The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup – Europe qualifier is a beach soccer championship that takes place to determine the nations who will represent Europe at the upcoming edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.REGULATIONS; FIFA BEACH SOCCER WORLD CUP 2011; QUALIFIER BIBIONE. Beach Soccer Worldwide. 2010. Retrieved 29 October 2020. It is contested between the senior men's national teams of the members of UEFA.

In 2006, FIFA made qualification to the World Cup mandatory (previously, nations were simply invited). Originally, the Euro Beach Soccer League (EBSL) doubled as Europe's qualification tournament;Spain back among the best. FIFA.com. 26 August 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2020.Russians heading for Rio. FIFA.com. 23 August 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2020. in 2008, this separate championship was created as the European qualification route.Евролига и Кубок Мира разошлись... [The Euroleague and the World Cup have parted ways ...] (in Russian). beachsoccer.ru. 1 April 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2020. FIFA currently allocate Europe five berths at the World Cup and hence the top five teams qualify to the World Cup finals.[see notes] Coinciding with the annual staging of the World Cup, the competition took place yearly until 2010; the World Cup then became biennial, and as its supplementary qualification event, the championship followed suit.

Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) have organised the event since its inception. Europe's governing body for football, UEFA, only began involvement in 2019 – sending delegates and financial support. Unlike the World Cup qualifiers for UEFA in football, it is a knockout tournament with a champion crowned. Its large scale and competitiveness are often noted, making it viewed as a major title to win.Moscow to pass World Cup sentence. Beach Soccer Worldwide. 19 April 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2020.Сверхъестественный отбор. Как в Европе сражаются за путёвки на чемпионат мира (in Russian). Beach Soccer Russia. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2020.

Spain are the most successful team with four titles, but Portugal have secured qualification to the World Cup on the most occasions (seven).

Background In 2006, FIFA declared that for teams to enter the World Cup, they now must qualify (previously, most teams entered by invitation). Qualification tournaments were subsequently established in all continental zones, except for Europe.Tahiti hosts OFC qualifiers for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2006. Beach Soccer Worldwide. 23 March 2006. Retrieved 30 October 2020. For European teams, a qualification process had already been implemented for the previous handful of World Cups – the top placed teams of the most recent season of the Euro Beach Soccer League (EBSL) earned qualification to the upcoming edition of the World Cup. Thus, the EBSL continued to double as the qualifying route for European teams.

In 2008, FIFA proclaimed that the next editions of the World Cup would take place in different countries.Marseille: see you next year. FIFA.com. 28 August 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2020. Until that point, all World Cups had been held in Brazil during summertime of the Southern Hemisphere, months after the conclusion of that year's EBSL season. That year, the World Cup was held in Marseille, France, and during a different time of the year – in July. The usual European qualification route, the EBSL, was not due to conclude until weeks after the World Cup had taken place. This separate knockout tournament, dedicated purely to determining the teams qualifying to the World Cup, was organised instead; free to be placed anywhere in the calendar, it took place in the May. It "made history", becoming the biggest international beach soccer event ever held at the time with 24 participants.Spanish Castellón to host Beach Soccer European Qualifier. Banderas News. February 2009. Retrieved 30 October 2020. It has since returned in all future years as Europe's qualification tournament.

Results For all tournaments, the top four teams qualified for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup (except for 2009 and 2019, when the top five teams qualified).

YearLocationFinalThird place play-offFifth placeChampionsScoreRunners-upThird placeScoreFourth place2008details Benidorm, Spain4–34–22009details Castellón, Spain4–4 (13–12 p.)8–62010details Bibione, Italy4–25–22012details Moscow, Russia5–33–02014details Jesolo, Italy6–55–42016details Jesolo, Italy6–38–32019details Moscow, Russia7–16–22021details Nazaré, Portugal5–26–52023details Baku, AzerbaijanNo such placements were determined.,,, qualified to the World Cup.2024details Cádiz, Spain

Performance Successful nations TeamTitlesRunners-upThird placeFourth placeTotal top 44 (2008*, 2009*, 2012, 2021) – – 2 (2014, 2024*) 62 (2014, 2019*) 2 (2009, 2012*) 2 (2008, 2010) – 61 (2024) 2 (2008, 2010) 2 (2016, 2021*) 1 (2009) 71 (2010) 1 (2021) 1 (2012) – 41 (2016) – – – 1 – 2 (2019, 2024) 1 (2014*) 2 (2008, 2016*) 6 – 2 (2014, 2016) 1 (2009) 2 (2010, 2019) 5 – – 2 (2019, 2024) 1 (2021) 4 – – – 1 (2012) 1

