Coach Raphaël Reynaud announced on Tuesday December 3 the list of players selected to face Bulgaria and Georgia in the main qualifying round for the 2026 European Championship.
The French Futsal Team is going back on a mission. Two months after reaching the semi-finals of the World Cup in Uzbekistan for their first participation, the Blues are approaching a new deadline with the start of the qualifiers for the next Euro futsal, which will take place in January 2026 in Lithuania and Latvia.
They will begin their journey with a trip to Bulgaria (98th in the FIFA rankings), on Friday December 13 (3:30 p.m.), before hosting Georgia (14th), four days later at the Co’met Arena in Orléans (9:15 p.m.).
For this last gathering of the year 2024, coach Raphaël Reynaud convened a group made up of sixteen players.
The list of players summoned
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The French Futsal Team has qualified only once for a European Championship in 2018, the first final phase in its history.
Euro 2026 qualifying: main round schedule
- Friday December 13, 2024 (3:30 p.m.): Bulgaria – France
- Tuesday December 17, 2024 (9:15 p.m.): France – Georgia
- Friday January 31, 2025 (8:00 p.m.): Kosovo – France
- Tuesday February 4, 2025: France – Kosovo
- Friday April 11, 2025: France – Bulgaria
- Wednesday April 16, 2025: Georgia – France
The forty teams entered in these qualifiers were divided into ten groups. The first in each of the ten groups will qualify directly for the final phase (January 18-February 8, 2026, in Lithuania and Latvia). The eight best runners-up will compete in the play-offs (September 15-24, 2025).
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