Beach soccer at the 2019 World Beach Games qualification (UEFA)

The UEFA qualifiers for the 2019 World Beach Games, known officially as the 2019 World Beach Games – Europe Qualifier Salou, was a beach soccer tournament contested by European national teams who are members of UEFA that took place to determine the nations from Europe that qualified to the beach soccer events at the inaugural edition of the ANOC World Beach Games.[1]

Beach soccer at the 2019 World Beach Games qualification (UEFA)
2019 World Beach Games Qualifier – Europe
Official logo
Tournament details
Host countrySpain
Dates9–12 May
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
№ of events2 (1 men's; 1 women's)
Teams21 (from 16 countries)
Men's event
Teams16
Final positions
Champions  Russia
Runners-up  Spain
Third place  Italy
Matches played28
Goals scored236 (8.43 per match)
Women's event
Teams5
Final positions
Champions  England
Runners-up  Spain
Third place   Switzerland
Matches played10
Goals scored75 (7.5 per match)
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The tournament consisted of two events: the men's qualifiers and the women's qualifiers, the former a knockout competition from which the top five teams qualified, and the latter a round robin contest from which the top three teams qualified.[2][3]

Organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), the competition took place in Salou, Spain from 9–12 May 2019.[1]

The men's crown was won by Russia whilst the women's champions were England.[4]

Venues

For both the men's and women's tournaments, the two new beach soccer pitches that comprise part of the Complex Esportiu Futbol Salou in the city of Salou, Spain were used as venues.[5]

Referred to as simply "Pitch 1" and "Pitch 2", the former, the main arena, had grandstands installed specially for the competition, with a capacity of 1,000.[5][6]

Men's tournament

Teams

The men's event was a 16-team tournament; entry was limited to the top 16 teams of the BSWW European Ranking issued for January 2019 – these nations received invitations to participate.[3]

Three of the top 16 declined the invitations. Therefore, the next best teams in the ranking were then summoned in turn until three teams had accepted the invitation to fill the vacant spots.[3]

The final entrants are listed below, ordered by the aforementioned European Ranking in parentheses (members of the ranking who could have entered but rejected invitations are struck-through):[7]

  1.  Portugal (1)
  2.  Russia (2)
  3.  Italy (3)
  4.   Switzerland (4)
  5.  Spain (5)
  1.  Poland (6)
  1.  Ukraine (7)
  2.  Belarus (8)
  1.  Hungary (9)
  1.  France (10)
  2.  England (11)
  3.  Germany (12)
  4.  Czech Republic (13)
  5.  Azerbaijan (14)
  6.  Turkey (15)
  1.  Estonia (16)
  1.  Greece (17)
  1.  Romania (18)
  2.  Moldova (19)
  3.  Serbia (20)
  1.  Norway (21)
  1.  Bulgaria (22)
  1.  Kazakhstan (23)

Draw

The draw for the opening round of the tournament, which also defined the arrangement of the teams in the bracket, took place at 12:00 CEST on April 15 at the headquarters of BSWW in Barcelona, Spain. The draw was assisted by Spanish forward Llorenç Gomez.[8][9]

For the purpose of the draw, the 16 teams were split into four pots of four according to their world ranking – the highest ranked teams (plus the hosts) were placed in Pot 1, next highest in Pot 2 and so on, down to the lowest ranked teams placed in Pot 4.[8] For each tie, teams from Pot 1 were drawn against teams from Pot 4 and Pot 2 nations were drawn to face those from Pot 3. The drawing of ties alternated as such and in the order they were drawn, each pairing was placed in the bracket from top to bottom.[3]

The composition of the pots is shown below (World Ranking in parentheses):[9]

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4

Results

The competition was played as a straight knockout tournament; starting with the round of 16, the winners of each round advanced through to the quarter-finals, semi-finals and ultimately the final with the winner crowned champions of the event. Meanwhile, the losing nations of each round receded to play in a series of consolation rounds and/or matches in order to determine all final placements. This meant all participants contested four matches.[9]

The four teams that reached the semi-finals and the winner of the fifth place match qualified for the 2019 World Beach Games.

Matches are listed as local time in Salou, (UTC+2).

