2016–17 UEFA Futsal Cup
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates |
Qualifying rounds: 16 August – 27 November 2016 Final tournament: 28–30 April 2017 |
| Teams |
Final tournament: 4 Total: 52 (from 51 associations) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |
 Inter FS (4th title)
|
| Runners-up |
 Sporting CP
|
| Third place |
 Kairat Almaty
|
| Fourth place |
 Gazprom-Ugra Yugorsk
|
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 112 |
| Goals scored | 817 (7.29 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
Season total: Bolinha Alen Fetić Nenê Rami Tirkkonen Denis Totošković (9 goals each) Final tournament: Ricardinho (4 goals) |
The 2016–17 UEFA Futsal Cup was the 31st edition of Europe's premier club futsal tournament, and the 16th edition under the current UEFA Futsal Cup format organized by UEFA.
In the final, Inter FS defeated Sporting CP to win their fourth title. Kairat Almaty defeated Ugra Yugorsk, who were the defending champions, to finish third.
A total of 52 teams from 51 of the 55 UEFA member associations entered the tournament, which was a record number of entries and included first-time entrants from Kosovo and San Marino. Each association could enter one team, the winners of their regular top domestic futsal league (or in special circumstances, the runners-up). Moreover, the winners of the 2015–16 UEFA Futsal Cup qualified automatically as title holders, and thus their association could enter a second team.
Teams were ranked according to their UEFA coefficients, computed based on results of the last three seasons, to decide on the round they entered. The top four teams (with the title holders being the automatic top seed) entered the elite round, the next 16 teams (ranked 5–20) entered the main round, and the bottom 32 teams (ranked 21–52) entered the preliminary round.
For teams entering the preliminary round or main round, they were assigned a seeding position according to their ranking for the respective draw, with eight teams pre-selected as hosts for the preliminary round and six teams pre-selected as hosts for the main round (marked by (H) below).
The draws for the preliminary round and main round were held on 7 July 2016, 14:00 CEST (UTC+2), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:
Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, teams from Azerbaijan/Armenia, Kosovo/Serbia, and Kosovo/Bosnia and Herzegovina would not be drawn into the same group. Should any of the above teams win their preliminary round group and qualify for a main round group with a team they cannot play against, they would be swapped with the next available team in their seeding position following the alphabetical order of the groups.
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