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.

Copa Libertadores de Beach Soccer
Base logo introduced in 2017
Founded2016
RegionCONMEBOL (South America)
Number of teams12
Current champions Vasco da Gama (3rd title)
Most successful club(s) Vasco da Gama (3 titles)
WebsiteCONMEBOL.com
2019 Copa Libertadores de Beach Soccer

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 champions and most successful team with three titles.[3]

Results
Year Location № of clubs Final Third place match
Champion Result Runners-up Third place Result Fourth place
2016 Santos, Brazil 9 Vasco da Gama 8–1 Rosario Central Deportes Iquique 4–1 Punta Hermosa
2017 Lambare, Paraguay 12 Vasco da Gama 8–5 Malvin Universidad Autonoma 9–7 Garden Club
2018 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 12 Vitória 8–8 (a.e.t.)[A] Vasco da Gama Sampaio Corrêa 5–4 Acassuso
2019 Luque, Paraguay 12 Vasco da Gama 7–5 Cerro Porteño Acassuso 7–6 Fundación Monagas
2020 Rosario, Argentina[4] Cancelled due to the 2019–20 COVID-19 pandemic.[5]
A. ^ Vitória won the penalty shootout 3–2.
CONMEBOL jointly organised the 2016 edition with Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW).[2]

Performance
Representation of the winners trophy; note how it is modelled similarly to the original Copa Libertadores trophy.

By club
Team Winners Runners-up Third place
Vasco da Gama 3 (2016, 2017, 2019) 1 (2018) –
Vitória 1 (2018) – –
Rosario Central – 1 (2016) –
Malvin – 1 (2017) –
Cerro Porteño – 1 (2019) –
Deportes Iquique – – 1 (2016)
Universidad Autonoma – – 1 (2017)
Sampaio Corrêa – – 1 (2018)
Acassuso – – 1 (2019)

By nation
Nation Winners Runners-up Third place
 Brazil 4 1 1
 Argentina 0 1 1
 Paraguay 0 1 1
 Uruguay 0 1 0
 Chile 0 0 1

See also

References
  1. "CONMEBOL Libertadores de Fútbol Playa – REGLAMENTO" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 8 November 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  2. "Copa Libertadores Futbol Playa 2016". Beach Soccer Worldwide. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  3. "Vasco da Gama conquista su tercera CONMEBOL Libertadores playera". CONMEBOL. 21 September 2019. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  4. Что? Где? Когда? Открываем все «чёрные ящики» сезона-2020!. Beach Soccer Russia. 21 January 2020. (in Russian).
  5. "Lista de torneos cancelados en la edición 2020". CONMEBOL. 19 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
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