South American Beach Soccer League

CONMEBOL South American Beach Soccer League
Founded 2017 (2017)
Confederation CONMEBOL (South America)
Conferences North zone
South zone
Number of teams 20
Current champions  Brazil (1st title)
(2017)
Most championships  Brazil
(1 title)
2018 South American Beach Soccer League

The CONMEBOL South American Beach Soccer League, named natively in Spanish as the CONMEBOL Liga Sudamericana de Fútbol Playa, is a continental league competition for South American men's national beach soccer teams.

The competition is organised by the governing body for South American football, CONMEBOL, who started the league in 2017 as part of its Development Department's Evolution Program.[1] All ten members of the continental confederation take part in the league, with both senior and under 20s teams representing each nation; therefore, a total of 20 teams participate.[2]

The league consists of two phases: the regular season and the finals. The teams are first divided into two geographically based conferences, the North zone and South zone, to compete in a round robin tournament against the other members of their own zone during the regular season. The winners of each zone then proceed to face each other in the finals to contest the league title.[3]

Brazil are the current champions having won the inaugural edition.[1]

Competition structure

The league operates under the following format:[2][3]

Zones & teams

  • The ten member nations of CONMEBOL have been split into two conferences based on their geographic location in South America: a North zone and a South zone, comprising five nations each.
  • Each nation is represented by two teams: their senior national team and their under 20s national team. Therefore, a total of 20 teams take part.

Regular season

  • During the regular season, each zone hosts its own tournament involving all five nations of said zone, taking place in one of the five countries of the zone in question over the course of five days.
  • The fixtures are split into two categories of matches; a set of matches contested between the senior representative teams and a set of matches contested between the Under 20s teams.
  • Teams compete in a round robin format exclusively against the other four teams in their own category.
  • Points earned by the nations in both the senior and the under 20s matches are combined into one single cumulative table.
  • The nation top of the table with the most points after all matches are completed are deemed zone champions; the winning nations of each zone event proceed to the finals.

Finals

  • In the finals, the North zone champion faces the South zone champion; their senior teams play each other over two legs, as do their under 20s representatives for a total of four matches.
  • The event takes place over two days. The first leg of the senior and under 20s ties take place on day one and the second legs, on day two.
  • The nation which accumulates the most points from all four matches combined will be crowned league champions.

Conferences

The allocation of the ten member nations of CONMEBOL into the North zone and the South zone is as follows:[4]

North zone
  Not a member of CONMEBOL
South zone

Results

The following shows the results of the finals in which the regular season champions of each respective zone play against each other for the league title. The nation that earns the most points from the four matches that comprise the finals, wins the league.

  •   North zone champion
  •   South zone champion
Season Host Result Matches
Winners Points Runners-up Category First leg Second leg
2017
details		 Brazil Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Brazil		 12 – 0
Paraguay		 Under 20s
Brazil win 6–2
(+3pts Brazil)
Brazil win 5–4
(+3pts Brazil)
Senior
Brazil win 7–4
(+3pts Brazil)
Brazil win 6–1
(+3pts Brazil)
2018
details		 Under 20s
Senior

See also

  • South American Futsal League

References

  1. 1 2 "Brasil campeón absoluto de la CONMEBOL Liga Sudamericana de Fútbol Playa" (in Spanish). conmebol.com. 6 October 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  2. 1 2 "En Lima se disputa la CONMEBOL Liga Sudamericana de Fútbol Playa" (in Spanish). conmebol.com. 12 September 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Liga Sudamericana de Futsal y Fútbol Playa Reglamento" (in Spanish). conmebol.com. 18 August 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Se confirmó la fecha para la Liga Sudamericana". Argentine Football Association . Retrieved 8 October 2018.
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