FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)
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] also previously known as the South American Beach Soccer Championship (Spanish: Sudamericano de Fútbol Playa),[3] is the main championship for beach soccer in South America,[4] contested between the senior men's national teams of the members of CONMEBOL.
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Founded | 2006 |
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Region | South America (CONMEBOL) |
Number of teams | 10 |
Qualifier for | FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup |
Current champions | ![]() |
Most successful team(s) | ![]() |
Website | 2019 event: conmebol.com |
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The tournament acts as the qualification route for South American nations to the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.[1] The winners of the championship are also crowned continental champions. Coinciding with the annual staging of the World Cup, the competition took place yearly until 2009; the World Cup then became biennial, and as its supplementary qualification event, the championship followed suit.
The championship was established in 2006 after FIFA made it a requirement for all confederations to begin holding qualification tournaments to determine the best national team(s) in their region and hence those who would proceed to represent their continent in the upcoming World Cup (previously, nations were simply invited to play without having to earn their place).[5] The first edition was proceeded by a joint qualification tournament with CONMEBOL in 2005; a second and final joint event was held in 2007.[6][7] FIFA currently allocate South America three berths at the World Cup[8] and hence the top three teams (the winners, runners-up and third place play-off winner) qualify to the World Cup finals.
Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) originally organised the competition[9] under the title FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup CONMEBOL qualifier.[10] In 2013, CONMEBOL began reporting on the event using the aforementioned Sudamericano title[11] (which the tournament became informally known as) before taking organisational control under a new title in 2017.
Since 2016, the Copa América has also been staged by CONMEBOL; however it is not used a qualification tournament to the World Cup.
Brazil are current champions and the most successful nation with six titles. They also won the 2005 joint event.
Results
- Joint championship with CONCACAF
For every edition, the top three nations qualified to the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.
Year | Location | Final | Third place play-off | |||||||
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Champions | Score | Runners-up | Third place | Score | Fourth place | |||||
2005 | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONCACAF; see 2005 Americas Beach Soccer Championship | |||||||||
2006 details |
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![]() Brazil |
9–2 | ![]() Uruguay |
![]() Argentina |
2–0 | ![]() Venezuela | |||
2007 | Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONCACAF; see 2007 CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship | |||||||||
2008 details |
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![]() Brazil |
6–1 | ![]() Argentina |
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5–1 | ![]() Venezuela | |||
2009 details |
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![]() Brazil |
10–1 | ![]() Uruguay |
![]() Argentina |
9–8 | ![]() Ecuador | |||
2011 details |
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![]() Brazil |
6–2 | ![]() Argentina |
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5–2 | ![]() Colombia | |||
2013 details |
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![]() Argentina |
6–2 | ![]() Paraguay |
![]() Brazil |
11–5 | ![]() Ecuador | |||
2015 details |
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![]() Brazil |
8–3 | ![]() Paraguay |
![]() Argentina |
4–4 (a.e.t.) (1–0 p.) |
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2017 details |
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![]() Brazil |
7–5 | ![]() Paraguay |
![]() Ecuador |
4–4 (a.e.t.) (1–0 p.) |
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2019 details |
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![]() Brazil |
10–1 | ![]() Uruguay |
![]() Paraguay |
6–5 | ![]() Argentina |
Performance
Successful nations
Team | Titles | Runners-up | Third place | Fourth place | Total top 4 | |
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7 (2006*, 2008, 2009, 2011*, 2015, 2017, 2019*) | – | 1 (2013) | – | 8 | |
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1 (2013*) | 2 (2008*, 2011) | 3 (2006, 2009, 2015) | 2 (2017, 2019) | 8 | |
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– | 3 (2013, 2015, 2017*) | 1 (2019) | – | 4 | |
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– | 3 (2006, 2009*, 2019) | 1 (2008) | – | 4 | |
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– | – | 1 (2017) | 3 (2009, 2013, 2015*) | 4 | |
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– | – | 1 (2011) | 2 (2006, 2008) | 3 | |
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– | – | – | 1 (2011) | 1 |
Awards
Year | Top goalscorer(s) | Gls | Best player | Best goalkeeper | Ref. |
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14 | ![]() |
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7 | ![]() |
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13 | ![]() |
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12 | ![]() |
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13 | ![]() |
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12 | ![]() |
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11 | ![]() |
