2007 UEFA Futsal Championship 
UEFA Futsal Championship Portugal 2007 logo |
| Tournament details |
| Host country |  Portugal |
| Dates | 16 November – 25 November |
| Teams | 8 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 2 (in 2 host cities) |
| Final positions |
Champions  |  Spain (4th title) |
Runner-up  |  Italy |
Third place  |  Russia |
| Fourth place | Portugal |
| Tournament statistics |
| Matches played | 16 |
| Goals scored | 83 (5.19 per match) |
| Attendance | 33,579 (2,099 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Daniel (5 goals)
 Predrag Rajić (5 goals)
Cirilo (5 goals) |
The 2007 UEFA Futsal Championship was the fifth official edition of the UEFA-governed European Championship for national futsal teams. It was held in Portugal, between November 16 and November 25, 2007, in two venues located in Porto's Greater Metropolitan Area — Gondomar and Santo Tirso. Eight teams competed in the final round, after a qualifying phase where seven teams managed to join the Portuguese hosts.
Spain, the FIFA Futsal World Championship 2004 winners, successfully defended their European crown and added a fourth continental title to their record, by defeating Italy, in a reprise of the last FIFA Futsal World Championship final.
The Portuguese bid was selected during a meeting of UEFA's Executive Committee, on April 19, 2005, in Tallinn, Estonia. The bid was picked ahead of two other entries from the Netherlands (Eindhoven and Maastricht) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo), which had been previously shortlisted from nine preliminary bids.[1]
[edit] Venues
The bid's proposed main venue was to be the 4,500-seated Rosa Mota Pavilion, in the heart of Porto, and a second venue would be located in the neighbouring Matosinhos municipality. However, on August 14, 2006 the tournament's main venue was switched to the future 3,800-seated arena in the Gondomar municipality — the Pavilhão Multiusos de Gondomar "Coração de Ouro" (English: Gondomar's Multi-Purpose Pavilion "Heart of Gold".[2] The second venue was also changed to Santo Tirso's Pavilhão Desportivo Municipal (English: Municipal Sports Pavilion).
[edit] Referees
- Alexandr Remin (Belarus)
- Antonio Jose Fernandes Cardoso (Portugal)
- Antonius Van Eekelen (Netherlands)
- Edi Sunjic (Croatia)
- Ivan Shabanov (Russia)
- Karel Henych (Czech Republic)
| - Károly Török (Hungary)
- Massimo Cumbo (Italy)
- Oleg Ivanov (Ukraine)
- Pascal Lemal (Belgium)
- Roberto Gracia Marin (Spain)
- Vladimir Colbasiuc (Moldova)
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[edit] Final tournament
[edit] Group stage
[edit] Group A
[edit] Group B
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Spain | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | +7 | 7 |
| Russia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 6 |
| Serbia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 4 |
 Ukraine | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 13 | −8 | 0 |
[edit] Knockout stage
[edit] Semi-finals
[edit] Third place play-off
[edit] Champions
| UEFA Futsal Championship 2007 Winners |
Spain
Fourth title |
[edit] Awards
[edit] Top goalscorers
[edit] References
[edit] External links
