2022 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup Explained

Tourney Name:Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup
Year:2022
Country:United Arab Emirates
City:Dubai
Dates:1–6 November
Num Teams:8
Confederations:4
Venues:1
Cities:1
Count:4
Matches:20
Goals:140
Player: Amir Hossein Akbari
Goalkeeper: Hamid Behzadpour
Prevseason:2021
Nextseason:2023

Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup 2022 was the 11th edition of the Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup, an annual international beach soccer tournament contested by men's national teams.[1] This year's event occurred between 1 and 6 November 2022 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.[2] The tournament is organised by the Dubai Sports Council (DSC) and Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW).

The Intercontinental Cup is typically seen as the biggest tournament in the current international beach soccer calendar after the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.[3] Similar in nature to that of the FIFA Confederations Cup,[4] eight nations took part.

The tournament starts with a round robin group stage. The winners and runners-up from each group advance to the knockout stage, a series of single-elimination matches, beginning with the semi-finals and ending with the final. Consolation matches are also played to determine other final rankings.

The season-ending Beach Soccer Stars awards are also presented in Dubai as a conclusion to the tournament.[5]

Russia is defending champions but they were absent in this event.

Participating teams

The following eight teams took part.

TeamConfederationRecent achievementsParticipation
AFCHosts11th
AFC9th
AFC5th
AFCdebut
CONMEBOL3rd
CONCACAF5th
UEFA4th
CONMEBOL8th

Group stage

Matches are listed as local time in Dubai, GST (UTC+4)

Group A

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Group B

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5th–8th place play-offs

The teams finishing in third and fourth place are knocked out of title-winning contention, receding to play in consolation matches to determine 5th through 8th place in the final standings.

Fifth place play-off

Knockout stage

Final

Awards

Winners trophy

Statistics

Final standings

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The 11th edition of one of the beach soccer calendar’s top events kicks off tomorrow . Beach Soccer Worldwide. 1 November 2022 . 1 November 2022.
  2. Web site: The Intercontinental Beach Soccer Cup 2022 . Beach Soccer Worldwide. 1 November 2022 . 1 November 2022.
  3. Web site: Intercontinental Cup Dubai agreement extended . Beach Soccer Worldwide . 2 November 2017 . 2 October 2018.
  4. Web site: У стен Башни Халифа. Россия хочет покорить сердце Дубая . Beach Soccer Russia . 30 October 2017 . 2 October 2018 . Russian . https://web.archive.org/web/20181003061846/http://bsrussia.com/info/item/7983?type=2 . 3 October 2018 . dead .
  5. Web site: Dubai, ready to sublimate beach soccer once again . Beach Soccer Worldwide. 9 October 2019 . 5 November 2019.