Luxol Futsal to travel to Norway for UEFA Futsal Champions League Preliminary Round

Luxol Futsal were drawn with Sjarmtrollan Idrettslag of Norway, Dinamo Chisinau of Moldova and Fiorentino of San Marino in the Preliminary Round of the UEFA Futsal Champions League. The preliminary and main round draws were held on Thursday.

The mini-tournament will be played in Norway in the period 27 August to 1 September. The group winners would proceed to the Main Round where they would be facing Record Bielsko-Biała of Poland, hosts Sparta Praha of the Czech Republic and the winners of Group C.

All UEFA Futsal Champions League entrants were involved in the preliminary and main rounds, drawn by FC Encamp player and former River Plate, Barcelona and Real Madrid striker Javier Saviola.

Preliminary round draw (27 August to 1 September)

Group A: Kampuksen Dynamo (FIN), Toulon Elite (FRA), KF Tirana (ALB), SMS Viimsi (EST, hosts)
Group B: Lokomotiv Daugavpils (LVA), Shkupi 1927 (MKD, hosts), Cardiff University (WAL), Encamp (AND)
Group C: Futsal Klub Csíkszereda (ROU), Futsal Minerva (SUI), AEK Futs Club (GRE, hosts), Blue Magic FC Dublin (IRL)
Group D: Pinerola Brastislava (SVK), Omonia Nicosia (CYP, hosts), Gazi Üniversitesi (TUR), Vængir Júpiters (ISL)
Group E: TSV Weilimdorf (GER), Allstars Wiener Neustadt (AUT, hosts), Racing Futsal Luxembourg (LUX), Sparta Belfast (NIR)
Group F: Luxol St. Andrews (MLT), Sjarmtrollan Idrettslag (NOR, hosts), Dinamo Chisinau (MDA), Fiorentino (SMR)
Group G: Hovocubo (NED, hosts), London Helvecia (ENG), Lynx FC (GIB), PYF Saltires (SCO)
Group H: Georgians (GEO), Varna City (BUL, hosts), Maccabi Nahalat Yitzhak Tel-Aviv (ISR)
Group I: Leo Futsal Club (ARM), Futsal Gentofte (DEN), KMF Titograd (MNE, hosts)

The nine group winners go through to main round path B.

Main round draw (8 to 13 October)

Path A
Group 1
: Sporting CP (POR, holders), Ekonomac Kragujevac (SRB), Dobovec (SVN, hosts), Mostar SG (BIH)
Group 2: Benfica (POR), Halle Gooik (BEL, hosts), Araz Naxçivan (AZE), Kherson (UKR)
Group 3: Barça (ESP), Ayat (KAZ), Tyumen (RUS), Vytis (LTU, hosts)
Group 4: Kairat Almaty (KAZ), Murcia FS (ESP), Sport Club KPRF (RUS), Berettyóújfalu (HUN, hosts)

The top three teams in each of the four groups progress to the elite round.

Path B
Group 5
: Record Bielsko-Biała (POL), Sparta Praha (CZE, hosts), Preliminary round winners Group C, Preliminary round winners Group F
Group 6: Novo Vrijeme Makarska (CRO, hosts), Preliminary round winners Group B, Preliminary round winners Group D, Preliminary round winners Group I
Group 7: Stalitsa Minsk (BLR, hosts), Liburn (KOS), Preliminary round winners Group G, Preliminary round winners Group A
Group 8: Pesaro (ITA), Uddevalla (SWE, hosts), Preliminary round winners Group H, Preliminary round winners Group E

The winners of each of the four groups progress to the elite round.