2007 UEFA Futsal Championship

Infobox International Futsal Competition
tourney_name = UEFA Futsal Championship
year = 2007


size = 300px
caption = UEFA Futsal Championship Portugal 2007 logo
country = Portugal
dates = 16 November – 25 November
num_teams = 8
confederations = 1
venues = 2
cities = 2
champion = Spain
count = 4
second = Italy
third = Russia
fourth = Portugal
matches = 16
goals = 83
top_scorer = flagicon|ESP Daniel (5 goals) flagicon|SRB Predrag Rajić (5 goals) flagicon|RUS Cirilo (5 goals)
player =

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.

Bids

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. [cite news |url=http://www.uefa.com/competitions/futsal/news/kind=1/newsid=296968.html |title=Porto to stage 2007 finals |publisher=UEFA |date=2005-04-19 |accessdate=2007-12-04]

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" ( _en. Gondomar's Multi-Purpose Pavilion "Heart of Gold". [cite news |url=http://www.uefa.com/competitions/futsal/news/kind=1/newsid=444630.html |title=Gondomar given EURO honour |publisher=UEFA |date=2006-08-14 |accessdate=2007-12-04] The second venue was also changed to Santo Tirso's "Pavilhão Desportivo Municipal" ( _en. Municipal Sports Pavilion).

* Pavilhão Multiusos de Gondomar "Coração de Ouro"
* Pavilhão Municipal de Santo Tirso

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)

Final tournament

Group Stage

Group A

References

External links

* [http://www.futsalplanet.com/news/news-01.asp?id=8075 5th UEFA Futsal Championship - Portugal 2007] , Futsal Planet
* [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/futsal/index.html Official UEFA website]