Tourney Name: | Mundialito de Clubes |
Year: | 2017 |
Other Titles: | V Mundialito de Clubes |
Size: | 175px |
Country: | Brazil |
Num Teams: | 8 |
Confederations: | 3 |
Venues: | 1 |
Cities: | 1 |
Champion Other: | Lokomotiv Moscow |
Count: | 2 |
Second Other: | Pars Jonoubi |
Third Other: | Corinthians |
Fourth Other: | Flamengo |
Matches: | 16 |
Goals: | 132 |
Top Scorer: | Igor Rangel (7 goals) |
Player: | Nelito |
Goalkeeper: | Maxim Chuzhkov |
Prevseason: | 2015 |
Nextseason: | 2019 |
The 2017 Mundialito de Clubes was the fifth edition of the Mundialito de Clubes (Club World Cup in English), a biennial international club beach soccer competition contested between top men's clubs from across the world (existing clubs and teams specially assembled for the event). The tournament is loosely similar to the FIFA Club World Cup in association football. However, participating teams are not regional champions, entering via invitation.
Organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) and other local entities in Brazil, the competition took place in Vargem Grande Paulista, São Paulo State, Brazil between December 14 and 17, featuring eight clubs.[1]
Barcelona were the incumbent champions but did not enter a team this year. The tournament was won by Lokomotiv Moscow who became the first team to win two Mundialito de Clubes titles, beating Iranian club Pars Jonoubi 5–4 in the final.[2]
Eight invited clubs entered the competition, representing six different nations and three continents. Africa, North America and Oceania are unrepresented.
width=220 | Confederation | width=180 | Team(s) |
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AFC (Asia) | Pars Jonoubi | ||
CONMEBOL (South America) | Rosario Central Botafogo Corinthians Flamengo | ||
UEFA (Europe) | Sporting CP Lokomotiv Moscow Levante |
2017 Mundialito de Clubes squads[3] | |
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One venue was used in the city of Vargem Grande Paulista, São Paulo.
The draw to split the eight teams into two groups of four was conducted by BSWW and took place in the afternoon of November 30.[6]
Initially, two teams were automatically assigned to the groups:[7]
The remaining six teams were split into three pots of two, shown in the below table.[7]
The clubs were paired into pots based on similar geographical proximity. From each pot, one team was drawn into Group A and the other team was drawn into Group B.[7]
width=150 | Pot 1 (Seeds) | width=150 | Pot 2 | width=150 | Pot 3 | width=150 | Pot 4 | |
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All times are local, BRST (UTC–2).
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width=330 | Top scorer |
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Igor Rangel (Botafogo) | |
7 goals | |
Best player | |
Nelito (Lokomotiv Moscow) | |
Best goalkeeper | |
Maxim Chuzhkov (Lokomotiv Moscow) |
Players with 3 or more goals
Rank | width=200 | Team | width=170 | Result |
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1 | Lokomotiv Moscow | Champions (2nd title) | ||
2 | Pars Jonoubi | Runners-up | ||
3 | Third place | |||
4 | ||||
5 | Levante | |||
6 | Botafogo | |||
7 | Rosario Central | |||
8 | Sporting CP |