Beach soccer at the 2019 World Beach Games

The tournament began one day before the opening ceremony with medal-deciding matches taking place exclusively on 16 October.[7][8]

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was allowed to enter one men's team and one women's team into the competition. In order to play at the Games, these teams needed to qualify.[2]

The six continental confederations of FIFA were each allocated a certain amount of berths at the Games;[2] qualification events were organised for teams to compete against other members of their own confederation to try and earn one of their continent's spots at the Games. ANOC delegated the responsibility of organising qualification to Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW).[9] Originally, qualification tournaments were planned for all confederations,[10] however, for some, these qualification events were ultimately not realised – instead, their teams which occupied the highest positions in the BSWW World Ranking were granted qualification.[11]

The host country qualifies automatically.[2] When San Diego relinquished the hosting rights to Doha, the United States was stripped of its entitlement to automatic qualification for its men's and women's teams.[12] New hosts, Qatar, declined to enter any teams, leaving the berths reserved for the host nations unfilled; consequently, these vacant berths were redistributed accordingly.[11]

Men's qualification

Means of qualification	Ref.	Dates	Venue	Berths	Qualified
2019 UEFA Qualifying Tournament	[9][11]	9–12 May 2019	Salou	5	Italy  Russia  Spain   Switzerland  Ukraine
2019 African Beach Games	[13][14]	19–23 June 2019	Sal	2	Morocco  Senegal
BSWW World Ranking (Top ranked AFC teams)	[12]	10 July 2019[lower-roman 1]	–	3	Iran  Japan  United Arab Emirates
BSWW World Ranking (Top ranked OFC team)	[12]	10 July 2019[lower-roman 1]	–	1	Solomon Islands[a]
2019 CONCACAF Qualifying Tournament	[15][16]	3–5 August 2019	San Salvador	2	El Salvador  Mexico
BSWW World Ranking (Top ranked CONMEBOL teams)	[1]	23 August 2019[lower-roman 1]	–	3	Brazil  Paraguay  Uruguay
Total				16

a. Tahiti are the highest ranked team from the OFC. However, they are ineligible to enter since French Polynesia is not a member of ANOC. Therefore, the berth has been given to the OFC's next highest ranked team that is a member.[11]

Women's qualification

Means of qualification	Ref.	Dates	Venue	Berths[b]	Qualified
2019 UEFA Qualifying Tournament	[9][1]	9–12 May 2019	Salou	3	Great Britain[c]  Russia  Spain
2019 African Beach Games	[13][17]	19–23 June 2019	Sal	1	Cape Verde
2019 CONCACAF Qualifying Tournament	[15][1]	3–5 August 2019	San Salvador	2	Mexico  United States
Invitation (CONMEBOL teams)	[1]	23 August 2019[lower-roman 1]	–	2	Brazil  Paraguay
Total				8

b. With the exception of UEFA, all confederations were originally allocated one berth each.[2] However, neither the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) nor Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) ultimately entered any teams (China were due to enter a team as the AFC representative but withdrew[18]). Therefore, these two vacant berths were redistributed, with CONMEBOL and CONCACAF each receiving one extra berth.

c. Competed in qualification as England. England does not have an independent NOC and is instead represented by Great Britain at Olympic events.

A total of 19 National Olympic Committees (NOCs), as per the outcome of qualification events, participated (the number of participating athletes of each NOC are shown in parentheses).

• 2019 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
• Beach soccer at the 2019 European Games

• Beach Soccer, at ANOC World Beach Games Qatar (official website)
• World Beach Games 2019, at Beach Soccer Worldwide
• World Beach Games 2019, at Beach Soccer Russia (in Russian)
• Results book