Awards YearTop goalscorer(s)GlsBest playerBest goalkeeperRef. 2008 Dejan Stankovic16 Amarelle Roberto Valeiro 2009 Pasquale Carotenuto24 Ilya Leonov Andrey Bukhlitskiy 2010 Madjer16 Ilya Leonov Paulo Graça 2012 Bogusław Saganowski15 Amarelle Vitalii Sydorenko 2014 Dejan Stankovic21 Dario Ramacciotti Valentin Jaeggy 2016 Dejan Stankovic25 Bogusław Saganowski Szymon Gąsiński 2019 Gabriele Gori14 Yury Krasheninnikov Maxim Chuzhkov 2021 Noël Ott Philip Borer10 Chiky Ardil Andreii Nerush 2023 Oliver Romrig10 Ihar Bryshtel Leandro Casapieri 2024 Chiky Ardil12 Jordan Santos Pedro Mano

All-time top goalscorers As of 2023

The following table shows the all-time goalscorers; players with at least 30 goals are shown.

Source: Match reports. RankPlayerTeamGoals1 Dejan Stankovic 1142 Madjer 653 Gabriele Gori 564 Bogusław Saganowski 555 Belchior 54 Dmitry Shishin 7 Marian Măciucă 438 Noël Ott 39 Oleg Zborovskyi 10 Ihar Bryshtel 3811 Jérémy Basquaise 37 Aleksey Makarov 13 Amarelle 3614 Christian Biermann 35 Barış Terzioğlu 16 Llorenç Gómez 3317 Paolo Palmacci 3218 Alan 30 Sabir Allahguliyev Viktor Fekete Paris Konstantakopoulos

All-time table As of 2023 PosTeamAppPldWW+WPLGFGAGDPtsPPGWin % 1 9 60 41 3 3 13 335 173 +162 132 2.20 78.3 (47–13) 2 7 51 42 1 0 8 284 117 +167 128 2.51 84.3 (43–8) 3 9 54 38 2 3 11 276 162 +114 121 2.24 79.6 (43–11) 4 8 51 39 0 2 10 321 135 +186 119 2.33 80.4 (41–10) 5 9 58 37 3 1 17 345 214 +131 118 2.03 70.7 (41–17) 6 8 49 32 2 3 12 226 143 +83 103 2.10 75.5 (37–12) 7 9 54 29 3 0 22 228 193 +35 93 1.72 59.3 (32–22) 8 9 50 24 1 4 21 200 156 +44 78 1.56 58.0 (29–21) 9 8 46 22 2 3 19 203 183 +20 73 1.59 58.7 (27–19) 10 9 50 17 1 2 30 175 215 −40 55 1.10 40.0 (20–30) 11 9 43 14 1 1 27 154 158 −4 45 1.05 37.2 (16–27) 12 7 39 12 2 3 22 141 168 −27 43 1.10 43.6 (17–22) 13 7 36 13 1 1 21 138 202 −64 42 1.17 41.7 (15–21) 14 8 39 13 0 2 24 148 181 −33 41 1.05 38.5 (15–24) 15 9 33 13 0 1 19 109 156 −47 40 1.21 42.4 (14–19) 16 9 42 10 2 1 29 133 178 −45 35 0.83 31.0 (13–29) 17 5 22 10 0 2 10 73 88 −15 32 1.45 54.5 (12–10) 18 7 38 9 1 0 28 135 175 −40 29 0.76 26.3 (10–28) 19 3 16 8 0 0 8 53 86 −33 24 1.50 50.0 (8–8) 20 7 25 6 2 1 16 64 112 −48 23 0.92 36.0 (9–16) 21 7 28 6 1 1 20 69 146 −77 21 0.75 28.6 (8–20) 22 5 20 5 0 1 14 45 96 −51 16 0.80 30.0 (6–14) 23 9 31 4 0 1 26 71 157 −86 13 0.42 16.1 (5–26) 24 3 11 3 0 0 8 37 48 −11 9 0.82 27.3 (3–8) 25 4 12 3 0 0 9 42 64 −22 9 0.75 25.0 (3–9) 26 4 17 3 0 0 14 39 91 −52 9 0.53 17.6 (3–14) 27 1 4 2 0 0 2 19 13 +6 6 1.50 50.0 (2–2) 28 3 9 2 0 0 7 26 61 −35 6 0.67 22.2 (2–7) 29 2 6 1 0 0 5 15 20 −5 3 0.50 16.7 (1–5) 30 5 16 1 0 0 15 31 94 −63 3 0.19 6.3 (1–15) 31 1 3 0 0 0 3 4 12 −8 0 0.00 0 32 1 3 0 0 0 3 5 25 −20 0 0.00 0 33 2 5 0 0 0 5 13 41 −28 0 0.00 0 34 3 8 0 0 0 8 16 56 −40 0 0.00 0 35 5 15 0 0 0 15 31 86 −55 0 0.00 0 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 UEFA qualifiers and how many appearances they each have made. Legend

