en Euro Beach Soccer Cup

Euro Beach Soccer Cup
Organising body	BSWW
Founded	1998
Abolished	2016
Region	Europe (UEFA)
Number of teams	8
Last champions	Portugal; (7th title)
Most successful team(s)	Portugal (7 titles)

The Euro Beach Soccer Cup (EBSC), originally known as the European Pro Beach Soccer Championships until 2004, was a biennial (previously annual) beach soccer competition contested between European men's national teams, organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW). Having started in 1998, the tournament's prestige has held in being one of the oldest and longest running beach soccer competitions in Europe and the world. It is currently merged with Euro Beach Soccer League.

History

Historically, the top eight ranking teams from the previous Euro Beach Soccer League qualified to contest the cup, hence the similar naming, with the first edition in 1998 starting off the back of the first EBSL season earlier in the year, making it one of beach soccer's main prestigious tournaments. However, due to saturation in the calendar in recent years, the once major championship has been somewhat back-benched. The participating teams are not always the best ranked as in the past (notably in 2008 and 2014), with entry requirements being more lax/down to invitation, and the tournament has been moved to every two years, the last annual edition coming in 2010.

Portugal are the most successful team and the current champions, having won the tournament for the seventh time in 2016 having failed to win since 2006.

The cup is played as a straight knock-out tournament, other than in the 1998, 2008 and 2014 editions when a group stage was used first before a set of knock-out rounds.

In 2016, BSWW began a women's edition of the event, to be hosted annually.

Men's tournaments

Results

Year	Location	Final			Third place play-off			Awards
Year	Location	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place	Top Scorer	Best Player	Best Goalkeeper
1998 Details	Siracusa, Italy	Portugal	3–2	Spain	Italy	11–4	Germany	Alan	Alan	Thomas Gruetter
1999 Details	Alicante, Spain	Spain	6–2	Portugal	France	8–7	Italy	—
2001 Details	Maspalomas, Spain	Portugal	4–3	Spain	Italy	5–4	Germany	Marco Bruschini	Madjer	Roberto Valeiro
2002 Details	Barcelona, Spain	Portugal	2–1	Spain	France	9–6	Italy	Ramiro Amarelle	Madjer	Jürgen Rollmann
2003 Details	Liège, Belgium	Portugal	6–3	France	Spain	6–3	Germany	Massimo Agostini	Hernâni	Claude Barrabe
2004 Details	Lisbon, Portugal	Portugal	8–3	Spain	Italy	9–9 a.e.t. (4–3) pen.	France	Madjer	Madjer	João Carlos
2005 Details	Moscow, Russia	Switzerland	4–3	Russia	Portugal	5–4	Ukraine	Pasquale Carotenuto	Andrey Bukhlitskiy	Nico Jung
2006 Details	Naples, Italy	Portugal	9–8	France	Italy	6–4	Switzerland	Pasquale Carotenuto	Pasquale Carotenuto	Christophe Eggimann
2007 Details	Tarragona, Spain	Ukraine	3–0	France	Portugal	2–1	Switzerland	Dejan Stankovic	Jérémy Basquaise	Volodymyr Hladchenko
2008 Details	Baku, Azerbaijan	Spain	2–0	Switzerland	Azerbaijan	4–3	Norway	Dejan Stankovic	Nico	Roberto Valeiro
2009 Details	Rome, Italy	Spain	6–4	Switzerland	Portugal	7–5	Hungary	Madjer	Nico	Nico Jung
2010 Details	Rome, Italy	Russia	6–4	Portugal	Italy	5–4	Spain	Madjer	Ilya Leonov	Andrey Bukhlitskiy
2012 Details	Moscow, Russia	Russia	4–2	Portugal	Switzerland	5–4	Italy	Madjer Dejan Stankovic Giuseppe Soria	Aleksey Makarov	Andrey Bukhlitskiy
2014 Details	Baku, Azerbaijan	Spain	8–6	Switzerland	Russia	7–4	Greece	Noel Ott	Juanma	Dávid Ficsór
2016 Details	Belgrade, Serbia	Portugal	6–3	Italy	Russia	8–0	Hungary	Gabriele Gori	Elinton Andrade	Elinton Andrade

Successful national teams

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Total Top four (from 15)
Portugal	7 (1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2016)	3 (1999, 2010, 2012)	3 (2005, 2007, 2009)	-	13
Spain	4 (1999, 2008, 2009, 2014)	4 (1998, 2001, 2002, 2004)	1 (2003)	1 (2010)	10
Russia	2 (2010, 2012)	1 (2005)	2 (2014, 2016)	-	5
Switzerland	1 (2005)	3 (2008, 2009, 2014)	1 (2012)	2 (2006, 2007)	7
Ukraine	1 (2007)	-	-	1 (2005)	2
France	-	3 (2003, 2006, 2007)	2 (1999, 2002)	1 (2004)	6
Italy	-	1 (2016)	5 (1998, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2010)	3 (1999, 2002, 2012)	9
Azerbaijan	-	-	1 (2008)	-	1
Germany	-	-	-	3 (1998, 2001, 2003)	3
Hungary	-	-	-	2 (2009, 2016)	2
Greece	-	-	-	1 (2014)	1
Norway	-	-	-	1 (2008)	1

