Courtesy: www.uefa.com

FIFA Futsal World Championship 2004
Nyon, 4 June 2003, 13.30 CET

European qualifying round








World test for European Futsal
The draw was made in Nyon, Switzerland today for the European qualifying round of the 2004 FIFA Futsal World Championship.

Ten groups
The 32 European entrants have been divided into ten groups, with Groups 1 and 2 featuring four teams and the remaining eight sections three each. Five European nations will qualify for the final round, which will be played in Chinese Taipei towards the end of next year.

Holders travel to Latvia
Spain, the holders who won the last event in Guatemala three years ago, will travel to Latvia for their Group 10 matches against the host country and Slovakia. The teams' positions in their respective groups are determined by their coefficient ranking. The winners from each group will progress to the play-off round, where the draw will be decided according to their national ranking.

Group 1:
Slovenia - Hosting Team
Serbia-Montenegro
Moldova
Georgia

Group 2:
Italy - Hosting Team
Belgium
France
Finland

Group 3:
Russia
Macedonia
Bosnia-Herzegovina - Hosting Team

Group 4:
Ukraine
Andorra - Hosting Team
Kazakhstan

Group 5:
Netherlands
Belarus
Lithuania - Hosting Team

Group 6:
Portugal - Hosting Team
Greece
Albania

Group 7:
Poland
Azerbaijan
Cyprus - Hosting Team

Group 8:
Croatia - Hosting Team
Hungary
Armenia

Group 9:
Czech Republic - Hosting Team
Israel
Romania

Group 10:
Spain
Slovakia
Latvia - Hosting Team

Five play-offs
Following the first qualifying round, the ten group winners will be paired into ties for home-and-away play-offs according to their national ranking. The highest-ranked group winner will play the tenth ranked group winner, the second against the ninth, the third against the eighth, the fourth against the seventh and the fifth against the sixth.

2003/04 FIFA World Futsal Championship
European entrants

UEFA Coeficients Ranking:
Spain*
Italy
Russia
Ukraine
Czech Republic
Portugal
Croatia
Netherlands
Slovenia
Poland
Belgium
Hungary
Serbia and Montenegro
Andorra
Belarus
Azerbaijan
Slovakia
F.Y.R. Macedonia
Israel
Greece
Moldova
Finland
France
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Georgia
Latvia
Lithuania
Armenia
Cyprus
Kazakhstan
Albania
Romania

*Spain is seeded team No1 as world champions, the ranking is then made according to each nation's coefficent. In the case of an equal coefficient, the last result in a competition is used to differentiate between teams.