The pot of the UEFA Champions League 2025/2026 season, where the current Azerbaijani futsal champion "Araz-Nakhchivan" is located before the preliminary and main stage draw, has been determined. Sport24.az reports that the press service of the Futsal Federation has released information about this.
The current champion "Araz-Nakhchivan" will be in the 5th pot. The team led by Yevgeny Kuksevich will start the fight from the preliminary stage.
The teams will be divided into 8 groups with 4 participants each. According to the decision of the UEFA Executive Committee, the representatives of Kosovo and Serbia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, Belarus and Ukraine cannot compete with each other.
Pot 1: Hosts
"Buba Mara" (Bosnia and Herzegovina), 1st in the group
"Forka" (North Macedonia), 2nd in the group
AEK (Greece), 2nd in the group
"Borås" AIK (Sweden), 2nd in the group
"Ljuti" (Austria), 2nd in the group
"Levski" (Bulgaria), 3rd in the group
"Klik" (Moldova), 3rd in the group
"Vllaznia" (Albania), 3rd in the group
Pot 2: 4th in the group (rating 48-55)
"Bolton" (England)
"Murata" (San Marino)
"Cardiff" (Wales)
"Sparta" (Northern Ireland)
"Ísbjörninn" (Iceland)
"Europa" (Gibraltar)
"Maccabi" (Netanya, Israel)
"Vangölü" (Turkey)
Pot 3: 3rd in the group (rating 40-47)
"Tallinn" (Estonia)
CIU (Georgia)
PYF (Scotland)
"Syarmtrollan" (Norway)
"Enkamp" (Andorra)
Pot 4: 2nd in the group (32-39)
AEL (Limassol, Cyprus)
"Blue Magic" (Ireland)
"Bajo" (Montenegro)
"Veilimdorf" (Germany)
Pot 5: 1st in the group (24-31)
"Vrhnika" (Slovenia)
"Araz-Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan)
"Tigers" (Netherlands)
"Yerevan" (Armenia)
"Viten" (Belarus)
"Veszprem" (Hungary)
"Hjorring" (Denmark)
It should be noted that 56 teams representing 52 federations will compete in the current season.