CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship

CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship

Founded	2006 (2006)
Region	North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF)
Number of teams	16
Qualifier for	FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
Current champions	Panama (1st title)
Most successful team(s)	Mexico (3 titles)
Website	concacaf.com
2017 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship

The CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship, also known as the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup CONCACAF qualifier^[1] is the main championship for beach soccer in North America, Central America and the Caribbean, contested between senior men's national teams of the members of CONCACAF.^[2] It is the sport's version of the better known CONCACAF Gold Cup in association football.

The winners of the championship are crowned continental champions;^[3] the tournament also acts as the qualification route for North American nations to the upcoming edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.^[2] 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.

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).^[4] The first edition was proceeded by a joint qualification tournament with CONMEBOL in 2005; a second and final joint event was held in 2007.^[5][6] FIFA currently allocate North America two berths at the World Cup^[7] and hence the top two teams (the winners and the runners-up) qualify to the World Cup finals.^[1]

North America's governing body for football, CONCACAF, have organised the championship since its inception,^[8] in cooperation with Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW).^[9]

Mexico are the most successful nation with three titles. The United States have won two titles and, additionally, they won the 2007 joint event. Along with El Salvador and Costa Rica, this quartet have dominated the championship, finishing in the top four together in five of the seven tournaments.

Panama are the current champions.

Results

•      Joint championship with CONMEBOL

There have been seven editions of the championship as of 2017.^[10] For all tournaments, the top two teams qualified for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

In terms of qualification to the World Cup, Mexico and El Salvador have achieved the most, finishing well enough in the championship to advance to the World Cup finals on four occasions each. Along with the United States and Costa Rica, these four nations are the only ones to qualify more than once thus far.

Year	Location		Final				Third place match
			Champions	Score	Runners-up		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
2005	Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2005 Americas Beach Soccer Championship
2006 details	Puntarenas, Costa Rica		United States	[round-robin]	Canada		Costa Rica	[round-robin]	Mexico
2007	Qualifying tournament held jointly with CONMEBOL; see 2007 CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship
2008 details	Puerto Vallarta, Mexico		Mexico	[round-robin]	El Salvador		United States	[round-robin]	Costa Rica
2009 details	Puerto Vallarta, Mexico		El Salvador	6 – 3	Costa Rica		Mexico	5 – 4	United States
2010 details	Puerto Vallarta, Mexico		Mexico	5 – 3	El Salvador		United States	7 – 5	Costa Rica
2013 details	Nassau, Bahamas		United States	5 – 4 (a.e.t.)	El Salvador		Mexico	8 – 7	Costa Rica
2015 details	Costa del Sol, El Salvador		Mexico	4 – 0	Costa Rica		El Salvador	5 – 2	United States
2017 details	Nassau, Bahamas		Panama	4 – 2	Mexico		El Salvador	7 – 2	Guadeloupe

Performance

Successful nations

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third-place	Fourth place		Total top 4
Mexico[A]	3 (2008*, 2011*, 2015)	1 (2017)	2 (2009*, 2013)	1 (2006)		7
United States[B]	2 (2006, 2013)	–	2 (2008, 2011)	2 (2009, 2015)		6
El Salvador	1 (2009)	3 (2008, 2011, 2013)	2 (2015*, 2017)	–		6
Panama	1 (2017)	–	–	–		1
Costa Rica	–	2 (2009, 2015)	1 (2006*)	3 (2008, 2011, 2013)		6
Canada	–	1 (2006)	–	–		1
Guadeloupe	–	–	–	1 (2017)		1

