Futsal Champions Valletta were drawn with Veles of Macedonia, Futsamba Naas of Ireland’s and Cosmos Tallinn of Estonia in Group E of the UEFA Futsal Champions League Preliminary Round. The mini-tournament will be held between August 28 and September 2 in Macedonia.
The winners move on to Group 8 of the Main Round together with Araz Naxçivan of Azerbaijan, Lučenec of Slovakia and the winners of Group F of the Preliminary round.
Preliminary round draw (28 August–2 September)
Group A: Mostar SG (BIH, hosts), Futsal Gentofte (DEN), Maccabi Nahalat Yitzhak Tel-Aviv (ISR), Wattcell (SCO)
Group B: Sandefjord (NOR), Kampuksen Dynamo (FIN), Allstars Wiener Neustadt (AUT, hosts), Encamp (AND)
Group C: Leo Futsal Club (ARM), Uddevalla (SWE hosts), Čelik NK (MNE), Vængir Júpiters (ISL)
Group D: Hohenstein-Ernstthal (GER, hosts), Doukas SAC (GRE), KF Tirana (ALB) , Belfast United (NIR)
Group E: Veles (MKD, hosts), Valletta (MLT), Futsamba Naas (IRL), Cosmos Tallinn (EST)
Group F: Hovocubo (NED), Reading Futsal Club (ENG), Vytis (LTU, hosts), Murata (SMR)
Group G: Record Bielsko-Biała (POL, hosts), Varna City (BUL), Cardiff University (WAL), Racing Futsal Luxembourg (LUX)
Group H: Informatica Timişoara (ROU, hosts), Lynx FC (GIB), Turkish champions tbc (TUR)
Group I: TMC Tbilisi (GEO), Dinamo Chişinău (MDA, hosts), RCD Futsal La Chaux-de-Fonds (SUI)
Main round draw (2–7 October)
Path A
Group 1: Barça (ESP), Benfica (POR), Halle-Gooik (BEL, hosts), Kremlin-Bicêtre United (FRA)
Group 2: Inter FS (ESP, holders), Ekonomac Kragujevac (SRB, hosts), EP Chrudim (CZE), MFC Kherson (UKR)
Group 3: TTG-Ugra Yugorsk (RUS), Győr (HUN), Sibiryak (RUS), Dobovec (SVN, hosts)
Group 4: Sporting CP (POR), Kairat Almaty (KAZ), LSM Lida (BLR), Feniks (KOS, hosts)
Top three in each group progress to the elite round
Path BGroup 5: A&S Futsal Pescara (ITA), APOEL (CYP, hosts), Preliminary round winner Group A, Preliminary round winner Group C
Group 6: Aktobe (KAZ), Novo Vrijeme Makarska (CRO, hosts), Preliminary round winner Group B, Preliminary round winner Group I
Group 7: Nikars Riga (LVA, hosts), Preliminary round winners Group D, Preliminary round winner Group G, Preliminary round winner Group H
Group 8: Araz Naxçivan (AZE), Lučenec (SVK, hosts), Preliminary round winner Group E, Preliminary round winner Group F
Group winners progress to the elite round