A total of 52 teams from 51 of the 55 UEFA member associations entered the tournament, which was a record number of entries and included first-time entrants from Kosovo and San Marino.

[2] Each association could enter one team, the winners of their regular top domestic futsal league (or in special circumstances, the runners-up).

Moreover, the winners of the 2015–16 UEFA Futsal Cup qualified automatically as title holders, and thus their association could enter a second team.

[3] Teams were ranked according to their UEFA coefficients, computed based on results of the last three seasons, to decide on the round they entered.

[5][6] The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:[4] Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, teams from Azerbaijan/Armenia, Kosovo/Serbia, and Kosovo/Bosnia and Herzegovina would not be drawn into the same group.

First, the four teams which were pre-selected as hosts (marked by (H) below) were drawn from their own designated pot and allocated to their respective group as per their seeding positions.

Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, FC Feniks (Kosovo) and Ekonomac (Serbia) could not have been drawn into the same group.