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Italy futsal team

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Italy futsal team

Updated at 30-10-2026

The Close Game

A game can change in an instant

In the futsal time seems to have a different density. Distances are short, the ball soon returns close to the door and a wrong choice can turn an attack into a backward race. For those who watch, the action offers few moments away: even a apparently controlled race can open suddenly.

The five-footed national football team is born and grows in this language. Individual technique meets coordinated movements, rapid changes and distributed responsibilities. The group must know how to recognize situations almost at the same time: a quality that makes shared work particularly important during the gatherings.

2014 · The National Futsal Champion of Europe in Antwerp.
2014 · The National Futsal Champion of Europe in Antwerp.
2003

The first European title

The European conquered in Italy in 2003 gave the Azzurri a central place in the history of discipline. Winning in front of its audience combines result and recognition: the tournament approaches futsal people who until then followed him less and gives a concrete form to the ambitions of the team.

Success does not live only in the final. It is the point of arrival of a movement and becomes a measure to confront in the following years. From that moment on, the Italian National Team participates in the international story even through the weight of what has already conquered.

2004–2012

Measuring with the world

The 2004 World Final and the third places of 2008 and 2012 tell a repeated presence in the final stages. Comparison with the great international schools requires Italy to test its way of playing, adapting itself to different rhythms, opponents and moments.

A medal does not describe a team alone, but the repetition of these results shows the strength of one season. For fans of the futsal are years of important appointments; for those arriving later they constitute the memory from which to begin to know the protagonists and the level reached by the Azzurri.

2014

Europe is back blue

The second continental title arrives in 2014. Eleven years after the first success, Italy regains its victory through another team and another tournament experience. The time spent between the two cups highlights how difficult it is to remain competitive in a discipline that continues to evolve.

The names and balances change, while the title adds a new generation to the blue tale. Continuity does not mean reproposing the previous team, but being able to reconstruct the conditions in order to measure again with the best.

2026

A new comparison with the European level

In the European of 2026 Italy reaches the quarterfinals. The route ends on 1 February in Ljubljana against Spain, which wins 4-0. This is the final result of the last continental final stage played at the date of updating this page.

The international season continues in a wider panorama than the only major male. The other selections of the futsal and training work belong to the growth of the movement, but their results remain distinct: a title or participation must always be brought back to the correct team and competition.

This is why the national story continues next to an orderly palmarès and historical materials. The old charts and the old staff remain in the museum with their reference period; the current page can accommodate new stages without presenting as current data of twenty years before.

Current staff

Composition verified at 30-10-2026.

PositionName
Technical CommissionerSalvo Samperi
Assistant coachVanni Pedrini
Technical collaboratorLuigi Vona
Athletic preparationDomenico Castello
Porter PreparingGennaro Varriale
Match analystRiccardo Manno
DoctorPierluigi Martinelli
PhysiotherapistsEmiliano Diaferia, Claudio Princiotta Spanò
NutritionistFrancesco Leva
SecretaryFabrizio Del Principe
Staff memberAlessandro Distante

European Championships

The path in the different editions. Qualifying competitions remain distinguishable from the final stage matches through the history filter.

YearItaly route
2026Final quarters
2022Phases of rafts
2018Phases of rafts
2016Final quarters
2014European Champion
2012Third place
2010Final quarters
2007Final
2005Third place
2003European Champion
2001Fourth place
1999Third place
1996Fourth place · UEFA experimental tournament

The selection matches

Chronology tested at 30-10-2026. The budget changes with filters and refers to the meetings present in the collection.

The collection combines the historical background and the meetings available in the federal archive since 2018, with further European competitions. There are gaps in the friendly and in some competitions of the intermediate period: the summary is not the integral balance of all the history of selection.

The selection matches

Chronology tested at 30-10-2026. The budget changes with filters and refers to the meetings present in the collection.

The collection combines the historical background and the meetings available in the federal archive since 2018, with further European competitions. There are gaps in the friendly and in some competitions of the intermediate period: the summary is not the integral balance of all the history of selection.

  1. 2026-10-20 · Rende · Italia · Qualificazioni Mondiali

    Italia – Georgia

    3 – 2

  2. 2026-04-11 · Luneburg · Germania · Amichevole

    Germania – Italia

    1 – 1

  3. 2026-02-01 · Lubiana · — · Campionati europei

    Spagna – Italia

    4 – 0

  4. 2026-01-29 · Lubiana · — · Campionati europei

    Italia – Ungheria

    2 – 2

  5. 2026-01-27 · Lubiana · — · Campionati europei

    Polonia – Italia

    0 – 4

  6. 2026-01-24 · Lubiana · — · Campionati europei

    Italia – Portogallo

    2 – 6

  7. 2025-12-21 · Genzano · Italia · Amichevole

    Italia – Finlandia

    1 – 1

  8. 2025-11-11 · Campo Ligure · Italia · Amichevole

    Italia – Spagna

    3 – 4

  9. 2025-09-23 · Astana · — · Qualificazioni Europei

    Kazakhstan – Italia

    3 – 2

  10. 2025-09-18 · Fasano · Italia · Qualificazioni Europei

    Italia – Kazakhstan

    2 – 1

  11. 2025-04-16 · Fasano · Italia · Qualificazioni Europei

    Italia – Finlandia

    4 – 3

  12. 2025-04-11 · Gzira · Malta · Qualificazioni Europei

    Bielorussia – Italia

    2 – 1

  13. 2025-03-11 · Gzira · Malta · Qualificazioni Europei

    Malta – Italia

    1 – 5

  14. 2025-03-06 · Reggio Emilia · Italia · Qualificazioni Europei

    Italia – Malta

    11 – 1

  15. 2025-02-04 · Vantaa · Finlandia · Campionati europei

    Finlandia – Italia

    0 – 2

  16. 2025-01-30 · Catania · Italia · Campionati europei

    Italia – Bielorussia

    2 – 2

  17. 2024-12-18 · Benevento · Italia · Amichevole

    Italia – Lituania

    2 – 1

  18. 2024-12-17 · Benevento · Italia · Amichevole

    Italia – Lituania

    4 – 0

  19. 2024-11-05 · San Bonifacio · Italia · Amichevole

    Italia – Norvegia

    8 – 0

  20. 2024-11-04 · San Bonifacio · Italia · Amichevole

    Italia – Norvegia

    1 – 0

  21. 2024-04-14 · Porec · Croazia · Amichevole

    Venezuela – Italia

    2 – 5

  22. 2024-04-12 · Porec · Croazia · Amichevole

    Italia – Bosnia ed Erzegovina

    2 – 1

  23. 2024-04-10 · Porec · Croazia · Amichevole

    Turchia – Italia

    1 – 10

  24. 2024-02-04 · Rabat · — · Amichevole

    Italia – Serbia

    3 – 3

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