The
FIFA Futsal World Cup play-off draw will be made at the Sheraton Hotel
in Zagreb from 11.30CET on Saturday and will be streamed live on
UEFA.com.
Coming a few hours before the UEFA Futsal EURO 2012 final in the Croatian capital, the draw will feature three of Thursday's semi-finalists: two-time World Cup winners Spain as well as Italy and Russia. That trio also reached the 2008 World Cup semi-finals, with hosts Brazil beating Spain in the decider on penalties.
Also involved are seven other teams who have competed in Croatia this fortnight: Czech Republic, Portugal, Ukraine – the other three UEFA contestants at the 2008 World Cup – and the last two's fellow beaten EURO quarter-finalists Serbia and Romania, plus Slovenia and Azerbaijan. Moreover, four teams will be hoping to make up for missing out the EURO finals, namely Belarus, Hungary, Norway and Slovakia.
Two seeding pots will be used, one with the seven group winners from December's main round and another with the runners-up. No team can meet a side they played in the main round, and the group runners-up will be at home first in the two-legged ties on 25 to 28 March and 8 to 11 April. The seven play-off victors, an increase of one from the previous European allocation, progress to the expanded 24-nation final tournament in Thailand from 2 to 18 November 2012.
Group winners
1: Spain
2: Italy
3: Serbia
4: Portugal
5: Ukraine
6: Czech Republic
7: Russia
Group runners-up1: Norway
2: Romania
3: Slovenia
4: Slovakia
5: Azerbaijan
6: Belarus
7: Hungary
Full main round standings
Coming a few hours before the UEFA Futsal EURO 2012 final in the Croatian capital, the draw will feature three of Thursday's semi-finalists: two-time World Cup winners Spain as well as Italy and Russia. That trio also reached the 2008 World Cup semi-finals, with hosts Brazil beating Spain in the decider on penalties.
Also involved are seven other teams who have competed in Croatia this fortnight: Czech Republic, Portugal, Ukraine – the other three UEFA contestants at the 2008 World Cup – and the last two's fellow beaten EURO quarter-finalists Serbia and Romania, plus Slovenia and Azerbaijan. Moreover, four teams will be hoping to make up for missing out the EURO finals, namely Belarus, Hungary, Norway and Slovakia.
Two seeding pots will be used, one with the seven group winners from December's main round and another with the runners-up. No team can meet a side they played in the main round, and the group runners-up will be at home first in the two-legged ties on 25 to 28 March and 8 to 11 April. The seven play-off victors, an increase of one from the previous European allocation, progress to the expanded 24-nation final tournament in Thailand from 2 to 18 November 2012.
Group winners
1: Spain
2: Italy
3: Serbia
4: Portugal
5: Ukraine
6: Czech Republic
7: Russia
Group runners-up1: Norway
2: Romania
3: Slovenia
4: Slovakia
5: Azerbaijan
6: Belarus
7: Hungary
Full main round standings
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