List of world cups in beach soccer

World cups in beach soccer
Beach Soccer World Championships
	1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004;
FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
	2005; 2006; 2007; 2008; 2009; 2011; 2013; 2015; 2017; 2019; 2021;

World cups in beach soccer
Beach Soccer World Championships (1995–2004); FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup (2005–present)
	Founded
	1995
	Editions held
	20
	Region
	International (FIFA)
	Number of teams
	16 (since 2006)
	Current champions
	Portugal (3rd title; 2019)
	Most successful team
	Brazil (14 titles)

In competitive beach soccer, the world cup is the sport's paramount competition.[1][2] It is contested by senior men's national teams.

To date, two iterations of a world cup in beach soccer have existed. The first was the Beach Soccer World Championships which ran annually from 1995 to 2004.[3] FIFA then became the governing body of the sport.[2] As a result, the World Championships were abolished and replaced by the second and current iteration, the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, which began in 2005 and was also held annually; since 2009, it has been a biennial event.[4] Whilst being two independently governed competitions, both have occurred to determine the same outcome: the world champions in beach soccer.[5]

Four nations have been crowned world champions of the 20 editions to date.[4] By far the most successful team is Brazil who have historically dominated the title, winning 14. The current champions are Portugal, who won the 2019 competition. These are the only two nations to win in both eras of the sport's world cup. The other victors are France and Russia.

The following lists a summary of the results of each world cup and associated statistics; the latter combines the data of all the editions of both iterations.

List of world cups

The numbers in parentheses indicate the total number of world titles won by that team as of that victory.

Beach Soccer World Championships (1995–2004)

#	Year	Champions	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place
1	1995[6]	Brazil (1)	United States	England	Italy
2	1996[7]	Brazil (2)	Uruguay	Italy	United States
3	1997[8]	Brazil (3)	Uruguay	United States	Argentina
4	1998[9]	Brazil (4)	France	Uruguay	Peru
5	1999[10]	Brazil (5)	Portugal	Uruguay	Peru
6	2000[11]	Brazil (6)	Peru	Spain	Japan
7	2001[12]	Portugal (1)	France	Argentina	Brazil
8	2002[13]	Brazil (7)	Portugal	Uruguay	Thailand
9	2003[14]	Brazil (8)	Spain	Portugal	France
10	2004[15]	Brazil (9)	Spain	Portugal	Italy

FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup (2005–present)

#	Year	Champions	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place
11	2005[16]	France (1)	Portugal	Brazil	Japan
12	2006[17]	Brazil (10)	Uruguay	France	Portugal
13	2007[18]	Brazil (11)	Mexico	Uruguay	France
14	2008[19]	Brazil (12)	Italy	Portugal	Spain
15	2009[20]	Brazil (13)	Switzerland	Portugal	Uruguay
16	2011[21]	Russia (1)	Brazil	Portugal	El Salvador
17	2013[22]	Russia (2)	Spain	Brazil	Tahiti
18	2015[23]	Portugal (2)	Tahiti	Russia	Italy
19	2017[24]	Brazil (14)	Tahiti	Iran	Italy
20	2019[25]	Portugal (3)	Italy	Russia	Japan
21	2021

Statistics

Successful nations

The following lists the teams that have finished in the top four.

Overall, 18 nations have made at least one top four finish. Of those 18 nations, only seven have made a top four finish in both iterations of the competition. Brazil remained the only nation to finish in the final four of every championship until 2015 when they finished in fifth place.

Team	Titles	Years	Runners-up	Years	3rd place	Years	4th place	Years	Total
Brazil	14	1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007*, 2008, 2009, 2017	1	2011	2	2005*, 2013	1	2001*	18
Portugal	3	2001, 2015*, 2019	3	1999, 2002, 2005	5	2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2011	1	2006	12
Russia	2	2011, 2013	0		2	2015, 2019	0		4
France	1	2005	2	1998, 2001	1	2006	2	2003, 2007	6
Uruguay	0		3	1996, 1997, 2006	4	1998, 1999, 2002, 2007	1	2009	8
Spain	0		3	2003, 2004, 2013	1	2000	1	2008	5
Italy	0		2	2008, 2019	1	1996	4	1995, 2004, 2015, 2017	7
Tahiti	0		2	2015, 2017	0		1	2013	3
United States	0		1	1995	1	1997	1	1996	3
Peru	0		1	2000	0		2	1998, 1999	3
Switzerland	0		1	2009	0		0		1
Mexico	0		1	2007	0		0		1
Argentina	0		0		1	2001	1	1997	2
Iran	0		0		1	2017	0		1
England	0		0		1	1995	0		1
Japan	0		0		0		3	2000, 2005, 2019	3
El Salvador	0		0		0		1	2011	1
Thailand	0		0		0		1	2002	1

* = Hosts

Success by region

Region	Titles	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Total
South America (CONMEBOL)	14	5	7	5	31
Europe (UEFA)	6	11	11	8	36
North America (CONCACAF)	0	2	1	2	5
Oceania (OFC)	0	2	0	1	3
Asia (AFC)	0	0	1	4	5
Africa (CAF)	0	0	0	0	0

Appearances and performance

The following lists the teams who have appeared in at least one tournament, in order from the most appearances down to the least, and that nation's best performance.

