Futsal Ukraine national team to know its rivals in the elite round of the 2020 World Cup selection

29.10.2019 14:05

Oleksandr Kosenko's team was among the 16 participants in the next round of the 2020 World Cup.

In its group of the main qualifying round, the matches of which took place on October 24-27 in Skopje, North Macedonia, the national team of Ukraine took second place. Thus, the blue and yellow managed to make it to the elite round of European selection.

World Cup 2020. Elite round selection. European area

Participants: Spain, Finland, Slovenia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Slovakia, Italy, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Romania, Serbia, France, Russia, Croatia, Portugal, Czech Republic.

In the elite round, 16 national teams will be divided into four quartets on November 7 this year (the ceremony will start at 15.15 pm Kyiv time), the winners of which will go directly to the World Cup. The matches of this stage will take place on January 28 - February 2, 2020. The teams that take second place in the groups will advance to the playoffs, where two more World Cup tickets will be drawn. Butt matches are scheduled for April 9 and 12, 2020.

Thus, six European selection teams will join Lithuania, which will host the World Forum on September 12 - October 4, 2020.

We will also add that AFC (Asia) will be able to send five teams to the 2020 World Cup, CAF (Africa) - three, CONCACAF (North and Central America) - four, CONMEBOL (South America) - four, OFC (Oceania) - one. A total of 24 teams will take part in the world championship.