Courtesy: News.Az


Azerbaijani futsal club fifth in UEFA rating

Tue 06 July 2010

A draw of the UEFA futsal cup will be held in Swiss Nyon.

According to News.Az, UEFA has declared the rating of clubs before the drawing. The champion of Azerbaijan, Araz, which became the third club of Europe last season, is fifth on the rating. It lags behind justViz-Sinara Ekaterinburg ( Russia), Benfica (Portugal), ElPozo Murcia (Spain) è Kairat Almaty (Kazakhstan).

On the whole the 2010/2011 UEFA Cup will involve 48 teams. 27 entrants begin in the preliminary round from 14 to 22 August, played as one-venue mini-tournaments with six groups of four sides and one of three. Clubs have been split into four seeding tiers, with seven in the first three and six in the fourth; a separate draw pot will apply for the six designated mini-tournament hosts who are kept apart from each other as well as from the teams in their own ranking group. The seven group winners go through.

In the main round, where Araz will start competition, draw there will be six groups of four, with sides again split by seeding tier and a separate draw pot for the hosts. One group will contain two preliminary round winners and the other five will have one each. After the mini-tournaments played from 25 September to 3 October, the top two in each group progress to join the top seeds in the elite round draw on 11 October. Four elite round groups will be staged from 12 to 20 November with the winners advancing to the finals in April 2011 and the hosts picked from among that quartet.


Posted by Luca Ranocchiari --> luca.ranocchiari@futsalplanet.com