2007 UEFA Futsal Championship

2007 UEFA Futsal Championship
Campeonato Europeu de Futsal de 2007
	UEFA Futsal Championship Portugal 2007 logo
Tournament details
Host country	Portugal
Dates	16–25 November
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Spain (4th title)
Runners-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 ; Predrag Rajić; Cirilo; (5 goals each)
Best player(s)	Ricardinho
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The 2007 UEFA Futsal Championship was the sixth 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 municipalities. Eight teams competed in the final round, after a qualifying phase where seven teams managed to join the Portuguese hosts.

Spain, the 2000 FIFA Futsal World Championship and 2004 FIFA Futsal World Championship winners, successfully defended their European crown and added a fourth continental title to their record, by defeating Italy 3-1, 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.^[1]

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).

Referees

Alexandr Remin (Belarus)
Antonio Jose Fernandes Cardoso (Portugal)
Antonius Van Eekelen (Netherlands)
Edi Šunjić (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

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	3	2	1	0	11	1	+10	7
Portugal	3	2	1	0	8	3	+5	7
Romania	3	1	0	2	9	14	−5	3
Czech Republic	3	0	0	3	7	17	−10	0

16 November 2007

19:30

Portugal	0–0	Italy
	Report

Multiusos Gondomar, Porto

Attendance: 3,300

Referee: Károly Török (Hungary)

16 November 2007

21:30

Czech Republic	4–8	Romania
G. Dobre 15' (o.g.) T. Sluka 18' L. Rešetár 27' M. Mareš 30'	Report	R. F. Matei 12', 37', 40' (pen.) C. Gherman 17' R. Lupu 23' 35' G. Molomfalean 24' Lo. Szöcs 32'

Multiusos Gondomar, Porto

Attendance: 1,800

Referee: Oleg Ivanov (Ukraine)

18 November 2007

16:30

Italy	7–1	Romania
C. Morgado 2', 21', 23' S. Assis 6' A. Foglia 10', 19' F. Grana 26'	Report	C. Gherman 14'

Multiusos Gondomar, Porto

Attendance: 1,988

Referee: Roberto Gracia Marin (Spain)

18 November 2007

18:30

Portugal	5–3	Czech Republic
Ricardinho 7' Gonçalo 15' Arnaldo 20' Marcelinho 28' Formiga 36'	Report	R. Mareš 1', 12' D. Frič 9'

Multiusos Gondomar, Porto

Attendance: 3,648

Referee: Ivan Shabanov (Russia)

21 November 2007

18:15

Romania	0–3	Portugal
	Report	Ricardinho 1', 25' Leitão 34'

Multiusos Gondomar, Porto

Attendance: 3,450

Referee: Edi Sunjic (Croatia)

21 November 2007

18:15

Italy	4–0	Czech Republic
S. Zanetti 11' A. Foglia 23' A. Fabiano 32' F. Grana 36'	Report

Pavilhao Municipal Santo Tirso, Porto

Attendance: 900

Referee: Alexandr Remin (Belarus)

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

17 November 2007