– Champions – Runners-up – Third place – Fourth place – Fifth place (if qualified to World Cup; regular) – Fifth place (if qualified to World Cup; as lucky losers) 5th...16th – Fifth to sixteenth place – Qualified to World Cup by winning Round 3 match (no further rounds took place) R3 – Round 3 (quarter-finals or 2nd group stage) R2 – Round 2 (round of 16) R1 – Round 1 (group stage)

•• – Entered but withdrew × – Did not enter – Did not enter (because already qualified to World Cup as hosts) ×× – Banned from entering – Hosts Apps – No. of appearances

Timeline 2008 (24)2009 (26)2010 (27)2012 (24)2014 (24)2016 (28)2019 (20)2021 (21)2023 (20)2024 (24) AppsR1R1R1×××××××3R1R1R1×R1••××××4R18thR2R213th8th8th8th 13thR210R2R1R1R35th11th3rd4thR3R310×R2×××××××R22×R1R1R1R1R1××××5R3R1R1R2R16thR1R1R1R110×××××R1×13thR3R34R2R2R1R112thR1×R1×R28R2R2R2R111thR1R114th10thR210×6thR2R314th7thR29thR3R39R1××ו•R1×××R13R2R1R1R110th12thR26th12thR210R3R1R2R216th14th××16thx7R2R1R3R37th15thR2×××7×R2R1R2××××××34th5thR2R23rd4th2nd7thR3R310ו•R1××R1R216th×R15R1R1×R1R1×R2×××5R1××××R1R2R115thR26××××××××R1R12××R2R1R116thR2R1R3R28R1R2R24th×R1××××5R2R1R1R1R1R1R115thR1R110R2R2R3R315th1st7th10th11thR3102nd4th2ndR2×3rd5th3rdR3R39R17thR3R18thR1×12thו•73rd2nd3rd2nd 1st5th1st ×××××7×××××R1××××1R1••R1×R1×××××3 1st 1st R31st4th9th6th 1stR3R310×××××××R1R1×2R33rd4thR22nd2nd4th5th14thR310×R2R2R29th13thR211th9th••8R3R21st3rd6th10th••2ndR3R29

Performance of qualifiers at the World Cup

The following is a performance timeline of the UEFA teams who have gone on to appear in the World Cup, having qualified from the above events.

Legend

– Champions – Runners-up – Third place – Fourth place – Hosts (qualify automatically)

QF – Quarter-finals R1 – Round 1 (group stage) •• – Qualified but withdrew q – Qualified for upcoming tournament Total – Total times qualified for World Cup

Timeline 2008 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2023 2025 Total R1 R1 4th 2nd 4 QF 1 2nd QF QF 4th 4th 2nd 2nd QF 8 R1 1 R1 1 3rd 3rd 3rd 1st QF 1st R1 QF 3rd 9 QF QF 1st 1st 3rd 3rd 1st 7 4th QF 2nd R1 QF R1 QF 7 2nd R1 QF QF QF 3rd 6 R1 R1 •• •• 2Total no. of unique qualifiers 10

Notes The fifth placed team does not always qualify to the World Cup:

RFU:

Results 2023 (r23):

Results 2024 (r24):

References

External links Beach Soccer Worldwide, official website