2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup

The 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup was the tenth edition of the FIFA Futsal World Cup, the quadrennial international futsal championship contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament was held in Uzbekistan. It was the first FIFA tournament ever hosted by Uzbekistan and a Central Asian nation. The tournament returned to its usual four-year cycle after the previous tournament was delayed for a year to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup
FIFA футзал Жаҳон чемпионати 2024 (Uzbek) FIFA futzal Jahon chempionati 2024 Uzbekistan 2024

Tournament details
Host country	Uzbekistan
Dates	14 September – 6 October
Teams	24 (from 6 confederations)
Venue	3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Brazil (6th title)
Runners-up	Argentina
Third place	Ukraine
Fourth place	France
Tournament statistics
Matches played	52
Goals scored	362 (6.96 per match)
Attendance	152,823 (2,939 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Marcel (10 goals)
Best player	Dyego
Best goalkeeper	Willian
Fair play award	Portugal
← 2021 2028 →

Portugal were the defending champions by defeating Argentina 2–1 in the previous edition, but were eliminated in the round of 16 against Kazakhstan. Brazil won a record-extending sixth title, beating their arch-rivals Argentina by the same scoreline.

Host selection

India
Iran
Morocco
United States
Uzbekistan
Vietnam

In April 2023, Morocco was reported to have been given the hosting rights as they were reported to be the only bid submitted to FIFA. However, Uzbekistan was selected as host on 23 June 2023.

Uzbekistan's enthusiasm and impressive track-record at hosting events were deemed as the reasons for Uzbekistan's selection. This is fourth time an Asian country hosts the event and marks the first time a FIFA tournament has been held in Central Asia. Prior, Uzbekistan was supposed to host the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, but were stripped of the hosting rights due to a number of logistical and technical issues; Japan took their place instead.

Preparations

On 20 May, the logo was unveiled by FIFA. The logo is supposed to depict the kalampir pepper, used in traditional Uzbek cuisine frequently in shape of the FIFA Futsal World Cup trophy.

On 19 July, the media accreditation process began.

On 30 July 2024, the ticket process started.

On 31 July, in Paris, the trophy handover took place.

On 7 August, the mascot was realised. Its name is Xon, the Turanian tiger.

During August, a trophy tour in took place in Andijan, Fergana, Namangan, Jizzakh and Samarkand.

Qualification

A total of 24 teams qualify for the final tournament, in addition to Uzbekistan who qualified automatically as host, 23 other teams qualify from six separate continental competitions. Overall, 121 nations entered qualification.

Of the 24 qualifiers, four made their debut: Afghanistan, France, New Zealand and Tajikistan. Afghanistan's and Tajikistan's qualification, along with Iran and hosts Uzbekistan, means that for the first time, four nations from Central Asia qualified for the World Cup. This is also Tajikistan's first senior FIFA tournament, having previously participated in two FIFA U-17 World Cups. This is Afghanistan's first ever FIFA tournament.

Of the returnees, Europeans Croatia and Netherlands both return after a 24-year absence. Libya returns after last qualifying in 2012 while Cuba and Ukraine qualified after missing out on the previous edition.

Notable absentees include Russia, who were banned from qualification by UEFA due to the country's invasion of Ukraine. The 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup champions, Japan, failed to qualify after getting eliminated in the group stage of the 2024 Futsal Asian Cup for the first time in their history. From Africa, Egypt failed to qualify for the first time since 1992 after losing the third place play off at the 2024 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations. After making the 2016 and 2021 editions, Vietnam failed to qualify.

Czech Republic, Serbia, and United States all failed to qualify after making the 2021 edition. The highest ranked team to fail to qualify was 14th, Georgia while Cuba is the lowest ranked team to make it ranked 78th.

Confederation	Qualified through	Team	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
AFC (Asia) (Hosts + 4 teams)	Host nation	Uzbekistan	3rd	2021	Round of 16 (2021)
	2024 AFC Futsal Asian Cup	Afghanistan	1st	N/A	Debut
		Iran	9th	2021	Third place (2016)
		Tajikistan	1st	N/A	Debut
		Thailand	7th	2021	Round of 16 (2012, 2016, 2021)
CAF (Africa) (3 teams)	2024 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations	Angola	2nd	2021	Group stage (2021)
		Libya	3rd	2012	Group stage (2008, 2012)
		Morocco	4th	2021	Quarter-finals (2021)
CONCACAF (Central, North America and Caribbean) (4 teams)	2024 CONCACAF Futsal Championship	Costa Rica	6th	2021	Round of 16 (2016)
		Cuba	6th	2016	Group stage (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2016)
		Guatemala	6th	2021	Group stage (2000, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2021)
		Panama	4th	2021	Round of 16 (2012)
CONMEBOL (South America) (4 teams)	2024 Copa América de Futsal	Argentina	10th	2021	Champions (2016)
		Brazil	10th	2021	Champions (1989, 1992, 1996, 2008, 2012)
		Paraguay	8th	2021	Quarter-finals (2016)
		Venezuela	2nd	2021	Round of 16 (2021)
OFC (Oceania) (1 team)	2023 OFC Futsal Nations Cup	New Zealand	1st	N/A	Debut
UEFA (Europe) (7 teams)	2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup qualification (UEFA)	Croatia	2nd	2000	Fifth place (2000)
		France	1st	N/A	Debut
		Kazakhstan	4th	2021	Fourth place (2021)
		Netherlands	5th	2000	Runners-up (1989)
		Portugal	7th	2021	Champions (2021)
		Spain	10th	2021	Champions (2000, 2004)
		Ukraine	6th	2016	Fourth place (1996)

Russia, ranked 7th, banned from qualifications.