Overall standings

As 2016

Pos	Team	Part	Pld	W	WE	WP	L	GF	GA	Dif	Pts
1	Portugal	13	42	31	2	3	6	237	146	+91	100
2	Spain	15	44	28	0	1	15	243	160	+83	85
3	Switzerland	14	42	18	0	2	22	203	198	+5	56
4	Italy	14	40	15	1	1	23	217	210	+7	48
5	France	12	35	15	1	1	18	181	197	-16	48
6	Russia	6	18	14	0	0	4	88	48	+40	42
7	Ukraine	3	9	6	0	0	3	41	31	+10	18
8	Poland	4	12	5	0	1	6	41	57	-16	16
9	Hungary	5	15	4	0	1	10	48	76	-28	13
10	England	3	9	4	0	0	5	31	37	-6	12
11	Germany	5	16	3	0	1	12	66	92	-26	10
12	Belgium	3	9	3	0	0	6	45	51	-6	9
13	Azerbaijan	2	6	2	0	0	4	21	25	-4	6
14	Norway	2	6	2	0	0	4	24	44	-20	6
15	Turkey	1	3	1	0	0	2	9	13	-4	3
16	Austria	2	6	1	0	0	5	23	47	-24	3
17	Greece	2	6	0	1	0	5	18	33	-15	2
18	Romania	1	3	0	0	0	3	6	15	-9	0
19	Netherlands	1	3	0	0	0	3	10	25	-15	0
20	Ireland	1	3	0	0	0	3	9	32	-23	0
21	Serbia	2	5	0	0	0	5	6	33	-27	0

Note: Win in Common Time W = 3 Points / Win in Extra Time WE = 2 Points / Win in Penalty shoot-out WP = 1 Point / Lose L = 0 Points

Team appearances

These are the nations who have appeared in the Euro Beach Soccer Cup since 1998.

Legend

1st – Champions
2nd – Runners-up
3rd – Third place
4th – Fourth place
5th − Fifth place
6th − Sixth place
7th − Seventh place
8th − Eighth place
QF – Quarterfinals or seventh/eighth place
R1 – Round 1 (group stage)
• – Did not play
– Hosts

	1998 (7)	1999 (4)	2001 (8)	2002 (8)	2003 (8)	2004 (8)	2005 (8)	2006 (8)	2007 (8)	2008 (6)	2009 (8)	2010 (8)	2012 (8)	2014 (6)	2016 (8)	Total Appearances
Azerbaijan	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	3rd	•	•	•	6th	•	2
Austria	•	•	•	•	QF	•	•	QF	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	2
Belgium	•	•	•	•	5th	QF	QF	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	3
England	•	•	•	5th	•	5th	•	•	•	6th	•	•	•	•	•	3
France	R1	4th	QF	3rd	2nd	4th	QF	2nd	2nd	•	6th	QF	QF	•	•	12
Germany	4th	•	4th	6th	4th	•	•	QF	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	5
Greece	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	QF	•	•	•	•	4th	•	2
Hungary	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	6th	•	•	4th	QF	•	5th	4th	5
Ireland	•	•	•	QF	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	1
Italy	3rd	3rd	3rd	4th	6th	3rd	6th	3rd	QF	5th	QF	3rd	4th	•	2nd	14
Netherlands	•	•	QF	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	1
Norway	•	•	•	•	•	6th	•	•	•	4th	•	•	•	•	•	2
Poland	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	5th	•	QF	6th	5th	•	•	4
Portugal	1st	2nd	1st	1st	1st	1st	3rd	1st	3rd	•	3rd	2nd	2nd	•	1st	13
Romania	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	QF	•	•	1
Russia	•	•	•	•	•	•	2nd	•	•	•	5th	1st	1st	3rd	3rd	6
Serbia ¹	R1	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	8th	2
Spain	2nd	1st	2nd	2nd	3rd	2nd	5th	5th	6th	1st	1st	4th	6th	1st	7th	15
Switzerland	R1	•	QF	QF	QF	QF	1st	4th	4th	2nd	2nd	5th	3rd	2nd	6th	14
Turkey	•	•	QF	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	1
Ukraine	•	•	•	•	•	•	4th	•	1st	•	•	•	•	•	5th	3

¹ Includes one appearance as Yugoslavia

Women's tournaments

Results

Year	Location	Final			Third place play-off			Awards
Year	Location	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place	Top Scorer	Best Player	Best Goalkeeper
2016 Details	Cascais, Portugal	Spain	2–1	Switzerland	Portugal	6–6 a.e.t. 2–0 pens.	England	Molly Clark	Andrea Mirón	Suzanne Stutz
2017 Details	Nazaré, Portugal	England	4–3	Switzerland	Netherlands	1–0	Czechia	Gemma Hillier	Grytsje Van den Berg	Lucy Quinn
2018 Details	Nazaré, Portugal	Russia	2–0	Spain	Switzerland	6–3	England	Anastasia Gorshkova	Marina Fedorova	Maria Jose Pons
2019 Details	Nazaré, Portugal	Russia	3–2	Spain	Switzerland	6–5 a.e.t.	England	5 players	Marina Fedorova	Viktoriia Silina
2020	Nazaré, Portugal^[1]	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Successful national teams

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Total top four (from 4)
Russia	2 (2018, 2019)	-	-	-	2
Spain	1 (2016)	2 (2018, 2019)	-	-	3
England	1 (2017)	-	-	3 (2016, 2018, 2019)	4
Switzerland	-	2 (2016, 2017)	2 (2018, 2019)	-	4
Portugal	-	-	1 (2016)	-	1
Netherlands	-	-	1 (2017)	-	1
Czech Republic	-	-	-	1 (2017)	1

References

^ Nazaré to host the Euro Beach Soccer League Superfinal and Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup 2020. Beach Soccer Worldwide. 6 August 2020.

External links

http://theroonba.com/beach98.htm Archived 2020-11-16 at the Wayback Machine
http://www.beachsoccer.com/

[1] Nazaré to host the Euro Beach Soccer League Superfinal and Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup 2020. Beach Soccer Worldwide. 6 August 2020.

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