As of the 2019 edition, 46 countries have participated over the 20 tournaments. However, only one country has participated in all the events which is Brazil. European teams have dominated in appearances by continent, since 15 of the 46 countries have been from Europe, at least double than that of any other.

Only eight countries who appeared in an edition of the World Championships have failed to reappear in a FIFA World Cup. Peru (5) have appeared in the most events without any one of those being under FIFA's control. Iran and Senegal (7) have appeared in the most FIFA tournaments without having ever once appeared in the World Championships.

Apps.	Country	First	Last	Best result
20	Brazil	1995	2019	Champions
18	Italy	1995	2019	Runners-up
17	Portugal	1997	2019	Champions
16	Argentina	1995	2015	Third place
16	Uruguay	1995	2019	Runners-up
14	Spain	1998	2015	Runners-up
	Japan	1997	2019	Fourth place
	United States	1995	2019	Runners-up
12	France	1997	2008	Champions
8	Russia	1996	2019	Champions
7	Iran	2006	2017	Third place
7	Senegal	2007	2019	QF
6	Mexico	2007	2019	Runners-up
	UAE	2007	2019	Round 1
	Nigeria	2006	2019	QF
	Switzerland	2004	2019	Runners-up
5	Peru	1998	2004	Runners-up
	Solomon Isl.	2006	2013	Round 1
	Tahiti	2011	2019	Runners-up
4	Germany	1995	2004	Round 1
	El Salvador	2008	2013	Fourth place
	Paraguay	2013	2019	QF
3	Canada	1996	2006	QF
	Venezuela	2000	2011	QF
	Ukraine	2005	2013	QF
	Oman	2011	2019	Round 1

Apps.	Country	First	Last	Best result
2	Thailand	2002	2005	Fourth place
	South Africa	1999	2005	Round 1
	Cameroon	2006	2008	Round 1
	Bahrain	2006	2009	QF
	Ivory Coast	2009	2013	Round 1
	Netherlands	1995	2013	Round 1
	Costa Rica	2009	2015	Round 1
	Poland	2006	2017	Round 1
1	England	1995		Third place
	Denmark	1996		Round 1
	Chile	1998		Round 1
	Malaysia	1999		Round 1
	Turkey	2001		Round 1
	Belgium	2004		Round 1
	Australia	2005		Round 1
	Madagascar	2015		Round 1
	Bahamas	2017		Round 1
	Ecuador	2017		Round 1
	Panama	2017		Round 1
	Belarus	2019		Round 1

Key:

Italics – edition of the World Championships
Apps. – Appearances

QF – Quarter-finals

Map of the nations that have appeared in any world cup in beach soccer by appearance.

Map of the best results by nation in world cups of beach soccer.
Champions Runners-up Semi-finals Quarter-finals Round 1

All-time table

As of 2019

The following table shows the overall statistics of all 20 world cups, combining the results of both the Beach Soccer World Championships era and the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup era.

Notes:

Key: Appearances Apps / Win in Normal Time W = 3 Points / Win in Extra Time W+ = 2 Points / Win in Penalty shoot-out WP = 1 Point / Loss L = 0 Points
Default position of teams goes by the total points column (Pts)
FIFA issued changes to the rules of beach soccer in July 2014 meaning teams now earn 1 point for a penalty shootout win;[26] teams were awarded 2 points for a shootout win prior to July 2014. For the purpose of this table, the calculation of points earned goes by the current rules meaning that penalty shootout wins that occurred both after and before the 2014 rule change have been counted as just 1 point in the "Pts" column.