Venues

FIFA went to investigate the arenas in the Uzbek cities of Tashkent, Bukhara, Andijan, Samarkand and Fergana. After they received the hosting rights, Uzbekistan proposed four venues for the tournament, all based in the capital Tashkent. Tashkent, Bukhara and Andijan were confirmed as three host cities on 19 April 2024.

Tashkent Bukhara Andijan
Andijan	Bukhara	Tashkent
Andijan Universal Sports Complex Capacity: 2,971	Bukhara Universal Sports Complex Capacity: 3,105	Humo Arena Capacity: 9,546

Final draw

The draw was held on 26 May 2024 at the Registan Square in Samarkand at 21:00 UZT. Retired Uzbek footballer, Server Djeparov, former Manchester United and France striker Louis Saha and former Spanish player, Kike, were the guests and assisted the draw.

Seeding

The 24 teams were drawn into six groups of four teams, with the host Uzbekistan automatically seeded to Pot 1 and placed into the first position of Group A. The seeding was based on the newly created FIFA Futsal World Rankings, that were published on 6 May 2024.

The draw started with the host to A1, the teams from Pot 1 were drawn first, with the teams from Pots 2, 3 and 4 being drawn after. With the exception of UEFA, teams from the same confederation could not be drawn in the same group.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Uzbekistan (11) (hosts) Brazil (1) Portugal (2) Spain (3) Iran (4) Argentina (5)	Morocco (6) Kazakhstan (8) Thailand (9) France (10) Ukraine (12) Paraguay (13)	Croatia (16) New Zealand (19) Venezuela (21) Afghanistan (30) Costa Rica (31) Tajikistan (34)	Netherlands (36) Guatemala (40) Panama (44) Angola (47) Libya (50) Cuba (78)

Draw

Group A
Pos	Team
A1	Uzbekistan
A2	Netherlands
A3	Paraguay
A4	Costa Rica

Group B
Pos	Team
B1	Brazil
B2	Cuba
B3	Croatia
B4	Thailand

Group C
Pos	Team
C1	Argentina
C2	Ukraine
C3	Afghanistan
C4	Angola

Group D
Pos	Team
D1	Spain
D2	Kazakhstan
D3	New Zealand
D4	Libya

Group E
Pos	Team
E1	Portugal
E2	Panama
E3	Tajikistan
E4	Morocco

Group F
Pos	Team
F1	Iran
F2	Venezuela
F3	Guatemala
F4	France

Match officials

The following officials were chosen for the tournament. For the second time, after the 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup, in a FIFA Futsal tournament, the Video Support (VS) will be implemented.

Confederation	Referees
AFC	Fahad Badir Ali Mohamed Alhosani
	Ran An
	Pornnarong Grairod
	Hiroyuki Kobayashi
	Ebrahim Mehrabi Afshar
	Anatoliy Rubakov
	Ryan Shepheard
	Trương Quốc Dũng
	Liu Jianqiao (support)
CAF	Tarek Elkhataby
	Mohamed Youssef
	Khalid Hnich
	Aymen Kammoun
CONCACAF	Reinier Fiss
	Jorge Flores
	Ricardo Lay
	Roberto López
	Diego Molina
	Josh Wilkens

Confederation	Referees
CONMEBOL	Cristian Espíndola
	Daniel Manrique
	Daniel Rodríguez
	Rolly Alexander Rojas
	Lautaro Romero
	Anelize Schulz
	Bill Rafael Villalba
	Oriana Zambrano
OFC	Anthony Riley
OFC	Chris Sinclair
UEFA	Cristiano Cardoso
	Ondřej Černý
	Juan José Cordero
	Eduardo Fernandes
	Damian Grabowski
	Nikola Jelić
	Nicola Manzione
	Alejandro Martínez
	Daniel Matković
	Dejan Veselič

Squads

Each team has to name a preliminary squad of a maximum of 30 players (3 of whom must be goalkeepers). From the preliminary squad, the team has to name a final squad of 14 players (two of whom must be goalkeepers) by the FIFA deadline. Players in the final squad can be replaced by a player from the preliminary squad due to serious injury or illness up to 24 hours prior to kickoff of the team's first match. All participating teams have to name their Futsal World Cup 2024 Squads in line with the guidelines set forth by FIFA and by the stipulated deadline. Any team failing to comply will be disqualified.

Group stage

All times are local, UZT (UTC+5). The schedule was announced following the draw.

The top two teams of each group and the four best third-placed teams advance to the round of 16.

Tiebreakers

The rankings of teams in each group are determined as follows:

points obtained in all group matches;
goal difference in all group matches;
number of goals scored in all group matches;

If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings are determined as follows:

points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
goal difference in the group matches between the teams concerned;
number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match):
- Yellow card: −1 points;
- Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
- Direct red card: −4 points;
- Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;
drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Paraguay	3	2	0	1	11	8	+3	6	Knockout stage
2	Netherlands	3	1	2	0	10	7	+3	5
3	Costa Rica	3	1	1	1	9	10	−1	4
4	Uzbekistan (H)	3	0	1	2	7	12	−5	1

Source: FIFA
(H) Hosts

14 September 2024