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14 | not awarded |
All-time table
As of 2019
Joint event results not included
Pos | Team | App | Pld | W | W+ | WP | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | PPG | Win % |
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8 | 45 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 393 | 110 | +283 | 129 | 2.87 | 95.6 |
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8 | 46 | 26 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 197 | 172 | +25 | 86 | 1.87 | 69.6 |
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8 | 38 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 185 | 167 | +18 | 61 | 1.61 | 57.9 |
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8 | 41 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 161 | 181 | –20 | 58 | 1.41 | 53.7 |
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7 | 32 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 157 | 155 | +2 | 43 | 1.34 | 46.9 |
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6 | 30 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 117 | 178 | –61 | 32 | 1.07 | 40 |
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5 | 28 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 111 | 137 | –26 | 27 | 0.91 | 35.7 |
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8 | 36 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 26 | 129 | 205 | –76 | 25 | 0.69 | 27.8 |
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8 | 41 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 134 | 229 | –95 | 22 | 0.54 | 19.5 |
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3 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 39 | 85 | –46 | 6 | 0.3 | 13.3 |
Key: Appearances App / Won in normal time W = 3 points / Won in extra-time W+ = 2 points / Won on penalty shoot-out WP = 1 point / Lost L = 0 points / Points per game PPG
Appearances & performance timeline
The following is a performance timeline of the teams who have appeared in the CONMEBOL qualifiers and how many appearances they each have made.
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Year Team |
2006![]() (6) |
2008![]() (7) |
2009![]() (8) |
2011![]() (9) |
2013![]() (9) |
2015![]() (10) |
2017![]() (10) |
2019![]() (10) |
Apps ⁄8 | |
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3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 8 | |
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× | × | × | × | × | 9th | 10th | 9th | 3 | |
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1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 8 | |
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× | 5th | 5th | 7th | 5th | 7th | 5th | 7th | 7 | |
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× | × | × | 4th | 7th | 8th | 6th | 6th | 5 | |
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× | × | 4th | 8th | 4th | 4th | 3rd | 8th | 6 | |
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5th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | 8 | |
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6th | 7th | 7th | 9th | 8th | 6th | 7th | 5th | 8 | |
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2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 5th | 6th | 5th | 8th | 2nd | 8 | |
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4th | 4th | 8th | 3rd | 9th | 10th | 9th | 10th | 8 |
Performance of qualifiers at the World Cup
The following is a performance timeline of the CONMEBOL teams who have gone on to appear in the World Cup, having successfully qualified from the above events.
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Year Team |
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Total |
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![]() | QF | QF | R1 | QF | R1 | R1 | QF | R1 | 8 | |||
![]() | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | QF | 1st | QF | 10 | |
![]() | R1 | 1 | ||||||||||
![]() | R1 | R1 | QF | R1 | 4 | |||||||
![]() | QF | 2nd | 3rd | QF | 4th | QF | 6 | |||||
![]() | R1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Total no. of unique qualifiers | 6 |
References
- "Eliminatorias de Fútbol Playa - Paraguay 2017" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 18 February 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
- "First points fly to Paraguay, Ecuador, Brazil and Argentina". Beach Soccer Worldwide. 6 February 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
- "Sudamericano de Fútbol Playa" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
- "En Conferencia de Prensa dieron detalles de las Eliminatorias de Playa" (in Spanish). Paraguayan Football Association. 4 February 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
- "FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2006 qualifiers to start in Brazil on 5 March". FIFA. 3 March 2006. Archived from the original on 13 May 2006. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
- "En Conmebol lanzan Eliminatorias del Mundial de Fútbol Playa Bahamas 2017" (in Spanish). Paraguayan Football Association. 19 January 2017. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
- "About the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship". CONCACAF. 2015. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
- "World Cup gets bigger". FIFA. 25 August 2005. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
- "Regulations FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Rio de Janeiro 2006" (PDF). fifa.com. Archived from the original on January 7, 2007. Retrieved 20 April 2016.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- Gaich, Rémi (11 January 2016). BSWW competitions / National teams. Barcelona: Beach Soccer Worldwide. pp. 14, 15, 19.
- "Argentina and their first beach soccer title". CONMEBOL. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
External links
- CONMEBOL, official website
- Beach Soccer Worldwide, official website