2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup

Host selection

Two countries bid for the tournament:

Four countries withdrew their bids:

The FIFA Executive Committee announced on 28 May 2013 that Colombia was appointed as host of the tournament.

Qualified teams

A total of 24 teams qualify for the final tournament. In addition to Colombia who qualified automatically as hosts, the other 23 teams qualify from six separate continental competitions. FIFA ratified the distribution of spots at the Executive Committee meeting in March 2014.

:1.Teams that made their debut. :2.Kazakhstan's last appearance was when it was a member of the AFC

Venues

Colombia presented the cities of Bogotá, Villavicencio, Bucaramanga, Cúcuta, Ibagué and Neiva as host cities when they bid to host the tournament. After an inspection meeting in October 2014, four stadiums were confirmed, with Neiva allowed an extension to finish works, before being removed as a venue later that month.

Confirmation of the four host cities were presented to the Colombian Football Federation and FIFA on 11 November. Medellín then replaced Villavicencio. A further inspection in January 2016 saw the removal of Ibagué as a host, meaning half of the cities in the initial bids proposal are confirmed, with the three remaining cites scheduled to accommodate two groups per stadia.

Emblem

The official emblem was unveiled on 29 September 2015.

Mascot

The official mascot, a spectacled bear, was launched on 19 April 2016.

Draw

The official draw was held on 19 May 2016, 18:00 COT (UTC−5), at the Plaza Mayor Conference Centre in Medellín. The teams were seeded based on their performances in previous FIFA Futsal World Cups and confederation tournaments, with the hosts Colombia automatically seeded and assigned to position A1. Moreover, for ticket sales reasons, the hosts and the top two teams (Colombia, Brazil and Spain) were spread across the three venues for the group matches: Cali (Groups A and C), Medellín (Groups B and F) and Bucaramanga (Groups D and E). Teams of the same confederation could not meet in the group stage, except that there were one group with two UEFA teams.

Match officials

The following officials were chosen for the tournament.

Squads

Main article: 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup squads

Each team must name a squad of 14 players (two of whom must be goalkeepers) by the FIFA deadline. The official squads were announced by FIFA on 2 September 2016.

Group stage

The match schedule was officially confirmed on 5 February 2016, a week after the removal of Ibagué from the host cities.

The top two teams of each group and the four best third-placed teams advance to the round of 16. Tiebreakers ;Tiebreakers: The rankings of teams in each group are determined as follows: | points obtained in all group matches; | goal difference in all group matches; | number of goals scored in all group matches; If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings are determined as follows: | points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned; | goal difference in the group matches between the teams concerned; | number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned; | drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee. All times are local, COT (UTC−5).

Group A

De León Mena

Cardinal Miguel Ângelo Angellot Irsaliev Elibaev

Castrellón Mena Toro Abril C. Reyes

André Coelho Djô

Group B

Eid Mizo Homos Nader Jirawat Apiwat Jetsada Eder Lima Niyazov Shayakhmetov

Eder Lima Rômulo Niyazov Jirawat Suphawut Jetsada Kritsada Baquero Marrero Marino

Jirawat Chishkala Niyazov Shayakhmetov Lyskov Milovanov Abramovich

Group C

Trần Văn Vũ Patrick Romano C. dos Santos Merlim

Leggiero J. Salas E. Ayala Trần Long Vũ Villalba Rejala Pedrozo

Enríquez Mansilla González Rejala Pedrozo Morel H. Martínez Franco Murilo

Group D

Dino Cooper G. Giovenali Falcão Sorokin

Fernandinho Falcão Bateria Dieguinho Jé Lockhart Mykh. Grytsyna Ovsyannikov Koval Calo

Bondar Ovsyannikov Xuxa Dieguinho Jackson Fernandinho Bateria Ari Falcão Magu Dino

Group E

Bule Chavés Brenes

Taku Leo Jaraguá Basile Borruto Taborda A. Vaporaki Makau Ragomo

Cubillo Wilhelm Knaub Douglas Jr. Leo Jaraguá Taku Mun Pengrin

Group F

Gallo Bolinha José Ruiz Aicardo Miguelín

Bolinha Fernandão Miguelín Javid Hassanzadeh Tavakoli Habil

Gallo Tavakoli Tayyebi Aicardo Raúl Campos El Mazray

Ranking of third-placed teams

The four best teams among those ranked third are determined as follows:

1. points obtained in all group matches;
2. goal difference in all group matches;
3. number of goals scored in all group matches;
4. drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.

Knockout stage

In the knockout stages, 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 kicks from the penalty mark to determine the winner. However, for the third place match, no extra time shall be played and the winner shall be determined by kicks from the penalty mark.