Pos	Team	Apps	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	Dif	Pts	Av. Pts
1	Brazil	20	105	95	0	3	7	780	289	+491	288	2.74
2	Portugal	17	84	52	4	4	24	451	286	+165	168	2
3	Uruguay	16	67	28	3	4	32	267	261	+6	94	1.4
4	Spain	14	56	29	1	0	26	219	205	+14	89	1.59
5	Italy	18	68	25	2	4	37	278	309	–31	79	1.16
6	Russia	8	38	24	2	0	12	176	126	+50	76	2
7	France	12	50	23	0	4	23	212	221	–9	73	1.46
8	Argentina	16	57	23	0	1	33	167	211	–44	70	1.23
9	United States	14	47	18	0	0	29	158	215	–57	54	1.15
10	Japan	14	50	15	1	2	32	172	241	–69	49	0.98
11	Tahiti	5	24	12	1	2	9	100	101	–1	40	1.67
12	Switzerland	6	24	11	1	1	11	115	116	–1	36	1.5
13	Senegal	7	25	10	1	2	12	126	101	+25	34	1.36
14	Peru	5	21	11	0	0	9	81	78	+3	33	1.57
15	Iran	7	26	6	1	1	18	95	115	–20	21	0.81
16	Nigeria	6	20	5	1	2	12	88	119	–31	19	0.95
17	Mexico	6	22	5	0	2	15	53	90	–37	17	0.77
18	Paraguay	4	13	5	0	0	8	59	56	+3	15	1.15
19	El Salvador	4	16	4	1	0	11	49	81	–32	14	0.88
20	United Arab Emirates	6	18	4	0	1	13	57	71	–14	13	0.72
21	Solomon Islands	5	15	4	0	0	11	55	105	–50	12	0.8
22	Canada	3	10	3	0	1	6	34	63	–29	10	1
23	Ukraine	3	9	3	0	0	6	32	28	+4	9	1
24	England	1	5	2	0	0	3	20	31	–11	6	1.2
25	Oman	3	9	2	0	0	7	27	42	–15	6	0.67
26	Bahrain	2	7	1	0	1	5	21	38	–17	4	0.57
27	Thailand	2	7	1	0	1	5	16	34	–18	4	0.57
28	Belarus	1	3	1	0	0	2	10	13	–3	3	1
29	Denmark	1	3	1	0	0	2	10	16	–6	3	1
30	Bahamas	1	3	1	0	0	2	7	14	–7	3	1
31	Chile	1	4	1	0	0	3	14	22	–8	3	0.75
32	Ivory Coast	2	6	1	0	0	5	26	37	–11	3	0.5
33	Venezuela	3	8	1	0	0	7	22	33	–11	3	0.38
34	Poland	2	6	1	0	0	5	24	42	–18	3	0.5
35	Germany	4	9	1	0	0	8	22	56	–34	3	0.33
36	Cameroon	2	6	0	0	1	5	12	35	–23	1	0.17
37	Netherlands	2	6	0	0	1	5	13	42	–29	1	0.17
38	Turkey	1	2	0	0	0	2	1	5	–4	0	0
39	Madagascar	1	3	0	0	0	3	7	12	–5	0	0
40	Australia	1	2	0	0	0	2	2	8	–6	0	0
41	Malaysia	1	2	0	0	0	2	4	13	–9	0	0
42	Panama	1	3	0	0	0	3	4	14	–10	0	0
43	Belgium	1	2	0	0	0	2	5	18	–13	0	0
44	Ecuador	1	3	0	0	0	3	6	22	–16	0	0
45	Costa Rica	2	6	0	0	0	6	8	31	–23	0	0
46	South Africa	2	4	0	0	0	4	6	29	–23	0	0

Top goalscorers

As of 2019

From the data available,^[Note] the table below lists the all-time top 30 goalscorers, totalling goals scored by players across both world cup iterations.

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
Rank	Player	Team	WC era	FIFA era	Total
1	Madjer	Portugal	52	88	140
2	Alan	Portugal	37	38	75
3	Júnior Negão	Brazil	54	18	72
4	Júnior	Brazil	71	0	71
5	Benjamin	Brazil	30	35	65
6	Neném	Brazil	55	9	64
7	Amarelle	Spain	32	27	59
8	Jorginho	Brazil	43	6	49
9	Belchior	Portugal	6	39	45
10	Bruno	Brazil	2	40	42
10	Buru	Brazil	8	34	42
12	Gabriele Gori	Italy	0	41	41
13	André	Brazil	1	38	39
14	Dejan Stanković	Switzerland	0	37	37
15	Venancio Ramos	Uruguay	34	0	34
16	Dmitry Shishin	Russia	0	33	33
17	Alessandro Altobelli	Italy	30	0	30
17	Nico	Spain	12	18	30
19	Juninho	Brazil	25	4	29
20	Paolo Palmacci	Italy	0	28	28
20	Cláudio Adão	Brazil	28	0	28
22	Ricardo Martinez	Uruguay	0	27	27
22	Hernâni	Portugal	22	5	27
24	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh	Iran	0	26	26
25	Edinho	Brazil	25	0	25
26	Pape Jean Koukpaki	Senegal	0	23	23
26	Zico	Brazil	23	0	23
28	Magal	Brazil	22	0	22
29	Jérémy Basquaise	France	0	21	21
	Roberto Pasquali	Italy	1	20
	Sidney	Brazil	0	21
	Pedro Morán	Paraguay	0	21

**Sources:**
1995–2001 (combined scorers), 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019

**Notes:**^
Note that the source for 1995–2002 is a list of the players with the most goals from all those tournaments combined; players must have scored at least 10 goals overall to make the list; players with less goals are not listed. This means for players who subsequently scored enough goals to make the above all-time table, if they played between 1995–2002 and scored less than 10 goals, they would not have made the source lists and therefore any goals they did score during that time are a) unknown and b) missing from the above table (if they did score any). Note that there are some discrepancies between FIFA's match reports and FIFA's top scorers lists for the same tournament. During the early years of beach soccer, goals scored in a penalty shootout were often combined with goals scored during regulation time when the match score was documented – note that it is also possible such goals may have been counted in a player's goal tally in the sources.

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External links

FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, at FIFA.com
FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, at Beach Soccer Worldwide
Beach Soccer World Cup - Overview, at RSSSF

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[Note]

International beach soccer
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Oceania	OFC – Nations Cup
Europe	UEFA – League World Cup qualifiers Cup Club Winners Cup Men's Women's
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