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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 ...
In the fifteen world cups, only one has ever gone past normal time being the first FIFA controlled world cup, the 2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, when France and Portugal were drawn 3–3 after 36 minutes. The game eventually went to penalties, with Eric Cantona's side winning 1–0.
Katara Beach, Doha. The matches were held on the Katara Beach [5] at the Beach Soccer Arena which consisted of two venues: the larger-capacity main stadium that hosted the majority of games and located adjacent, a smaller-capacity secondary stadium known as "Pitch 1" for all other matches which was only used during the group stage. [14] [15] [16]
Beach Soccer has been part of each edition of the European Games (EG) – a quadrennial, multi-sport event – since the inaugural edition in 2015 as a men's sport, [1] and since the third edition in 2023 as a women's sport. [2]
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 ...
The 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualifiers for UEFA was a beach soccer tournament contested by European men's national teams who are members of UEFA that determines the four nations from Europe that qualify to the 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Seychelles.
The beach soccer tournaments at the 2019 World Beach Games, the inaugural edition of the Games, were held from 11 to 16 October 2019 [1] in Doha, Qatar and organised by the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC). [2] [3] The matches were hosted on the Katara Beach [4] at two venues which comprised the Beach Soccer Arena. [5]
2025 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship CONMEBOL (South America; 3 teams) 2025 Copa América de Beach Soccer OFC (Oceania; 1 team) 2024 OFC Beach Soccer Men's Nations Cup Tahiti: 8th 2011: 2024: Runners-up (2015, 2017) UEFA (Europe; 4 teams) 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification (UEFA) Belarus: 4th 2019: 2024: Fourth place Italy: 10th ...