* = Hosts

A ^ Also 4th in 2007 joint event

B ^ Also 3rd in 2005 joint event; winner of 2007 joint event title

Overall statistics

As of 2017

Joint event results not included

Pos	Team	App	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Avg. Pts	Win %
1	Mexico	7	32	24	0	1	7	165	71	+94	73	2.28	78.1
2	United States	7	34	22	2	0	10	160	90	+70	70	2.06	70.6
3	El Salvador	6	29	17	1	4	7	162	98	+64	57	1.97	75.9
4	Costa Rica	7	32	13	2	3	14	134	123	+11	46	1.44	56.3
5	Trinidad and Tobago	3	16	9	0	0	7	63	54	+9	27	1.69	56.3
6	Bahamas	5	22	8	1	0	13	82	94	–12	26	1.18	40.9
7	Canada	5	20	8	0	0	12	73	97	–24	24	1.2	40
8	Guatemala	3	13	5	0	1	7	65	52	+13	16	1.23	46.2
9	Panama	2	9	4	0	2	3	42	30	+12	14	1.56	66.7
10	Belize	2	9	3	1	1	4	34	48	–14	12	1.33	55.6
11	Guadeloupe	2	9	4	0	0	5	32	48	–16	12	1.33	44.4
12	Jamaica	5	23	4	0	0	19	91	132	–41	12	0.52	17.4
13	Antigua and Barbuda	2	9	3	0	0	6	23	33	–10	9	1	33.3
14	Guyana	1	6	2	0	0	4	22	28	–6	6	1	33.3
15	Barbados	2	9	2	0	0	7	32	54	–22	6	0.67	22.2
16	Turks and Caicos Islands	2	9	1	0	0	8	26	63	–37	3	0.33	11.1
17	Puerto Rico	2	7	0	0	0	7	10	49	–39	0	0	0
18	U.S. Virgin Islands	2	9	0	0	0	9	16	70	–54	0	0	0

Key: Appearances App / Won in Normal Time W = 3 Points / Won in Extra Time W+ = 2 Points / Won in Penalty shoot-out WP = 1 Point / Lost L = 0 Points

Appearances & performance timeline

The following is a performance timeline of the teams who have appeared in the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship and how many appearances they each have made.

Legend

1st – Champions 2nd – Runners-up 3rd – Third place 4th – Fourth place 5th-16th – Fifth to Sixteenth place R1 – Round 1 (group stage)

× – Did not enter •• – Entered but withdrew DQ – Disqualified     – Hosts Apps – No. of appearances

Team \ Years	2006 (5)	2008 (4)	2009 (6)	2011 (8)	2013 (10)	2015 (16)	2017 (16)		Apps
Antigua and Barbuda	×	×	×	×	×	R1	11th		2
Bahamas	×	×	6th	8th	6th	7th	6th		5
Barbados	×	×	×	×	×	R1	15th		2
Belize	×	×	×	×	×	R1	13th		2
Canada	2nd	×	5th	5th	8th	×	10th		5
Costa Rica	3rd	4th	2nd	4th	4th	2nd	9th		7
El Salvador	×	2nd	1st	2nd	2nd	3rd	3rd		6
Guadeloupe	×	×	×	×	×	R1	4th		2
Guatemala	×	×	×	6th	5th	6th	DQ		3
Guyana	×	×	×	×	••	×	12th		1
Jamaica	5th	×	×	7th	9th	8th	8th		5
Mexico	4th	1st	3rd	1st	3rd	1st	2nd		7
Panama	×	×	×	×	×	R1	1st		2
Puerto Rico	×	×	×	×	10th	R1	×		2
Trinidad and Tobago	×	×	×	×	7th	5th	7th		3
Turks and Caicos Islands	×	×	×	×	×	R1	14th		2
United States	1st	3rd	4th	3rd	1st	4th	5th		7
U.S. Virgin Islands	×	×	×	×	×	R1	16th		2

Performance of qualifiers at the World Cup

Main article: National team appearances in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

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

Legend

1st – Champions 2nd – Runners-up 3rd – Third place 4th – Fourth place    – Hosts

QF – Quarterfinals R1 – Round 1 (group stage) q – Qualified for upcoming tournament Total – Total times qualified for World Cup

Team \ Years	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2011	2013	2015	2017	2019	Total
Bahamas									R1		1
Canada		QF									1
Costa Rica					R1			R1			2
El Salvador				R1	R1	4th	QF				4
Mexico			2nd	R1		QF		R1	R1		5
Panama									R1		1
United States	R1	R1	R1				R1				4
Total no. of unique qualifiers											7

References

External links

• Beach Soccer, at CONCACAF official website
• Beach Soccer Worldwide, official website