Seven associations expressed an interest in hosting:[2] The final proposal had to delivered with the bid dossier by 30 May 2019 at the latest, and UEFA received three bids:[3] The UEFA Executive Committee selected the Netherlands as hosts on 24 September 2019 in Ljubljana.

[8] The teams were seeded according to the UEFA senior men's futsal national team coefficient rankings, with the winner of the play-off taking the ranking of the contender with the higher coefficient, Serbia.

Spain (1) Russia (2) Portugal (3) Kazakhstan (4) Croatia (5) Azerbaijan (6) Serbia (7) Italy (8) Ukraine (10) Slovenia (11) Bosnia and Herzegovina (12) Poland (13) Finland (14) Slovakia (16) Georgia (17) Netherlands (hosts) (19) The tournament was held at two venues:[10] Due to COVID-19 restrictions in the Netherlands, initial games of the tournament were held behind closed doors.

In the evening of 25 January, the Dutch government allowed a limited number of spectators to attend matches.

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where extra time is not played but a direct penalty shoot-out is used, instead.