, winning numerous titles and accolades for both club and country, such as the UEFA Futsal Champions League, UEFA European Futsal Championship, FIFA Futsal World Cup, the Best Player of the World awards, and many more. He operates mainly as a flank/winger, and commonly wears his iconic number "10".
Sergio Lozano Martínez, commonly known as Sergio Lozano, is a Spanish futsal player who plays for Barcelona as an Ala. In 2020 he was awarded a spot in the 2020 FutsalFeed's Best Team of the Year Award.
Júlio César Simonato Cordeiro, commonly known as Alemão, is a Brazilian born, Spanish futsal player who plays for Dina Moscow as an Ala.
Dmitri Sergeyevich Prudnikov is a Russian futsal player who is currently playing for MFK Ukhta and the Russian national futsal team.
Aleksandr Fukin is a Russian futsal player who plays for KPRF and the Russian national futsal team.
Serhiy Hivivych Koridze, is a Ukrainian futsal player.
Anilton César Varela da Silva, also known as Pany Varela, is a futsal player who plays for Sporting CP as a winger. Born in Cape Verde, he represents Portugal internationally.
Gazprom-Ugra Yugorsk is a futsal club based in Yugorsk, Russia. It was founded in 1992. Today Ugra Yugorsk is competing in the Russian Super League. In the 2014/2015 season, Yugra won its first trophy there. A season later they won the UEFA Futsal Cup, defeating Inter Movistar in the final. The club is owned by Russian state-controlled energy company Gazprom.
Leandro Rodrigues Bernardes, aka Leandro Esquerdinha is a Brazilian-born Russian futsal player who currently plays for Barcelona and the Russia national team.
The UEFA European Women's Futsal Championship is the main futsal competition of the women's national futsal teams governed by UEFA.
Olexiy Mykolayovych Popov is a Ukrainian professional futsal coach and former player. He was a member of the Ukrainian national futsal team.
The 2022 UEFA Women's Futsal Championship, also referred to as UEFA Women's Futsal Euro 2022, was the second edition of the UEFA Women's Futsal Championship, the biennial international futsal championship organised by UEFA for the women's national teams of Europe.
