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Beach soccer, also known as beach football, sand football or beasal, is a variant of association football played on a beach or some form of sand. [2]Football has long been played informally on beaches, but the introduction of beach soccer was an attempt to codify rules for the game in 1992 by the founders of Beach Soccer Worldwide, a company set up to develop the sport and responsible for the ...
The field dimensions are within the range found optimal by FIFA: 110–120 yards (100–110 m) long by 70–80 yards (64–75 m) wide. [2] These soccer field dimensions are wider than the regulation American football field width of 53 + 1 ⁄ 3 yards (48.8 m), or the 65-yard (59 m) width of a Canadian football field.
A football pitch or soccer field is the playing surface for the game of association football. Its dimensions and markings are defined by Law 1 of the Laws of the Game , "The Field of Play". [ 1 ] The pitch is typically made of natural turf or artificial turf , although amateur and recreational teams often play on dirt fields.
Headers are allowed. There is no protocol of deliberate handball versus accidental handball – the referee needs to make a decision based on the distance from where the ball was hit. Yellow cards may result in the offending player being sent to the "sin bin" for a predetermined length of time. Red cards work in the same way as the 11-a-side ...
The Nassau Stadium, [1] also known as the National Beach Soccer Arena and Malcolm Park Beach Soccer Facility, is a beach soccer stadium in Nassau, Bahamas. It was the venue of the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup , 2017 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship and beach soccer events at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games .
The CONMEBOL Libertadores Fútbol Playa is an annual continental beach soccer club competition, organized by the governing body for football in South America, CONMEBOL, founded in 2016. Since 2017, the tournament is contested between the top-level domestic league/championship champions from each of the ten South American nations which are ...
The CONMEBOL qualifiers for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup (natively in Spanish: Eliminatorias CONMEBOL al Mundial de la FIFA de Fútbol Playa), [1] [2] previously known as the South American Beach Soccer Championship (Spanish: Sudamericano de Fútbol Playa), [3] was the main championship for beach soccer in South America, [4] contested between the senior men's national teams of the members ...
National beach soccer teams (7 C) O. Beach soccer organizations (2 C, 2 P) P. Beach soccer people (2 C) V. Beach soccer venues (1 P) Pages in category "Beach soccer"