If no goals are scored during extra time, the tie is decided by penalty shoot-out (Regulations Article 21.01).
[4] The seeding was based on the new Elo-based futsal men's national-team coefficient ranking taken on 28 October 2019.
Next, the remaining 24 teams were drawn from their respective pot which were allocated according to their seeding positions.
Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina could not be drawn in the same group.
The draw for the qualifying round play-offs was held on 13 February 2020, 14:15 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
[9] The seeding of the 14 teams (nine qualifying round group runners-up and best five qualifying round third-placed teams) was based on the new Elo-based futsal men's national-team coefficient ranking taken on 3 February 2020,[10] with the seven group runners-up with the highest coefficient ranking seeded in Pot 2, and the remaining two group runners-up and the five third-placed teams unseeded in Pot 1.
The qualifying round play-offs were originally scheduled to be played between 6 and 15 April 2020, but had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to a later date comprised tentatively between June and mid-December.
The draw for the qualifying group stage and play-offs was held on 2 September 2020, 13:15 CEST (UTC+2), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland (originally scheduled on 14 May 2020, but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, initially to 7 July 2020).
Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, Azerbaijan and Armenia (which may advance from the qualifying round play-offs), and Russia and Ukraine, could not be drawn in the same group.
For the play-offs, the seventh and eighth best group runners-up, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw, were drawn to decide which team play the first leg at home.
On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the matches had been rescheduled to be played between 2 November 2020 and 14 April 2021.