Valletta drawn with teams from Macedonia, Ireland and Estonia in UEFA Futsal Champions League

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 B

Group 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