There is just over two yeas to go until the ninth FIFA Futsal World Cup kicks off in Lithuania on 12 September 2021. Twenty-four teams from six confederations will battle it out for futsal’s greatest accolade until 3 October 2021.

How many places are allocated to each confederation, and when can countries begin booking their tickets to Lithuania? The answers to these questions can be found at a glance below.

✅Places: 5 🗓Qualification: 2020 AFC Futsal Championship - Turkmenistan (27 February - 8 March 2020), preliminary round (16 - 27 October 2019)

✅Places: 3 🗓Qualification: 2020 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations – Morocco (28 January - 9 February 2020)

✅Places: 4 🗓Qualification: 2020 Concacaf Futsal Championship (dates TBC)

✅Places: 4 🗓Qualification: South American futsal qualifiers (dates TBC)

✅Places: 1 🗓Qualification: 2019 OFC Futsal Nations Cup, Noumea, New Caledonia (28 October - 2 November 2019) Teams: New Caledonia (hosts), American Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tonga, Vanuatu

✅Places: 6 + hosts (Lithuania) 🗓Qualification: preliminary round (29 January - 3 February 2019), main round (22 - 27 October 2019), elite round (28 January - 2 February 2020), play-offs (9 & 12 April 2020)