Note:

  • England withdrew after the draw took place due to administrative issues, awarding all of their opponents walkovers (w/o).[10]
    •
  • All matches took place at the main arena, other than those denoted by  2 , indicating that match took place on pitch 2.[6]
9th–12th semi-finals 9th–16th quarter-finals Round of 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals
  Portugal   10 
  Kazakhstan   2    Kazakhstan   2    Portugal   4 
  Germany   4     Switzerland (p)   7 (3)     Switzerland   5 
  Germany   4 
 10 May; 11:00; Report
 2 
   Germany   7 (2) 
 10 May; 13:30; Report
    Switzerland   3 
  Azerbaijan   5    Russia   7    Russia   4 
 11 May; 09:45; Report
   Norway   2    Norway   0    Russia   7 
 11 May; 11:00; Report
9th place match Final
  Azerbaijan   3    Ukraine   6    Ukraine   2 
  Azerbaijan   5 
 10 May; 12:15; Report
   Azerbaijan   4 
 10 May; 16:00; Report
   Russia   5 
  Greece   3    Spain   8    Spain   4 
 12 May; 11:00; Report
   Turkey   5    Turkey   6    Spain   5 
 12 May; 18:30; Report
  Czech Republic   1    Belarus (a.e.t.)   6    Belarus   0 
  Turkey   1 
 10 May; 11:00; Report
   Czech Republic   4 
 10 May; 18:30; Report
   Spain   5 
11th place match 3rd place match
  Greece   4    Italy   7    Italy   1 
  Germany   3 
 11 May; 12:15; Report
   Greece   w/o    Greece   3    Italy   10 
 11 May; 18:30; Report
    Switzerland   4 
  Turkey   6    England       France   w/o    France   2    Italy   6 
 12 May; 09:45; Report
 10 May
   England    
 10 May; 14:45; Report
 12 May; 16:00; Report
13th–16th semi-finals 5th–8th semi-finals
 9 May
  Kazakhstan   5 
 a.^ 16:00; Report
   Portugal   3 
13th place match 5th place match
  Norway   1 
 b.^ 12:15; Report
   Ukraine   5 
  Kazakhstan   2 
 11 May; 11:00; Report
 2 
 c.^ 14:45; Report
 11 May; 16:00; Report
   Ukraine   5 
  Czech Republic   4 
 d.^ 12:15; Report  2 
   Belarus   2 
 12 May; 11:00; Report
 2 
   Czech Republic   w/o 
 e.^ 18:30; Report
   Belarus   5 
 12 May; 13:30; Report
  England    
 f.^ 11:00; Report
   France   3 
15th place match 7th place match
 11 May
 g.^ 13:30; Report
 11 May; 13:30; Report
  Norway   w/o 
 h.^ Report
   Portugal   6 
  England       France   3 
 12 May
 12 May; 12:15; Report

Winners trophy
 2019 World Beach Games – Europe Qualifier
Champions 

Russia
First title

Individual awards
Top scorer
Gabriele Gori
12 goals
Best player
Llorenç Gomez
Best goalkeeper
Maxim Chuzhkov
Source: BSWW

Top goalscorers

Players who scored at least 4 goals are listed.

There were 236 goals scored in 28 matches, for an average of 8.43 goals per match.

12 goals

  • Gabriele Gori

8 goals

  • Cem Keskin

7 goals

  • Ihar Bryshtel
  • Llorenç Gomez

6 goals

  • Javi Torres
  • Baris Terzioglu
  • Emmanuele Zurlo

5 goals

  • Noel Ott
  • Dmitry Shishin
  • Artur Paporotnyi
  • Sabir Allahguliyev
  • Dmytro Voitenko

4 goals

  • Anthony Barbotti
  • Phillipp Borer
  • Leo Martins
  • Joao Gonçalves
  • Anatoliy Ryabko
  • Eduard Suarez
  • Igor Demeshko
  • Fedor Zemskov
  • Dejan Stankovic
  • Jordan Santos
  • Sven Korner

Source: BSRussia (in Russian)

