2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup

The 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup is the tenth edition of the FIFA Futsal World Cup, the quadrennial international futsal championship contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament was held in Uzbekistan. It was the first FIFA tournament ever hosted by Uzbekistan and the first FIFA tournament to take place in Central Asia. The tournament will return to its usual four-year cycle after the previous tournament was delayed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Portugal are the defending champions, defeating Argentina in the final, 2–1.

Host selection


In April 2023, Morocco was reported to have been given the hosting rights as they were reported to be the only bid submitted to FIFA. However, Uzbekistan was selected as host on 23 June 2023.

Uzbekistan's enthusiasm and impressive track-record at hosting events were deemed as the reasons for Uzbekistan's selection. This is fourth time Asia will host the event and marks the first time a FIFA tournament has been held in Central Asia. Prior, Uzbekistan was supposed to host the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, but were stripped of the hosting rights due to a number of logistical and technical issues.

Qualification
A total of 24 teams qualify for the final tournament, in addition to Uzbekistan who qualified automatically as host, 23 other teams qualify from six separate continental competitions. Overall, 121 nations entered qualification.

Of the 24 qualifiers, four will make their debut: Afghanistan, France, New Zealand and Tajikistan. Afghanistan's and Tajikistan's qualification, along with Iran and hosts Uzbekistan, means that for the first time, four nations from Central Asia qualified for the World Cup. This will also be Tajikistan's first senior FIFA tournament, having previously participated in two FIFA U-17 World Cups. This will be Afghanistan's first ever FIFA tournament.

Of the returnees, Europeans Croatia and Netherlands both return after a 24-year absence. Libya returns after last qualifying in 2012 while Cuba and Ukraine qualified after missing out on the previous edition.

Notable absentees include Russia, who were banned from qualification by UEFA due to the country's invasion of Ukraine. The 2022 AFC Futsal Asian Cup champions, Japan, failed to qualify after getting eliminated in the group stage of the 2024 Futsal Asian Cup for the first time in their history. From Africa, Egypt failed to qualify for the first time since 1992 after losing the third place play off at the 2024 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations. After making the 2016 and 2021 editions, Vietnam failed to qualify.

Czech Republic, Serbia, and United States all failed to qualify after making the 2021 edition. The highest ranked team to fail to qualify was 7th, Russia while Cuba is the lowest ranked team to make it ranked 78th.

Venues
FIFA went to investigate the arenas in the Uzbek cities of Tashkent, Bukhara, Andijan and Fergana. After they received the hosting rights, Uzbekistan proposed four venues for the tournament, all based in the capital, Tashkent. Tashkent, Bukhara and Andijan were confirmed as the three host cities on 19 April 2024.

Final draw
The draw was held on 26 May 2024 at the Registan Square in Samarkand at 21:00 UZT. Retired Uzbek footballer, Server Djeparov, former Manchester United and France striker Louis Saha and former Spanish player, Kike, were the guests and assisted the draw.

Seeding
The 24 teams will be drawn into six groups of four teams, with the host Uzbekistan automatically seeded to Pot 1 and placed into the first position of Group A. The seeding was based off the newly created FIFA Futsal World Rankings, that were published on 6 May 2024.

The draw will start with the host to A1, the teams from Pot 1 will be drawn first, with the teams from Pots 2, 3 and 4 being drawn after. With the exception of UEFA, teams from the same confederation could not be drawn in the same group.

Match officials
The following officials were chosen for the tournament.

Squads
Each team has to name a preliminary squad of a maximum of 30 players (3 of whom must be goalkeepers). From the preliminary squad, the team has to name a final squad of 14 players (two of whom must be goalkeepers) by the FIFA deadline. Players in the final squad can be replaced by a player from the preliminary squad due to serious injury or illness up to 24 hours prior to kickoff of the team's first match.

Group stage
All times are local, UZT (UTC+5). The schedule was announced following the draw.

Ranking of third-placed teams
The four best third-placed teams from the six groups advance to the knockout stage along with the six group winners and six runners-up.

Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time shall be played (two periods of five minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner. However, for the third place match, if it is played directly before the final, no extra time shall be played and the winner shall be determined by a penalty shoot-out.

Bracket
The specific match-ups involving the third-placed teams depend on which four third-placed teams qualified for the round of 16:
 * Combinations of matches in the Round of 16

Sponsorship

 * Adidas
 * Coca-Cola
 * Qatar Airways
 * Hyundai
 * Visa
 * Wanda Group

Marketing
On 20 May 2024, the logo was unveiled by FIFA. The logo is supposed to depict the kalampir pepper, used in traditional Uzbek cuisine frequently.