UEFA Futsal Euro 2018
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| Tournament details | |
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| Host country |
 Slovenia
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| City | Ljubljana |
| Dates | 30 January – 10 February 2018 |
| Teams | 12 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
The 2018 UEFA Futsal Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Futsal Euro 2018, will be the 11th edition of the UEFA Futsal Championship, the biennial international futsal championship organised by UEFA for the men's national teams of Europe. It will be hosted for the first time in Slovenia, following a decision of the UEFA Executive Committee on 26 January 2015. Slovenia was chosen ahead of other bids from Macedonia and Romania.
A total of 48 UEFA nations entered the competition (including Germany and Kosovo which entered for the first time), and with the hosts Slovenia qualifying automatically, the other 47 teams will compete in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 11 spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition, which will take place from January to September 2017, consists of three rounds:
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
The final draw will be held on a date to be confirmed in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The 12 teams will be drawn into four groups of three teams. The teams will be seeded according to their coefficient ranking, with the hosts Slovenia (assigned to position A1 in the draw) and the title holders Spain (should they qualify) automatically placed into Pot 1. Each group will contain one team from Pot 1, one team from Pot 2, and one team from Pot 3.
The venue is the 12,500-capacity Arena Stožice in Ljubljana.
Each national team have to submit a squad of 14 players, two of whom must be goalkeepers. If a player is injured or ill severely enough to prevent his participation in the tournament before his team's first match, he can be replaced by another player.
The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals.
Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 19.01 and 19.02):
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