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

Round of 16

Abramovich Abramov Niyazov Rômulo Milovanov

Zúñiga Duque Otero J. Salas A. Salas G. Ayala

Dieguinho Kazemi Hassanzadeh Keshavarz Ari Falcão Sangsefidi Esmaeilpour

Bebe Nurgozhin Raúl Campos Miguelín Nurgozhin

A. Coelho Brito

Kritsada Jirawat Jetsada Fineo Borisov Bolinha Poletto Huseynli

Ercolessi Essam

Quarter-finals

J. Salas Villalba Javid

Eder Lima Fernandão Gustavo Miguelín

Stazzone Basile Cuzzolino Battistoni

Eduardo João Matos Ricardinho

Semi-finals

Hassanzadeh Javid Abramov Shayakhmetov Chishkala

Stazzone A. Vaporaki Brandi Cuzzolino Tiago Brito

Third place match

Javid Taheri Tayyebi Kazemi Ahmadi Javid Tiago Brito Ricardinho Bruno Coelho André Coelho João Matos

Final

Lyskov Cuzzolino Brandi C. Vaporaki

Champions

Awards

The following awards were given for the tournament:

Goalscorers

;12 goals

• Ricardinho

;10 goals

• Eder Lima
• Falcão

;7 goals

• Bolinha

;6 goals

• Vassoura
• Suphawut Thueanklang

;5 goals

• Fineo
• Dieguinho
• Abdelrahman El-Ashwal
• Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh
• Mahdi Javid
• Fernando Cardinal
• Ivan Chishkala
• Jirawat Sornwichian

;4 goals

• Cristian Borruto
• Alan Brandi
• Leandro Cuzzolino
• Alamiro Vaporaki
• Fernandinho
• Rodrigo
• Angellot Caro
• Ahmad Esmaeilpour
• Adil Habil
• Enmanuel Ayala
• Juan Salas
• Artem Niyazov
• Miguelín
• Sergio Lozano
• Kritsada Wongkaeo
• Jetsada Chudech

;3 goals

• Santiago Basile
• Gallo
• Alejandro Paniagua
• Mostafa Eid
• Hossein Tayyebi
• Murilo Ferreira
• Rodolfo Fortino
• Douglas Júnior
• Pavel Taku
• Dino
• Sergei Abramovich
• Daniil Davydov
• Dmitri Lyskov
• Vladislav Shayakhmetov
• Rômulo
• Jesús Aicardo
• Nguyễn Minh Trí

;2 goals

• Gregory Giovenali
• Damián Stazzone
• Pablo Taborda
• Ari
• Bateria
• Xuxa
• Jorge Abril
• Sandy Dominguez
• Alejandro Marrero
• Mizo
• Farhad Tavakoli
• Afshin Kazemi
• Luca Leggiero
• Gabriel Lima
• Leo Jaraguá
• Arnold Knaub
• Calo
• Abdiel Castrellón
• Fernando Mena
• Francisco Martínez
• Juan Pedrozo
• Richard Rejala
• René Villalba
• Tiago Brito
• André Coelho
• Djô
• Sergei Abramov
• Ivan Milovanov
• Jeffery Bule
• Elliot Ragomo
• Raúl Campos
• Denys Ovsyannikov
• Javlon Anorov
• Trần Văn Vũ

;1 goal

• Jonathan Barrientos
• Adam Cooper
• Chris Zeballos
• Gerardo Battistoni
• Constantino Vaporaki
• Fernando Wilhelm
• Vitaliy Borisov
• Eduardo
• Fabio Poletto
• Rovshan Huseynli
• Jackson Samurai
• Jé
• Jhonatan Toro
• Andrés Reyes
• Juan Alonso Cordero
• Erick Brenes
• Carlos Chaves
• Edwin Cubillo
• Andy Baquero
• Karel Marino
• Daniel Hernandez
• Essam Alla
• Ahmed Homos
• Mostafa Nader
• Jonatan Arévalo
• Walter Enríquez
• José González
• José Mansilla
• Patrick Ruiz
• Wanderley Ruiz
• Mohammad Keshavarz
• Carlos dos Santos
• Marco Ercolessi
• Alex Merlim
• Sergio Romano
• Aleksandr Dovgan
• Ilya Mun
• Nikolai Pengrin
• Chingiz Yesenamanov
• Dauren Nurgozhin
• Youssef El Mazray
• Mohamed Jouad
• Magu
• Mário
• Michael De León
• Josue Brown
• Enrique Franco
• Hugo Martínez
• Juan Morel
• Miguel Ângelo
• João Matos
• Ré
• Gustavo
• Coleman Makau
• Bebe
• Fernandão
• José Ruiz
• Rivillos
• Apiwat Chaemcharoen
• Wiwat Thaijaroen
• Dmytro Bondar
• Mykhailo Grytsyna
• Mykola Grytsyna
• Sergiy Koval
• Oleksandr Sorokin
• Serhiy Zhurba
• Nodir Elibaev
• Dilshod Irsaliev

;Own goals ;2 goals

• Vassoura (playing against Spain)

;1 goal

• Dean Lockhart (playing against Brazil)
• Ibrahim Eika (playing against Thailand)
• Sergio Romano (playing against Guatemala)
• Dauren Nurgozhin (playing against Spain)
• Ricardinho (playing against Uzbekistan)
• Fernandão (playing against Russia)
• Nattawut Madyalan (playing against Russia)
• Oleksandr Sorokin (playing against Brazil)
• Trần Long Vũ (playing against Paraguay)

Tournament ranking

Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-out are counted as draws.

Broadcasting rights

Television

Radio

;Notes

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