Copa Libertadores de Beach Soccer

Copa Libertadores de Beach Soccer
Base logo introduced in 2017
Founded 2016
Region CONMEBOL (South America)
Number of teams 12
Current champions Brazil Vasco da Gama (2nd title)
Most successful club(s) Brazil Vasco da Gama (2 titles)
Website Beach Soccer Worldwide
2018 Copa Libertadores de Beach Soccer

The CONMEBOL Libertadores de Beach Soccer, named originally and natively in Spanish as the Copa Libertadores de Fútbol Playa, is an annual continental beach soccer club competition, organised by the governing body for football in South America, CONMEBOL, founded in 2016.

Since 2017, the tournament is contested between the top-level domestic league/championship champions from each of the ten South American nations which are members of CONMEBOL. The reigning champions and an additional club from the host country also take part, taking the total number of participants to twelve.[1] It is therefore the premier club beach soccer championship in South America, the winners becoming continental champions.[2]

It is beach soccer's version of the better known Copa Libertadores in association football. Comparatively, in beach soccer, it is South America's version of Europe's Euro Winners Cup.

Brazilian club Vasco da Gama are the current two-time champions after winning the 2017 edition.[3]

Results

Year Location № of clubs Final Third place match
Champion Result Runners-up Third place Result Fourth place
2016 Brazil Santos, Brazil 9 Vasco da Gama Brazil 8–1 Argentina Rosario Central Deportes Iquique Chile 4–1 Peru Punta Hermosa
2017 Paraguay Lambare, Paraguay 12 Vasco da Gama Brazil 8–5 Uruguay Malvin Universidad Autonoma Paraguay 9–7 Paraguay Garden Club
2018 Brazil Belém, Brazil 12

CONMEBOL jointly organised the 2016 edition with Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW).[2]

Performance

By club

Team Winners Runners-up Third place
Brazil Vasco da Gama 2 (2016, 2017) – –
Argentina Rosario Central – 1 (2016) –
Uruguay Malvin – 1 (2017) –
Chile Deportes Iquique – – 1 (2016)
Paraguay Universidad Autonoma – – 1 (2017)

By nation

Nation Winners Runners-up Third place
 Brazil 2 0 0
 Argentina 0 1 0
 Uruguay 0 1 0
 Chile 0 0 1
 Paraguay 0 0 1

See also

References

  1. ↑ "CONMEBOL Libertadores de Fútbol Playa – REGLAMENTO" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 8 November 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Copa Libertadores Futbol Playa 2016". Beach Soccer Worldwide. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Vasco da Gama two-time champion of the Conmebol Libertadores de Playa". apf.org.py. 18 November 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
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