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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 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is an international beach soccer competition contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA, the sport's global governing body. The tournament was preceded by the Beach Soccer World Championships established in 1995 which took place every year for the next decade under the supervision of Beach ...
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.
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.
The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup changed to being held every other year, meaning the next opportunity for the U.S. to qualify would be in 2013. In 2013, the men's national beach soccer team won the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship and qualified for the World Cup which was held in Tahiti. They did not make it through the group stages and were ...
The 2025 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship will be the eleventh edition of the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship, the premier beach soccer tournament contested by CONCACAF teams. The tournament will take place at the Malcolm Park Beach Soccer Facility in Nassau, Bahamas. [1] [2] The two finalists will qualify to the 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer ...
The Copa América of Beach Soccer (named natively in Spanish as the Copa América de Fútbol Playa) is a biennial international beach soccer tournament contested between the senior men's national teams of the 10 members of CONMEBOL. [1] It is beach soccer's version of the better known Copa América in its parent sport, association football.
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 ...