FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup ( English: Beach Soccer World Cup to German beach soccer World Cup ) is an organized since 2005 by the world football governing body FIFA national team competition in beach soccer. Precursor was the 1995 been played annually until 2004 and organized by Beach Soccer Worldwide beach World Cup. From 2009, the tournament is played in two - year intervals.

In the first ten sweeps were not organized by FIFA, Brazil and Portugal nine could win a title. 2005 France won, in 2011 Russia their first title. So far, there are only four nations who won the world title. In 2005, FIFA was an organizer for the Beach Soccer World Championships. It the World Championships were held annually continue. After the Beach Soccer World Cup 2009 in Dubai the 1 -year cycle is exited and the World Championships only held every 2 years, so that is also determined on a continental scale the continental champion in a tournament.

Record participant is Brazil, which previously participated in all 16 sweeps, followed by Uruguay with 15, Argentina, Italy and Portugal, each with 14, and France, Spain and the USA, each with 12 participants.

Erstteilnahmen

Apart from the Beach Soccer World Cup 2003 finals took to each at least one football national team for the first time. Subsequently, the previously 40 first-time participants:

The tournaments at a glance

Ranking

Awards

At the end of each World Cup several awards will be awarded to the best players and fairest team. Currently there are four different awards:

  • The Adidas Golden Boot for the top scorer (until 2004 top scorer )
  • The Adidas Golden Ball for the best player (until 2004 Best Player )
  • The Adidas Golden Glove for best goalkeeper (until 2004 best goalkeeper )
  • The FIFA Fair Play Award for the fairest team
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