Mundialito de Clubes

Mundialito de Clubes

Official logo
Founded	2011
Region	International (FIFA)
Number of teams	8
Current champions	Lokomotiv Moscow
Most successful team(s)	Lokomotiv Moscow (2 titles)
Website	Mundialito de Clubes
2017 Mundialito de Clubes

The Mundialito de Clubes (Club World Cup in English) is a biennial (annual until 2013) international club beach soccer competition contested between top men's clubs from across the world. The tournament is loosely similar to the FIFA Club World Cup in association football, however participating teams are not regional champions, instead entering via invitation.

Organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), the competition was founded by BSWW with Brazilian sports agency Koch Tavares in 2011^[1] and to date has always been hosted in Brazil; the tournament should not be confused with BSWW's existing Mundialito, which takes place in Portugal for national teams.

Russian side Lokomotiv Moscow are the most successful team with two titles.^[2] Brazilian clubs have dominated elsewhere with at least two clubs in the top four in every edition.

Teams and players

In the first two editions (2011 and 2012), squads were specially assembled to represent well known association football clubs from around the world – incarnated purely to compete in this event.^[3] Players of many nationalities (of which they were the best of) were invited to play; they were then allocated to one of the clubs specifically for the purpose of the event using a draft system conducted by BSWW.^[4]

Since 2013, the draft system has been retired. The clubs and their squads that compete either already exist beforehand (i.e. compete in a domestic club league in their country) or remain specially assembled purely for this competition, but now with squads materialised behind the scenes with players choosing to play for said team at their own discretion.

Results

Year	Host	Teams		Final				Third Place Match
				Winners	Score	Runners-up		3rd place	Score	4th place
2011 Details	São Paulo	10		Vasco da Gama	4–2	Sporting CP		Flamengo	5–4 (a.e.t.)	Lokomotiv Moscow
2012 Details	São Paulo	12		Lokomotiv Moscow	6–4	Flamengo		Vasco da Gama	5–4	Sporting CP
2013 Details	Rio de Janeiro	8		Corinthians	3–3 (a.e.t.) 1–0 (pens)	Flamengo		Vasco da Gama	3–1	Botafogo
2015 Details	Rio de Janeiro	8		Barcelona	4–4 (a.e.t.) 3–2 (pens)	Vasco da Gama		Al-Ahli	4–4 (a.e.t.) 3–2 (pens)	Fluminense
2017 Details	São Paulo	8		Lokomotiv Moscow	5–4	Pars Jonoubi		Corinthians	3–2	Flamengo

Performance

By club

Key

• GS – Group stage
• QF – Quarter final

(there were no placement matches for 5th to 12th place pre-2017)

• Apps – Total appearances

Team	2011	2012	2013	2015	2017	Apps
Al-Ahli	–	GS	GS	3rd	–	3
Barcelona	QF	QF	GS	1st	–	4
Boca Juniors	GS	QF	–	–	–	2
Botafogo	–	–	4th	–	6th	2
Corinthians	QF	QF	1st	GS	3rd	5
Flamengo	3rd	2nd	2nd	GS	4th	5
Fluminense	–	–	–	4th	–	1
Levante UD	–	–	–	GS	5th	2
Lokomotiv Moscow	4th	1st	–	–	1st	3
Milan	GS	QF	GS	–	–	3
Pars Jonoubi	–	–	–	–	2nd	1
Peñarol	–	–	GS	–	–	1
Rosario Central	–	–	–	–	7th	1
Santos FC	GS	QF	–	–	–	2
São Paulo FC	–	GS	–	–	–	1
Seattle Sounders	QF	GS	–	–	–	2
Sporting CP	2nd	4th	–	GS	8th	4
Vasco da Gama	1st	3rd	3rd	2nd	–	4

By country

Nation	Winners	Runners-up	Third	Fourth
Brazil	2 (2011, 2013)	3 (2012, 2013, 2015)	4 (2011, 2012, 2013, 2017)	3 (2013, 2015, 2017)
Russia	2 (2012, 2017)	–	–	1 (2011)
Spain	1 (2015)	–	–	–
Portugal	–	1 (2011)	–	1 (2012)
Iran	–	1 (2017)	–	–
United Emirates	–	–	1 (2015)	–

See also

• BSWW Mundialito

References

External links

• Beach Soccer Worldwide, official website
• Club Mundialito, at Beach Soccer Russia (in Russian)