Final standings
Rank Team Qualification
 Russia2019 World Beach Games
 Spain
 Italy
4   Switzerland
5  Ukraine[a]
6  Belarus
7  Portugal
8  France
9  Azerbaijan
10  Greece
11  Turkey
12  Germany
13  Czech Republic
14  Kazakhstan
15  Norway
16  England

Source: BSWW

  1. ^ Originally, UEFA were allocated four full berths at the Games; at the time this event occurred, only the top four teams qualified. However, the team that finished fifth in this event also had the possibility of qualifying – they were scheduled to contest a playoff match against the nation that claimed third in the CONMEBOL qualifiers with the winner of said match claiming an additional berth.[11] However, the allocation of berths was later redistributed with UEFA now receiving five full berths. This meant that the fifth placed team, Ukraine, were awarded with qualification straight to the Games, without having to play in the playoff match.[12]

Women's tournament

Teams

Five teams entered the women's event which are as follows;[3] their European Ranking is in parentheses:[13]

  1.   Switzerland (1)
  2.  Spain (2)
  3.  England (3)
  4.  Russia (4)
  5.  Czech Republic (6)

Results

The competition was played as a single round robin tournament;[3] the teams competed to earn points for the overall standings table – the three that accumulated the most points after all the matches were completed qualified for the 2019 World Beach Games.[2]

Matches are listed as local time in Salou, (UTC+2).

Pos Team Pld W W+ WP L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
 England[lower-alpha 1] (C) 4 2 0 1 1 16 16 0 7 2019 World Beach Games
 Spain (H) 4 2 0 0 2 19 13 +6 6
  Switzerland[lower-alpha 2] 4 2 0 0 2 13 10 +3 6
4  Russia[lower-alpha 2] 4 1 1 0 2 11 9 +2 5 2019 World Beach Games
5  Czech Republic 4 1 0 0 3 16 27 −11 3
Source: BSWW
(C) Champion; (H) Host.
Notes:
  1. England has no independent National Olympic Committee and will instead be represented at the Games as  Great Britain.
  2. Originally, UEFA were allocated two berths at the Games; at the time this event occurred, only the top two teams qualified. However, the allocation of berths was later redistributed with UEFA now receiving three berths. This meant, as the team finishing third in the event, Switzerland were awarded with qualification to the Games post factum.[12] However, Switzerland declined to take part.[14] The spot was therefore offered to the next best team, fourth placed Russia, who accepted the offer to participate as the third UEFA representative.[14]
9 May 2019 Switzerland   2–0  Russia Pitch 1
09:45 Report
9 May 2019 England  4–8  Czech Republic Pitch 2
09:45 Report
9 May 2019 Czech Republic  1–5  Russia Pitch 2
17:15 Report
9 May 2019 England  5–5 (a.e.t.)
(1–0 p)		  Spain Pitch 1
17:15 Report
10 May 2019 Switzerland   9–4  Czech Republic Pitch 1
09:45 Report
10 May 2019 Spain  2–3 (a.e.t.)  Russia Pitch 1
17:15 Report
11 May 2019 Switzerland   0–3  England Pitch 1
14:45 Report
11 May 2019 Spain  9–3  Czech Republic Pitch 1
17:15 Report
12 May 2019 England  4–3  Russia Pitch 1
14:45 Report
12 May 2019 Spain  3–2   Switzerland Pitch 1
17:15 Report

Winners trophy
2019 World Beach Games – Europe Qualifier
Champions

England
First title

Individual awards
Top scorer(s)
Veronika Pilousková
Sarah Kempson
Andrea Mirón
5 goals
Best player
Carla Morera
Best goalkeeper
Hannah Haughton
Source: BSWW

Top goalscorers

Players who scored at least 3 goals are listed.

There were 75 goals scored in 10 matches, for an average of 7.5 goals per match.

5 goals

  • Veronika Pilousková
  • Sarah Kempson
  • Andrea Mirón

4 goals

  • Natalia Zaitseva
  • Pascale Kuffer

3 goals

  • Katie James
  • Vanessa Meyer
  • Natalia Gómez
  • Lorena Asensio
  • Molly Clark
  • Gemma Hillier

Source: BSRussia (in Russian)

See also

References
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