2023 Copa América of Beach Soccer explained

Tourney Name:Copa América de Beach Soccer
Year:2023
Country:Argentina
Dates:11–19 March
Num Teams:10
Confederations:1
Venues:1
Cities:1
Count:3
Matches:27
Goals:226
Top Scorer: Edson Hulk (14 goals)
Prevseason:2022
Nextseason:2025

The 2023 Copa América de Beach Soccer (known natively in Spanish as the Copa América de Futbol Playa) was the fourth edition of the Copa América de Beach Soccer, the international beach soccer competition organised by CONMEBOL for the men's national teams of South America. It was held in Rosario, Argentina between 11 and 19 March 2023.[1] [2]

For the first time, the tournament acted as the South American qualification for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup following CONMEBOL's decision to determine its representatives in the World Cup via the Copa America instead of its specific qualifying tournament that ran until 2021.[1] The top three teams qualified for the 2024 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup held in the United Arab Emirates.[3]

Brazil won their third Copa América Beach Soccer title by beating the hosts Argentina 13–5 in the final. The defending champions Paraguay was unable to retain their title after losing in the semi-finals to Brazil, leading them to play the third place match against Colombia, which they also lost by a 5–7 score. Champions Brazil, runners-up Argentina and third place Colombia qualified for the 2023 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.[4]

Teams

Teams representing all 10 members of CONMEBOL will take part.[5]

Teamdata-sort-type="number"AppearancePrevious best performance
(hosts) 4th (2018)
4th (2018)
4th (2016, 2018)
4th (2022)
4th (2016, 2022)
4th (2018)
(holders) 4th (2022)
4th (2016, 2022)
4th (2018)
4th (2016)

Venue

Argentina was named as host country of the tournament at the CONMEBOL Council meeting held on 30 September 2022.[2] Rosario was confirmed as host city by the Argentine Football Association on 14 February 2023,[5] with the Estadio Arena, located within the Predio Ferial Parque Independencia, as the venue for all the matches.[6]

width=220Rosario
Predio Ferial
Parque de la Independencia[7]

Squads

Each national team had to enter a squad of a maximum of 12 and a minimum of 10 players, including at least of two goalkeepers (Regulations Article 47).[3]

Draw

The draw to split the ten teams into two groups of five took place at 12:00 PYST (UTC–3) on 16 February 2023 at CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay, under the following procedure:[8]

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking in the previous edition of the tournament in 2022 (shown in brackets).

Initially, two teams were automatically assigned to position one of the groups:

The remaining eight teams were split into four pots of two based on their seeding, in order from the highest seeds placed in Pot 1, down to the lowest seeds placed in Pot 4. From each pot, the first team drawn was placed into Group A and the second team drawn was placed into Group B.

The draw resulted in the following groups:[9] [10]

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+ Group A
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A1
A2
A3
A4
A5
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+ Group B
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B1
B2
B3
B4
B5

Match officials

On 23 February 2023, CONMEBOL announced a total of 20 referees appointed for the tournament.[11]

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals. The teams finishing in third through fifth proceeded to play in consolation matches against the teams finishing in the same position in the other group to determine their final rank.

Each team earns three points for a win in regulation time, two points for a win in extra time, one point for a win in a penalty shoot-out, and no points for a defeat (Regulations Article 19).

If two or more teams are equal on points, their rankings are determined as follows (Regulations Article 20):

All match times are in local time, ART (UTC−3), as listed by CONMEBOL in the schedule published after the draw.[12] 14 March is allocated as a rest day.

Group A

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Group B

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Final stages

All match times are in local time, ART (UTC−3), as listed by CONMEBOL.[13]

Final

Qualified teams for FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

The following three teams from CONMEBOL qualify for the 2023 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in the United Arab Emirates.

TeamQualified ondata-sort-type="number"Previous appearances in FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup1
only FIFA era (since 2005)
[14] (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021)
(2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015)
0 (debut)

1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Calendario de torneos de la CONMEBOL 2023. CONMEBOL. 7 July 2022. es.
  2. Web site: Fechas y Sedes de los Torneos CONMEBOL 2023. CONMEBOL. 1 October 2022. es.
  3. Web site: Reglamento CONMEBOL Copa America Fútbol Playa 2023. CONMEBOL. Jannuzzi. Thiago. 11 February 2023. es.
  4. Web site: Brasil, Argentina y Colombia estarán Mundial de Fútbol Playa. CONMEBOL. 20 March 2023. es.
  5. Web site: Copa América de Fútbol Playa: fecha y sede confirmadas para el máximo torneo Sudamericano. Argentine Football Association. 14 February 2023. es.
  6. Web site: Rosario fue confirmada como la sede de la Copa América de Fútbol Playa. Rosario Noticias. 15 February 2023. es.
  7. https://sinmordaza.com/noticia/323950-rosario-fue-confirmada-como-la-sede-de-la-copa-america-de-futbol-playa.html Rosario fue confirmada como la sede de la Copa América de Fútbol Playa
  8. Web site: La CONMEBOL Copa América Fútbol Playa va tomando forma con la conformación de grupos. CONMEBOL. copaamerica.com. 12 February 2023. es.
  9. Web site: Definidos los grupos para la CONMEBOL Copa América Fútbol Playa 2023. CONMEBOL. 16 February 2023. es.
  10. Web site: La Conmebol celebra el sorteo de los grupos de la Copa América Fútbol Playa 2023. Qué Pasa. EFE. Asunción. 16 February 2023. es.
  11. Web site: Convocatoria de árbitros para la CONMEBOL Copa América Fútbol Playa 2023. CONMEBOL. copaamerica.com. 23 February 2023. es.
  12. Web site: CONMEBOL COPA AMERICA FÚTBOL PLAYA 2023 Calendario de partidos. CONMEBOL. 20 February 2023. es.
  13. CopaAmerica. 1636478928805154821. ¡El fixture de la Fase Final de la CONMEBOL #CopaAmérica Playa 2023!. CONMEBOL. 16 March 2023. es.
  14. Web site: Argentina and Brazil have qualified for the World Cup as finalists of the Copa América. Beach Soccer Worldwide. beachsoccer.com. 18 March 2023.